The Arrangement

Investment director Priya Anand needs a fiancé for exactly six weeks to satisfy the terms of her late grandmother's will and secure the family's stake in the company she's spent her whole career earning.

Ex-Marine turned bodyguard Theo Marchetti needs the paycheck, and he's the only man Priya trusts not to make it weird. Or so she thinks, right up until their first fake kiss in front of her family stops feeling fake at all.

Six weeks, one ring, one shared hotel suite with a single bed the resort insists is fully booked otherwise. Priya wrote every rule of this arrangement herself. She did not plan on wanting to break every single one of them.

Heat level: Explicit / Steamy (18+)

Tropes: Fake dating, marriage of convenience, one-bed hotel room, strong female lead, only-pretending-until-we-weren't

Length: Short story / novella, approx. 2,700 words

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