Story Idea: Fake Husband?

[KayceeCharles]

We've seen enough of those "billionaire's fake girlfriend" stories.

We've seen the "girl needs fake boyfriend to fend off overeager parents" stories.

But where's the story where the successful female exec needs a fake marriage of convenience?

Why? How would it work? Why would a guy do this?

And can she ever fall in love with the fake?

 

[Hypoxia]

I recall a top-rated tale of a supposed lesbian middle-manager who needed a boyfriend to show off to visiting parents so she snagged a cow-orker. Of course they go romantic and erotic. The punchline shows the parents weren't fooled. My TOPPER rewrite Ghost of a Chance features a female super-exec's sexual quandaries but not any husband need.

Let's mix tropes. Exec-needs-fake-hubby meets Green Card. That answers "Why would a guy do this?" But why does she need a hubby? It's in her grandfather's will: she marries by age 30 (with no pre-nup) or she doesn't inherit zillions. And how would it work? That's the author's job to fix. Wave hands, make it happen. He's a modest virtuoso at something. He's cranky and foreign but eventually charming. She's commanding and relentless but ultimately succumbs. Cue HEA.

 

[i_would]

> Why?
That's the easy part. Company function.
She always told the guys in the office she's married to keep them from hitting on her all the time, and for this function partners are expected to join as it's some kind of a social event. She likes men but never found the right one and is certainly not interested in workplace relations, those are too troublesome.

> How would it work?
Select a random friend, maybe an old acquaintance. She's just got to have some male friends, preferable someone not too close. Or maybe a good friend who has always been friendzoned.

> Why would a guy do this?
Hoping to get more out of it than just that party. Maybe he always had an interest in her but never had a chance.

Complicating issue: what she didn't realise is that it's in a rather remote resort, company provided transport and no chance to get home late at night, so they're forced to share a room and bed.

Even more interesting: the inevitable sequels, where she's forced to take him along (boyfriends are quite OK to swap out, husbands not so much).

 

[KayceeCharles]

Just finished two romances that featured fake fiance / BF

One: girl on the way home don't have BF as she just made the whole thing up to stop her family from nagging her. Her fear of flying commercial had a fellow passenger, an ex-marine decided to help her by distracting her from her fears, and after learning her problem, agree to pose as her BF (he's genuinely intrigued, and it's just for a weekend, the ultimate NSA)

Two: girl won major contract by lying about having a fiancee (she's a wedding planner and the pitch was about romantic gestures). Her main competitor knew she cheated, so he went to force himself into her life as her (fake) fiancee intending to blackmail her or expose her later.

 

[Hypoxia]

> Why?
That's the easy part. Company function.

Ah yes, the basic motivation. She needs to fool somebody: cow-orkers / competitors, family, government, cops. (I had one girl quickly put wedding rings on herself and her cousin when their van was stopped at an out-of-state checkpoint.) Who else might need to be fooled?

> How would it work?
Select a random friend, maybe an old acquaintance. She's just got to have some male friends, preferable someone not too close. Or maybe a good friend who has always been friendzoned.

Or a cow-orker, or cousin, or even a stranger as in the Green Card scenario I mentioned before. For fun at the company event, he's her brother, whom nobody in the firm knows. This simplifies matters because they already share a last name. For more fun, she has two brothers and alternates between them at events inside and outside the company.

> Why would a guy do this?
Hoping to get more out of it than just that party. Maybe he always had an interest in her but never had a chance.

But of course! Meanwhile, motivation in the Green Card scenario is obvious. Other motives might include blackmail ("Be my pretend husband or I'll out you!") or bribery or even selfless compassion... which of course turns to lust.

Complicating issue: what she didn't realise is that it's in a rather remote resort, company provided transport and no chance to get home late at night, so they're forced to share a room and bed.

Another "but of course!"

Even more interesting: the inevitable sequels, where she's forced to take him along (boyfriends are quite OK to swap out, husbands not so much).

