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

a way the ballroom never had.

Because humiliation was familiar. So was struggle. So was disappointment.

Hope, on the other hand, was expensive.

When the waitress dropped the check, Alejandro reached for it automatically.

You put your hand over the paper first.

His eyes moved to yours.

“No,” you said. “This one’s mine.”

“Camila—”

“You came as my date,” you continue reading …