The contract ends in two weeks. He knows. She knows. Neither of them has brought it up.
Isla Quinn needed a husband for six months to satisfy an investor clause she'd agreed to at twenty-three and spent three years forgetting existed. Cole Mercer needed a wife to claim a board seat his grandfather built a prenuptial clause around. The exchange was clean and in writing. What wasn't in writing: the handwritten note he left about the slow hot water tap on the second morning, the fact that he showed up at 3 AM with a printed decision matrix when her supplier dropped out, the specific way he argues about things he's already decided. The contract has a clear end date. Cole seems to have forgotten what it is.
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Chapters
1Chapter 1: The Clause2Chapter 2: I Don't Do Anything Halfway3Chapter 3: He Had Five4Chapter 4: No Gaps5Chapter 5: Fourteen Months6Chapter 6: I'm Not Normal7Chapter 7: Everyone Edits8Chapter 8: Authenticity Markers9Chapter 9: Cold Coffee10Chapter 10: Forty-One Hours11Chapter 11: Part of Something Else12Chapter 12: A Pattern?13Chapter 13: I Know You Are14Chapter 14: Five Months15Chapter 15: Technically Satisfied16Chapter 16: I Noticed17Chapter 17: Start Counting Up18Chapter 18: Before She Decides19Chapter 19: I'm Choosing This20Chapter 20: The Paper Doesn't Matter21Chapter 21: Not All of Them