She woke up married in Tokyo. He refuses to help her undo it. Now they have sixty days to decide whether it was ever a mistake.
JENNA I don’t make impulsive decisions. I keep Bennett Mercer’s empire running and make his impossible deals survive contact with reality.
So when Dominic Cruz and I agree that whatever happens during our ten days in Tokyo stays in Tokyo, I make the terms very clear. We can have each other until the deal is done.
Then we go home and pretend it never happened. Instead, on our final night, I marry him. Stone-cold sober. Completely certain. By morning, reality has caught up with me.
I leave a Post-it on our marriage certificate that says Undo this and call my lawyer to draft the annulment. The paperwork is clean, quiet, and built around one lie: that our marriage never counted.
Dominic refuses to sign. He offers me another deal instead. Sixty days of real marriage. Rings on. No hiding. Then, if I still want out, he’ll give me a divorce. I should refuse.
Leaving before the punchline lands has kept me safe my entire life. But Dominic is asking me to choose what I want where everyone can see it.
DOMINIC I’ve wanted Jenna Pemberton for almost a decade. I’ve spent the last three years making sure she knows it. She thinks the pursuit is a game.
That I love the challenge and, once I finally win, I’ll lose interest. She has never been more wrong. I’ll give her a divorce if that’s truly what she wants.
What I won’t do is help her erase the night she stopped running and chose me. For sixty days, I get to show her what our vows meant. Mornings in Chicago. Dinner with my family.
Her clothes in my drawers. Every ordinary piece of the life I want with her. But Jenna has spent her whole life making sure she is never again the punchline in a room full of people.
I’ve spent mine reading those rooms, running them, and fixing things for the people I love before they ever have to ask.
So when I stumble across one old hurt she refuses to explain, I do what I always do: I make a plan to give her a better ending. This time, I should have left it alone.
