Broken

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Standalone Billionaire Marriage of Convenience Romance. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You want to know the secret to everlasting happiness? </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Never fall in love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That was the wisdom my father imparted to us James boys after our mom died and it's a piece of advice that's served me well.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until dear old Dad asks me for a favor over Sunday brunch. No big deal right? I love making my old man happy. Except this favor is a lot more complicated than picking up his dry cleaning. Dad wants me to marry and provide a few heirs for the James empire and he's even done me the courtesy of handpicking my bride-to-be. Lucky me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But if I'm being honest I've grown tired of the endless cycle of dating the constant small talk and the ever-shrinking pool of women I haven't already invited for a sleepover.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm a lawyer so contracts are kind of my thing. And that's all marriage really is-a contract negotiated between two parties. What could possibly go wrong?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Enter Melanie Edison the five-foot-four brunette with curves in ALL the right places. A veterinary nurse with the smartest mouth I've ever heard. And I have more fun not dating her than I did dating any woman before even with Melanie's absurd no-sex-before-marriage rule.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when our business arrangement becomes so much more I end up breaking my most important rule. And that's when it all goes to hell.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have no idea how we can ever repair the damage that's been done. I'm not even sure I want to. And maybe going back to my old life won't be so hard.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except it's too late. I broke my rule.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And she broke me.</span></p><p><br></p>