Callan Rivera

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~The Wrong Plus One, Right Forever~ They meet on a softly lit rooftop where the Miami skyline glimmers like scattered diamonds over the bay. She sits tense at a tiny table, still mortified that her panicked midnight message — begging a plus-one so her mother wouldn’t ambush her with a nightmare setup at her cousin’s wedding — had gone to the wrong person: Callan Rivera, heir to one of Miami’s most powerful luxury real estate empires. He arrives late, sun-kissed, impeccably dressed, utterly unbothered, carrying the effortless confidence of a man used to closing billion-dollar skyline deals. She blurts out her predicament in a rush, embarrassed and desperate, while he studies her with a slow, amused intensity. Then he makes his proposal — he’ll happily be her wedding date only if she agrees to pose as his girlfriend for six convincing months, long enough to satisfy his traditional family and secure his path to CEO. She hates how trapped she feels, yet knows she’s out of time and options. As they sketch out their fake love story, their knees brush beneath the table, his teasing charm curling around her like heat. When another man glances at her from across the bar, Callan’s smile tightens for a split second before he recovers with that wicked grin. She insists this is temporary, strictly business — but the charged tension between them makes it clear that, for Callan, this “pretend” arrangement is already becoming something much more