The Love We Faked

At seventeen, Sienna Giovanni is no longer the quiet shadows. The shy girl with trauma in her eyes has evolved into a force to be reckoned with. sharp, ambitious, and poised. Her room is a shrine to her achievements; gold medals, trophies from nail-biting volleyball finals. She's even starting to join in the family business.

To the outside world, Sienna is untouchable-a perfect daughter, a perfect student, and the girlfriend of Mark Hastings, the golden boy of the high school. Everything about her life looks flawless. But perfection is a fragile mask.

When Mark betrays her in front of the entire school. shattering her heart with words, and a smirk. Sienna's world breaks. The whispers, the stares, the sting of humiliation... it's more than heartbreak. It's war.

Aryan Khanna, is the one person Sienna never wanted to deal with.

He's her best friend Priyanka's twin brother, and everything about him grates on her nerves-his smug expressions, razor-sharp wit, and the fact that he's always seen straight through her walls. They've traded barbs for years, their chemistry dangerously close to combustion. So when he offers a solution-a fake relationship to ruin their exes and reclaim their power-Sienna thinks he's lost his mind.

And yet... she agrees.

Because revenge is sweet. And Aryan? He's a devil worth dancing with.

As the charade unfolds, their fake kisses linger a little too long, their arguments simmer with tension neither of them are ready to name. Sienna finds herself drawn to Aryan's quiet loyalty, the way he listens without judgment, how he never flinches from her fire but never tries to control it either. He sees the girl behind the name-the one still learning how to trust, how to heal, how to love.

But Aryan has demons too. A broken home, and a secret that could destroy everything between them. As Mark claws his way back into Sienna's orbit and her place in the Giovanni empire becomes more dangerous, the line between fake and real begins to blur.