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First Love, Last Choice

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"You were never my choice, Elise. Let's be clear about that from the start." Elise Calloway heard those words the night of her contract wedding. She smiled, signed the papers, and quietly told herself she would not cry, not once. What Sebastian Harlow needed was a respectable wife to silence his board and keep his dying grandmother at peace. What he wanted was still Catherine Leigh, his first love, his obsession, the woman he believed got away. Elise was just... convenient. But convenience has a way of becoming everything. He says he doesn't care for her, yet he quietly destroys the man who humiliated her at a gala. He says she means nothing, yet he turns his car around at midnight when she texts that the heating is broken. He says he loves Catherine, yet his eyes follow Elise across every room she enters. Elise sees all of it. And slowly, painfully, she is starting to see him, the loneliness beneath the cruelty, the boy behind the empire, the man who has never once been chosen for himself. She doesn't want to feel this. She refuses to be the wife who begs for scraps of affection. So when charming architect Oliver Whitfield begins to offer her the warmth Sebastian won't, and when Catherine returns, more beautiful and calculated than ever, the question is no longer whether Sebastian loves Elise. The question is whether he will realize it before he loses her forever.
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