NicolasMickahell
This story is inspired by Rent a girlfriend an anime that I love and cherish so much. But it is all original the only concept I took is the rental.
I hope you enjoy it and if you did enjoy it you can check out my canon fanfiction of Rent-A-Girlfriend (the hour between us)
For this story, here's a quick summary.
Twenty-one days before a meteor strikes Earth, Edith Laurent becomes the most expensive girlfriend alive. She just doesn't know it yet.
A top-ranked companion on an app that sells curated romance, Edith has spent years perfecting the art of being wanted incorrectly. Her smile is calibrated. Her warmth is professional. Her real name is buried so deep she barely remembers the sound of it. When the sky announces the end of the world, her booking requests skyrocket - and one offer changes everything.
Dylan Vale is too beautiful, too wealthy, and too lonely to make sense. The heir to a global empire, he asks for her remaining time through a contract generous enough to erase her family's debt and protect her mother even if the world ends. He also writes in an unconditional exit clause. She can leave at any moment. The payment remains guaranteed.
She never signs.
Instead, she lets him take her across the world. It stars with A private yacht where the crew watches Casablanca and remembers their dead.
Then she agrees for one day at a time.
Every day, Dylan learns something money cannot buy. Every day, Edith reclaims a piece of herself she thought she'd sold.
But the meteor is coming. And the one thing Dylan wants most - her real name, spoken freely - is the one door she must open herself.
A sweeping, intimate story about the difference between being purchased and being chosen, the courage of wanting something while there is still time, and two people who discover that love, when it's real, arrives without a contract.