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What Love Is | ✅

EthrealPrincess

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Time 7h 3m

EthrealPrincess

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River-rose thinks what her and her high school sweetheart has is love, but when she's told she needs to marry a complete stranger all of that changes. 

Hayze is only 24 and owns his own thriving architectural business. After a business problem, his father puts together a deal to earn back what the law firm had lost him. He's offered the chance to marry a young, beautiful girl who he had seen once before and he already knew he would adore. He wanted to know what being loved by her would feel like, so he accepted. 

When he finds out that River already has a boyfriend, the guilt eats away at him. Little did he know, that by marrying her, he was saving her and in return getting a little bit of love back. 

Along the way River is shown what real love is and she can't help but fall in love all over again.

Started: May 5th, 2018

Finished: December 8th, 2018

Fully published: May 13th, 2019All Rights Reserved

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