Trapped By Him
Evie Harlowe
Maria Teresa Salazar has always been the good, dutiful daughter. Raised by a successful businessman father and a famous socialite mother, she has always lived a very, very comfortable life. Out of five children, she is the honor student, the churchgoer, the community organizer, and (though she would never admit it to anyone) the prettiest one. She has been dating the same guy since her first year of high school and even though there aren't concrete plans for a wedding yet, it is understood that she will marry Boyett. Matet, as her friends call her, has a great life.
But everything comes to a screeching halt when Matet's father gets swindled by a long-time business partner and the family finds out they are dead broke. Unexpected help comes from her father's old compadre from college, an extremely wealthy man who has a proposition for Matet's father that would help his business return to solvency. The price: Matet.
Matet has saved her virginity and purity for marriage because she believes in the honor of gifting it to her husband. But there is no honor in being used as a bargaining chip in an arranged marriage. For the first time in her life, Matet wants to be free. If her father wants to sacrifice her for the sake of his business, he won't be getting a pure, innocent lamb.
When Matet goes clubbing with her friends to meet Mr. Right-for-One-Night, she wasn't expecting on bumping into Mr. Wants-More-Than-This. Complications arise when Matet finds out that Mr. Tall-Hot-and-Sexy might have a closer connection to her family drama than she is a lot more comfortable with...