MarvellousMunachimso
**He needed a wife to secure his billion-dollar deal. I needed a fortune to save myself. Our marriage was supposed to be a business transaction... until we broke the only rule that mattered.**
Aria Vance is one more rejected painting away from living on the streets. Broke, desperate, and utterly hopeless, she has nowhere left to turn.
Liam Thorne is a ruthless billionaire who needs one thing to finalize the most important deal of his life: the image of a stable, married man. Love is not part of the equation.
When he offers Aria a contract-pose as his devoted wife for one year in exchange for enough money to solve all her problems-it's an offer she can't refuse. She moves into his penthouse, wears his rings, and plays her part perfectly.
But with every lingering touch for the cameras and every whispered "I love you" that feels a little too real, the line between pretense and passion begins to blur. He's breaking down her walls, and she's seeing the wounded man behind the cold, corporate facade.
**Now, with the end of the contract looming, we have to choose. Walk away with the money and forget we ever met... or risk everything for a love that was never supposed to be real.**
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