Love & Conditions (New York Billionaires Book 2)
Jules:
A year ago, I had it all. The perfect job, the perfect life, and the perfect fiancΓ©.
Christian Allister Lukov was the most insufferable, arrogant, yet deadly charming man I knew. A manipulative and intelligent liar disguised in Tom Ford suits. One I fell in love with.
Fate threw us together and I mistook his deception for love once. I refused to make the same mistake again.
But it just took one little disaster for me to run back into his arms.
I desperately needed a date to my brother's wedding, unfortunately, my options were limited. With a family that pounced at the first taste of drama, my broken engagement had become my dirty little secret, and when time came for me to bring a date to the wedding, I was left with no other choice.
Christian knew his way around the world, he knew how to make people love him and hate him. I learned my lesson and I would always choose the latter. But in desperate need of a fake fiancΓ© that my family would adore, I made yet another bargain with Christian Lukov.
But there were conditions to everything, even love.
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Christian:
I may have lost Jules a year ago, but I still had it all.
Somewhere between meeting my little sister's annoying best friend and then hiring her years later to become my assistant, I had fallen in love with Jules Evangeline Declan.
I would have given the world to be with her but Jules was the one to throw away everything we'd built.
When she came back to me a year later, demanding to put a ring on my finger again, I had my suspicions.
But I was an opportunist and there was no rest for the wicked.
Ever since Jules walked out of my life, I'd been a mess. I lost a fiancΓ©, maybe even the love of my life, but I also lost a perfectly capable employee. One I desperately needed back.
I knew my way around the world, I knew how to make people fear me and hate me. But nothing mattered when it came to Jules, I would do anything to have her in my life again in any damn way, even lie.
