Theo, stunned, put down his book. “You just bought the island?”

He was leaning against the kitchen counter, laughing at something the bombshell, Chloe, was whispering in his ear. He had that easy, crooked smile she’d fallen for three years ago, the one that said the world was his personal joke. He was the ex who had ghosted her two weeks before their one-year anniversary, leaving a single text: “It’s not me, it’s you. Actually, it’s me. I’m bored.”

And now, thanks to her agent who thought this would be “great for her fitness influencer brand,” she was wading into the shallow end of the dating pool with a shark she already knew.

Jenna paused at the door. “Oh, and Mason? The text you’re about to get? It’s not from the villa. It’s from my lawyer. You stole my original business plan for your protein powder line. We’re suing.”

“So,” he said, grinning. “Was any of it real?”

And somewhere behind her, a phone buzzed with the most devastating text in Love Island history:

The first recoupling was a bloodbath. Mason, predictably, dumped Chloe without a second thought to graft on Jenna. She let him. She smiled, she touched his arm, she whispered “I’ve missed you” into his ear while her stomach churned.

“I bought the network ,” she corrected.