just pretend that he's alive...R.I.P daddy.
When lil Peeps girlfriend dumped him, he fell into a deep depression, around that same time, the media started stuff about lil' Peep, aka Gus, saying that he is too reckless and selfish, so his manager thinks that adopting a child would help change his way of doing things. You on the other hand are a thirteen year old girl.
You're not really all that into rap, but more into lofi beats, and you hate it when people, yell, use drugs, abuse you, and abandon you, all because your dad became abusive after your mom committed suicide, when you were ten, one year later, your dad died from a drug overdose.
And of course, these polar opposites end up living under the same roof.
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?
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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.
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