Love Unexpected

As Modern Magazine’s Sex and Relationship Director, Luz De Los Santos can talk about pleasure all day long. Nobody knows desire like she does. But love? That’s a four-letter word she’s never mastered.

When her editor dares her to write The Love Bet—a feature testing her own theory that you can fall in love by the third time you have sex—Luz agrees. For research, obviously.

What she doesn’t expect is to run straight into Evan Cattaneo—the man who ghosted her on their first date twelve years ago and still stars in her dirtiest daydreams.

Now Evan’s back, built like sin, smirking like he knows every fantasy she’s ever had… and more than willing to help her finish what they never started.

Three nights. Three encounters. One impossible experiment.

But when the chemistry burns hotter than expected and their “research” blurs into something dangerously real, Luz has to face her biggest fear—what if falling in love was never the bet, but the consequence?