Chapter 1

Falling for My Fiancé, One Week Before the Wedding

Ethan Blackwood.

My fiancé — a man I'd only met three times.

Every single time, he'd been cold enough to make the room feel smaller. Distant. Polished. Untouchable.

But lately, he'd been changing. Growing softer, in ways I couldn't quite explain.

One week before our wedding, an anonymous text arrived.

It claimed that Ethan Blackwood had been scheming to seize the Harrington estate all along.

I went very still.

Was this sudden warmth real — or had it been a performance, meticulously designed from the start?