I Fell for the Man Who Signs My Paychecks

Wren Delacroix never meant to fall for a stranger online. She only meant to tease a lonely man who posted, asking why he couldn't find a girlfriend, and to hand him a few tips on his selfies. But the makeovers keep coming, a seven-thousand-dollar thank-you lands in her account, and the friend request that follows carries a face she knows too well: Elias Thornbury, vice president of the very company where she works three floors below him. So Wren does the only sane thing. She never tells him. For two years she is his online girlfriend on strict conditions — no meetings, no calls, no photos of her own — while she watches him grow from an awkward man in taped glasses into someone she genuinely wants. Then he asks to meet, she panics, and a delayed proposal drags them into the same room at midnight. He works out who she is on his own, and, heartbroken that she keeps a wall between them, plays along anyway. Her manager Marisol has her own designs on Elias and her own debts to hide. When a spurned contractor named Desmond drugs Wren and drives her toward an empty site, the wall finally comes down — because Elias has been tracking her the whole time, and a dashcam she quietly left running records everything. The rescue arrives in headlights. The truth arrives right behind it. What Wren built online, she finally lets herself keep in person.

Cover of I Fell for the Man Who Signs My Paychecks

Read the first 4 chapters of I Fell for the Man Who Signs My Paychecks free on BedReads, then continue in the BedReads app for iOS and Android.

  • Author: plot_hole_patcher
  • Chapters: 6
  • Status: Ongoing

Wren Delacroix never meant to fall for a stranger online. She only meant to tease a lonely man who posted, asking why he couldn't find a girlfriend, and to hand him a few tips on his selfies. But the makeovers keep coming, a seven-thousand-dollar thank-you lands in her account, and the friend request that follows carries a face she knows too well: Elias Thornbury, vice president of the very company where she works three floors below him. So Wren does the only sane thing. She never tells him. For two years she is his online girlfriend on strict conditions — no meetings, no calls, no photos of her own — while she watches him grow from an awkward man in taped glasses into someone she genuinely wants. Then he asks to meet, she panics, and a delayed proposal drags them into the same room at midnight. He works out who she is on his own, and, heartbroken that she keeps a wall between them, plays along anyway. Her manager Marisol has her own designs on Elias and her own debts to hide. When a spurned contractor named Desmond drugs Wren and drives her toward an empty site, the wall finally comes down — because Elias has been tracking her the whole time, and a dashcam she quietly left running records everything. The rescue arrives in headlights. The truth arrives right behind it. What Wren built online, she finally lets herself keep in person.