Olivia Carter-Montgomery stared at the gleaming wedding band on her finger, twisting it absentmindedly as the reality of her new life settled around her like a thick fog. She was married. To Ethan Montgomery. The man she had once agreed to pretend to be engaged to. The man she had fallen in love with despite every warning sign. The man she wasn’t sure truly loved her back. The extravagant wedding had been straight out of a fairytale—a breathtaking ceremony at Ethan’s family estate, with hundreds of guests, flowers imported from Europe, and a wedding dress that looked like it belonged in a museum. To the world, they were the perfect power couple, but behind the closed doors of their honeymoon suite, Olivia couldn’t ignore the gnawing feeling that this marriage was standing on a fragil

