From Heartbreak to Fated Lover

Mason Collins had a first love before Ava, and when that woman came back he told Ava what the last four years had been worth to him. She had been a pastime. He meant to marry the other woman and keep Ava out of sight on the side. Ava had believed him for the whole four years. She left, and signed a contract marriage with Anderson Lauren, a man with money, on the understanding that it was an arrangement with terms and nothing else. Anderson had been looking for her for years before the contract was ever drawn up, and the arrangement was his way of getting to her. Ava did not remember him at all. He put himself between her and whatever came at her while old business worked its way to the surface: people who wanted something from her, and an account of her childhood in which she was not simply an orphan with nobody behind her.