The Italian Billionaire's Bizarre Proposal

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Thirty-one-year-old Italian billionaire Benozzo Marcena runs a multinational business empire called The Marcena Corporation. For three years, he has worked side-by-side with his super-efficient personal assistant, Emma Braithwaite, who provides endless amusement by treating him with the same casualness she would extend to a piece of furniture. But things are about to change.

Emma Braithwaite can't believe how much her life has changed in the past three years -- ever since she left her lowly and badly paid secretarial job with a construction firm and began working for The Marcena Organization as Benozzo Marcena's PA. Now she gets to travel the world and she has enough money to afford a really nice place to live. As an added perk, her boss is quite fun to work for, lightening up the mood in the office when work becomes a real dog.

But then things take a bizarre turn. On Emma's third anniversary of working for The Marcena Organization, just before Benozzo leaves for a one-month trip to Brazil, he jokingly asks Emma to marry him on his return from Rio di Janeiro. Going along with the joke, Emma accepts his proposal. And that's when all heck breaks loose. As Benozzo keeps up the pretence of wanting to marry her, Emma's friends take the joke seriously. And to Emma's shock, Benozzo wholeheartedly keeps up the pretence -- until Emma doesn't know what's real and what's fantasy. But surely Benozzo must be kidding. After all, he couldn't be serious about his wedding proposal -- could he?