NOT IN THE CONTRACT

Mira Ellison runs a business she never admits to at parties: she gets hired to be someone's convincing rebound. Not a fake girlfriend for a wedding - a fake ex, the kind that shows up on an ex-partner's feed looking suspiciously happy, fast. Strict contract, strict rules, no real feelings, clean exit on the agreed date.
Her newest client is Kai Osei - cold, exacting, and publicly humiliated by his ex at his own family's company gala. He doesn't want jealousy. He wants a precisely engineered comeback, timed for maximum damage, with Mira as the visible proof that he's thriving. Easy money, she thinks. Just a role.
Except the contract has one clause they both privately think will never matter: if either of them develops real feelings, the deal is void immediately - no negotiation, no extension, no do-over. As the weeks go on, the fake relationship becomes the realest thing either of them has had in years, and admitting that would mean ending the only version of "them" that's allowed to exist. Every stolen real moment is a countdown against the clock they signed up for - and neither of them wants to be the one who says it out loud first, because saying it means it's over.