Zim

"I'm so sorry, sir, I forgot to lock the door. I didn't mean for..." "Shhhh." He silenced me, placing a finger on my lips. He smelled like rich, masculine cologne and alcohol. I looked up at him; he was staring at me with something swirling in his eyes. Something I couldn't explain. He slowly leaned down and pressed a kiss on my shoulder. My breath hitched in my throat. I held my towel tight against me with my left hand and pushed him back with my right hand, taking a step back myself. "I'm sorry, sir, this isn't right," I told him respectfully. His eyes darkened as he grabbed my forearm tightly, making me look at his furious eyes. "I am Alessandro Rossi, and no one tells me what is right and what is not." He attacked my neck, peppering it with kisses as I just stood there. "But you're drunk, sir," I told him. "I'm in complete control of my senses, Victoria." *** Alessandro Rossi retrieves his heir from his runaway wife and employs the young Victoria to care for his son. After spending one drunken night together, Victoria becomes pregnant with his child. Their lives are now entwined, leading to a loveless marriage. Soon after, Victoria finds comfort in the arms of another. What will Alessandro do when he realizes he has already fallen for Victoria? Will he do something to win back her heart?

Aria Bennett is a stripper by night, an engagement crasher by day, and a woman with nothing left to lose. For three years, she’s been grieving her sister, who died after tangling with the powerful Pembroke family. Her sister's baby, delivered just moments before death, was stolen by the same family who denied the baby when she was alive. Aria tried to fight back, but against billionaires? She never stood a chance. Until now. Grant Pembroke is the golden boy of a ruthless empire, and he's got secrets buried deeper than the family vault. To dodge an arranged marriage, he hires an engagement crasher, only to end up with Aria, the woman who’s been dying to bring his family to their knees. Aria seized her chance and flipped the script on Grant. "I will marry him," she said instead of leaving...

Nelly never imagined her design degree would leave her broke, jobless, and pouring drinks at a bar she hates. So when she stumbles on a live-in housekeeping position paying $120,000 a year, she’s convinced it’s a scam, until her friends push her to try. But nothing prepares her for the Aiden’s estate. The money is real. The rules are strange. And the first one is the hardest: she must never be seen by the estate’s only resident. Aiden Kensington, billionaire, brilliant, and inconveniently irresistible has survived by keeping his world small and his secrets smaller. He has no interest in chaos or his family… until Nelly arrives and accidentally becomes the face of a lie he told his business partner: the fiancée he invented to save a deal. Now Aiden has to keep up the charade. Nelly has to survive the job. And the house that brought them together begins unraveling every truth they thought they knew, about each other and about their own pasts. From an accidental housekeeper to a fake fiancée to something dangerously real, Nelly and Aiden must decide whether love is worth fighting for when families interfere, old wounds resurface, and the life she’s always wanted finally stands within reach.