Alice, the Ugly Wife

At Mobid Holdings, everyone knows Alice Wesley as "the ugly secretary."

The frizzy curls. The thick freckles. The shapeless clothes two sizes too big. The staff laugh behind her back, wondering how she ever became the vice president's secretary. What none of them know is that every freckle is painted on, the curls are a wig, and the plain face hides a real beauty that Alice buried years ago, after trust turned into a nightmare.

And no one knows her biggest secret of all: she is married to her boss.

Ryan Iglis, the cold, untouchable heir who can't stand to be touched, needed a wife to stop his family's matchmaking. Alice needed an escape of her own. A two-year contract, separate floors of his penthouse, no feelings. It was the perfect arrangement.

Until shared dinners turn into late-night talks. Until he starts defending her in front of the whole office. Until the night she goes to a party without her disguise and her husband looks straight at her, dazzled, without recognizing his own wife.

She thinks her secret is safe. He is already planning what to do about it.