The wind whispered secrets of the past as the little girl held out her hand to him, her eyes wide with hope. "We'll be together when we meet again, won't we?"
The boy, with a glimmer of affection in his gaze, grasped her small hand firmly and, in a gesture straight out of a movie, pressed a soft kiss on her palm. "I swear it."
Years passed, and with them, the innocence of childhood faded into the demands of reality. Both grew into titans of their respective worlds, successful beyond measure but guarded by walls of pride too high to climb. Yet, the promise they had made in their youth lingered like a quiet echo, one neither could escape.
Shreeya Malik, the 25-year-old CEO of a billion-dollar company, was the embodiment of perfection-ambitious, beautiful, and untouchable. She had everything, but no one had managed to penetrate the mystery that cloaked her heart. Until Angad Rai came back into her life.
Angad, the youngest billionaire and most eligible bachelor, had built his empire with the same cold ruthlessness that defined him. He admired Shreeya from a distance, but when fate forced them together as business partners, he realized the time had come to fulfill the vow he had made years ago.
Two powerful forces, both determined, both proud-could they ever let their egos go long enough to keep their childhood promises? Or would their pride tear apart the love they were meant to rediscover?
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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