I Became His Mistress for a Plane Ticket Home

by Aria Brown

Stranded in New York with seventeen job rejections, a cracked phone screen, and no way home, I'm desperate enough to consider the unthinkable when a wealthy stranger makes me an impossible offer. One plane ticket to Kansas in exchange for becoming his mistress—no strings attached, he promises, just his arm candy for a few high-stakes business events. I should walk away, but my mother's voice on the phone, fragile and fading, makes the decision for me. What starts as a simple transaction spirals into something far more complicated when I discover the real reason he needs me, and the dangerous secret he's been hiding from his powerful family. Now I'm caught between the girl I used to be and the woman his world is turning me into—and going home might mean losing the one thing I never expected to find.