It started with a proposition (in a hotel bar of all places).

 

The brooding drug lord. The beautiful damsel with jagged edges. You know the rest, right?

 

It’s a page straight out of a hood fairy tale.

 

But our story is far from a classic romance.

 

Because Ahsan Patton isn’t your typical gangsta.

 

He’s the kind that’ll order a hit then rearrange your guts to a slow jam.

 

So, tell me why I agreed to be his fake girlfriend again?

 

Now I’m sharing the same air with a man that oozes irresistible charm, money, and power.

 

The longer I’m in his presence, the quicker the lines blur between what’s fact and fiction.

 

Our relationship? Faker than a three-dollar bill.

 

The way he makes me feel when he eats me like supper? Real AF.

 

There are rules to playing a couple. No outside dates. No talking about our arrangement to anyone. No falling in love.

 

Should be easy, right?

 

Until the minute I let my heart take the reins. Then all bets are off.