Six months. A deal. No feelings allowed or so they thought. Maya Cole works non-stop just to keep her mother alive and her own future from falling apart. Scholarships, hospital bills, part-time shifts she has no room for distractions, least of all Jace Reynolds: wealthy, cold, the boy everyone watches and no one truly knows. When he offers to cover every cost in exchange for her being his girlfriend for six months, she agrees strictly on business. Jace lives behind walls: a reputation for dumping every girl at two months, nightmares he hasn't escaped since losing his sister years ago, and secrets he keeps locked away. He chose Maya because she was quiet, unbothered, and easy to manage or so he planned. But when rain traps her under his roof and a shared shelf of books becomes their only real ground, the lines between act and truth start to blur. Possessiveness turns to protection, silence turns to understanding until Maya over hears his discussion with his friends saying he is dating her for six months to win the bet he made with them. What began as a game becomes something far harder to walk away from. And when the contract ends, the fight to trust and to love is only just beginning.