ADINA GRACE
What happens when the girl who has never been chosen makes a deal with the man who has everything to lose?
For nineteen years, I waited for someone to take me home. Nobody did.
Armed with a battered bag and painful memories, I walked out of the orphanage, hoping life beyond its gates would be kinder. But when my best friend disappeared, taking my last hope of belonging with her, I thought things couldn't get worse.
Then I landed a job at the prestigious Pilara Hotel.
Everything was finally falling into place until I ate Victor Vance's tiramisu.
One spoonful landed me in humiliation and, somehow, face-to-face with the arrogant billionaire who seemed determined to make my life miserable.
Then he made me an offer.
Victor has spent years helping build the Vance Group, but his inheritance is threatened by his elder brother. To secure his place as successor, he must prove he can commit to a serious relationship.
And he wants me to be his fake girlfriend.
The rules are simple: no sex, no strings attached, and absolutely no feelings.
Easy enough. The last thing I need is to fall for a man who thinks humiliating me is acceptable.
But between the lies we tell his family and the moments we forget we're pretending, I begin to see the man beneath his arrogance. And he begins to see me—not the abandoned girl, but someone worth choosing.
Can a heart abandoned too many times dare to love again?
Will Victor choose me over his empire when the world believes I'm beneath him?
And what happens when pretending becomes the one truth neither of us can escape?
Some treats are simply impossible to forget.
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