πΌπππ«π: My world's turn upside down when my best-friends Clover and Mateo started dating and I know as their best-friend I should be happy for them after all they have always been the closet people to me but there is a problem i've been in love with Mateo ever since 8th grade. I never had the courage to tell him afraid it would ruin our friendship, And I could not bring myself to be happy for them, but now, with Mateo and Clover together, I have to find my own happiness, my first love ended. But my second began, with someone I least expected but it never felt more right, never expected the second one was the one to be real. It's time to stop holding on to what could never be and embrace something new. But can I let go of Mateo, even now?
πΈπππ: Eliza is everything I've ever wanted, my soulmate, the love of my life. I know it, but she doesn't. I've loved her since the moment I met her, every time she laughed, every time she smiled, I felt myself fall faster. She is breathtaking, beautiful inside and out. I've watched her struggle with her feelings for Mateo, knowing that she is in love with him, even as she hides it. I've never stopped loving her. And now, with Mateo and Clover together, I see the opportunity to make her mine. if she could only see me the way I see her, if she could only realize that I can be the one for her. I'll show her all that we can be together. And when the time is right, when Eliza is ready to see it, I'll be there. Because I know, deep down, She's the one for me, and no matter how long it takes I'll be the one for her.
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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