The Mango Clause

Elara Shaw has built her life around her husband, Ethan Carter, and the company they grew from nothing. Yet mangoes have haunted her since childhood, when her mother jumped from a window after watching her eat them. On their wedding day, Elara told Ethan that a mango would mean divorce, and for years he honored that boundary.

Then Ethan's childhood sweetheart, Phoebe Summers, returns. At a celebration, Ethan hands Elara a glass of mango juice as a joke, and she is rushed to the hospital with stress-induced gastritis. Ethan never visits; Phoebe posts a photo of him bandaging her finger. When Elara learns Ethan is taking Phoebe to Paris, the city he once promised her, she quietly cancels the European contract that is the lifeblood of his company.

As Ethan prepares a press conference to finally introduce her publicly, Elara accepts an offer from Marcus at Aether Global, offering the contract as her signing bonus. Some things, she knows, are not jokes.