Tolerate it ⁴

When pretending becomes the most honest thing you've ever done.

Eloise Mayer never liked Lando Norris. In fact, she barely tolerated him. Arrogant, reckless, and annoyingly magnetic, he's everything she can't stand-on and off the Formula 1 grid.

But after one drunken mistake turns into a media scandal, they're forced into a fake relationship to save their reputations... and their careers. Now, she's stuck pretending to love the one person she'd happily crash into at 200 mph.

What begins as staged hand-holding and fake smiles slowly unravels into stolen glances, buried feelings, and heartbreak neither of them are ready to admit. As the season stretches on, so does the lie-and somewhere between the podiums, press conferences, and long nights spent not sleeping, Eloise starts to wonder if the only thing she's faking is how much she hates him.

But in a world built on image and speed, love is the one thing they can't control.

#9 - breakup
#9 - landonorris