Bride for a Bargain
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Last published Sun, Dec 14, 2025
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Her future was decided before she was even born, an arranged marriage to a man she barely remembers from childhood.
Rhydian Hart once lived under the same roof as her, older, distant... then gone. She thought he left for college. She was wrong.
Now he's back. Waiting at the altar.
Older. Powerful. And quietly obsessed with the girl he's been loving in silence for years.
Between wedding plans she never agreed to, a hidden tech startup, and a man who refuses to let her slip away, Lavender is forced to choose: accept the life written for her... or burn it down.
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