<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A confident, plus size CEO running a billion dollar company and the country's best professional quarterback... it sounds like the ultimate power couple, if it wasn't all pretend.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Fake dating was not in the plan this year. Especially since I hardly have time for actual dating.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">That is until Ford Madigan makes me an offer I can't refuse: a fake relationship that will benefit us both. He'll get away from the team owner's entitled daughter while I score some points with members of the company's board who love him more than they hate me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">It all seems like a simple business transaction-make a few public appearances and pretend we're in love until we both get what we want.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The problem is... I find out he's more than just another jock. He's a humanitarian using his fortune to help kids all over Texas. Not to mention, he isn't intimidated by my success like most men.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Now I want more from him. I want something real.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">But scars from his past keep him from risking his heart a second time.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">I haven't gotten where I am in life from settling, but I'm also not the kind of woman who will wait around for a man to realize what's right in front of him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Will he make this relationship more? Or will I be the one who got away?</span></p><p><br></p>