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The Pretend Bride's Unexpected Path To True Love
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2 Chapters
Chapter 6 The Desire Exists img
Chapter 7 Conflicts img
Chapter 8 Was he flirting with me img
Chapter 9 Don't Forget You Are My Fiancée img
Chapter 10 A Chaste Kiss Awakening Desires img
Chapter 11 : Fascinated by Her img
Chapter 12 Confused img
Chapter 13 Affectionate Messages img
Chapter 14 Pretending to Be Real img
Chapter 15 My Beautiful img
Chapter 16 The Family Dinner img
Chapter 17 Intoxicated img
Chapter 18 Growing Desire img
Chapter 19 Parade of Kisses img
Chapter 20 My Fake Fiance img
Chapter 21 Don't You Understand, My Darling img
Chapter 22 My Beautiful, All Mine img
Chapter 23 A Sweet Awakening img
Chapter 24 You Still Don't Understand A Thing, My Beautiful img
Chapter 25 Shopping with the Fiance img
Chapter 26 The Fitting Room img
Chapter 27 Provoking Him img
Chapter 28 What's Happening img
Chapter 29 Preparing to Tell the Truth img
Chapter 30 Gaining an Ally img
Chapter 31 The Family Event img
Chapter 32 Stay with Me img
Chapter 33 The Scarlet Angels' Client img
Chapter 34 Exclusive to Me img
Chapter 35 A Fool In Love img
Chapter 36 Albert, What is Going on in Your Head img
Chapter 37 Let Me Protect You. Allow Me to Love You... img
Chapter 38 Everything Will Be Alright img
Chapter 39 Please Stay with Me img
Chapter 40 Albert, What's Going on in Your Mind img
Chapter 41 Ask Me to Stay img
Chapter 42 I Need to Hold You img
Chapter 43 Everything Will Be Alright img
Chapter 44 Everything to Me img
Chapter 45 Stay with Me img
Chapter 46 The Only Person Who Can Separate Us Is You img
Chapter 47 Under the Stars img
Chapter 48 Deeply img
Chapter 49 Preparations for a Surprise img
Chapter 50 Just Take the Money and Leave. img
Chapter 51 I Can't Leave You img
Chapter 52 The Proposal img
Chapter 53 It Was Never Just Sex img
Chapter 54 I'll Surprise You Every Day img
Chapter 55 Love Exists img
Chapter 56 The Consultation img
Chapter 57 Love Needs No Explanation img
Chapter 58 Claiming a Promise img
Chapter 59 We Will Be Together img
Chapter 60 Madly in Love img
Chapter 61 Be Mine Forever img
Chapter 62 My Love img
Chapter 63 Respect My Future Wife img
Chapter 64 Flying to Paris img
Chapter 65 Safe in Your Arms img
Chapter 66 Hot Moments in Paris img
Chapter 67 Tenderness img
Chapter 68 Greece img
Chapter 69 I'll Tell the Whole World img
Chapter 70 Betrothed img
Chapter 71 For a Lifetime img
Chapter 72 The Sweetest Plans img
Chapter 73 The Family Dinner img
Chapter 74 Albert's Trauma img
Chapter 75 Reliving Memories img
Chapter 76 Failed Dress Fitting img
Chapter 77 Abduction img
Chapter 78 Cliff img
Chapter 79 Rescue img
Chapter 80 Ceremony img
Chapter 81 Forever My Beautiful img
Chapter 82 Book 2 My Life, Love Under the Tuscan Sky img
Chapter 83 Casual Encounter Chapter 2 img
Chapter 84 Hard Work Chapter 3 img
Chapter 85 Traveling with the Boss Chapter 4 img
Chapter 86 Turbulences img
Chapter 87 Landing in Rome img
Chapter 88 The Dinner Chapter 7 img
Chapter 89 Dismissing Everyone img
Chapter 90 Shopping img
Chapter 91 What Do You Want Chapter 10 img
Chapter 92 Stay Away From Him img
Chapter 93 There Will Be No Other Woman Chapter 12 img
Chapter 94 A Sweet Truce Chapter 13 img
Chapter 95 Yacht Party Chapter 14 img
Chapter 96 Rescue Chapter 15 img
Chapter 97 Impossible to Resist img
Chapter 98 Just Sleep img
Chapter 99 Nothing Happened Chapter 18 img
Chapter 100 Won't You Invite Me In Chapter 19 img
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Chapter 2 Fiancee!

The next day...

My feet ached from all the walking I had done. My car refused to start, so I ended up running all the way to the destination. Liza had arranged to meet me outside an expensive store along the main avenue. I spotted her right away, her pale hair neatly pulled back into a ponytail and her designer clothes showing off her perfect figure. She turned, giving me a slow smile.

"Good morning, Miss Late."

"Good morning. I'm really sorry I kept you waiting. My car broke down again."

"It's alright, Thalia. I can tell you're having a rough morning, but believe me, things will get better. Just keep in mind that our client, Mr. Albert Johnson, doesn't put up with delays."

"That won't happen again," I replied, catching my breath as I tried to reassure her.

"Let's go in. We're already running late. The day is just getting started."

I followed her into the store, and for the next hour, we picked out dresses, shoes, different accessories, and even lingerie.

Liza spent most of that time glued to her phone, snapping pictures of every outfit I tried on and sending them to him. He always answered right away, telling her what he liked or disliked. The only thing he stayed silent about was the lingerie.

