Contemporary Web Novels & Badboy Misunderstanding Stories

"Watch out for your expressions, Everhart. People might start thinking you've got a thing for me.""No one would assume I'm that desperate, Sterling."***After transferring as a scholarship student to the prestigious Elysium University, Lily Everhart is determined to pursue her dream of becoming a geneticist. However, her orderly life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Adrian Sterling, the charismatic campus bad boy, igniting a rivalry between them and disrupting Lily's plans for an uneventful academic year.Amidst the challenges of university life, she grapples with conflicting emotions about Adrian while also discovering that Elysium isn't what it seems.Can she finish her remaining years of college unharmed? Or will money and power prove to be everything that matters? Will Lily and Adrian overcome their differences, or will it push them further apart?Fragments of Elysium: Love on Campus is created by Amelie Bergen, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

He was the campus god who had everything. She was the invisible girl holding onto nothing. Simone Liverpool is college royalty—the star athlete from a billionaire dynasty, used to a world of pristine status and superficial perfection. Chrysler Davii is just trying to survive. Drowning in grief after losing her father, dealing with a painful battle with PCOS, and constantly broken down by her mother’s cruel comments about her body, Chrysler has built a wall around herself that no one can penetrate. When a mandatory photography project forces them to partner up and road-trip across state lines, the campus scoffs. Simone’s friends mock the pairing, and Chrysler braces for a journey of humiliation. Simone is furious that his curated life is being disrupted. But out on the open highway, away from the toxic noise of the locker room, the lens shifts. Simone starts seeing the breathtaking girl behind the camera. Her grief calls to his protective instincts; her quiet resilience becomes his undoing. When he overhears the verbal abuse she faces from her own family, his frustration turns into a dark, fierce possessiveness. Simone doesn't just want to win the project—he wants to consume her world, protect her health, and destroy anyone who ever made her feel less than magnificent. He was supposed to be her worst nightmare. Instead, he’s about to become her darkest obsession.

Adrian Smith a once-promising young son of a respected billionaire suddenly turns into a drunkard and a playboy, he is involved in numerous cases of infidelity, and being a top bachelor many young women wanted to play with him for his money but when it came to marriage no one was willing to get married to a young man everyone termed useless. His family was frustrated due to all the efforts they had made raising him to become the heir of their business empire and his father ended up cutting him off the family's inheritance. Will Adrian afford to live without his family's money or will he change to a better man?

Katya Orlov would think that the worst thing to happen to her would be her boyfriend of five years cheating on the day of their anniversary in a club while she stood feets away but she would be wrong. It would be meeting Nikolai Morozov and having sex with him

“I never thought I’d fall in love with a man. Especially not him. But at night, when I close my eyes, he keeps me awake, reaching for what I can never have.” Ryan and Caleb have spent their entire lives running from the expectations that come with being heirs to two of the wealthiest families in the country. So when family obligations threaten to drag them back into the lives they escaped, they make a reckless deal: fake a relationship that will push their families further away from their personal lives. The rules are simple. Pretend to be in love. Play the perfect couple. And, most importantly, don’t fall for each other. Ryan is determined to live life on his own terms, while Caleb seems to have everything under control—including a long-term girlfriend who isn’t thrilled about his increasingly close relationship with Ryan. But pretending to be lovers has a way of blurring the line between acting and reality and the desire between them grows far too intense to dismiss. Was falling in love with each other the one thing they never planned for—or the one thing they were always meant to find?

When Dante Salvatore walks into an exclusive auction, he expects anything but to see Luca Romano, the man he pushed away five years ago, being sold like property. Dante buys him without hesitation. Luca looks at him with nothing but hatred. Bringing Luca home was supposed to fix everything. Instead, it unleashes a storm of betrayals, hidden agendas, and family secrets that threaten to destroy them both. In a world where love is a weakness and trust can get you killed, they'll have to decide: are they each other's salvation or final destruction?

Jasmine Reign Campbell has one rule. Stay invisible. Stick with her friends. Avoid drama at all costs. Then Draven Augustus Green walks into her life. The campus bad boy. Arrogant, irresistible, and impossible to ignore. The one everyone loves and the one she wants to stay far away from. He breaks every rule and somehow gets under her skin. Jasmine is determined to never fall for someone like him. Rule number one exists for a reason. But some rules are not meant to last.

Clark Johnson has always been invisible. A quiet bookworm in a very small Michigan town, he's used to being overlooked until the day Gordie Thomas, the school's larger football star, asked him to be his chemistry partner. What begins as an unlikely friendship quickly becomes something neither of them expected. But first love is rarely simple. As their secret relationship deepens, Gordie finds himself torn between the life everyone expected him to live and the feelings he can't seem to ignore. And when a girl enters the picture, Clark is forced to watch the boy he loves slip further and further away.

"I hope I'm not late." A sudden chill went through me when a deep voice spoke, a voice I recognised easily.Everyone fell silent, staring at who had interrupted our celebration, I stared at him and gulped.I couldn't believe I was looking at Xavier, his nostrils flared as he stared at me, shock evident on his face."He has a brother?" my parents asked simultaneously."Yeah, Xavier is our second son and the youngest." Mr Alejandro replied.I stared at Xavier, our passionate night flashing in my memory, I looked away immediately swallowing hard feeling hot all over.Alana is forced by her parents to get married, she goes to a club and has a one night stand, after getting married two days later she realizes the man she had the one night stand with was the younger brother of her husband.Will Alana forget the passionate night she has and focus on her marriage? Will Xavier let the fact that his brother is married to the one woman he wants stop him from wanting her? What happens when Alana realizes that the family she married into is more complicated than she thought it would be?..........

