Explicit content. Intended for adult readers 18+.

I don't want your money. I don't want your name. I want three months, one ring, and a lie good enough to fool everyone — including us.

Sadie Vance had one plan for tonight: disappear before her family sells her off to the highest bidder. Instead, she's got a stranger's mouth on hers, a ballroom full of witnesses, and a lie she can't take back — meet my fiancé.

Callum Ashford doesn't rescue people. He doesn't do soft, and he sure as hell doesn't do accidents. But the woman currently ruining his exit strategy just handed him exactly what his board needs to see: a man with something — someone — to lose.

So he plays along.

He writes the rules himself. No feelings. No questions. No touching that isn't for the cameras. She agrees to all of it, because rules are safe, and after tonight, safe is all she wants.

He should have known better. He's never been a man who stays inside his own lines — and behind his penthouse doors, with no audience left to perform for, those lines don't just blur. They disappear.

What started as leverage turns into obsession. What started as pretend starts to feel like the only real thing he's ever had.

He wanted a fiancée on paper.

Now he wants to own her, completely — and he's done pretending otherwise.

Tropes: Fake Dating, Billionaire, Possessive Alpha, Power Exchange, Forced Proximity, Guaranteed HEA