practicalmajik
Issa Montenegro was ready to tell her husband Dominic she was pregnant. He handed her annulment papers first, saying their marriage was just a merger. She signed, said nothing about the baby, and walked out.
Three years later, Issa is an executive assistant at Vergara Holdings and a single mom to Tomas, a three-year-old with a heart defect. The surgery costs more than she’ll ever earn. After her boss, billionaire Gabriel Vergara, catches her crying in the supply room, he offers a deal. He needs a wife by December 31 to keep control of his company against a hostile takeover from the very group Dominic now runs. In exchange, he’ll cover Tomas’s entire operation. Ninety days. No feelings. Rule one is don’t fall in love. Rule two is that in public, she’s his.
Issa signs. What the contract didn’t cover is how Gabriel looks at her son, the way he puts a hand on her back when she doesn’t need it, or the way he destroys anyone who talks down to her. Neither of them is sure where the pretending stops.
Then Dominic walks back into her life, finds out about Tomas, and wants everything he threw away. Gabriel, it turns out, is hiding something too. Issa has to figure out who’s lying, who’s protecting her, and whether the man who needs her for a contract might be the only one who ever actually chose her.
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