Bound by Deception

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The city lights blurred through the tinted windows, but Evelyn Carter barely noticed. Her fingers curle

out to sel

eat beside her. Evelyn's best friend and only confidante

though it didn't reac

t all led to this moment. Marry a man she had never met. Pretend to be th

ying to ignore the way

omed with an eerie grandeur, its towering silhouette stark against the night sky. The gate

on't back out now, you can never back out ag

it's really too late Olivia, there's n

g under a large umbrella. His eyes, cold and calculatin

is tone void of warmth. "

olas Blackwood. The man she

biting into her skin, but she kept her spine strai

ot afford t

fire crackled in a massive marble fireplace. The opulence was suffocating-cr

n she s

presence commanding even in stillness. He was taller than she expected, broader too, hi

to marry a stranger, h

te," he sa

. "It's still the r

s-amusement, perhaps-but it wa

low, deliberate strides. When he was close enough that she

eem nervous,

I should be," s

k played on his l

A marriage license, a prenuptial agreement-legal

as asked, his tone

reached for the pen. She had been

beside his, a strange fee

n't just

t become Mr

deception was