Once we walked out onto the street, Liza finally tucked her phone into her bag.

"I still think this whole thing is strange. What's wrong with this man, Liza?"

She just gave me a gentle smile and stayed quiet. She went straight into the spa, which was only a short walk from the store.

After we sat down in the lounge, she finally spoke.

"He said in the contract that he's not interested in sex. He just wants you at his side, always looking polished and put together."

"That's fine by me. I'd rather keep things that way."

She smiled and lowered her voice.

"Darling, if he wanted something more, I doubt you'd refuse. I know I wouldn't turn him down. Handsome man, beautiful place..."

Before she could finish, her phone rang. She moved aside to take the call, and I made my way into the massage room. Over the next few hours, I prepared myself-getting my nails done, my hair styled, makeup carefully applied, and slipping into a new set of clothes.

My heart felt heavy with worry, but I knew I had passed the point of turning back. Hours later, Liza and I stood in front of the huge mirror in the Scarlet Angels's reception area.

I wore a refined dress, tasteful but still alluring. My bag held everything I owned, and most important of all, my passport.

Liza reviewed the contract details I had just signed.

"You just need to smile and go along with whatever he says whenever you're in public. Your role is to pretend to have an emotional connection with him. There will be no sex; you'll stay in the same room as him, but he won't touch you."

Liza arranged to have all the new clothes packed into the expensive suitcases she bought for me. When the car he sent pulled up in front of the Scarlet Angels, the driver carefully loaded the luggage into the trunk.

I said goodbye to Liza and made my way to the car. The driver greeted me with a friendly goodnight, but he kept quiet for the entire ride.

At the airport, we entered the VIP lounge reserved for private flights. A jet waited on the runway, ready for departure. The driver walked me over to a flight attendant who stood by the stairs. She welcomed me warmly and guided me to my seat, making sure I was comfortable.

As I finished typing a message to my brother, I heard his voice for the first time.

"Good evening, Thalia. Welcome."

I looked up and saw Albert. His presence was impossible to ignore, and the photos I had seen never prepared me for how striking he was in person. He stood tall, with a perfect physique and an intense gaze that locked with mine.

My eyes lingered on his mouth as he took a seat across from me, moving with slow confidence.

"Good evening, Mr. Johnson..."

"Forget the 'Mister.' Just call me Albert," he said while carefully rolling up his shirt sleeve.

I couldn't help but notice his movements, the way the fabric of his expensive shirt revealed the lines of his toned arms.

"I'm sorry. I'm a little nervous."

He smiled at me, his curiosity plain on his face.

"You're not going to tell me this is your first time..."

Heat crept up my cheeks, and I instantly felt foolish.

What was I doing? I needed to pull myself together before this situation slipped any further out of my hands.

"It's my first time on a plane to Italy," I admitted. "Honestly, I still don't know what you really expect from me."

"Your questions make sense, considering the contract I sent over. That's why I'm open to talking this through with you during the flight. Let me tell you why I went to your agency for help. We're about to attend a major conference, and I'll be meeting with some very important clients. But the real reason I asked for your company is that my fiancee left me. She's going to be there too, since her family, like mine, is in the spirits business. She ended our relationship and, just two weeks later, got engaged to someone else. I know she still has feelings for me. She's doing all of this just to spite me. I want to match her every move and shake up her confidence. I need to make her realize that I'm the man she truly wants."

He explained everything with such calm certainty that I almost forgot how wild this whole plan sounded. Still, he was paying me well enough to play the part.

"I understand, Albert. I'll be your girlfriend and make her jealous."

"Actually, you'll be my fiancee. We got engaged on a romantic trip to Greece."

"Fiancee?"

I repeated, my voice a little louder than I intended.

"Yes. Florence Ward and I ended things two months ago, and at the time, we were both traveling in different parts of the world. So the story we're telling is believable."

"Alright, you're the one paying."

"Good. All I need from you is to agree with whatever I say and to know when to dodge questions. I'll take care of the rest."

"Of course. Do you have pictures of your fiancee?"

"Just the ones from her company's website."

He gave me a provocative smile, making it clear he was talking about the photos of me on the Scarlet Angels site-the ones where I wore a Venetian mask over my eyes. In almost every picture, I wore nothing else. An unexpected warmth ran through me, settling in places I shouldn't have let it. Still, I decided to play along.

"Glad to know you chose your new fiancee based on those photos."

"It wasn't the photos, actually. It was your profile description that caught my attention. Then I spoke with Liza. She told me you're in college, and that you're different from the others there. You actually want something more for your future."

His words caught me off guard, but I tried not to let it show. He spoke with an easy confidence, as if nothing could rattle him.

"Don't misunderstand me, Thalia. I enjoyed looking at those photos, no doubt about that. I've thought about them more than I should admit. But I'm not just after sex, and I want to be clear about that."

"Alright. Honestly, I think your attempt to win her back is kind of sweet."

He smiled at that, but chose not to say anything more. For the rest of the flight, he let the subject drop. We talked about all sorts of things and, surprisingly, found we had a lot in common. The hours passed smoothly.

When we finally landed, he turned to me and reached for a small box from his suitcase.

"We need to make sure our story is convincing."

He opened the box, and the light caught on two sparkling rings. He picked up the solitaire and slipped it onto my finger with a practiced gentleness. Then he took the matching band and slid it onto his own hand.

"Looks like we're officially engaged."

He offered his hand and helped me up from my seat.

"This is where our story begins, my dear."

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