mommabearforlife
Maddie has fifty days to find a husband, or she loses everything her late grandmother spent a lifetime building.
Under the unsealed terms of Raynita "Nita" Thorne's extraordinary will, Maddie stands to inherit a staggering fortune: ten and a half billion dollars in cash, a sprawling hundred-million-dollar estate with a six-car showroom garage, and total lifelong freedom. But the mandate is non-negotiable-she must be lawfully wed before the clock strikes zero, with a separate one-hundred-million-dollar signing fund promised to the man who takes her hand. Fierce, guarded, and armed with an explosive temper born from years of shielding her heart against opportunists, Maddie makes a desperate play. She books a seat at Lit, a neon-drenched lounge hosting a chaotic speed-dating night.
Across the crowded room sits Gixxer John. Broad-shouldered, quiet, and commanding, he looks like a reckless gamble in leather. When the timer starts and he takes the seat across from her, the spark between them is immediate, magnetic, and overwhelming. Facing an impossible deadline, Maddie agrees to an impulsive elopement, convinced she just found a miraculous stroke of dumb luck.
She has no idea their encounter was never an accident.
Two years before her quiet passing in 2014, Grandmother Nita made a secret summon. Knowing the vultures that would circle her granddaughter, Nita offered Gixxer the mansions, the supercars, and the nine-figure suitor bounty to step into Maddie's life when the time was right. Gixxer refused every single cent on the spot. He didn't want the billions, the custom rides, or the payout-he had been completely, hopelessly in love with Maddie since they were eight years old on an elementary playground. He swore an oath to love and protect her for nothing, bound by only one rule from Nita: Maddie could never know she was orchestrated. It had to feel entirely natural.