THE CEO'S CHRISTMAS GIRLFRIEND
Adriana Bennett has spent three years working for Adrian Blackwood, the ruthless billionaire CEO who seems incapable of smiling, trusting people or saying anything that isn’t strictly necessary.
She knows better than anyone that Adrian doesn’t date.
So when he suddenly tells his grandmother that he has a girlfriend, Adriana assumes it is another one of his carefully calculated lies.
Until his grandmother demands to meet her.
Desperate to avoid another Christmas filled with matchmaking and family pressure, Adrian makes Adriana an offer she cannot afford to refuse: pretend to be his girlfriend for three days at his family’s estate.
Three days. No feelings and absolutely no crossing the line between employer and employee.
But Christmas at the Blackwood estate has other plans.
A family emergency turns three days into three weeks, trapping Adriana under the same roof as the man she has spent years trying not to notice. The longer they pretend to be in love, the harder it becomes to remember that their relationship isn’t supposed to be real.
Then someone begins destroying Adriana’s reputation.
Money starts appearing in accounts connected to her name. Private information about her life reaches the press. The Blackwood family begins questioning her motives, and Adrian’s enemies suddenly have everything they need to attack him.
Someone wants Adrian to believe that the woman closest to him is betraying him.
“But what happens when the evidence against Adriana is too perfect?”
“Can Adrian protect the woman he was never supposed to love without destroying the trust between them?"
"And when the Christmas contract finally expires, will Adriana walk away from the man who taught her what it means to be loved or discover that the fake relationship was the most real thing either of them had ever known?"
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Chapter: CHAPTER 4 — LEARNING TO LIEThe first rule of pretending to love someone was simple. You had to know them well enough to lie.“You’re doing it wrong.”Adrian looked at me. “I’ve been doing this for three hours.”“And you’ve been doing it wrong for three hours.”His jaw tightened. I tried not to smile.We were sitting in his private office with two cups of coffee between us, a notebook on my lap and six months of a relationship that had never existed spread across the desk.Adrian pointed at the notebook.“What exactly am I doing wrong?”“You’re answering like you’re in a business interview.”“I am answering your questions.” He replied quietly.“You’re supposed to sound like my boyfriend.”“I am your boyfriend.”“No.” I shook my head. “You’re a CEO pretending to be my boyfriend.”He leaned back. “What’s the difference?”“Everything.”He stared at me. I stared back then he said, “Show me.”I wasn’t expecting that. “Show you what?”“How I should behave.”I closed my notebook. “Fine.”I stood and walked around the des
Last Updated: 2026-09-22
Chapter: CHAPTER 3 — THE CONTRACTBy nine the next morning, my name was on a contract I never imagined I would sign.And the man sitting across from me was supposed to become my boyfriend.“Read it again.”I looked up from the pages. “I already read it twice.”“Read it again.”“Adrian.”“Adriana.”I stared at him. He didn’t smile. Neither did I. The contract sat between us on his desk. Twenty three pages.Twenty three pages explaining how I was supposed to pretend to be the girlfriend of the man who signed my paychecks.I turned the first page. “You really had your lawyer write all this overnight?”“Yes.”“Does your lawyer ever sleep?”“Not when I pay him enough.”“That explains a lot.”His mouth almost moved into a smile. Almost then his phone rang. He glanced at the screen. “It’s Marcus.”His lawyer.Adrian answered. “Yes.” A pause. “No. She needs to approve everything herself.”I looked at him. That surprised me. He listened for another few seconds.“Send the revised copy.” He ended the call.I frowned. “Revised?”“
Last Updated: 2026-09-22
Chapter: CHAPTER 2 — THE IMPOSSIBLE PROPOSALADRIANASome offers sound ridiculous until you desperately need what they can buy.“Close the door.” I stopped with my hand still on the handle.Adrian’s voice had that calm edge it always carried when something was about to become my problem.I turned around. “Is this about your father?”He looked up from his phone.“No.”“Then what is it?”“Sit.”I didn’t move. Yesterday, I would have sat without questioning him. Today was different.He had invented a girlfriend. Me and apparently, his father already knew who I was. I wasn’t sure which part frightened me more.Adrian leaned back in his chair. “You heard what my father said yesterday.”“I heard enough.”“Good.”“That doesn’t mean I understand it.”“You don’t need to.”“That’s convenient.”His eyebrow lifted.I immediately regretted the sarcasm. Most people were terrified of Adrian Hawthorne.I was too. I had simply become better at hiding it. He pushed a folder across the desk.I stared at it. “What is that?”“An agreement.”I looked a
Last Updated: 2026-09-22
Chapter: CHAPTER 1 — THE GIRLFRIEND WHO DOESN’T EXISTADRIAN POVThe problem with Christmas was not Christmas. It was my grandmother.“Adrian, tell me you are not planning to spend Christmas alone again.”I closed my eyes. Of all the calls I could receive in the middle of a billion dollar acquisition meeting, this had to be the one.“Grandmother,” I said quietly, “I’m in a meeting.”“I know.”Her voice came through the phone with the same authority that had once made me sit straight at six years old.Across the conference table, twelve executives suddenly became fascinated by their documents.Nobody dared interrupt me. One look from me had been enough to stop a vice president from speaking five minutes earlier.Now I was standing at the head of the table, phone pressed to my ear, listening to the only woman in Manhattan who could make me feel like a disobedient child.“You have been in meetings for the last three years,” she continued. “That excuse has become boring.”“I have work.”“You always have work.” She said.“I run a company.”“A
Last Updated: 2026-09-22
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