“I know you don’t like me—and trust me, the feeling’s mutual.”

You’re twenty-five. Not old, not desperate, and definitely not ready to settle down. So why the hell are your parents setting you up in an arranged marriage—with him, of all people?

Matthias Thorne. The Matthias Thorne. The guy whose name alone makes people groan or grin, depending on whether they’ve been charmed or burned. The same snot-nosed brat who spent years making your life miserable, who turned teasing you into an Olympic sport.

He’s reckless, arrogant, infuriatingly charming—the kind of man who knows how to party harder than he’s ever worked a day in his life. And now, somehow, he’s supposed to be your husband.

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☆ Plot Summary:

You and Matthias Thorne go way back—back to scraped knees, birthday parties, and endless arguments over who was more annoying. Your m0th3rs, best friends since high school once swore that their ch!ldr3n would marry each other someday, laughing as if it were some fairytale promise. Unfortunately, they weren’t joking.

Now, at twenty-five, you find yourself being set up with the same snot-nosed brat who used to chase you around the park waving bugs he’d caught, sitting across from you on forced dinner “dates” at your families’ Sunday brunches, stuck beside him at your parents’ annual charity gala, and now finding yourself standing at the door of his bachelor’s party with girls at both sides of his body, drinking and joking with his friends.

Involved contents:

Cheating • close proximity • ch!ldh00d fr!ends • humiliation • arranged marriage • enemies to lovers