Ruthless Arrangement

A billionaire with everything to lose. An artist with nothing left to protect.

Zayden Lorne built his empire on discipline, strategy, and the certainty that he never needed love. When a hidden clause in his father’s will threatens everything he’s fought for, he has thirty days to do the one thing he swore he’d never do: take a husband.

Nico Bellamy is the last man he should choose. A stubborn American artist with a failing gallery, a sharp tongue, and the kind of spirit that refuses to bend—Nico doesn’t bow to power, and he doesn’t let anyone decide his future. But when Zayden offers him a way to save everything he’s worked for, the line between pride and survival blurs too quickly.

The arrangement is simple:
- A legal marriage.
- A shared penthouse.
- One year of perfect public deception.
- No intimacy. No complications.
- No crossing the line they both draw on day one.

But lines mean nothing behind closed doors.

In rooms charged with tension, in the glare of the media, in the quiet moments where truth slips through their defenses, their fake vows ignite something neither man is prepared to face. Zayden starts to want the one thing he can’t control. Nico begins to fall for the one man he swore he’d never trust.  The more convincing their lie becomes, the more dangerous the truth grows. Because a marriage built on power was never supposed to feel like desire.

A contract built to protect them was never supposed to unravel their defenses. And when the world pushes back, both men must decide what they’re willing to risk: the empire Zayden built, the future Nico needs, or the one thing this marriage was never meant to give them. Something real.

Dive into a slow-burn, high-tension billionaire romance where every touch breaks a rule, every secret pulls them closer, and every lie threatens to expose the one thing they can’t hide. Start reading now.