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People We Become for Love
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Publisher: Elara Marceline
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.17
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A man who thinks everything has a price. A teacher who's learned nothing worth having can be bought. One German lesson that changes everything.
Julian has perfected the art of getting what he wants. Money. Power. Women who look perfect on his arm and disappear just as easily. Love isn't on his agenda-it's a transaction, a strategy, a game he's always won. Until he meets Natasha.
She's supposed to teach him German for a business deal. Nothing more. But Natasha doesn't care about his penthouse or his charm or the empire he's built. She's been broken before by someone who promised forever and left when she wasn't enough. She's not looking to be collected, and she's definitely not interested in being another lesson he learns and forgets.
What starts as conjugating verbs becomes something neither of them planned for. He's learning that you can't buy trust-you have to earn it, one honest conversation at a time. She's discovering that walls built to protect can also imprison. And somewhere between the grammar corrections and the late-night confessions, two people who thought they knew exactly who they were start becoming someone new.
But love that asks you to change is terrifying. Can a man who's never needed anyone learn what it means to stay? Can a woman who's survived by being self-sufficient risk everything on someone who might leave when the performance ends?
Some stories aren't about falling in love. They're about growing into it-imperfectly, painfully, beautifully. One small choice at a time.
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