Introduction

Today was my 18th birthday, the day I was supposed to inherit a fortune and officially become the man my family expected.

But all I wanted was to be the woman I truly was, especially for Chris, my best friend.

Then, at my birthday party, I suddenly heard it – Chris' s thoughts, loud and clear.

He loved me. Not as his male best friend, Alex, but with a fierce, forbidden passion that surprised even him.

He was willing to throw away his wealthy fiancée, his family' s expectations, and his entire future, all for "Alex."

It was the most incredible, terrifying revelation.

How could I possibly tell him the truth – that the "man" he loved was actually Alexandra, a woman forced to pretend for 18 years?

My carefully laid plans to confess shattered, replaced by the terrifying realization that my truth might break the man who loved me more than anything.

I knew then: I had to secure my family' s future, then, and only then, could I reveal the real me, and pray his love was as strong as his thoughts proclaimed.