theghostinrosegold
Cynical florist Elara believes love is a lie, destined to wilt faster than the peonies in her mother's shop. Her proof? A cheating dad and an ex who traded her for a girl named Sunshine. So when she accidentally sends a scathing, secret manifesto on the futility of marriage to the wrong email address, she's sure she's doomed the family business. The recipient? Oliver Weston, the groom in the society wedding of the year.
But Oliver doesn't fire her. He shows up, shattered, calling her rant the most honest thing he's ever read. The perfect, gilded cage of his life is crushing him, and her words are the key. He calls off the wedding, trading a billionaire future for a minimum wage job in her chaotic, fragrant world.
Thrown together, two skeptics of love discover something terrifyingly real growing in the quiet moments between thorny roses and delivery runs. But as their fragile connection deepens, the world they left behind attacks. A vicious ex-fiancée, a powerful family's threats, and a swirling scandal threaten to destroy the shop and the first true thing either of them has ever known.
20th in #wedding
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1st in #forget-me-not