***WATTYS 2021 YA WINNER*** When her handsome nemesis challenges her to a bet, ambitious eighteen-year-old Nyla must go on more dates than him or risk losing her dream role on the school paper. The only problem is, can she stop herself from falling for him in the process? ***** The world of online dating is hard...especially when the boy you hate turns it into a competition. Ambitious Nyla Satori has a perfect life, except for the fact she's on the brink of adulthood and has never been kissed. She's also about to lose her dream role on the school paper to her ex-best friend turned nemesis, Jax Henderson, unless she can do something to stop him. When Jax spots her eyeing his new dating app, he comes up with a bet that solves all of her problems: the pair will join the app, and whoever scores the most dates in two months wins the role of Faculty Advisor. For Nyla, it's the ultimate bet, but when old feelings resurface and the pair grow closer, she starts to wonder if she really hates Jax as much as she thought she did. Either way, there can only be one winner at the end of two months, and both are certain that it's going to be them. Let the swiping game commence. *If you aren't reading this book on Wattpad, it has been stolen. Please report the website!*

Prologue: "Listen carefully cupcake, you are mine." He whispered, his breath tickling my ear. He wrapped his arms around my waste and pulled me towards him. He slowly leaned in and kissed my cheek, staring into my eyes with a seductive glare as he did so. "And I never let go of what's mine," he said, before giving me one last peck on the cheek and walking away. I let out a breath I didn't even realise I was holding and snapped myself out of the trance he had put me in. Reality hit me faster than a hangover after a night of nonstop tequila shots. Holy shit! I'm the bad boys addiction. Aria has always been the girl who searches for adventure in everything but after one crazy night with the schools bad boy, she is thrown into an exciting new world she didn't know existed and embarks on a ride she will never forget.

Now being published on Radish! On a seemingly average night, Wren is dealing with the normalcies of her life-working at her bar, dealing with shitty drunk customers, and counting the minutes until she can go home to her fiancé. Her plans are quickly thwarted when two masked men barge into her bar after closing time. Despite her best efforts, they kidnap her, shackle her inside a desolate farmhouse and keep her as their prisoner. Wren soon discovers that the man she planned to marry wasn't what he said he was--not even close. Because of her fiancé's secret life of drugs and crime, he owes the Russian mob a lot of money, and her kidnappers plan to keep her until every dime is paid. Wren soon finds herself questioning what's worth fighting for. You'd think freedom, right? But that was before Wren knew just what was at stake. Her cold-hearted kidnapper known as Ace--who's not as much of a stranger as she led herself to believe-- soon shows Wren he's not as similar to the devil as he seems to be, and freedom might just be more dangerous than she had expected.

A high school girl whose only mistake was to fall in love with the one guy who made her feel things she never thought she would. Her senior year began and ended on a note that she would remember for an eternity, but, is it going to be the beginning of her misery or is it going to change everything for her? Her family's past caught up to her and she became the pawn in a game she never intended to play. The stakes are high and the at every possible turn, there is a threat to fight. Will she conquer those or will it break her? -------------------------- Who is up for high school drama mixed with family drama? I know I'm ready to pull this off. Thank you for giving my book a chance and coming up here to read it. I hope you enjoy it and if you do, don't forget to hit the like button and share it! Also, feel free to comment your views. Thank you again:) -------------------------- NOTE: Drug abuse, abusive language, sex scenes are there in the book. Read at your own risk. Thank you:) PS - Republishing the book after 2 years because this story is too close to my heart and keep coming back to this, so here we are!

This book was previously known as 'Just Breathing' thank you for reading. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Both were just breathing to survive They were already dead inside... Why so?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meet Milly Adams and Parker Steven two of them flinch by each other's names But do the people know about their history!?? Do people know why do they flinch by each other's names!!? What's their reason to hate each other with so much passion?? Or maybe it's a mystery to all of them out there...! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First book please help me out and do send suggestions Tolerate the mistakes please ❤ -no1canunderstandme