The door opened, and there he was, in the grey first light, in a travelling coat, with a boarding pass on the side table behind him and a suitcase waiting in the hall and a year of my whole life in his face — and for one suspended second neither of us did anything at all, two people caught at the exact hinge of before and after, the latch still warm under his hand.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.