Or multiple showings in the same story. After the corporate or family event are remote conventions and dinners and other such requiring her hubby attend.

For drama, the threat of exposure: What happens when their fraud is discovered? With the Green Card scenario i's deportation. With the brother or cousin incest scenario it's OMFG! With a cow-orker or acquaintance it's... marriage.

 

[FantasyXY]

A Twist?

How about this as a twist...

The woman is a mid level sales executive who is actually married. When she gets a promotion it is expected that her spouse will attend certain company functions. The first of these functions comes up and the woman's husband doesn't want any part of it and refuses to go. He suggests to his wife that their handsome new neighbor would make a good stand in. Problem is, the neighbor is also married.

After lots of negotiation between the woman and the neighbor, and of course the neighbor's wife... he agrees to pose as the woman's husband for just one evening. It turns out the fake husband is in a similar role as the woman where he works, and he fits in very well with the woman's co-workers.

The party goes off without a hitch and the woman's co-worker's absolutely love her "husband". What ever he said at the party, the neighbor managed to get several new key customers moved onto the woman's account list. She does extremely well with the new accounts and thrives in her new position.

The down side is, everyone keeps asking where her husband is at subsequent company functions. The woman keeps having to make excuses as to why he isn't there, and each excuse is more lame than the last.

Because of the new customers the fake husband got for the woman, she wins the companies highest award for sales. There is a "required" retreat and awards ceremony at some swanky resort, and spouses are expected to attend.

Now the woman has to convince her stand in husband to go away with her on the three day weekend trip, where they will be sharing a hotel room and acting as loving husband and wife for much longer than just one evening.

From there I see two directions for this story...

1. The woman and her fake husband end up being coerced into kissing and that leads to more romance, and of course that leads to sex.

Then somehow either the coworkers find out the man is not the woman's husband, or the woman's husband finds out she had sex with the fake husband, or the fake husband's wife finds out, etc, and so on.

2. (And I like this idea better) The woman's real husband and the fake husband's wife are left home seething about what they think must be going on in that hotel room their spouses are sharing. Their imaginations run wild. They end up hooking up and have sex, actually doing all of the nasty things to each other that have imagined their souses are doing at the retreat.

In this scenario I see the best ending coming from finding out that the woman and her fake husband did nothing on the trip beyond promoting business and increasing sales. Now the two spouses either having some explaining to do, or they have some sort of new secret life where they try to send the woman and her fake husband away together as often as possible.

 

[Hypoxia]

Then comes the polyamory. Or maybe just a permanent exchange of spouses -- I've seen that written before, with twin HEA endings. It's trickier if any or each couple has children. But yeah, if the fakes are innocent and the left-behinds are cheating, much hilarity may ensue.

A twist on that: the fakers are siblings so their left-behind spouses figure they won't be doing the nasty -- but they do. But the spouses fuck around anyway. "Hey, they're gone, and we're here, and you sure are hot, so..." Any ensuing pregnancies are even more hilarious.

 

[i_would]

Any ensuing pregnancies are even more hilarious.

As my sister once jokingly said, "he told me I have to make sure at least they have blue eyes!"
She and her husband both have blue eyes, so if she suddenly gets brown-eyed children there'd be some explaining to do...

 

[Hypoxia]

As my sister once jokingly said, "he told me I have to make sure at least they have blue eyes!"
She and her husband both have blue eyes, so if she suddenly gets brown-eyed children there'd be some explaining to do...

Uh, rather. But a father with the right eye color is no guarantee. I've seen a blue-eyed blonde mother and a hazel-eyed brown-haired father produce a green-eyed red-haired child. Supposedly faithful, too. Oh, those recessives. Ain't genetics fun? Alas, that dynamic is totally lost in a society or subculture where everyone is expected to screw around.

ObTopic - twists: The spouse-needing exec was hired by a mostly-lesbian NGO. She is straight but is expected to have a female partner. Or she's gay in a straight environment and her fake husband must also be acceptable to her lez partner. And the twist where her fake spouse is her sibling.

