All Chapters of FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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Chapter Twenty One: You or no-one else

RenataMy face burned intensely, like someone had heated up the room. My vision tilted, my mind spinning as I tried to understand how my body was reacting. It wasn't just pain. It had transmitted from pain into a jolting feeling that made the pain strange and unbearable.I stepped back, holding my stomach tightly, as my eyes began to drip with tears without me actually crying. My eyes had turned so red I couldn't tell if Mr. Cole was still there or not.I got my answer when he poured another glass of wine on my face, which increased the burn intensely. I didn't even know when I screamed out.What he had put in my drink wasn't poison. It was a jolt serum. I had only read about it in books, used specifically to totally embarrass your enemy. Which was exactly what Mr. Cole had done to me, because in seconds people gathered around me trying to steady me.I couldn't hold myself up. The pain was funny and hurtful at the same time, making my body jerk in the most humiliating way."What shoul

Chapter Twenty Two : The beginning crack

DrentI didn't even knock.I pushed the door open and walked straight into my father's office with every intention of making him understand exactly what kind of line he had crossed. The rage was sitting high in my chest, tight and hot, and I had every word lined up and ready.But before I could open my mouth, my mother stepped in front of me.She didn't say anything at first. She just stood there with that look she had perfected over the years, the one that made me feel like I was twelve years old again and had just broken something expensive. Her hands came up slowly and rested on my chest, pressing lightly."Drent.""Mom. Move.""Drent, please." Her voice was soft but firm. "Not today."I exhaled hard through my nose, jaw tight, eyes still fixed on my father who sat behind his desk like nothing had happened. Like he hadn't just drugged a woman at his own event and watched her crumble with a smile on his face."He humiliated her, Mom. In front of everyone.""I know," she said quietly

Chapter Twenty-Three: Daddy's boy

RenataI was just glad it was over. Drent had been out through most of the day, which gave me more time to pack my things.I was leaving back home today. The one week I had agreed to stay and meet his dad had elapsed, and now it was time to go back to my own world, back to high school, where I was already known as the desperate girl who had latched onto Drent.It took intense boldness to even want to show my face in that school after the bullying I had faced from the popular girls, and now that I was associated with the popular crowd, I knew it could only get worse.Another reason why I was so eager to return to Philz High was because I really wanted to graduate next year. I couldn't imagine repeating a whole extra year.Yes, I knew I had accidentally injured Mr. Theodore when he tried to force himself on me and he had sworn never to sign my screening form and would make sure I repeated. But I thought that maybe if I showed my face in school and talked to Mr. Peterson, he would speak

Chapter Twenty Four: Not So Classless

RenataHe meant it. I watched him walk away after threatening to get me expelled, and with the kind of power his father had, it was not anything difficult for him to pull off.Fear sat on my chest. I needed to watch my back since Mr. Theodore had unleashed his son to hunt me down here in school.I wished Edwina was at school today. I knew she wouldn't hesitate to stand up for me, but now I was all alone facing this threat.I swallowed it down, lifting my chin like nothing had happened. I was ready to take anything he brought, even though fear sat beneath the surface.I walked out of the locker room. I knew Drent's pilot would come to pick me up at some point, but I needed to see my mom first.The doctor had texted me that she was better now and could even talk. The last day I had heard my mom speak was when she collapsed, and I couldn't miss the chance of sitting with her again, telling her everything that had happened while she was in that serious condition.So I dodged the pilot and

Chapter twenty-five : Thin Line within

DrentI caught up with her outside before she could put any real distance between us."Peach."She kept walking."Renata."She stopped but didn't turn around, and I could see the tension sitting across her shoulders from where I stood. I moved to her side and lowered my voice."I am sorry about what happened in there."She turned slowly, and the look on her face was not anger exactly. It was something more tired than that, something closer to a person who had been running a race they never agreed to enter."Why can't he just believe you?" she asked quietly. "Maybe it is me. Maybe I am too shy. Maybe I do not come across the way I am supposed to." She shook her head slightly. "I am trying, Drent. I am genuinely trying every single time, and every single time your father finds a new way to make me feel like I am nothing."I didn't interrupt her. She deserved the space to say it."This is not working," she continued, her voice dropping lower. "I am clearly not working. Whatever you need

