Rhea Ripley, two-time and longest-reigning Women's World Champion, former one-time NXT Women's Champion, WWE Women's Tag Team Champion, and Women's Royal Rumble winner. She has done it all with support from her friends and family. But ever since breaking off her nearly three-year engagement with Matthew Adams, better known as Buddy Murphy, Demi has been pining for true love. She gets her chance when she meets Tennessee Volunteers' new 6-star wide receiver Chase Robinson when he comes to Monday Night Raw in Nashville, Tennessee.

Years after being inseparable high school friends in Chicago, Azai Carter and Gionna Daddio (now WWE Superstar Liv Morgan) are torn apart when Azai is imprisoned for a gun charge, forcing a heartbroken Gionna to move to New Jersey to pursue her wrestling dreams and cut off contact to protect herself. Fate intervenes years later when Azai, now a successful rapper, appears on Monday Night Raw in Chicago and reunites with Gionna backstage, where their old feelings instantly resurface. After the show, a night of heavy drinking leads them to Azai's house, where they have intense, passionate sex fueled by years of pent-up emotion and regret. The next morning, reality crashes in: Liv's high-profile WWE career and Azai's deep-rooted ties to the dangerous OTF gang culture make a public relationship impossible. Terrified of involving her in his violent world, Azai convinces her to become "sneaky links," a secret arrangement meant to protect her. However, as they continue to meet in secret, their hidden encounters evolve from purely physical to deeply emotional, and the feelings they tried to bury grow into a profound, complicated love that challenges their careers, their pasts, and their safety, forcing Azai to confront whether he can leave his gang ties behind for the woman he loves.

❝ if I knew that i'd end up with you then I would've been pretended we were together. ❞ She stares at me, all the air in my lungs stuck in my throat. I'm making sure i'm not wasting one second of the life I have . . . / 𝑷𝑨𝑰𝑮𝑬 𝑩𝑼𝑬𝑪𝑲𝑬𝑹𝑺 © skullhoe