BILLIONAIRE’S ACCIDENTAL FOREVER

"Would you help me this once?" Victoria's voice carried a desperate edge as she paced her hotel room. "I thought we were best friends. I'm not asking you to do it for free I'll pay you. It'll be the easiest money you've ever made."

She could hear Mira's hesitation through the phone, but she pressed on, guilt-tripping her best friend with practiced ease.

Victoria had received an email from her boss that morning: a high-profile client needed her services immediately. The problem? She was currently vacationing in Monaco, directly violating her boss's strict travel policy. After hours of panic and failed attempts to reschedule, she'd called Mira with what seemed like the perfect solution. The client had never met his hired girlfriend before—no one would know the difference.

"What you're asking me to do is impossible," Mira said, her voice tight with tension. "I'm in a relationship, remember? What happens when Adrian finds out?"

"Who's going to tell him?" Victoria shot back. "Mira, if the roles were reversed, I'd jump in for you without hesitation. This booking came out of nowhere, and my job is on the line. Please I'm begging you."

Silence stretched between them. Victoria knew Mira was weighing her options, knew exactly which pressure points to hit.

"You know what?" Victoria softened her tone, playing her final card. "Think about it. I can't force you to do anything you don't want to do, but please... save me."

The line went dead.

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Mira stared at her phone in the suffocating quiet of her small bedroom. Victoria knew exactly what she was doing dangling that financial carrot when Mira needed money most desperately.

But pretending to be some rich man's girlfriend? Even for a week? Even for good money?

What if Adrian found out?

Her eyes drifted to the framed photograph on her nightstand the last picture of her family before everything fell apart. Her mother's radiant smile seemed to mock the cramped room Mira now shared with her father, a far cry from the comfortable home they'd once known.

Her father had liquidated everything for her mother's cancer treatment. When that wasn't enough, he'd turned to loan sharks, desperate men who'd promised quick cash for crushing interest rates. All of it had been useless in the end. The breast cancer had metastasized too far, too fast.

Now those same loan sharks circled like vultures, and their patience was wearing thin.

Mira's loyalty was torn between two men: her boyfriend Adrian, who trusted her completely, and her father, who'd sacrificed everything for their family. Her father would be horrified if he knew what she was considering, but who would tell him?

Victoria had made it sound simple: pretend to be Tyler Dalton's girlfriend for one week. No intimacy, just acting. The pay would be enough to clear their debts entirely.

And Adrian was conveniently away on business for the next month.

If Victoria kept her mouth shut, if the client never learned her real identity, if she could