I had eighteen days of my mother's medicine left and no legal way to reach the pharmacy.
Then my brother's biker friend called. A voice like a closed road, ninety seconds, one impossible offer.
Marry me. On paper. That's all it is.
So I signed my name beside a stranger's, crossed a line I wasn't allowed to cross, and told a checkpoint guard about a love that never happened.
Six days, I promised my mother.
Then the border shut behind me.
Now I live in his apartment. One bedroom. One couch. One rulebook I wrote on a diner napkin, and rule four was the only one that mattered.
Rule four was nothing happens.
But he puts a blanket over me when he thinks I'm asleep.
And the state just sent a letter asking whether our marriage is real.
What am I supposed to tell them?
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Then my brother's biker friend called. A voice like a closed road, ninety seconds, one impossible offer.
Marry me. On paper. That's all it is.
So I signed my name beside a stranger's, crossed a line I wasn't allowed to cross, and told a checkpoint guard about a love that never happened.
Six days, I promised my mother.
Then the border shut behind me.
Now I live in his apartment. One bedroom. One couch. One rulebook I wrote on a diner napkin, and rule four was the only one that mattered.
Rule four was nothing happens.
But he puts a blanket over me when he thinks I'm asleep.
And the state just sent a letter asking whether our marriage is real.
What am I supposed to tell them?
Genre: Romantic Suspense