Story By Chisom Frances
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Chisom Frances

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IN THE LIGHT OF FORTUNE
Updated at Dec 25, 2025, 21:55
When a coffee catastrophe collides two worlds, can fake feelings become real love? Claire Blake's life is a carefully balanced act: double shifts at a café, her mother's medical bills, and her sister's college dreams all resting on her shoulders. She doesn't have time for romance, especially not with men in thousand-dollar suits. Then she literally crashes into Damian Cole - billionaire CEO, notorious workaholic, and the most frustratingly beautiful man she's ever seen. One ruined shirt later, he makes her an offer she can't refuse: fake date him for six months, and he'll solve every financial problem that keeps her up at night. It should be simple. Attend some parties, smile for cameras, convince his matchmaking mother and persistent ex-fiancée that he's moved on. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to remember what's real and what's for show. Damian never expected his pretend girlfriend to challenge him, make him laugh, or see through the walls he's spent years building. Claire never imagined the cold CEO could be kind, vulnerable, and impossibly easy to fall for. As their fake relationship starts feeling dangerously real, secrets from Damian's past and schemes from his ex threaten everything. Now they must decide: is what they've found worth fighting for, or will they walk away when the contract ends?
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