The Arrangement

Avery

I gawked at Declan as if he had lost his mind entirely. "Twelve months? Acting as your girlfriend?"

"Look at the practical side of it." He tugged the knot of his silk tie loose, radiating an infuriating level of calm for a man who had just pitched the craziest arrangement imaginable. "Your mother gets the medical treatment she requires, and you can stop running yourself into the ground jug