Love Beyond the Illusion

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A spicy accidental Vegas Marriage forced proximity fake dating contemporary romance novel.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Perhaps his path was always meant to cross with hers.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jack-</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Trapped by the chains of duty I was destined to spend my life running my family's winery.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One problem-I craved something different. That's why when I left for college I didn't come back.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now with the unexpected passing of my father I'm set to return to the same town I left almost ten years ago.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Staring down the narrow tunnel of my future I realize my life would no longer be mine.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But a missed flight and a drunken night led me to question everything I'd believed in.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Does what happens in Vegas really stay in Vegas?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Piper-</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I didn't grow up in a typical loving family. Raised to believe my worth was what I could offer someone else I struggle to connect with people emotionally.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I hide my true self often masking it under spontaneity and impulsivity.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But when I cross paths with a man who could not be more opposite than me all that changes.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One missed flight. One night in Vegas. And an all too easy arrangement under the illusion of love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Our connection was supposed to be for show-wasn't it?</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>