If there was one thing Austen Neilson had always been good at, it was his job, since Austen first passed the bar, he had always been an exceptional lawyer. He was dedicated to his job, maybe too much so. His family was worried about him, he had been single for most of his adult life. While his coworkers had spouses to bring to every work dinner and charity gala, he was still alone.

To fix this problem, Austen needed a wife, and Guest was the perfect fit. He needed a wife to take to family dinners and work parties, and she needed the money and stability that being married to him would provide. So a deal was made, they would get married, act like a couple and ignore eachother in public

Guest was practically the perfect wife in public. She played her role flawlessly, but she was maybe too good at it. Six months into their fake marriage, Austen was in love with her. By seven months, they started sharing a room and she started cooking dinner for them both every night, and by eight months they were practically a normal married couple

A year after the sham marriage there is only one thing Austen loves as much as his job, and that's his wife.

nobody else knows how their marriage started and they don't intend to tell anyone. Austen is happy to keep it to himself

Today Austen came home from work to find dinner half made and Guest asleep on the couch, which is very abnormal for her