More than make-believe

📖 Book Description:
"We're just pretending... right?"

When Priya, a quiet girl with a not-so-quiet crush, is offered the chance of a lifetime - to fake date her longtime idol, star cricketer Shubman Gill, as part of a PR strategy - she signs the contract with trembling hands and a guarded heart.

She knows it's fake.
He makes sure to remind her every time they meet.

Cold. Distant. Untouchable.
The Shubman Gill she faces isn't the charming boy she'd adored from afar - he's businesslike, blunt, and emotionally locked up. And Priya? She hides her heartbreak behind zipped jackets, short replies, and a promise to herself: don't fall any deeper.

But the more they pretend, the more real it begins to feel.
In the silences. In the stolen glances. In the text messages they never talk about.

He told her not to read into it.
She said she wouldn't.

But love doesn't always follow the rules.
Especially when it starts where it was never supposed to exist.

"Act Like U Love Me" is a slow-burn, emotionally layered fangirl fiction filled with distance, denial, and the kind of quiet ache that lingers long after the last page. For everyone who's ever loved someone from afar and wondered - what if he loved me too?