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POV Anaise

I laugh, and it comes out bitter and sharp enough to cut glass. “He’s not in love with me.”

Because honestly? That’s the most ridiculous thing Mom’s said since she told me my fake name sounded like a stripper. Alexander Coleman doesn’t do love. He does quarterly reports and hostile takeovers and making my life a living hell because apparently that’s his idea of flirtation.

Mom arches one perfectly sculpted eyebrow—the look she perfected during twenty years of corporate wife training. “I know the look of love when I see it, Isabella. That man would’ve torn through fabric just to touch your hand.”

The visual hits me like a slap. Alexander, usually so controlled and pristine, losing his shit over the chance to brush fingers with me while I’m drowning in overpriced wedding dresses. It’s pathetic and romantic and completely fucking impossible.

“It doesn’t matter,” I whisper, and my eyes are stinging because apparently my tear ducts
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