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The Assist

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Time 3h 51m

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Jared Arriaga is the bane of my existence, when at one point of my life he was my everything. The man I gave my whole heart to, the man i almost chose over my future. The man that I try to hate my entire heart. 

The man that I wanted to spend the rest of my life is outside my apartment in New York City far from Seattle - our hometown. 

And he's wanting to fight for me back. To show me that his last words were out of spite and he fucked up. But to me this is an opportunity to get the dream promotion of my career. 

────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──────

Desiree Mendez, the woman that I love is across the country when she should be with me. But I fucked up and let her leave without a single thought in my mind knowing I could still be part of her life. Not only does my mouth have it's mind of it's own but suddenly the words of her being my plus-one for my best friend's wedding is out. 

The woman that I want to be my wife is making me fake date her for her job and agree to my date for Leo's wedding. 

And I'm willing to prove myself to her even if I have to use all my air miles on her.All Rights Reserved

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Love & Conditions (New York Billionaires Book 2) by NightTime_Storiexs

Jules: A year ago, I had it all. The perfect job, the perfect life, and the perfect fiancé. 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 fiancé that my family would adore, I made yet another bargain with Christian Lukov. But there were conditions to everything, even love. ... 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 fiancé, 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.

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Never Forgotten #3 by LustfullyPiere

Lilia's life shakes up when a distant cousin disrupts her life and threatens to take her family's inheritance and tests the will Lilia's deceased parents had left for her. It becomes evidently clear that she has to speed up her life plan and resort to marriage to save what has been passed onto her and there's only one man for that Job Carter Kabrera Coleman was quiet and level headed along with loyal. He has never loved anyone else but her and he is open about it. The two agree to sham a marriage to fool Lilia's cousin and protect her inheritance but as some point what's supposed to be fake doesn't feel fake anymore. Lilia gradually learns that the man who would drop to his knees for her was more interesting than she thought. The more she gets into his mind the more that she realizes that he has the same end goal as she does, to become a known sensation, To die never forgotten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The stranger said before he places on the small of my back and pulling me towards him. I stumbled into his poor frame of a body"Hey! What are you-" A loud thud startles me and the man lets go of me but a louder thud followed after. I see the blonde perv on the floor below the seats holding his forehead and then groaning. My eyes brows furrow as I see a soccer ball bouncing along the crowd and people are trying to grab it. I look back on the field to see how the ball had gone astray and made eye contact with Carter who was standing right in front of me instead of playing the game. Hot sweat coating his skin and hair sticking to his forehead he looked absolutely pissed. The referee blows the whistle. "GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY FUCKING WIFE!" He yelled towards the man he already put down but the whole stadium could hear this on all sides.

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Jules: A year ago, I had it all. The perfect job, the perfect life, and the perfect fiancé. 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 fiancé that my family would adore, I made yet another bargain with Christian Lukov. But there were conditions to everything, even love. ... 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 fiancé, 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.