Avianna Hope Diaz, a small-town veterinarian with a guarded heart, vowed never to fall in love again after being cheated on by her first boyfriend. Love, for her, became something distant-until destiny brings back her childhood best friend and first love, Malachi Conan Rivera, from the U.S.
Years ago, they made a silly pact: *if they're both still single by 30, they'll marry each other-just for fun.* But what started as a harmless inside joke turns serious when a dare at a party leads to an unexpected twist: their mutual friend, Mayor August, submits their signed "marriage contract" from that drunken night... and it becomes legally binding.
Avianna is shocked when she discovers she's now *legally married* to Malachi. But what breaks her isn't just the accident-it's learning that Malachi didn't stop it. Why? Because he *needed* a wife to claim his inheritance from his powerful, controlling grandfather.
Now caught between the lines of a joke, a contract, and the remnants of old feelings, Avianna must decide: is she just his "safety wife," or was she always meant to be *the one*?