SHE HIRED A STRANGER FROM A DATING APP TO STOP HER CLASSMATES FROM HUMILIATING HER—BUT WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE TOOK HER HAND, THE WHOLE REUNION TURNED INTO A NIGHT THEY WOULD NEVER FORGET

partly real, partly strategic.

You turned away.

Alejandro stood beside you as the room continued to fracture into separate disasters. A reporter had somehow been called. One of Ethan’s business partners was yelling into a phone. The school principal, who had been seated near the front, looked devastated.

“This is a mess,” you said.

“It was a mess before continue reading …