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When hardworking secretary Elena Gray wakes up in her billionaire boss’s penthouse after a drunken mistake, she faces a stark choice: sign a contract to bear Lucas Stone’s heir in exchange for a fortune, or lose her job and risk her mother’s medical care. The icy CEO of Stone Group demands the arrangement to satisfy his ailing mother’s wish for an heir, never expecting the pregnancy to upend his meticulously controlled life. As Elena moves into Lucas’s opulent manor, she navigates the treacherous waters of high society: his spoiled sister Sophia resents her, glamorous socialite Vivian Blake vies for Lucas’s attention, and the Stone family’s dark secrets lurk beneath polished facades. Despite their contractual boundaries, tension simmers between Elena and Lucas—his cold commands clash with unexpected moments of protectiveness, while her resolve to remain detached falters as she bonds with his kind-hearted mother, Amelia. When Elena’s estranged father surfaces to exploit her new status and her mother’s coma deepens, she must balance loyalty to her family with the dangerous allure of her pretend marriage. As the baby’s arrival draws near, Lucas finds himself torn between his icy facade and growing feelings for Elena, while she confronts a shattering truth: the contract may have bound them legally, but their hearts refuse to follow the rules. Set in the glamorous yet cutthroat world of European corporate dynasties, this tale of forbidden passion, familial duty, and unexpected love asks: can a marriage built on lies and convenience ever become something real?

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“I hate you!” I hiss, throwing punch after punch at his chest while we both move backward. My legs hit the bed and I realize that I have nowhere else to go. “I’m done with this pretend nonsense, do you hear me!?” Those azure eyes filled with lust, longing, and so much hatred never leave my face. He raises his hand and grabs me by the back of my neck. In one swift move, he pulls me toward his hard body and his lips brush against mine. “We’re done when I say we’re done, brat. And when are you gonna stop pretending that you’re not as involved in this like I am?” “What’re you talking about? I hate you, remember?” “Sure you do,” he whispers. His fingers trail down my neck and I shudder. “You hate me so much that your body responds to me whenever we’re close. Just like this. You hate me but you want me.” “No, I don’t.” To prove his point, he presses his lips against mine and I lose the fight. I always do. *** For Isadora Halvick, life has never been easy, as she’s been marked by scandal since birth for being the illegitimate daughter of a billionaire. Her half-brother, Justin, makes her life worse at every possible opportunity, and things become even more complicated now that they’re enrolled in the same university. But when Justin’s biggest rival on the ice, Knox Mohrelian, the captain of the Black Reapers of Hartwell U, suggests they “fake date” to get back at Justin, Isadora jumps at the offer, not knowing that their “relationship” will lead to a disastrous series of events that cause her first year to go awfully, and that she’ll lose so many parts of herself along the way that she’ll end up dropping out. A year later, she’s back, completely different from the rebellious girl she was in her first year, but one thing about Hartwell U? It never forgets. And so, Isadora is plunged right back into the world of scandals, secrets as black as sin, and a complicated relationship that traps her in the cycle of being unraveled and stitched together by the same twisted love. This time, the question is simple: How will it end? And if so, will she survive until then?

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