rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

spice: 🌶️

the beginning of this book had dialogue that felt very forced and unnatural to me, but after the halfway mark is when it started getting good. 

i fell in love with katy’s resilience to continue working through anything just to take care of penny. 🥹 there wasn’t enough groveling from richard imo! i do love how katy wormed her way into richard’s heart slowly but surely. it was beautiful reading about when richard realized his feelings for her were real. and all the effort he went to in order to keep penny company when katy couldn’t. 

i loved the bonus scenes that came with this edition of the book! it felt like an extended epilogue of them being a family. super cute!

this book includes:

📝 fake engagement

📝 marriage of convenience 

📝 assistant x boss

📝 billionaire romance

📝 he falls harder

📝 death