Gamer Contemporary Web Novels & Stories

Lila was the quiet nerd who used to be Jax’s everything—until high school popularity turned him into the biggest jerk on the ice. Best friends became strangers, and the constant bullying from his crowd made her life hell. Jax can’t stand watching it anymore. He still wants her, even if he’ll never admit it. So he offers the perfect solution: fake date him. As the school’s star hockey player, no one will dare touch what’s “his.” Protection, respect, and zero real feelings. Easy, right? Desperate for peace, Lila agrees. What starts as performative kisses in the halls and fake hand-holding at games quickly turns dangerously real. Stolen glances. Heated touches. Whispered confessions. Both of them are falling hard. Until the night Jax finally asks her to make it real. That’s when his twin brother Jett drops the bomb: Jax was the one who started the bullying. All of it. Just so he could swoop in and play the hero. Heartbroken and betrayed, Lila’s world shatters. Two brothers who both claim to love her are now tearing each other apart—for her. But who can she trust when the one who “saved” her was the villain all along? Fake love was supposed to be safe. Now it’s the most dangerous game of all

She gave him everything, her heart, her trust, and years of unwavering devotion. No matter how many times he broke her, she stayed, believing that one day the man she loved would finally love her back. Instead, he left her drowning in heartbreak, carrying the weight of a love she could no longer survive. The day she walked away was the day she chose herself. She left behind the tears, the disappointment, and the man who never realized her worth until she was gone. Now, the tables have turned. The man who once took her for granted is willing to do anything to win her back. He is no longer the untouchable man who shattered her heart, but a desperate man haunted by regret. But some scars never truly heal. When the woman he lost becomes the one thing he cannot live without, will love be enough to give them a second chance… or has he already lost her forever?

“Oh my God. You’re my boyfriend?” “Annie, I can explain.” “How long have you known?” He doesn’t answer. And suddenly, I realize the worst part isn’t that my online boyfriend is my stepbrother. It’s that he’s known all along. ⸻ For six months, Roxanne Fletcher has been hopelessly in love with a man she’s never met. Carson is funny, patient, and everything she’s ever wanted. He knows her insecurities, her dreams, and the parts of herself she’s too afraid to show anyone else. Then her mother marries a wealthy businessman, and Roxanne moves into a mansion with the world’s most infuriating stepbrother. Wesley Hargrove is arrogant, sarcastic, ridiculously handsome, and determined to get under her skin. She can’t stand him. So why does he suddenly seem to know exactly how to make her smile? Why does being around him feel so strangely familiar? And why is she beginning to fall for him when she’s already in love with someone else? When one careless slip exposes the truth, Roxanne discovers that the two men tearing her heart in opposite directions are actually the same person. But Wes has been keeping secrets. And this time, love might not be enough to earn her forgiveness.

Adrian Hayes has everything most people dream fame, wealth, championships, and millions of fans. But one carefully planned scandal threatens to destroy it all overnight. After being framed in a false intimacy scandal before the league playoffs, Adrian's sponsors withdraw, his reputation crumbles, and the team gives him only one week to restore public trust. Desperate, his PR team proposes an unusual solution: create the image of a loyal, wholesome friendship with someone outside the hockey world. During the search, Adrian unexpectedly reunites with Ethan Brooks, a struggling photographer he knew during university. Ethan is fighting a different battle. His mother's mounting hospital bills have pushed him to the edge of bankruptcy, forcing him to reject his dream photography projects. Although uncomfortable with becoming part of a publicity campaign, Ethan finally accepts Adrian's generous six-month contract to save his mother's life. As they appear together at games, charity events, interviews, and photo shoots, the public becomes fascinated by their effortless chemistry. Their fake friendship slowly develops into genuine trust, then affection, and eventually love. However, fame comes at a price. Their contract is leaked, jealous rivals manipulate the media, and both men are forced to choose between protecting their careers or following their hearts. Through injuries, betrayals, family struggles, and public judgment, Adrian and Ethan discover that the greatest victory is not winning championships but finding someone willing to stand beside them long after the cameras stop rolling.

