Novel Web & Cerita Playboy Pregnant Dark Romance

I made one promise to my mother. No baby without a ring. Then I got drunk, slept with a stranger who left cash on the nightstand like I was nothing, and woke up pregnant with no name, no number and no way to find him. Pregnant. Jobless. And my only option is marrying a man I already hate on sight. Ivan West is everything I cannot stand. Arrogant, cold, and used to getting exactly what he wants. But he needs a wife and I need a husband and somewhere in between desperation and bad decisions we sign a contract that is supposed to fix everything. One year. Shared penthouse. Fake marriage. Real baby that he agrees to claim as his. Simple. Except nobody stays enemies when they are forced to share a bed every night. Nobody keeps their walls up when life keeps finding new ways to tear them down. And nobody, nobody, walks into a contract marriage with a man like Ivan West and comes out the other side feeling nothing. I came into this with one rule. Do not fall for him. I should have read the fine print.

Five years ago, I ran away from my wedding in Lake Como after discovering that Lorenzo Bandini, the man I trusted with my life, had betrayed me. Before sunrise, I made one reckless choice with his older brother. Zachary Bandini is arrogant, dangerous, and far too observant. I left his room the next morning and disappeared before either Bandini brother could ruin what remained of me. I never told Zach that our single night together followed me home. Now I own one of Manhattan’s most exclusive wedding-planning companies, and my four-year-old daughter, Abigail, is the only part of my life I refuse to risk. She has my attitude, my talent for creating chaos, and Zach’s face. Keeping her hidden has worked for five years. Then I accept the biggest wedding contract of my career and walk into the first meeting to find Zach beside the bride. Her fiancé. Zach thinks I vanished because I regretted him. He has no idea I left carrying the one thing that could connect us forever. I can survive his attention. I can ignore the way he still makes anger feel dangerously close to desire. I can plan his wedding, smile at his fiancée, and keep every secret exactly where it belongs. But Abigail is curious, fearless, and impossible to control. And Zach has never been a man who stops looking once he knows something is being hidden from him. So what happens when the man I have spent five years avoiding finally looks into my daughter’s eyes and sees himself?