Chapter Twenty Six : Framed yet Starstruck

RenataThe jet landed and I was back in the familiar noise of school life before I had fully processed the morning.I moved through the hallway with my bag on my shoulder and my head somewhere else entirely, running calculations I had no business running. Surgery costs. Timeline. The gap between what I had and what I needed. The numbers never added up no matter how many times I rearranged them, and I was tired of doing the math.Then I stopped.The notice board outside the athletics wing had not changed since the last time I had stood in front of it, and the flyer was still there, slightly curled at the corner but fully legible. The inter-regional boxing championship. Open entry. Prize money of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.I stood there and let myself want it again.I had wanted it before Drent. Before fake relationships and dinner parties and fathers who looked at me like I was something scraped off the bottom of a good shoe. Before any of this, there had been me and a pai

Chapter Twenty Seven: Two steps ahead

Renata"Oh my God, it's Drent Ardent!" one of the girls in the hall screamed, and the whole corridor literally erupted in gasps and admiration.I still stood there wondering what he had come to do, and so did Theodore, Finn, and the twenty soccer players who had been about to launch at me.Drent winked at me with one eye, the kind of wink that said yes, I came to rescue you, before he began to walk in."What is going on here? Why are you guys harassing my girlfriend?" Gosh, he said it out loud. It was the one thing I didn't want anyone to remember in the midst of all this chaos, but he didn't care what they thought ."She trashed our locker room," one of the football players said."No I didn't. I was framed.""Tell that to the evidence," Finn shot at me, wanting all of this to topple on my head as his father stood behind him smiling like their plan had worked."That evidence was forged. I didn't do it.""It's okay." Drent said it, and somehow the whole place went still again. He walke

Chapter Twenty Eight : An unexpected scenery

Renata"Why would you kidnap them?" I kept my voice low even though every instinct was telling me to scream. "Do you have any idea what this could do to me? If anyone finds out about this I will not just miss graduation, I will get expelled and possibly arrested alongside you."Drent looked at me with the particular expression he wore when he had already considered every angle of something and found none of them concerning."I am trying to help you.""This is not help, Drent. This is a crime.""They pushed you into a pool. They framed you in front of the entire school. They were about to have you dragged to the principal's office." He tilted his head slightly. "What exactly would you have preferred I do?""Not this." I pressed my fingers to my temples, trying to think clearly. "Please. Please just take them back before they wake up. Drop them somewhere, anywhere. Just undo this before it becomes something we cannot come back from."He studied me for a moment with those unreadable eyes

Chapter Twenty Nine: Bug in the party

DrentLike I always said, I never pressure what is mine, and I had finally made her agree to go to the party. The best part, the part I loved most, was teasing her and watching her get flustered about it.I ordered my men to take both Theodore and his son home and handed Renata back her papers just as Javier's call came in. I stepped aside to answer it."Hey, what's up, bro?" Javier's voice came through with a noisy background behind it."I'm good, man. Where the hell are you?""I'm at the ball, man. Been here since seven. Where are you and Renata? You do know your father is here, right? This is the best possible time for you guys to put on that performance."He was right. I had been so busy pulling that stunt with Renata that I hadn't realised how late we already were."I'll be there now, bro. Just keep an eye on my father," I said, heading down the stairs to get my things together. As I descended I called my driver to go and pick Renata up, since I had other things to sort first. Af

Chapter Thirty: Genuine moments

Renata The first thing I was aware of was the pounding. It came from somewhere deep behind my eyes, rhythmic and insistent, like something knocking to be let out. Then the smell hit me, sharp and medicinal, and I flinched away from it before I had fully opened my eyes. "There she is." Drent's voice. Close. And another presence on my other side that I registered a second later as Javier, both of them leaning over me with expressions that sat somewhere between relief and barely contained urgency. I blinked at the ceiling, then at Drent, then at the small bottle he was pulling back from beneath my nose. "What happened?" My voice came out rough and unfamiliar. "You were drugged," Drent said. His jaw was tight. "Someone put something in your drink while I was gone." The memory came back in pieces. Standing alone. A waitress moving through the crowd. A glass that had appeared on the table beside me, and the assumption I had made without questioning it because the evening had

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