On a similar excursion three years back, he had kicked me in the shin as I was stuffing my face with chips and asked, "𝐽𝑎𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖 ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑎𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑒 𝑗𝑦𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑦𝑎𝑟 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑖?" Since my mouth had been preoccupied, the sound which emerged from me had resembled "𝐾𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑐ℎ𝑒?" Akash had smiled at me then looked up, tilted his head back and deeply inhaled. He had closed his eyes and softly said, "𝐵𝑎𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑒."

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]