The Wife Situation: Billionaire Situation, Book 1 by Lyra Parish
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The grumpy billionaire accuses me of stealing, has me fired, and now wants me to be his temporary wife. I think he’s lost his mind.
The Wife Situation
Easton Calloway needs a wifey, pronto, and he chooses me to temporarily fill the position. While I want to tell him to eff off, I can’t walk away from the temptation. So, I do what any broke actress living in New York City would do, and I agree to the terms and conditions.
It should be a year of marriage, a cushy penthouse in the city, and a spending allowance. After three hundred sixty-five days, I’ll receive divorce papers and a check in the mail. All I have to do is pretend we’re happily married without falling in love.
Doable, right? Wrong.
The Wife Situation is a billionaire, age gap, marriage of convenience romance with a happily ever after! Its a stand-alone with open-door scenes. a rich AF hero who’s a professional on the streets, but a bad boy in the sheets and isn’t afraid to call his little heartbreaker my wife.
Fake engagement billionaire romance standalone audiobook!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💜🩷💙💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️😄😍😮
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Lexi Matthews – she is a struggling actress in New York, who works in housekeeping at the swankiest hotel in the city. She moved from Texas to New York after a bad breakup with a cheating jerk. She needs her job, despite some of the pitfalls (i.e. men that act like they aren’t there, then she walks in to find them naked). She and her best friend and coworker are sent to clean the two-story penthouse that goes for $20,000 a night. She sees that the guest who checked out left an expensive watch on the dresser and takes it to give to her manager.
The Hero: Easton Calloway – he is an identical twin to Weston and is counting down till his birthday in 46 days. He is a billionaire with generational wealth. He will be promoted to CEO of Calloway diamonds but needs to meet every condition of his fathers in order for him and his twin to take over when he retires. He has met every one of them except one, marriage before he hits 40, and he currently has no prospects. He is private, exacting, intelligent and likes things to be done a certain way. He is known to be a grump and not well liked. Though he is in the public eye because of his wealth and good looks. His company is hosting the worlds largest diamond convention at the W hotel, so he is compensated for that weekend at the hotel, which is why he is staying there instead of at his own penthouse in the city. Though he requested privacy while he is there.
The Story: When Lexi sees a man in the penthouse shower, she realizes that Mr. Calloway must have checked in early, so she and her friend hightail it out of there, but when she finds the watch in her pocket she goes back to the room to return it and runs into the guest, who immediately thinks she stole it and caught her red handed. He gets her fired from her job without giving her a chance to explain what really happened.
Easton can’t get the beautiful maid out of his mind after having her fired for being a thief. When he sees her sitting on a bench reading a book in central park, he sketches her. He ends up having a conversation with her and they seem to be on nicer terms than before, though it ends with her hurrying away from him. Though Easton can’t stop thinking about her and with the clock ticking before his 40th birthday, he also can’t stop thinking about what he will do with no romantic prospects. He doesn’t want to end up in a miserable loveless relationship and ends up asking Lexi to fake marry him.
The accidental or fake marriage trope is one of my favorites. I like that the two main characters get into a forced proximity situation and for whatever reason try to ignore or deny the fact that they are getting to know each other and falling in love for real. In this case, he chooses her because she says she doesn’t believe in love, so he won’t end up hurting her when it ends. He still believes in love and hadn’t wanted to get married until he fell in love but now is forced to. If he doesn’t meet his father’s terms, he has all the employees at the company and his twin brother counting on him.
One thing I hate about billionaire romance. The heroines, no matter what social class they come from seem to always drink single malt whiskey. I have never known a woman to drink whiskey, unless it is a whiskey coke, but even they are few and far between. Have her drink a gin and tonic, a bloody mary, a margarita, a cosmopolitan, or even a mojito, but don’t try to make her look grown up or enlightened by drinking expensive whiskey, cuz it just doesn’t fit. Just a pet peeve of mine. Plus, my favorite drink is Tanguerey and tonic with lime.
This was a good billionaire romance, because they did a lot of things rich people do. Like awesome gifts, nice cars, helicopter rides, private jet trips to fabulous places and more. One other thing I didn’t love was the fact that it took Lexi so long to finally accept the fact that Easton wanted her for forever, not just the year they agreed to. He had to tell her over and over before she accepted it, which was even stranger considering how much she liked to read billionaire romance novels.
“Do you read a lot”
“Yeah, I do. and I’m aware of book boyfriends.”
“You’re referring to my shirt at the park. And what about them?”
“They’re fictional.”
“So is love, but I have a feeling you think it exists.”
“One year with Alexis Matthews as my temporary wife would be priceless. She wants twelve million, but I’d pay twenty-four. She’s the only one who can do this.”
“No one wants me, only the things that come from being with me.”
“Love might have blinded me, but my eyes are wide open now.”
“I have more money than you can spend in five lifetimes, purchase whatever you want darlin’.”
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Marcio Catalano and Amy Hall. Both of these narrators are great. Marcio has a deep, soft voice that is really sexy and a bit refined, so he really is a great choice for a wealthy aristocrat. Amy has a very pleasing voice and is expressive, you definitely can’t tell she is reading, which I really like. There are voice actors and narrators who basically are just readers, these two are definitely voice actors.
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