 

[handysr]

Natalie is an exec at the BigCo, and there is an emergency meeting she must attend that afternoon, and her hubs John is expected to attend. Formal attire is required, and because of time issues, they will be taking the company helicopter.

John is scared of flying, but on airliners can drug himself to allow it. He will not get anywhere near a helo though. They are even more in-natural than jets.

He also has no appropriate clothing. The only suit John has is the one from his wedding, and that was ten years and several inches on his waistline ago.

John's brother Randy though... Randy knows them both well, so he can fake the conversations. He doesn't mind flying, has three suits to choose from, and has plenty of free time.

John isn't comfortable with it, but since Randy was solidly put in the friend zone the moment he met Natalie, John doesn't worry about his wife's virtue. He stands at the door and waves them off, then goes back to his spot on the couch. He finishes his bottle of whiskey about the time the party ends, and he is turned on by the racy picture she had sent him from the changing room after the gala ended.

John was upset to hear the helo had engine problems, so the company put them up at a hotel. No one could drive because everyone was drinking. John turned on a porn while talking on the phone to Natalie, and he forgot to mute it. She heard and laughed. She said that Randy was at the hotel bar for another hour, so she wanted to do the sound effects for him while they masturbated on either end of the phone call. She gets naked and texts John a pic of her, then she starts playing with herself.

John is worried about Randy coming back, but Natalie laughs it off. She said he was a pansy and would probably leave in embarrassment. John thought that was funny, stroking while telling his wife to dream up a scenario where Randy came in and stayed to watch her.

Natalie said everyone expected them to fuck like rabbits in the fancy room, so she plays along, rolling her eyes at the thought.

Ten minutes later, she has a small climax and leans back panting. Her eyes go wide to see Randy standing there. Naked. Also stroking. She gasps and Randy steps over to cover her mouth. He said that since she was already into it, to keep going. She is still super horny, and when Randy said he had been watching for over five minutes, he already knew it all.

She says he can look but not touch, and no speaking. The phone is on speaker, so they hear John loudly. Shortly after starting again, Randy pinches her nipple and she looks at him to say stop, but John interrupts to say she must allow it. She puts her hand down and lets it happen, reluctantly at first, then in her altered state of mind (drinks plus horny), she comes to want it. When John makes her beg Randy to fuck her over the desk, she almost climaxes.

A few minutes later, John lists various things they will do all night, then they hear him cry out as he shoots his seed all over his chest. Natalie hold up her hand to stop Randy's silent thrusting, and they stare at the phone. They hear snoring, so Randy hangs up the phone.

Thrusting balls deep into his brother's wife he pauses to grab her breast. "You heard your husband. He gave us orders. After I cum on your face in a minute, we will need another two or three sessions before we get them all done."

 

[KayceeCharles]

Forgot the bodyguard angle: the exec needed a husband who's really her bodyguard, but it had to be a guy who's not too... bulky, but suave enough to be believable.

I thought about the "my dead best friend's widow" angle reversed, which could be another related idea. Small business owner (and single mom) was about to win a large contract, but needed a guy to pass off as her beau for (something something) and she picked her dead husband's best friend. I just can't think of what that (something something) may be.

 

[Hypoxia]

I thought about the "my dead best friend's widow" angle reversed, which could be another related idea. Small business owner (and single mom) was about to win a large contract, but needed a guy to pass off as her beau for (something something) and she picked her dead husband's best friend. I just can't think of what that (something something) may be.

An easy (something something): the firm awarding the big contract is run by fundy jeezoids er I mean staunch religious conservatives who impose 'moral' standards on their contractors. Marriage is required because family values, yada yada. If that doesn't appeal to you, the hard-headed managers of the big firm have noted that married contractors are more reliable, produce better, etc -- and so have the same marriage stipulation.

To simplify things, the fake hubby could be late hubby's brother. At least they'll both already share the same last name.