Billionaires flash marriage: Always you.
After discovering her longtime boyfriend cheated on her, Evelyn Hart walks into a blind date arranged by her family angry, heartbroken, and determined to erase the past. Sitting across from a calm, sharply handsome stranger, she blurts out the most reckless idea of her life:
“Let’s get married.”
To her disbelief, Jesse Ward agrees.
Evelyn thinks she’s marrying a stable, ordinary man who might give her a quiet life. What she doesn’t know is that Jesse wasn’t her intended blind date at all and that he’s secretly a powerful billionaire who lives far from the spotlight.
As they settle into marriage, unexpected feelings begin to grow. But Jesse seems haunted by something unspoken. And Evelyn can’t understand why he sometimes looks at her like he already knows her.
A sudden accident shakes loose a buried memory in Evelyn’s mind:
a reckless night years ago, a stranger whose face she never forgot
and that face matches her husband’s perfectly.
In that instant, everything clicks into place.
Their marriage was impulsive.
Their meeting was accidental.
But their connection?
It began long before either of them realized.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 06 - circle of influence CHAPTER SIX — Circles of Influence The next morning, Jesse woke before his alarm. He never slept in, but today his mind was sharper than usual, tracing through the decisions he’d made the night before. They had been necessary. Logical. Yet he couldn’t ignore the unfamiliar edge of awareness that had settled in his chest after Evelyn walked out his door. Her clarity had surprised him. Her resolve had surprised him more. He wasn’t accustomed to people disagreeing with him calmly and still earning his respect afterward. By eight, he was already dressed and reviewing the messages on his phone. Most were predictable family associates wanting updates, his mother asking for a lunch meeting he had no intention of attending, and a brief alert from a private security contact about an upcoming political fundraiser his family expected him to attend. He deleted the alert first. Then he texted Evelyn. Jesse: We need to meet your father today. Let me know when he’s available. He expected
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Chapter: CHAPTER 05- The unspoken Truth CHAPTER FIVE — The Unspoken Truth Evelyn spent the entire day at the bookshop pretending she wasn’t waiting for the evening. She helped customers, organized shipments, arranged the display table twice, and then stood behind the counter with a pencil tucked in her hair as if staying busy could quiet the questions in her mind. Her mother watched her with worried eyes. Evelyn pretended not to notice. What mattered now wasn’t whether the engagement made sense, or whether it had started as chaos or necessity. What mattered was the feeling tugging at her—stronger than fear, stronger than confusion—that Jesse wasn’t playing with her life. He was hiding something, yes. But not in a way that suggested danger. More like someone carrying a load they couldn’t drop. When the shop finally closed, Evelyn walked home to shower, change, and gather courage. By the time the clock hit seven, her nerves were tight but steady. At exactly 7:15, her doorbell rang. --- Jesse stood on her
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Chapter: CHAPTER 04-Lines in the sand CHAPTER FOUR — Lines in the Sand Jesse Ward did not usually arrive early. He lived by a rhythm most people would find unnerving precise, efficient, never wasting time but he didn’t hurry. He moved through the world like someone who already knew exactly where everyone else would step before they stepped there. Yet today, he stood outside Hart & Willow Books a full twenty minutes before opening. The bookshop wasn’t impressive in size, but it had character brick walls, ivy climbing one side, a chalkboard sign out front with little sketches drawn by Evelyn’s mother. It looked like the kind of place people wandered into when they needed comfort more than literature. Jesse didn’t need comfort. He needed information. He checked his watch again. 9:11 a.m. Still early. He never paced, so he didn’t start now. He simply waited, hands in his pockets, eyeing a delivery truck across the street and memorizing its plate number out of habit. The truth was simple: he did not belie
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3- Lunch with a stranger If someone had told Evelyn Hart two days ago that she’d be sitting in a café across from a man she impulsively agreed to marry, she would have assumed they were joking or deranged. Yet here she was. They’d chosen a simple café with large windows, wooden tables, and just enough background noise to make conversation comfortable. Jesse held the door for her without comment, and Evelyn found herself hyper-aware of how composed he always seemed. Even the way he walked quiet, measured steps felt intentional. As they took their seats, a waitress approached with two menus. Evelyn reached for hers. Jesse didn’t. He simply folded his hands on the table. “You’re not looking?” she asked. “I already know what I’ll order.” She lifted a brow. “That’s impressive. Or suspicious. Hard to tell which.” “Is it?” His expression didn’t change, but his tone dipped with something almost dry, almost teasing. Evelyn’s heartbeat steadied a little. This version of him, the slightly more human, s
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Chapter: CHAPTER 02- A Practical ProposalThe next morning, Evelyn woke up feeling like someone had quietly replaced her brain with a fog machine. She lay in bed staring at the ceiling, trying to decide whether the previous night had truly happened or if it was just another bizarre dream fueled by heartbreak and too little sleep. But then her phone chimed. A message from an unknown number: Jesse Ward. I’ve arranged meeting documents. I’ll pick you up at 10. Evelyn shot upright. Oh, it definitely happened. Her pulse quickened as she read the message again. Not because of the marriage partwell, yes, because of that but also because Jesse phrased everything so… normally. As if impulsive, late-night marriage agreements were completely standard and he did this every Tuesday. Evelyn stared at the time. 9:13 a.m. She scrambled out of bed. Evelyn lived in a small but bright apartment, scattered with plants she forgot to water and books she hadn’t finished. She rushed through her morning routine, brushing her hair with one h
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Chapter: CHAPTER 01- The Blind DateEvelyn Hart had never considered herself dramatic. She was the kind of person who folded grocery bags neatly, apologized when someone bumped into her, and made pro and con lists before making even mildly important decisions. And yet here she was, storming out of a cafe like the heroine of a melodramatic soap opera except she felt nothing like a heroine. She felt foolish, betrayed, and painfully human. The screen of her ex-boyfriend’s phone had glowed with a text she couldn’t unsee: Had a great time last night. Same place next week? A small heart emoji at the end. Not from her. She hadn’t screamed. She hadn’t cried. She’d simply placed his phone back on the table, picked up her purse, and walked away as though her ribcage hadn’t just cracked open. Now, one hour later, she stood outside the restaurant where her mother insisted she keep the blind date appointment. “You can’t hide forever, Evelyn,” her mom had said. “One disappointment doesn’t define your whole life.” Maybe
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