LOGINMia paid for a plus-one for one dinner. Just one night, to walk in with a man so far above her ex Morgan that the comparison would destroy him. She grabbed the wrong man in the lobby. Adrian Voss was not the man the agency sent. He was taller. Richer. More dangerous. And he was already turning toward her before her hand even closed on his sleeve. One kiss in front of Morgan and her sister Lilly. One night she can't forget. One morning alone with a note that says _Thank you._ Then the agency calls: _Your date never showed up._ So who was in her bed? The next morning, Adrian is at her door with a contract and four words that change everything: _"Marry me."_ 30 days. Fake fiancée. One rule: Truth for truth. He will answer any question she asks — but she must answer one of his first. She thinks she hired the wrong man. She has no idea he waited three years for her to grab him. And hidden in Room 7, in a wedding dress with her name on the label, is a date sewn into the hem that will prove it.
View MoreChapter 10 I went down after him with the folder in one hand and the eviction notice in the other, and the elevator took eleven floors like it had all the time in the world.Dani was behind me saying my name. Mrs. Delgado was behind Dani saying something about how a body shouldn't ride an elevator in her socks. The delivery kid was on the stairs, three floors down, taking pictures.The lobby doors opened onto Sunday afternoon. Luis at the desk. The old man with his paper, still there, four hours later, like he lived in that chair. Two women in tennis clothes. A doorman holding the glass.And through the glass, across the street, the black car."Miss Brennan," Luis said. "Don't.""Luis, open the door.""Miss Brennan—""Open the door."He opened the door.I went out onto the sidewalk in my socks with a manila folder and a government envelope and the whole lobby behind me at the glass, and I walked up to the back window of that car and I knocked on it with my knuckle, twice, loud.The w
Chapter 9 I opened the door so fast the toolbox guy flinched."You want to hear me laugh?" I said. "Because I'm about to laugh.""Mia—""Thirty days." I came out into the hallway in my socks with the folder in one hand. "Thirty days. You want me to marry you for thirty days. That's a lease. That's a car lease. You want to put me on a month-to-month with a buyout option at the end—""That's not what it—""Did you write that down? Did you sit somewhere with a pen and write thirty days like it's a subscription? Cancel anytime?"The delivery kid had his phone out. The woman in the beige coat had her garment bag over her arm and her mouth open. The toolbox guy had set the toolbox down.I laughed.It was a real laugh. It came up out of my chest and it echoed in the hallway and it kept going, and I had to put my hand on the wall, and the delivery kid started laughing too, because he was nineteen and somebody else was laughing."Thirty days," I said, wiping my eye. "Thirty days with a strang
Chapter 8 The knock came before I got my coat off.Dani said, "Don't," and I said, "It's Mrs. Delgado," and I opened the door.It was not Mrs. Delgado.He was standing in my hallway in a black coat with his hands at his sides, and behind him, halfway down the corridor, the delivery kid from the bodega was frozen with a bag in his arms. Across the hall, Mrs. Delgado's door was open the width of its chain.I put my body in the doorway."No," I said."Mia.""That's my name. Congratulations. How do you know my address?""You gave it to the driver.""The driver didn't tell you where I live — the driver drove me, he didn't announce me—""You told him Baxter and Ninth. The gray building with the bad awning." He said it flat, like a man reading back a receipt. "I came up the service elevator."The delivery kid said, "Uh.""Give it here," I said, and took the bag, and put it inside the door, and shut the door on the delivery kid's face because I did not have one single dollar of change in my
Chapter 7 By two o'clock Sunday afternoon I was standing at the front desk of the Brennan Hotel with a screenshot in my hand and a wedding party behind me."Ma'am," the man at the desk said, "I've already told you—""I want the lobby footage.""Ma'am, I can't just—""Eleven o'clock last night to midnight. One camera. The one over the column." I put my phone on the counter and turned it around. "You've got four cameras in that lobby and I counted them, so don't tell me you don't."The wedding party behind me had gone quiet. Two bridesmaids in matching pink, a woman holding a gift bag, a kid in a bow tie with his finger in his nose. One of the bridesmaids had her phone up. I didn't care.Dani put her hand on my arm. "Mia.""No.""Mia, you're screaming at a hotel clerk on a Sunday.""I'm talking to a hotel clerk on a Sunday," I said, and turned back around. "What's your name?""Kevin.""Kevin. Hi. I'm Mia. Somebody took my picture in your lobby last night without asking and it's on the












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