SALGMAN
Cara Bennett has exactly three rules.
Never ask for help. Never show weakness. And never, under any circumstances, trust a man with money.
At twenty-four, she is surviving — barely. Waitressing double shifts in London to keep the lights on and her mother's medical bills from swallowing her whole. No savings. No backup plan. No room for mistakes.
Then she spills coffee on Ethan Blackwood.
He is cold, impossibly wealthy, and used to people falling over themselves to please him. So when Cara walks away without a single apology, he notices. And when his dying grandfather threatens to strip him of everything he has built unless he presents a fiancée within six weeks, Ethan does something he has never done before.
He makes her an offer she cannot refuse.
Six weeks. One performance. £500,000.
Cara tells herself it is simple. Smile at his family. Wear the ring. Take the money. Walk away.
But Ethan's family is nothing like she expected. Warm. Genuine. The kind of people who make her forget this was never real.
And Ethan himself is nothing like the cold man he pretends to be.
The problem isn't pretending to love him in front of his family.
The problem is stopping when the six weeks are over.
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