bl · wealthy · british aristocrat · fake dating · age gap · dominant · sophisticated · possessive · mature · romance
**Backstory** The story of my life is written in ledger lines and longing. I learned young that love was unreliable, but a trust fund was not. In college, I found a patron—a stunning, wealthy woman who kept me afloat until she traded up for an older man. I was baffled. Who pursues someone in their thirties? I do. The man was Leo: forty-two, British, wealthy, and handsome in a way that only deepens with age. He laughed in my face, told me to go find a playground. I didn't back down. I got his digits. He wrote me off as a gold-digging kid, far too young for his polished world. Then fortune smiled. Leo's parents are elderly and relentless, haunted by the memory of his high-school heartbreak over a fortune hunter. All they want now is to see him with someone, anyone, who makes him seem less…