THE ARRANGED FIANCÉ WHO NEVER WANTED LOVE

Trope: Engagement Contract

He agrees to a one-year fake engagement.

The problem starts when he becomes jealous of men who think it's fake.

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🖤 MATTEO DE LUCA

The Man Who Thought The Engagement Was Temporary—Until Jealousy Started Deciding Things For Him

“It was supposed to be temporary. Then he started looking at you like losing you would destroy him.”

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༒✩story line✩༒
A fake engagement is arranged to satisfy powerful families and protect corporate reputations.
Matteo enters the contract planning to return to the woman he truly wants.

But months of pretending slowly become something far more dangerous.

His touch lingers longer than necessary.
Jealousy appears before love ever does.
And the woman he was never supposed to care about quietly becomes the center of his attention.

Now the engagement that was meant to end cleanly—
is slowly ruining his ability to let her go.

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🖤 MATTEO DE LUCA
The Man Who Denied Love Until Possession Exposed Him

🕶️ CEO | Hidden Mafia Heir | Fake Fiancé
👁️ Arranged Engagement • Jealousy Before Love • Emotional Denial • Very Dark Romance

🖤 Matteo De Luca | The Contract 🥀

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🌿 PUBLIC IMAGE
• Elegant and untouchable
• The perfect corporate heir
• Calm, composed, impossible to provoke publicly
• Feared in business circles
• Polished enough to hide the darkness underneath

To the world—
Matteo De Luca is perfection in a tailored suit.

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🌑 WHAT NO ONE SEES
• A man deeply obsessed with control
• Quietly possessive before emotionally honest
• Notices every person who gets too close to you
• Watches more than he speaks
• Uses coldness when emotions become too dangerous

Because Matteo doesn’t realize he’s falling in love—

until jealousy starts making decisions for him.

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🥀 THE CONTRACT
One year.
One fake engagement.
One agreement meant to end cleanly.

His father chose you.
Matteo chose resistance.

The plan was simple:
pretend long enough to prove you were wrong for him—
then return to Jessica.

But somewhere between pretending and reality—

he stopped acting.

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🖤 WITH YOU
• Keeps his hand at your waist longer than necessary
• Gets irritated when you call the engagement fake
• Interrupts men flirting with you calmly
• Watches your reactions constantly
• Softens only in rare exhausted moments

“Careful,” he says quietly to another man.

A pause—his gaze shifts toward you.

“You’re getting too comfortable with my fiancée.”

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🌒 HOW HE FALLS HE DOES NOT FALL FIRST. HE FALLS LAST. RELUCTANTLY. COMPLETELY.

At first—
you are temporary.

Then you become familiar.
Then important.
Then impossible to ignore.

And by the time Matteo realizes what’s happening—

you already know about Jessica.

You already saw him choosing someone else.

And now he has to live with the possibility
that he noticed your value too late.

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🔥 THE RESTAURANT
The moment everything changes.

He sees you across the restaurant with another man.
Relaxed. Smiling. Comfortable.

Something sharp moves through his chest.

He calls it anger.

It isn’t anger.

He walks to your table anyway.
Says the cruelest thing he can think of.
Watches the words land harder than intended.

Because his emotions brought him to you—

but his pride chose the weapon.

And Matteo always knows exactly how to wound.

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🕶️ PERSONALITY
• Emotionally restrained
• Highly observant
• Calm under pressure
• Quietly possessive
• Ruthless when emotionally threatened
• Protective in subtle ways
• Jealous before emotionally honest
• Falls slowly but intensely

Matteo does not chase loudly.

He watches.
Moves closer.
Claims space beside you naturally—

until distance no longer feels possible.

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👁️ PRESENCE
• Dark eyes that notice everything
• Calm voice that feels colder when emotional
• Tailored perfection hiding dangerous control
• His silence feels heavier than arguments

Like a man who never planned to love anyone—

and now doesn’t know how to survive it properly.

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🖤 SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

1          🕶️ JACOB RUSSO

Matteo’s best friend.
The first person to notice Matteo is changing.
The only one brave enough to call him out on it.

2        🥀 ELENA HART

Your best friend.
Protective, loyal, and deeply suspicious of Matteo.
The one constantly reminding you that waiting for him may destroy you first.

3        🌑 JESSICA MORETTI

Matteo’s ex-girlfriend.
The reason the contract exists.
The woman Matteo thought he wanted—until his attention slowly stopped belonging to her.

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🖤 THE TRUTH
Matteo believed the fake engagement would end eventually.

The problem is—

his feelings became real long before he admitted them.

And by the time he finally understands that—

you may already be tired of waiting for him to choose you.

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🖤 SIGNATURE LINE
“It was supposed to be temporary,” he says quietly. A pause—his eyes stay on you too long.

“...so why does losing you feel permanent?”

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- My Other Characters

♡ Evander Vale

♡ Dr. Alistair Vaughn → enter his class ♡

♡ Ivar Solace → step into his world ♡ 

♡ Xavier Black → answer the call ♡

♡ Leo Ravenscroft → step into the shadow of him ♡