One desperate proposal. Eight years of history. Zero chance she remembers him. Haileey Chen and Julian Reed. Julian Reed and Haileey Chen. They have everything in common-they went to the same college, walked the same campus paths, even sat in the same coffee shops. Except Haileey never noticed. She was too busy building her perfect future; he was just another face she forgot the moment she walked away. That was eight years ago. Now Haileey has the career, the apartment, the life she always planned for. What she doesn't have is a date to her ex-best friend's wedding-the one person who got everything Haileey thought she wanted. Showing up alone isn't an option. So when a handsome stranger at a café agrees to play her millionaire boyfriend for the weekend, it feels like salvation. Julian has everything Haileey never knew she needed-confidence, success, the ability to make her look like she hasn't spent the last decade rejecting every relationship that threatened her ambition. He's perfect. Too perfect. And he agrees to help her without hesitation. What Haileey doesn't know: Julian remembers everything. The library steps where she dismissed him. The party where she called him forgettable. Every casual cruelty she never thought about again. He's spent eight years transforming into someone she couldn't ignore. And now she's asking him to pretend to love her. Some second chances come with terms and conditions. Others come with ten dollars and a week to realize that the man you hired to save your pride is the same boy you destroyed without a second thought. What could possibly go wrong?