Sham Marriage with the Billionaire

Prologue

“Did you already found a woman who can act as my wife for six months?” Ricardo Suarez asked his assistant Carlo. The man had been serving Ricardo for a long time, so the latter was no longer afraid to instruct the steward in personal matters like this.

Ricardo needs someone to marry him for six months so when his father stays at their house here in Quezon City, his father will know that he married the woman he loves. His father will return home next month from Ilocos, a place where his father now lives. The old man wants to visit Ricardo and force him to marry someone he does not know. And Ricardo was furious at the thought of his father controlling his life again. That is why he needed a woman who would pretend to be his wife for half a year to prove to his father that Ricardo really loved her, so he got married.

Ricardo Suarez III. is his father who will live in Manila from Ilocos just to force him to marry a woman he has been forcing him to marry for a long time. Woman, he did not even know. And because he could not allow his father to take the lead in his life, he decided that he would find a woman to be his wife, contrary to his father's wishes.

Yes! His father wants a girl from a powerful family that will strengthen their business empire, but that is not what Ricardo will do. What he wanted was for him to rebel against his father.

His father controlled his life ever since he was born. Ever since he was a child, whatever he says, Ricardo always follows everything, even in the course he took --- Engineering because of the construction site they own. He would not have complained if his father had not taken away the woman he first loved so much. Denise, the woman he was willing to dedicate everything to --- his name, his wealth, and above all his love.

He did everything just to please his father. He did everything he was told because that was what it should be and was necessary. He has no complaints because he loved the job. He is an only child so, he already knew that he needed to work for his father, helped his father to continue the legacy of their company.

There was only one thing he did not like --- being apart from the woman he loved, Denise. His father kept them apart just because she did not belong to a wealthy family.

Denise was a very beautiful woman. Kind and sweet. But because of his father's great disgust for the girl, his father made sure that the two of them separated. Don Cardo paid the woman heavily to leave him. Intimidated and threatened, so the poor girl did nothing but leave him and turn her back at him.

That thing made Ricardo very angry. He could not forgive his father for destroying his good relationship with Denise, so from the day the girl left him, he also ended his relationship with his father.

Yes, he knew that others might think he was too shallow to be angry with his father, but he was hurt too much. It hurts to be away from the woman you love.

So now, here he is. Looking for his wife. For a sham marriage. Ricardo already convinced himself that everything will be a sham marriage, a fake relationship with whoever woman his assistant will choose for him.