LOGIN"Marry me. Twelve months. No feelings. Just business." Lucas Anderson, billionaire CEO and certified cold-hearted jerk, just offered me a deal I can't afford to refuse. But here's the problem. Lucas is the man who ruined my life. He doesn’t recognize me, not as Mia, the girl he once loved and left behind. Now I’m Emma Smith, his assistant. And future fake wife. I should hate him. I promised myself I would. But every time he looks at me like I still matter, it gets harder to keep my secret… and even harder to keep my heart.
View MoreSeveral days passed and everything gradually returned to normal, Emma's hand was almost healed and all that was left was a rubber plaster over the cut.Lucas stared out the floor-to-ceiling windows of his office, eyes trained on nothing in particular, he’d spent most of his time in his office looking out through those windows, he just seemed to think better when he was staring out at nothingness, He hadn’t heard from Austin since that night. He hadn’t called, texted or given any explanations, he’d disappeared again that night soon after Emma had returned to her room.And Lucas didn't push. He knew what silence meant when it came from someone like Austin. It wasn’t an absence. He was avoiding him and for once Lucas didn’t bother to go looking for him. He was going to come on his own when he was ready.. And he had bigger problems now.The mistake in the contract at the Peelé Hotel wasn’t any small mistake, It had been deliberate, a whole page had gone missing, and the only person that
Austin leaned against the kitchen counter, a glass of something amber in his hand, the bottle uncorked beside him. He didn’t look up right away, he didn’t want Lucas to see the expression on his face.Lucas just stared at him blindly.“You’ve been gone,” he said flatly.Austin swirled the drink in his glass. “So have you.” he remarked with a questioning tone.Lucas didn’t answer. He just walked past him and headed for the sink to turn on the tap, letting the cold water run over his knuckles. Soothing the pain a little.Austin’s smirk faded as his gaze dropped to Lucas’s hand.“That’s not your blood, is it?”Lucas didn’t reply. The silence was enough, he was still angry at him for leaving the ball when he had thought that Emma was in safe hands“Josh?” Austin guessed he had seen the press release and that was one of the main reasons that he had returned, to find out what happened even though he could likely tell what had happened.“Josh’s blood, not mine.”Austin smirked, “You punche
Emma shifted awake and groaned softly as the scent of lavender and clean linen wrapped around her, filling her with warmth.Her eyelids fluttered open slowly and she blinked once, then twice trying to take in her surroundings.“Where was she? The last thing she could recall was her being in Lucas’s arms. Had he brought her here?”The ceiling above her wasn’t the sterile white of the hospital. It was dark maroon, elegant, and awfully quiet.Her eyes ran across the room for any sign of Lucas but he was nowhere to be found.A sudden jolt of pain had her holding her injured arm, she felt a throbbing in her shoulder, and a stinging trail down her back.Her arm was covered with bandages, and blood was already seeping through the gauze. She winced, using her elbows as support to try to sit up when a shadow fell over her.Lucas.He was standing at the far end of the room, back turned to her, fists clenched by his sides.“You’re awake,” he said, his voice hoarse and restrained.Emma swallowed h
Emma was starting to fidget, her hands already visibly shaking, she should have known that this was going to happen. Panic was starting to set in, they all had their eyes on her, the women giving her a look of contempt and disgust while the men stared down at her with lustful eyes. She turned her attention to the glass of wine in her hands, she tried so much to focus on it to distract herself from the stares she was getting, but she was failing miserably, the glass kept slipping and threatening to fall.Emma held the glass with both her hands to stop herself from fidgeting when the sound glass clinking turned her and everyone's attention towards the stage.Emma couldn't be grateful enough that the attention was lifted from her but the feeling of relief disappeared almost as soon as it came.Her heartbeat suddenly increased and sweat beads were starting to form under her mask. He had her eyes on her, his brown hazel soulless eyes staring deep into her blue ones. It was like looking in
Lucas frowned at his realization, he had just made a huge mistake, he had called her Mia, it had not crossed his mind that he was supposed to give Emma an alias but when Adrian Peele had asked him to introduce her he just couldn’t think of any other name except Mia’s. He was relieved that he immedi
Lucas and Emma had arrived at the Peele hotel where the meeting was going to be held. They were going over the documents for presentation at the meeting when Emma realized that some important pages of the document were missing.“I warned you Emma, I warned you, where are the documents!!!” Lucas was
Lucas spent an entire thirty minutes trying to convince his grandmother, Darcy, that Mia and Emma were two different persons.They were seated now but that didn't stop his Grandma from giving Emma side glances throughout the dinner, he even caught her glare at him.“How did you two meet,” Darcy sudden
Lucas was sipping his morning coffee as he stared at the message his Grandmother, Darcy had sent him. “Dear son, today is the dinner, remember to bring your wife, see you soon,” Lucas chuckled at his grandmother’s choice ofwords.He knew that she must have been dying of curiosity to know whether he w






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