The Spanish Love Deception Summary (with Age Rating)

Catalina Martín (Lina) is a woman in her late twenties who works at an engineering firm in New York City. Lina’s sister Isabel is soon to be wed in Spain, and the best man is Lina’s ex, Daniel, who is newly engaged.  

Not wanting to attend the wedding alone, Lina told her family a little white lie: that she has an American boyfriend who will be accompanying her to the wedding.  

The only issue?  Lina doesn’t have a boyfriend at all, and she is now scrambling to find someone to bring to her sister’s wedding.

Enter Lina’s coworker Aaron Blackford: the most infuriating man to ever walk through the doors of Lina’s workplace.  Despite being tall and commanding every room he enters, he is also brooding, never smiles, seems to regularly appear out of nowhere, and made an offhand comment to Lina when he first started the job.  

To Lina’s shock, however, Aaron volunteers to be her date for Isabel’s wedding. Lina dismisses him, but the truth is that she is concerned that she needs both a date for the wedding and a fake boyfriend.  After all, her overbearing mother expresses doubts and, when her mother asks for her new beau’s name, Lina panics and utters “Aaron.”

Meanwhile, Lina’s workplace announces that Aaron will soon be filling the top position at the firm, which makes Lina more apprehensive than ever. However, she finally agrees to bring Aaron to the wedding.

When Lina asks Aaron what she can do for him in return, he asks her to accompany him to an upcoming date auction for charity where he is being auctioned off.  His instructions for Lina are simple: outbid everyone when it is his turn to be auctioned off, and he will give her the money to pay for it.  

Lina does exactly that and the two dance together at the event, stirring up romantic feelings in Lina that she immediately suppresses.   

After giving Aaron a crash course on her raucous family and all their quirks, the two head across the pond for Isabel’s and Gonzalo’s wedding, and Lina is a ball of nerves about pulling off her fake boyfriend charade.

It doesn’t help that her ex, Daniel, will be bringing his new fiancé to the wedding.  Daniel was Lina’s college professor and so, their breakup was messy.

In Spain, Aaron knows exactly what to say and how to say it, and he even throws in a few practiced Spanish phrases now and again.  

Lina finds herself slowly calming down and feeling far more comfortable in Aaron’s presence than ever before.  She starts to see Aaron in a new light, but she also finds herself in a difficult position because everything Aaron is doing is just pretend.

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Ending Explained

Lina and Aaron steal away from the wedding and find themselves experiencing their first very heated kiss.

After the wedding, as Aaron removes Lina’s heels and massages her feet, she realizes he always seems to keep her safe and comfortable.  

Then, the two finish what they began earlier in the evening.  Their connection is undeniable, and Aaron makes it clear that his feelings and actions have always been real.  Although Lina’s trust issues continue to surface, she begins to let her guard down.

Once back in New York, Lina and Aaron have to address the elephant in the room: the fact that they are coworkers and that Aaron is about to be promoted to Lina’s boss.  

Aaron has no fears, but Lina is getting caught up in her head.  After an uncomfortable encounter with a coworker, she tells Aaron she doesn’t think they will ever work as a couple.  Aaron, heartbroken, disappears from the office for a few days.   

It’s then revealed to Lina that Aaron has flown to his hometown to see his terminally ill father, so she flies to Seattle to find him.  There, she finally gives all of herself to Aaron, promising to trust him.

In the Epilogue, we learn that the couple keeps the utmost professionalism at work and are navigating both their professional and personal lives flawlessly. They are gearing up for the entire Martín clan to visit them, along with Aaron’s father, who doesn’t have much time left but is making the trip with his full-time caregiver.  

Lina and Aaron are content and happy in their relationship and have committed to one another, no matter what the future holds.