"Samantha," he murmured, pulling back just enough to look into my eyes. "What are we doing?" "Item seven.." I whispered, trying for lightness but hearing the tremor in my voice. "Crossing it off the list." ~ Fresh out of high school, Samantha knows two truths: she's madly in love with her best friend Rafael, and she'll never live to see him graduate college. So she creates a bucket list, determined to experience everything life offers, especially the taste of his kiss, before her secret claims her last breath. But time is quickly running out.... will she make it out alive?

“I’m not scared of you.” “Really? Because that’s quite a fight-flight-freeze response you’ve got going on. Pupils dilated. Body quivering. Breaths fast and shallow.” He smiled. “Oh, wait, that’s not fight-flight-freeze! I’ve seen you like this before, haven’t I? Every night for a fucking year.” She licked her lips, "That was then, this is now,” she said. “Say the word and I’ll be on my knees for you in a heartbeat, same as I always was.” —------- Event planner Tessa Monroe has just come face-to-face with the man who shattered her heart two years ago. When she first agreed to a sugar daddy arrangement with David Warren—a sinfully handsome, wildly wealthy billionaire ten years her senior—she knew the rules. It was supposed to be purely financial and intensely physical. She certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with him... or that he'd fall in love with her —At least, so he'd claimed. After all, who the hell cheated on someone they claimed to love? David Warren had spent the last two years convincing himself that he hated Tessa. For the first time in his life, he'd broken his own rules, fallen in love, and risked his heart by asking her to marry him. Her rejection didn't just bruise his ego—it broke him, and he'd walked away full of hate, anger and resentment, swearing that he was done with her for good. It's been two years now, but it's obviously not enough time to quench the volatile fire between them. Walking back into each other's arms is dangerous, and playing with this much chemistry guarantees they’ll both get burned. But neither of them has ever been good at resisting the heat. Not when there's chemistry…So much chemistry.

Blurb. On the night Valentine Ashford catches her boyfriend in bed with her stepmother, she does the one thing she had never imagined herself doing. She goes home with a handsome stranger. One unforgettable night, no names and no promises. The next morning, she walks away believing she will never see him again. Until she comes face to face with him at her wedding meeting. Only then does she discover the devastating truth. The stranger who spent the night in her bed is Adrian Knight, the younger brother of the man she is about to marry. Bound by a marriage arranged to save her family's collapsing empire, Valentine is determined to honor her duty. Adrian is equally determined to protect his brother, even if it means pretending they have never met. But stolen glances become dangerous conversations. Accidental touches become impossible temptations. And with every wedding plan that forces them together, the line between duty and desire begins to blur. Just when Valentine convinces herself she can bury the truth forever, one unexpected discovery threatens to unravel every promise she's made.

She swore off the rink the night her ex, ice hockey’s golden boy, broke her heart in front of the school. Ice was for scars, not second chances. But everything changes when a mysterious transfer student shows up, a brooding goalie with a record as dark as his past and a smile sharp enough to cut. His deal is simple. Pretend to date him, and he’ll help her win the scholarship that could rewrite her future. But as sparks ignite and secrets unravel, she finds herself caught between old wounds and new temptations. Is he just another player in a dangerous game… or the one person who could change everything?

Caroline Matthews has three rules of friendship with Maverick Thompson, her best friend since third grade: One: Always come when the other calls, no matter what. Two: Always tell the truth and never keep secrets. Three: Never fall in love with each other. She's already broken two of them. For three years, Caroline has been in love with Maverick, hiding her feelings while watching him date other girls, break up, and come crying to her every single time. She's the best friend. The safe one. The girl who's always there but never seen. When they both get into Kalewood University, Caroline decides it's time. New beginning, fresh start, perfect moment to finally confess her feelings and break the third rule. Then Riley shows up, Maverick's ex-girlfriend, the one who broke his heart, the girl he never got over and ruins everything with a single kiss. Harry, who is Maverick’s estranged older stepbrother from the family, a campus legend, and the frontman of the hottest band, is dangerous, damaged, and exactly the kind of guy Caroline has spent her entire life avoiding. Harry has a proposition: fake date him to make his ex and obsessive fans back off, and maybe, just maybe, make Maverick realize what he's been missing all along.

## **The Wicked Games We Play for Love** *Book One of The Wicked Series* Fourteen years ago, Dorian Vanderbilt abandoned Troy Summers in an orphanage. He locked her in a closet, walked away with his new wealthy family... and never came back. She spent fourteen years preparing for one thing. Revenge. Now twenty, Troy earns a place at an elite university where Dorian studies, armed with a simple plan: make him fall hopelessly in love with her, then destroy him piece by piece. Only Dorian isn't the boy she remembers. He is quiet. Calculating. Beautiful. Dangerous. A man with silver hair, ancient eyes, and a talent for seeing through every lie she tells. As Troy's carefully crafted seduction begins to work, her plan starts unraveling. The university hides violent secrets. Men fight like predators. Wolves roam the forests after dark. A lonely vampire mourns the loss of sunlight. Ancient druids guard magic that should no longer exist. And Dorian is not simply the heir to a powerful family... He is the nine-tailed fox. Bound by an ancient fae treaty that has stolen freedom from every supernatural race, Dorian has spent centuries manipulating allies and enemies alike in search of a way to break it. Troy was never supposed to become part of that plan. But the more they deceive each other, the more dangerous their game becomes. Every kiss is a test. Every touch is a lie. Every act of intimacy is another move in a ruthless battle between revenge and love. Until Troy discovers the truth. The boy she swore to destroy may be the only one capable of saving them all. And Dorian's greatest weakness has never been his enemies. It's the orphan girl he left behind.