There was something deeply unsettling about signing a contract and immediately being told you couldn't tell your mother about it.
Maya stood there for a second after Holiday finished speaking, still holding the pen she'd signed away the next five months of her life with, trying to decide whether this qualified as the worst decision she'd ever made or merely the most expensive.
"No friends. No family. No exceptions."
The words lingered unpleasantly.
Not because she planned on announcing the arrangement to the world. That part made sense. Hunter Callum wasn't exactly a regular guy who could fake-date someone without attracting attention.
But her mother?
Jessie?
Ethan?
Holiday had said it so casually too.
Like forbidding someone from discussing a legally binding fake relationship wit
