ログインEve’s wedding is just a month away. Her mother's will is clear: If she wants her inheritance, she must marry before she turns twenty-five and have a baby before she turns 27. If she fails, everything goes to the family members who have been using her for years. The problem? She just caught her fiancé sleeping with her stepsister. Heartbroken and running out of time, Eve asks her best friend Devin to marry her. He's her only option and she has always believed that he is gay, so there's no risk of things getting complicated. But Devin has a secret. He has never been gay. He let her believe it because it was the only way to stay close to her. He has been in love with her for seven years. Now they're living together, pretending to be a happy couple to ensure she firmly secures her inheritance. Eve sees Devin as a sister presuming that he is gay and not attracted to her so she doesn’t care about going nude or wearing skimpy clothes in his presence. She invades his personal space using him as her personal stuffed toy. How long will this hot blooded man endure cold showers and blue balls before he confesses? How would he convince her to have a baby with him the natural way without revealing that he is straight? Time is ticking and those who stand to benefit if she fails are not waiting with folded hands.
もっと見るDevin's POV The meeting with my grandfather had gone exactly as badly as I expected. I had suspected that Victoria would be there. My grandfather never missed an opportunity to remind me of the path I had refused to take. What I had not anticipated was the surge of protectiveness I felt when Harrington started talking about annulment and settlements and Eve's expression flickered with hurt. She had handled it beautifully but I knew her well enough to see the cracks beneath the polished surface. Now she was asleep in the bedroom while I stood in the living room, staring at my phone and trying to process the latest update from Mark. Martin's legal challenge had gained traction. A board member named Sterling, a man who had resented the Lovelace family for decades due to some old business deal that had gone sour, had thrown his support behind the investigatio
Eve's POVThe honeymoon was over and it was time to face Devin's grandfather.The Cresswell estate made my family home look like a modest cottage.We drove through iron gates that must have weighed several tons each and up a gravel driveway lined with ancient oaks whose gnarled branches formed a canopy overhead, blocking out the late afternoon sun. The house itself was a stone colossus that sprawled across the landscape like a crouching beast. It had turrets. Actual turrets as if someone in the Cresswell family had looked at a medieval castle and thought, yes, that seems appropriately intimidating."Your grandfather lives in a fortress," I said."He would have preferred a volcano, but the zoning laws wouldn't allow it."I laughed, but the sound died in my throat as we pulled up to the front entrance. A butler in full formal attire opened the car door, his spine ramrod straight, his expression so carefully blank it
Eve's POVI woke on the morning of my birthday with no expectations.That was the trick to surviving birthdays. If you expected nothing, you couldn't be disappointed when nothing arrived. It was a philosophy I had developed over years of forgotten dates and half hearted gifts, a protective armor I had learned to wear before I even understood what I was protecting myself from. My father once gave me a pen set meant for his secretary, still wrapped in the wrong paper with someone else's name crossed out on the tag. Delphine used the occasion to announce her engagement to a minor prince from a country I couldn't find on a map, her diamond glittering under the chandelier while I stood in the corner with a glass of warm champagne and a smile that made my cheeks ache. After that, I stopped mentioning my birthday altogether. I let it pass quietly, a date on the calendar that required nothing from anyone.But Devin had remembered.I stood in the
Devin's POV I woke before dawn on Eve's birthday with a plan I had been refining for weeks. She wasn't big on birthdays. She had told me once, years ago, that her father forgot her sixteenth birthday entirely and Delphine had used the occasion to announce her own engagement to a minor European aristocrat. After that, Eve stopped expecting anything from anyone on the day she was born. She treated it like a regular Tuesday, ordered takeout, and refused to let me make a fuss. But this year was different. This year she was my wife, even if she didn't know how much I wished that word were real. And I was going to make this birthday one she would remember. I slipped out of bed while she was still sleeping, her dark hair spread across the pillow, her face relaxed in a way it never was when she was awake. The villa was quiet. The sea was a sheet of hammered silver in the early light. I made coffee and reviewed my checklist one more time. The flowers were arranged. I had spent an hour the






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