All Chapters of End the Stupid Bet, Win My Stage: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1 A night with him

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! Caden! You didn’t wear a condom?!”After one heated round with her boyfriend, Caden, in the prop room behind the theater, Alora was shocked to discover he hadn’t used any protection.“Oh my God,” she gasped, “When did you take it off? The campus health center is already closed. Fuck! I’m screwed! Why did you finish in me?!”Alora immediately grabbed her sweatshirt from the floor, eager to get out. She had to get emergency contraception from a 24-hour store.“Babe, relax.” Caden stood up and pulled her close to his rock-hard abs, speaking casually. “What’s the big deal? If you get pregnant, we’ll handle it ourselves.”Alora’s body trembled again as his lips moved to her neck, his breath hot against her skin.“Baby,” he whispered hoarsely, voice thick with desire, “you’re so fucking sexy. Don’t tell me you didn’t prefer it raw? I can’t help myself…”His large hand slid down her waist, reaching toward her core, and Alora’s legs weakened again.“No, C

Chapter 2 The prop room

After hanging up the call, Alora returned to campus.She still had an elective that morning: “Stage Management and Movement Performance.”It was a cross-department course shared between drama and athletes.Originally, she’d taken it to broaden her perspective—and to accompany Caden.Now, the last person she wanted to see was him. But she hadn’t done anything wrong, so there was no reason to avoid it.She was, as always, the first to arrive in the classroom. Not long after she sat down, a sharp pain struck her lower abdomen again.The last time she took emergency contraception, she’d had diarrhea for two days. Though she’d braced for side effects this time, she still underestimated how much it would affect her.Her stomach churned, her whole body weak.She lay her head on her arms on the desk, eyes closed, cold sweat beading along her forehead.Suddenly, a large hand gripped her elbow hard, the force sharp enough to send a stab of pain up her arm. She gasped, another wave of cramps hit

Chapter 3 Running into Caden

Brielle’s face drained of color. Before she could answer:CRASH!Caden shot to his feet, tipping the coffee table with a violent shove.Beer bottles flew, glass shattering across the hardwood floor.The entire room froze. No one moved, all eyes locked on Caden’s thunderous expression, the muscles in his arms and chest flexing beneath his fitted shirt as his breath came hard and fast.“You ask a girl shit like that, and you think that’s fucking okay?” he snarled, voice a deep, guttural roar.Bryce sobered up instantly, face pale as he stared down at the mess.Brielle stood abruptly, her voice unsteady. “I’m not feeling well. I should go.”Without another word, she turned and hurried toward the door.Caden kicked a piece of broken glass across the room, his jaw clenched tight. “I need a smoke,” he growled, storming out after her, broad shoulders tense and fists curled at his sides.As soon as he left, the tension broke.“Holy shit. That escalated fast.” Derek let out a breath.“Dude was

Chapter 4 The scandal

Caden’s pupils constricted. “Are you...?”For a split second—he didn’t hide it fast enough—there was a flicker of something sharp in those icy blue eyes. Not fear. Not concern. Something closer to...excitement.He wanted this.He wanted to hear her say it.Alora saw it instantly. The rush of eager energy beneath the surface.And then—just as fast—he masked it, forcing his expression into a mock-concerned frown.“I mean, if something’s wrong, Rara... you know you can tell me. I’ll help. Whatever you need.”His voice was carefully measured, soft. But too careful. Too polished.She felt the bile rise in her throat.The memory of his locker room voice echoed—“If she gets pregnant, we’ll handle it.”Handle it for who, Caden? For her? Or for Brielle?Her skin crawled.“Don’t,” she said, her voice cold as ice.Caden blinked. “What?”Before he could fake another word, she stepped forward and shoved him hard, flat-palmed against his chest.“Don’t touch me. Don’t talk to me. Just stay away.”He

Chapter 5 Real or fake

Alora was shocked to hear that and she couldn’t bring herself to make that call.But then, she didn’t want to have anything to do with Caden anymore.So what was her business if he was fighting?“It has nothing…”Before she could complete that, Fiona interrupted her.“I heard Caden traced the source of those pictures of you and discovered that they were released by Jacob. He got into a fight because of you.”That got Alora so confused.She then headed towards the location of the fight.Why was he fighting because of her?Was this another plan of his to get her under his control?Did he truly know nothing about how the pictures that has been released?What exactly was he playing at?This behavior of Caden got Alora so confused.There was a crowd gathered outside the building. When they saw Alora approaching, the murmuring grew louder.They parted to let her through. She could feel the stares, the side-talks.Oh, she should have known that things were never going to end well with Caden.

