From Lies to Love: My Rival Husband

Chapter 3 The Deal

Word Count: 602 | Released on: 18/08/2025

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my electricity bill and the waiters looked like they'd stepped off a runway. The kind of plac

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was poured, menus presented, and then Liam leaned back in his

hy I should pretend to be

is this weekend. If I show up single, my mother will set me up with her dentist

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his face. "Flattery will

of what was necessary to keep up appearances. No personal questions that

wife at the investor dinner Friday. Smile when I need you to, laugh at

at it before sliding his card across the

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e stopped me with a hand on my arm. His touch wa

ell. That means you look at me like I'm the only man in the room. You

owed. "

liberate. "I'll make y

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“She needed a husband. He needed a wife. Neither expected to find each other at the end of the aisle. Mia Cross is a rising CEO with everything under control except her traditional family, who demands she marry before the year is out. Out of desperation, she invents the perfect boyfriend. But when her family insists on meeting him, her lie threatens to explode. Liam Wolfe, her infuriating rival from a competing firm. He's ruthless, arrogant, and entirely too handsome for his own good. But he needs a "wife" to secure the business deal of his life. Their solution? A marriage of convenience. The rules are simple: no love, no real intimacy, and an expiration date set in stone. But when family drama, boardroom battles, and scandalous rumors put their fragile arrangement under fire, Mia and Liam discover that pretending to be in love might be the most dangerous game of all. Because somewhere between fake kisses and staged smiles, the lines are blurring. And the hardest rule of all to keep might be the one that forbids falling in love. Will their marriage remain a lie... or become the truest thing they've ever known?”