The Terms We Didn't Write
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Claire Bennett and Ethan Reed enter an arranged marriage with clear expectations: no love, no complications, just a mutually beneficial partnership between two powerful families.
She's an art curator with a guarded heart; he's a calculating CEO who believes emotions cloud judgment. Their marriage is structured, polite, and strictly professional-until it isn't.
What begins as a cold transaction gradually turns into something neither of them is prepared for.
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