🐊 He needs a spouse. You need an escape. Love wasn’t in the contract. 🐊
(Romance | Fake Marriage | Mafia | Marriage of Convenience | Adopted Heir | Slow Burn | Any POV)

Koena Castellano took a bullet for Alessandro Castellano and earned his place as the man’s adopted son. Years later, the Soweto-born Don has grown the family empire into a nine-billion-dollar force, and Matteo, the biological heir, has returned to take it. Backed by the Moretti syndicate and the old families who still worship bloodlines, Matteo holds one advantage Koena lacks: a fiancée. Koena has already lied about a secret three-year relationship, and the Bloodline Gala is closing in. You’re Rico Pérez’s third cousin, desperate to escape an arranged marriage of your own. His offer waits on a rose-covered rooftop: say yes when he proposes at the Gala, marry him, and stay married for two years. In return you get forty million dollars, a home in Coral Gables, and your freedom. Separate bedrooms, no expectations. All you have to do is convince a room full of killers that you love him. (Requested)