Faking it with my Bad Boy Crush

Twenty years ago, I broke into a bakery and tried to destroy it.

Manuel Romano caught me and, instead of calling the police, taught me one lesson: building is better than destroying.

I left and spent the next twenty years almost forgetting it.

Now I'm back on Lopez Island, sent to take his granddaughter's bakery by the firm that made me.

Maya doesn't know I remember her.

So, I offer her a deal: fake date me, and I'll help her fight back.

It's supposed to be pretend.

But watching her go to war for her grandfather's legacy, refusing to back down from men with more money and less

conscience, I fall for her so quietly she never notices.

She still thinks this is fake.

I've already stopped pretending.

Then I found proof that could save her legacy and end my career.

If I use it, I lose the man I worked so hard to become.

If she finds out how this started before I tell her, I lose her too.