Courtpate Stories

It started with a nosebleed. One accidental headbutt, one very public disaster, and suddenly Rory Callyns is that girl, the one who almost broke her crush's face. She's quiet, awkward, and definitely not the kind of girl who gets kissed at parties. And then there's Carden Rayne, popular, gorgeous, and the kind of boy people can't help but fall for. So when Rory asks him for help for kissing lessons and he says yes, it's supposed to be harmless. Practice, boost confidence, nothing really real, somewhere between the laughter, the late night talks, and the almosts that start to feel like more, practice stops feeling like pretending.

Rory Callyns never meant to fall for Carden Rayne. He was supposed to be practice, kissing lessons, the safe way to figure out her feelings for someone else. Now he's the boy sneaking into her bedroom at 2 a.m., skipping his 5 a.m. runs to hold her a little longer, whispering I love yous. But dating the Wolves' star forward comes with a cost. Cypress High's anonymous gossip account, Mouthpiece, has turned Rory into content: the girl who dumped one player and "climbed the roster," the supposed cheater, the rumored girl in the bathroom with a boy who isn't her boyfriend. Reese is hurt. Someone is suddenly sending anonymous love letters, and every post makes Rory feel less like a person and more like a disaster everyone is watching. Carden's life isn't simple either. His future is stats, scouts, and a father who tracks every skipped run like a failure. The more time he spends with Rory, the more he risks the plan he's been working toward his whole life... and the one thing he refuses to sacrifice is her. Between the pressure, the rumors, first love, and first times, Rory and Carden have to figure out if falling is enough... or if learning how to stay will be the hardest lesson of all.

She woke up married to a billionaire. Now she has to remember why. Peyton Adair is seventeen, stubborn, and still tasting salt air from the last thing she remembers, Cape Heron's bonfire, sand under her feet, a voice too close in the dark. Then she wakes up in a luxury penthouse with stitches on her forehead, bruised ribs that make breathing hurt, and a simple gold band on her left hand. Her husband is Jamison Kade. Nineteen, tabloid famous, billionaire heir. The kind of reckless rich boy the world loves to hate, and the kind her best friend Rain swears is nothing but trouble. Peyton doesn't remember meeting him. She doesn't remember the hospital. She doesn't remember signing anything, but the paperwork is real. And when Jamie finally tells her the truth, why she was in the ER, why her mother was kept in the dark, and who was behind the wheel the night her life split in two, Peyton realizes her missing memories aren't the only thing someone's been hiding. Because the more she pulls at the threads of that lost night, the more everything unravels: her father's secrets, Rain's messy relationship drama, the scandal machine surrounding the Kade family, and the unsettling way Jamie seems to know exactly what she needs... even when she doesn't know herself. Somewhere between Cape Heron's spotlight and Brentver's quiet, Peyton has to decide what's worse, truth she can't remember, or the feelings she never meant to catch.

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