Chapter 6 No longer had to pretend

Holding the warm container of food, Alora headed for the private room that Caden was in.Just as she was about to open the door, she heard the voices of his friends.“My God, you’re taking this too far, Caden. I mean, you almost killed that guy because of Alora. There’s no way she’d ever doubt you now.”Alora froze in front of the door.Even if she knew that the fight was just an act to win her over, there was still a tiny glimpse of hope deep down that he might have genuine feelings for her.But that hope got dashed again!“The competition’s deadline is coming up fast. I understand why Caden did that. He needs Alora to be very distracted so Brielle can win.”“Granted, but that was no reason to beat Jacob up like that. Given that we were the ones who posted the photoshopped pictures. We paid him to take the fall and you were only meant to give him a few punches.”Alora’s heart stopped.Even the photoshopped image was planned by Caden too!“You could have killed him for nothing! Mason

Chapter 7 Never again

Caden was clearly shocked by that news and his momentary distraction gave Alora the time to pull away from him.As she made to open the door and get out of the car, he grabbed hold of her hand.“Rara.”He called.“Alora.”She corrected, firmly.“I thought you liked me calling you that.”When he started chasing after her, he called her Rara.Everyone called her Alora.But overtime, she grown to loved hearing him call her that.Like a person nickname that only the boy she loved calls her.But now, after seeing that the feelings were one-sided.She was the only one who loved him while he was manipulating and playing with her heart.She hated that name.She hated his presence.She wanted to hate him too.She didn’t want to have anything to do with him.“Don’t call me that anymore.”He pulled her back to face him.“Are you breaking up with me? Did anyone tell you anything?”Alora looked up at him.”Is anyone supposed to tell me anything?”“Then why are you transferring schools?”“Did I tell y

Chapter 8 All for Brielle

Throughout that night, Alora couldn’t sleep.She kept thinking about the memories with Caden.When he would practice her script with her, when he would cover her fully with an umbrella and allow himself get drenched by the rain.Their first kiss, the very first time they had sex. Her first time was with him.She could still remember when she laid naked on his bed, nervous and scared while he hovered above her.He had said these words to her;“I'll make this special for you and I'll be gentle, I promise, do you trust me?"He was indeed gentle.He made her first time better than anything she’d ever imagined.And after everything, he had given her a bath himself.He had treated her so tenderly that she started to wish she had met him sooner.But now, knowing that everything was planned by him hurt.It absolutely crushed her.Hell, she had even started to imagine her future with him.She was so stupid.**********By morning, the pain had transformed into something harder that would protec

Chapter 9 Searching for Alora

Caden’s words still weren’t enough to convince his friends.Mason eyed him.“If this was really for Brielle. You wouldn’t have beaten up Jacob like that. He’s literally still at the hospital fighting for his life! I heard his parents are having second thoughts about settling things, privately.”The truth was, Caden didn’t want those photoshopped pictures to be released either.Jacob kept saying he wanted to release them and Caden kept on telling him to wait for his permission.A permission he never intended to give but Jacob went ahead to release it.Seeing those pictures, even if they weren’t real, it had snapped something in Caden, something so raw and primal unlike anything he’d ever felt before.And that was why he gave Jacob the beating of his life.“Enough!”Caden let out to the boys, unable to take any more.His heart hammered against his ribs and his thoughts were a chaotic mess.He couldn’t deal with their interrogations anymore. He was finding it hard to understand his own fe

Chapter 10 He needed answers

Those words caught Caden completely off guardLondon?In the UK?In Europe?He had thought that even if there was a possibility that she had left the school premises already, he guessed she might’ve gone home to her mom.How could she have gone to another continent just like that?“Why? How? What is she doing there?”Caden asked in disbelief.Her roommates got even more surprised.“You really don’t know? She transferred to Royal academy arts school. She previously got an offer from them.”At that moment, Caden felt like he was going mad.She didn’t just leave him, she left the country.He thought he had her and everything under control but she completely took over the game and beat him to it.“But…but what about the Tisch spot? Did she really have no interest in it?”“She didn’t.”Eve replied. “She had always dreamt of studying at Royal academy in London but she considered giving up on that dream when she started dating you.”Caden blinked.She had really been in love with him, to the p

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