Married to the Frenemy

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's the perfect plan.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He needs a wife in order to buy the vineyard where he's worked for years. I need a place to live with my four-year-old daughter.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All I have to do is pretend I'm madly in love with Beckham Lawrence and I get to live rent-free for the next year.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's just one problem.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beckham hates me. I can't blame him. After all I'm the reason he spent a year of his life behind bars.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The last thing I expect is for the tattooed grump to give my daughter the bedroom of her dreams.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or to walk in on him reading her bedtime stories.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or for him to sacrifice everything when her sperm donor makes a surprise appearance after all this time.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This was just supposed to be pretend.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But with every day I start to imagine what it would be like for Beckham to call me his wife and mean it.</span></p>