Everyone thinks I hate Rex Callahan. I call him arrogant. I call him reckless. I tell anyone who will listen that he is the last man I would ever want. What they don’t know is that I keep his sweat-damp towel under my pillow. What they don’t know is that I have been touching myself to his scent for years. What they don’t know is that the famous racing driver I publicly despise is the only man who can destroy me. Until the night he catches me. One empty lounge. One forgotten jacket. One moment of weakness I can never take back. Now he knows the truth. And instead of telling my overprotective brother, he decides to keep my secret… for a price. He wants my honesty. He wants me close. He wants to watch how long I can keep pretending I feel nothing while he is the one making me fall apart. Forced under the same roof, the line between hate and hunger starts to burn. Every argument turns dangerous. Every glance lasts too long. Every rule we set is made to be broken. But my brother has one unbreakable rule of his own: Rex is never allowed to touch me. Some secrets are dangerous. Some desires are worse. And once the racer I pretend to hate decides he wants more than my silence… there is no going back.

I never thought he’d leave me on our ten year anniversary. I gave him everything, my youth, my dreams, my heart and he tossed it all away like I was nothing. Months of heartbreak, solitude, and tequila later, I’m barely holding it together. Then comes the invite: his wedding. The one where he’s marrying her. And me? I’m supposed to smile and clap? That’s when an idea lands in my lap a chance to fakedate the city’s hottest hockey star, the man every paparazzi swoon over. It’s supposed to be simple: protect his image, help him play the perfect boyfriend… maybe get over my ex in the process. But what I didn’t expect was the heat, the lust, the danger of wanting him… or him wanting me. Between stolen kisses in empty arenas, the paparazzi hunting our every move, and the ex who thinks he still has a chance, I’m discovering the dangerous thrill of power, passion, and revenge. But as my fake love story becomes dangerously real, I realize one thing: the game isn’t over, and I might just win… or lose everything I’ve dared to desire.

Five years ago, Vivienne Cross was London’s most brilliant rising sports rehabilitation therapist. She was also secretly in love with Marcus Vance, the arrogant, generational talent of Premier League soccer. But when Marcus forced her to falsify his medical clearance under pressure—ruining his knee permanently on the pitch—he didn't take the blame. Instead, he publicly branded her a medical fraud to save his own sponsorships. His lie blacklisted her from the industry, sent her family into financial ruin, and caused her father’s fatal stroke. Now, Marcus is the ruthless, bitter General Manager of London United, living with a failing body and a hollow soul. Desperate to salvage his mobility, he tracks down "The Ghost"—an underground physical therapist healing street fighters in London’s grittiest basements. He expects a miracle worker. He finds Vivienne. Hardened, cold, and harboring a deep-seated hatred for him, Vivienne agrees to treat his leg under one condition: absolute agony. As Marcus willingly endures her brutal therapy to pay for his past sins, a dark web of blackmail and corporate greed begins to unravel. To win back the woman he destroyed, Marcus will have to do the unthinkable—destroy the soccer empire he built, even if it means kneeling in the mud to do it.

When Hylara Harts nudes leak on the Jumbotron after a big ice hockey game, her boyfriend instantly dumps her on the ice for her best friend. Hylara's life couldn't be messier, but nothing is messier than having to play the hockey captain's girlfriend to clean up the PR disaster. Creed Horton is more than the star hockey captain. He's an Alpha determined to keep the werewolf community hidden from the human world. To achieve this, he must fake date Hylara Hart, a mere human, and his arch-nemesis. Then he discovers she may be the girl from the ancient prophecy that crowns the true Alpha King.

