Elara’s life was already stressful enough without a billionaire stalking her coffee habits.She works at a boho café, worries about money more than she’d like to admit, and is just trying to make it through university without her world collapsing. So when a sharply dressed, absurdly attractive man from table seven crashes into her one morning and then casually shows up with a contract asking her to be his fake girlfriend, her first instinct is to run.Lucien Moreau is rich, powerful, emotionally unavailable, and desperate to escape an arranged marriage his parents are very serious about. His solution is simple. Hire a girlfriend. Keep it public. Keep it temporary. Absolutely no feelings allowed.Elara agrees for the money. Lucien agrees because he thinks he can control everything.They are both wrong.What starts as a calculated arrangement quickly turns into chaotic arguments, accidental tenderness, jealousy that was never part of the deal, and a connection neither of them planned for. And when pride, family pressure, and class differences collide, the contract becomes the least dangerous thing between them.Because pretending is easy.Falling is not.