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THE CEO'S PERFECT LIE

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Zoe Mitchell is three days from sleeping in her car when Marcus Hale makes an offer she cannot refuse. Five thousand dollars to be his girlfriend for one weekend business retreat. Smile pretty, don't embarrass him, and pretend they are madly in love. She thinks it is desperation. He calls it an opportunity. One weekend becomes one month. One month becomes a carefully staged six-month relationship complete with paparazzi photos, charity galas, and Marcus's hand possessively on her waist at every corporate event. Zoe tells herself it is just business. The money pays her rent. The designer clothes are just costumes. The way Marcus looks at her like she is his entire world is just really good acting. Then his ex-fiancée crashes their fake engagement party with proof that Zoe is a paid actress. The humiliation is public, brutal, and livestreamed to two million people. Zoe runs, shattered and betrayed. Marcus follows. He has exactly one chance to tell her the truth. He has been in love with her since they were kids in the same broken neighborhood. Since she shared her lunch with him when his mom forgot to pack one. Since she smiled at the scholarship boy like he mattered. He built an empire just to be worthy of her. The fake relationship was never fake. It was the only way the terrified billionaire knew how to get close to the girl who never saw him as anything but her childhood friend. Now he has to prove that every touch, every kiss, every whispered promise was real.
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