Ann became a widow at thirty-four. To the world, she had everything. A rich husband, a beautiful life, and a name that opened doors. But the truth: she was never a wife; she was owned. On the night she was about to be handed over to another man like property, Ann ran with no plan or safety. Just fear pushing her forward. Then she crashed into him, Duke Carter, twenty-seven, Hockey superstar. The kind of man who doesn’t stop for strangers. But he stopped for her. What started as one night of help turns into something neither of them expected. Because Ann isn’t just running from her past… she’s carrying it. And Duke isn’t supposed to fall for a woman like her. She is older and a widow, bringing secrets that could destroy everything. When Duke’s family turns against her, and the man she escaped comes back with a vengeance, Ann is forced to fight again… this time not just for her freedom, but for the only love she’s ever known. Duke was never meant to choose her. But he did, and this time… he’s not letting her go.

Ivy Callahan spent three years burying the one man she never stopped loving. Then she crashed her car straight into his. Ivy has one job: keep other people's scandals off the front page. So when her fiancé, Julian Ashford, is caught leaving a hotel with another woman, she does what she does best — clean it up, smile for the cameras, and pretend her heart isn't breaking. Then she rear-ends a stranger's car outside the hotel and looks up into the eyes of Roman Ashford — the hockey legend she left without a word three years ago, and the one man on earth she never expected to be Julian's uncle. Roman never got over her. He's not about to lose her twice — especially not to his own nephew. As Julian's scandal spirals and the Ashford family closes ranks to protect their name, Ivy is trapped between a debt she didn't create, a fiancé who's already chosen someone else, and an ex who's done waiting quietly in the background. When the family matriarch offers her an impossible choice — marry Julian to save her father's company, or lose everything — Roman makes a vow of his own: he won't let her sacrifice herself for a debt again. But an old contract is about to surface — one with a signature on it that will blow the entire Ashford family apart, and force Ivy to choose not between two men, but between the life she was told to want and the one she actually does. The hockey star won't let his ex go. The question is whether she'll let herself be found.

In her first life, Avery's family laughed and mocked her as her rich husband threw her out of their warm cabin so his pregnant lover, her own sister Chloe, could stay inside. Avery froze to death in the extreme cold apocalypse, and her last thought was revenge. Then she wakes up half a month before the apocalypse begins. This time she doesn't beg. She ends her adoption, divorces her cheating husband, and uses the winning lottery numbers she remembers from her past life to become a multimillionaire. Now her family wants her back because she is rich, and her ex-husband wants a second chance. Avery swears she will never forgive them, until she finds out that this apocalypse is not the same as the one in her previous life and a lot of people were reborn too . Her plan was to take revenge on her family and live in peace until the apocalypse passes. But her family and the reborn people around her have other plans, because from the start, they have all been an experiment.

Only One Crown One team. One legacy. One crown. Jaxon Reed built his name on control. As captain of the Frost Giants, he turned pressure into power and silence into strength. The league calls him the best to ever wear the jersey. He carries that title like armor. Then Adrian Cruz walks back into his locker room. Adrian was once more than his rival. More than his teammate. He was the one Jaxon loved in secret and the one he let go when fame, fear, and outside pressure closed in. Now a shocking trade forces Adrian onto Jaxon’s team, binding them together under a brutal contract clause neither of them fully understands. On the ice, they are unstoppable. Off the ice, they are unfinished. As the media fuels a ruthless GOAT debate and the billionaire owner pulls strings from the shadows, old wounds rip open. Accusations of betrayal resurface. Secrets about a hidden clause threaten to ruin more than their careers. And the question that has haunted them for three years demands an answer: Who really tore them apart? Forced to play on the same line, Jaxon and Adrian must decide what matters more—protecting their pride or fighting for the love they never truly lost. Because there’s only room for one crown in the league… …but there might be room for two hearts. Only One Crown is a dark, emotional second-chance sports romance filled with forced proximity, buried secrets, fierce rivalry, and a hard-won happily ever after.