The proposal
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Last published Tue, May 8, 2012
Amelia Willson is the perfect girl. She has the school’s students at the tip of her fingers, but she doesn’t want it to be that way. She’s fed up with all the people looking up to her and sick of all the boys following her around. She just wants to be left alone, but she can’t.
Austin Hendricks is the school’s heartthrob and a first class player. He just had to be the person to find out that she isn’t who she pretends to be. He blackmails her and she has to pretend to be his girlfriend, because he’s also fed up with his followers, or so he says.
What is his real motive and what happens when Amelia starts having feelings for him? Will their story have a happy ending, or will she end up like all his other flings if she tells him her feelings?
Read to find out.
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