This Was Never About Basketball

Nerdy Deborah with her big rimmed glasses, has been in love with Caleb, her childhood crush and basketball player for the past ten years. She got admission into the same college as him and even got a job as the coach’s assistant just to be near him. All hell let's lose when she confesses her love to him and tells him she's a virgin and that she wants him to take her virginity on her 18th birthday without knowing she was being filmed by the school bully. Liam, the Captain of the basketball team and Caleb’s best friend, offers Deborah a contract to school her on the art of seduction which could help her get Caleb, in return for something he needs. As Deborah is transformed from invisible nerd to campus heartbreaker, sparks fly where they shouldn’t. What starts as a lesson in flirting quickly spirals into a war of emotions, secrets, and betrayal. Caleb starts noticing her. Liam starts needing her. And someone else—someone dangerous—starts watching her. But when love is a game, and the stakes are deadly, who will win… and who will pay the price?

a heavy burden that I carried for nine long years. It was hard to admit to myself that Carlos Sky never really loved me, despite all the efforts I made to win him over. I even tried to use the divorce and the company he owned, Sky Corporation, as a way to bargain for him to give me attention and love. But he remained indifferent, insensitive to my feelings and my desperate attempts to win him over. It was a moment of great sadness and disappointment when I realized that he never cared about me in the same way that I cared about him. After the divorce, I had time to reflect on what happened and finally realized that the so-called "love" I felt for Carlos Sky was one-sided. I had deluded myself for years, believing that he loved me, when in reality he never showed this feeling for me. The hardest thing was to admit to myself that I loved someone who never loved me back. It was painful to face the reality that all the time, effort, and energy I put into this relationship was for nothing. Learning to let go of this unrequited love and move on with my life was a difficult journey, but necessary for my own emotional health and well-being. Today, I look back with a mixture of sadness and relief. It was a difficult experience, but I also learned a lot about myself and the true meaning of love. I learned that true love is mutual, it involves reciprocity and respect. It is not something that can be forced or won through negotiations.

Before Valentine's Day, I received a message from Caleb Spencer. It was a screenshot of a seven-figure bill for a necklace. It was meant for me, but he bought it for another woman. I didn't cry or make a scene. Instead, I quietly kept cleaning the house. Since we got married, every month brought new gossip about Caleb. Some came from the internet, some from nosy friends, and some even from Caleb himself. By now, I'd become the joke of the whole social circle. But it didn't matter. This life wasn't going to last much longer anyway.

Drake was in all ways an alpha man. The best basketball player the town got and the Greek god of the female species. But even Drake was human alright and he also got enough skeleton in his cupboard locked faraway until he meets her his mate the coach's baby sister who came making all hell loose.Jemima was an underprivileged lady who held her head high never backing down, not even the alpha Drake could. Even when things got a little spicy from love at first sight 'to 'one-night stand 'then 'a hate-love relationship'.Drake was all the luck Jemima needed to a better life while Jemima the salvation and fire Drake needs to keep his passion for basketball burning despite his demons. Expect ecstasy twirled with passion at its peak.

On the night of our third anniversary, I caught my girlfriend in bed with my best friend, the flowers were still in my hands. The ring was still in my pocket. And the people I trusted most looked me in the eye and laughed. One night was all it took to destroy three years of love, friendship, and loyalty. By morning, I had lost everything. My relationship, My best friend, My reputation. Even my place on the hockey team I'd sacrificed everything for. Then he showed up. Noah Knight. The Hockey King, The captain of the rival team. The man I've hated for years. Arrogant, Untouchable, Infuriating. The last person I wanted anywhere near me. But when the entire world turned its back on me, Noah refused to walk away. He kept appearing when I needed him most. He kept protecting me when I never asked him to. And the deeper I fell into the mess surrounding my cheating ex, the more I realized Noah was hiding dangerous secrets of his own. Secrets that connected him to my past. Secrets that could destroy everything I thought I knew. Including the truth about why the man I hated seemed incapable of letting me go. In a world of hockey, betrayal, rivalry, obsession, and buried truths, one question refuses to leave me alone: Why does my enemy care so much about me? And what happens when I discover that the line between hatred and love was never there to begin with? A gripping BL hockey romance filled with betrayal, enemies-to-lovers tension, emotional healing, jealousy, secrets, obsession, and a slow-burning love story that will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Sky, a rising starlet, is photographed kissing Drake Frazen, the country’s most famous hockey star. To keep sponsors from pulling out on both sides, they are forced to stage a fake relationship. But rivals in showbiz and sports are determined to uncover the truth and prove their romance is nothing but an act. One is cheerful, while the other is quiet, distant, and cold. How will these two people with opposite personalities convince the public they are truly in love? In this tangled game of pretense and growing affection, who will fall first? And who will fall the hardest?