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Isla Carter is a struggling artist drowning in debt and quietly bearing the weight of her father's failing health. With her gallery on the brink of closing and no stable income, her world teeters on collapse-until her best friend introduces her to Damon Reyes, a ruthless tech mogul-turned-business tycoon.
Damon needs a wife to fulfill a clause in his late father's will and secure control over Reyes Holdings, a multi-billion-dollar company. Love isn't part of the deal. Trust isn't required. Just a clean contract, one year of marriage, public appearances, and zero emotional entanglements.
Isla agrees. She needs the money; he needs the marriage.
But what begins as a calculated arrangement soon unravels into something neither of them anticipated. Damon's cold, hardened exterior begins to fracture as Isla's presence draws out ghosts from his past. Isla, guarded and bruised by emotional abandonment, finds herself drawn to the man behind the empire-a man far more broken than he lets on.
As weeks blur into months, the lines between performance and authenticity begin to blur. Their chemistry grows undeniable, their moments too tender to fake. Isla paints him into her canvases without meaning to. Damon starts dreaming in color again-for the first time in years.
Yet, secrets threaten to destroy the fragile foundation they've built. Damon's past betrayal resurfaces. Isla's own trauma is exposed. And when their contract's expiration looms, they're forced to confront the one thing they never planned for: the possibility of real love.
In the end, both must decide-was it all pretend, or did the love form in the spaces they never noticed? In the pauses, in the silences, in the in-between?