For six years, Dahlia Moreau believed in a future with Nathaniel Calloway-the man she was about to marry. But on the eve of their wedding, everything shatters. Nathaniel abandons her at the altar to fulfill the dying wish of her stepsister, Isla, a secret daughter of Dahlia's cold, calculating father. Forced into the shadows, Dahlia's world collapses, and betrayal cuts deeper than love.
Locked away and stripped of her dreams, Dahlia is left with a choice: accept her fate as a secondhand bride or fight back. When the enigmatic and morally grey Damien Cross offers a dangerous alliance, Dahlia seizes it, igniting a game of revenge, power, and dark passion.
And since Dahlia's perfectly constructed life crumbles after being humiliated by the man she was supposed to marry, she does the unthinkable-enters a fake engagement with the city's most dangerous billionaire, Damien Cross.
Cold. Calculated. Cruel.
He claims it's mutual benefit-revenge for her, leverage for him. But what begins as an act starts to blur with obsession, mind games, and dangerously real touches. Especially when Dahlia learns what Damien does in the shadows... and how far he's willing to go for control.
She wanted to get even. But Damien never plays fair.
And now she doesn't know if she's in the middle of a love story-or a cage she can't escape.
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short story 1
humor 1