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My VIP Ticket Turned Into Their Date
Samantha Sand
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During the summer vacation, I go overseas with my boyfriend, Cornell Glover, to attend his favorite music festival that is called the Tuchella Music Festival.
When we are lining up to go into the venue under the sweltering heat of 86F, I go to the vendors nearby to buy him some iced bottled water.
But by the time I get back, Cornell is gone. To make things worse, my digital ticket shows that it has already been checked in.
Anxious, I call him and ask, "Have you gone in? Why does my ticket show that I've checked in?"
Cornell replies, "Oh. I ran into Ellie Valdez, the intern from our department, just now. She was crying at the entrance because she couldn't get a ticket, so I gave yours to her."
"Are you crazy? I was the one who got us those VIP front-row seats!" I exclaim.
"Come on. It's not like you're interested in rock music. You'd just be scrolling on your phone after you get in. Ellie is a diehard fan. Don't you think you should let someone who appreciates the music have this instead?" Cornell says nonchalantly.
I am so shocked that I don't know what to say.
After a few seconds, I say in disbelief, "So you left me out here, all alone, for an intern's sake?"
Cornell sounds dismissive as he says, "You can hear the music from outside anyway. Just find somewhere to sit and wait until the music festival ends. Don't be so selfish."
I listen to the long, monotonous beep after he hangs up on me for a moment before calling my lead singer brother right away.
I managed to secure a VIP seat for my favorite idol's concert.
Just as I followed the staff to my seat and was about to sit down, a woman walked up from behind and plopped herself right into my spot.
"This view is the best. I'm taking this seat."
I looked at her and felt speechless. "Miss, that's my seat. Please move!"
To my surprise, she pulled out a stack of cash from her bag and tossed it at me.
"If you're broke, don't try to act like a fan. I'm buying this spot from you. Take the money and get lost!"
When I didn't move, she sneered, "I'm the secretary to Mark Lawrence, CEO of Lawrence Group. In Jericha City, everyone knows the Lawrence family. Don't push your luck!"
Mark? Wasn't he the man my dad engaged me to?
I immediately retrieved my phone and called him. "Your secretary is out here throwing her weight around. She stole my concert seat. You owe me an explanation for this!"
I only meant to spite my ex. I didn’t mean to blow up my entire life. Catching my boyfriend cheating backstage was the script from hell. Kissing the first guy I saw to prove I didn't care? That was just bad acting. But I didn't know the "stranger" was Cole Donovan, the campus’s resident tech genius who’s about as emotional as a calculator. Now, a video of that kiss is sitting in my mother’s inbox. She’s gone from "divorced" to "devout," and if I don't prove this mystery guy is my serious, respectable boyfriend, she’s pulling my tuition. I have forty-eight hours to track down a man I don't know, convince him to lie to my mother, and hope he doesn't realize how desperate I actually am. But Cole Donovan doesn't do favors, and he definitely doesn't do drama. I’m an actress, but this is one role I never rehearsed for. And if I can’t convince the campus’s coldest genius to play along, my mother is pulling me out of theater, and my dream is over before the final curtain.
Reputation is more like a currency in Minerva's high. But ‘perfect’ Vienne Reyes seem to be going bankrupt recently, especially since her boyfriend chose to humiliate her by through a public breakup.
As though that wasn't enough, he got together with her spiteful ex-best friend who would do anything to get her trampled on.
Beautiful, good grades, perfect social standing, big family name, but these all seem to be mocking her after Ryan Knox broke up with her and gave the elite students of Minerva's high school chance to gossip about her.
Mortification and emotional disruption had lead her to the club where she got ‘entangled’ with a boy and the scene got captured.
Key in Damon Calloway; blunt, cold and nonchalant. One of the school's brooding scholarship kid and basketball star who wouldn't want to have anything to do with the elite kids and their drama; infact he looks down on them even with his tanking grades.
Vienne wouldn't back down with a fight; she wants her boyfriend back, hence the fake-dating proposal with Calloway as a result of the pictures.
Fake dates, hangouts, pictures, and all in exchange for tutorial sessions.
Through snide remarks, playful bants, jabs, inevitable proximities, no one knew when the line between fake and reality began to get blurry.
Gossips, aristocrats, schemes, romance, twists and secrets, would the two be able to get through?
‘
Ryan was looking over? Was he really?
Right at the moment, I could truly feel the heat of his gaze on the back of my neck.
“Is he still looking?”
“Yeah”
I adjusted my hair, not knowing why I was getting unnecessarily giddy. “I don't have a food scrap on my lips right? Do I look pretty enough?”
A few seconds passed before his deep low voice rasped out. “Gorgeous…” ‘
️ ⚠️ Warning: This is not just a sweet fake dating romance, it contains extremely grey characters that’ll have you questioning your sanity and wanting more, strong languages/actions not suitable for minors.
“You’re not going to turn me on and leave me fvckn hanging, Kade.”
F*ck. I’ve never really fancied dominant women, but that fire blazing in her eyes flips something inside me. For tonight, I want to be her toy. Her s*x doll.
Her slick, hot p*ssy presses directly against the hard bulge in my jeans as she settles on top of me.
“Sora…” My hands grip her thighs, fingers digging in as she rocks harder, coating the front of my pants with her aro*s*l.
“Do you know how long I’ve waited for you to fcvk me?” she breathes against my mouth... “Since the garden, watching you flex your back and biceps as we walked was pure torture.”
“I don’t know what you’ve done to me, but after tonight we’ll put an end to it.”
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Sora believed that if she stayed loyal long enough, she would finally be enough for Cameron. But a year later, he’s still hopelessly in love with Daisy McQueen—the girl who made Sora’s high school years a living hell. When Sora exposes Daisy’s cheating on the night of Cameron’s proposal, she expects the truth to set him free. Instead, she’s painted as the jealous, bitter girl trying to ruin his happiness.To save her pride, she claims she has a boyfriend—and Kade Black is the only man close enough to make the lie stick. Although cold, arrogant, and completely off-limits, Kade surprisingly agrees to fake date her.
Savannah Elise Hart is perfect on paper—polished, untouchable, and desperate to keep it that way. Cassian Rhys Blackwood is chaos in his black leather jacket, with a smirk that could undo her world.
When a rumor threatens Savannah’s future and a false accusation jeopardizes Cassian’s freedom, their fake dating deal seems simple—until stolen kisses in the dark and whispered confessions ignite something dangerously real.
He pins her against the studio wall, paint smeared on her cheek as his lips hover over hers. “Tell me this doesn’t feel real.”
In a game where rules shatter and hearts are on the line, pretending has never been so tempting—or so risky.
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