His hand closes around mine one beat past the point where a handshake is business.
I’ve closed enough deals to know exactly when that happens.
I let it go unrecorded anyway.
A client fires me by email, and my father calls ten minutes later needing money I don’t have.
A week later, the man I’ve been secretly auditing offers to marry me instead.
One year, one contract, a fee large enough to finally silence every fear I own.
He doesn’t want a wife. He wants a signature.
So I take the pen and start writing my own terms.
Term three: twelve months to the day, we file, and it ends exactly where it started. On paper.
I wrote that one myself.
It comes with a half-sister waiting for us to fail, an uncle quietly building the paperwork to prove we did, and a board that will ruin us both the moment they smell a lie.
Four years ago, a man I trusted told this whole city I only wanted him for his name.
This time I’ve printed the price in the header, and everyone already knows exactly what I’m being paid.
I signed to buy back my name and finally open a door my mother sealed shut.
Now Nathan Ashford is the one clause in this contract I can’t audit my way out of.
The Fake Marriage Contract is a slow-burn marriage-of-convenience romance with a brooding architect heir and the fiercely guarded auditor who finally gets past his blueprints. No cheating, no cliffhangers, ultra-swoony HEA guaranteed!
Genre: Romance
I’ve closed enough deals to know exactly when that happens.
I let it go unrecorded anyway.
A client fires me by email, and my father calls ten minutes later needing money I don’t have.
A week later, the man I’ve been secretly auditing offers to marry me instead.
One year, one contract, a fee large enough to finally silence every fear I own.
He doesn’t want a wife. He wants a signature.
So I take the pen and start writing my own terms.
Term three: twelve months to the day, we file, and it ends exactly where it started. On paper.
I wrote that one myself.
It comes with a half-sister waiting for us to fail, an uncle quietly building the paperwork to prove we did, and a board that will ruin us both the moment they smell a lie.
Four years ago, a man I trusted told this whole city I only wanted him for his name.
This time I’ve printed the price in the header, and everyone already knows exactly what I’m being paid.
I signed to buy back my name and finally open a door my mother sealed shut.
Now Nathan Ashford is the one clause in this contract I can’t audit my way out of.
The Fake Marriage Contract is a slow-burn marriage-of-convenience romance with a brooding architect heir and the fiercely guarded auditor who finally gets past his blueprints. No cheating, no cliffhangers, ultra-swoony HEA guaranteed!
Genre: Romance
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