DEBT OF DESIRE
“I’m not here to ruin you, Scarlet. I’m here to offer a way out.”
My heart stumbles at my name in his mouth. He grabs a folder, tossing it onto the desk with a soft thud. “Your family owes Thorne Industries fifty thousand dollars, plus twenty in interest. Foreclosure’s imminent. But I have a proposal to erase that debt and then some.”
I swallow hard, my throat dry. “What kind of proposal?”
He steps closer, too close, his presence like gravity pulling me in. “A marriage. One year, purely contractual. You play my wife, attend events, smile for the cameras. In return, I will clear your debt, pay you five million dollars, and fund your little design business.”
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