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by Avery Lang
The engagement contract arrives warm from the printer at 10:54 p.m. — cream paper, flawless signatures, and a name Nola Torres has spent three years trying to forget. Her name. His name. Neither of them signed it.
Quentin Vale built his empire on precision, and he recognizes the forgery for what it is: a weapon aimed at the heart of Gilded Pact Holdings by a rival who knows exactly where to strike. With markets opening in hours and a morals clause that could hand control of everything he has built to his enemies, the board orders them to stay locked in the tower until dawn and make a choice — expose the fraud and invite catastrophe, or draft a real engagement agreement and sell the lie as truth.
Nola is a handwriting specialist. She reads signatures the way other people read faces. She also knows what happens when she puts her name on something for a man she loves — she watched it ruin someone once, and she swore she would never be that careless again. But Quentin is not asking her to be careless. He is asking her to be brave.
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