Romance

A Contract for Someone Else's Heart - They Were Supposed to Pretend to Be a Couple Only Until the Deal Was Signed.

By Laura Bellini

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Length9h 40m

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Lena Wójcik trusts documents more than people. As a transactional lawyer used to high-stakes negotiations, she knows that a carefully written agreement can define almost every risk. So when Aleksander Radecki, the head of a major hotel group, offers her the most unusual arrangement of her career, Lena intends to protect herself with very precise terms. For nineteen days, they will pretend to be a couple. Only until a multimillion-złoty investment deal is signed. No real commitment. No unapproved gestures. No blurred professional boundaries. Their public appearances are meant to reassure an important foreign investor that the man whose private life once became tabloid material is stable, predictable, and trustworthy. Then Lena finds her late father's name in documents connected to the deal. Years earlier, Tomasz Wójcik worked on the development of Hotel Aurelia, one of the Radecki family's key properties. He left behind notebooks, encrypted files, missing agreements, and warnings Lena was never meant to see so soon. As she begins reconstructing the past, she uncovers hidden companies, unexplained payments, vanished records, and decisions powerful people have spent more than a decade avoiding. Alek knows more than he initially tells her. And one withheld truth is enough to make Lena question whether the man who respects her boundaries so carefully is really different from the people whose choices they are investigating. Meanwhile, the relationship they invented for cameras begins changing when no one is watching. A hand held for appearances starts to mean something in private. A carefully negotiated distance becomes harder to maintain. And the agreement designed to protect them from emotional consequences proves useless once trust becomes real. But trust is far more fragile than attraction. As the investigation threatens the Radecki family legacy, Alek's position, Lena's memories of her father, and a deal worth millions, both of them must decide what truth is actually worth when telling it comes with a measurable cost. Can a relationship that began as a strategy survive the moment neither of them can control the outcome? And what happens when the greatest risk in a contract is the person standing on the other side of the table? A Contract for Someone Else's Heart is a contemporary romance about fake dating, corporate power, family secrets, moral compromises, and a love that can only become real once half-truths stop being enough. This publication was prepared using tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence solutions. The final concept, structure and editing are the responsibility of the author.

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