Protective Romance Web Novels & Campus Stories

My body was drenched from the intense downpour, which also made the path and steps away from the sore spot damp. There was no umbrella to offer me some shade, so I was left cold and drenched in the bad weather. I follow the road barefoot, following its path to wherever it leads. My face was chilly and damp, and there were hot tears in it. It seems as though the sky eradicates my pain and hiding from everyone just how miserable and down I am at the moment. "How long would you walk? How many times do you have to cry just to laugh again?" We're strolling along this lengthy road in the pouring rain, he said as he followed me. He stopped in front of me, causing me to tumble as well. When I stared into his azure eyes, tranquility was all I saw. His warm smile gave me hope, all the while I was staring at it. "Your life's challenges would bring you storm clouds and torrential rain, but what would come next was your hope. It doesn't imply that fate wasn't on your side or that you are finished. A sunshine that might offer your life meaning. That way, destiny won't ever work against you again!" He seems sincere, but I'm not sure If I will believe in him. He turned away from me, which made me anxious. I tried to call his name, but he never answered. Nevertheless, it appears that he will also leave just like the others, leaving far from me, just like everyone else. "Seah, be that sunshine! ...In order to discover love, you must first learn how to love yourself." He spoke and then disappeared. Where should I start and when should I stop? I'm really confused and scared.

SYNOPSIS The Wrong Pair of Eyes Mia Caldwell isn’t looking for anything. She has Ethan, warm, loving, six thousand miles away but counting down every day until he’s back. She has her studies, her routine, her carefully maintained life. She has a relationship built on a year of long distance and the kind of trust that costs something to keep. She isn’t looking. But then Ryder Holt walks out of a cafeteria door while she’s on the phone with her boyfriend and something in her chest moves without permission. He doesn’t introduce himself. Doesn’t flirt, doesn’t chase, doesn’t do any of the things she could easily dismiss. He just looks at her. Direct and unhurried and completely certain, like he’s already made a decision and is simply waiting for her to arrive at the same one. They get paired for a project and she finds out he requested her specifically, she’s bringing him coffee and losing arguments she should win and lying awake thinking about a man she has no right to think about while Ethan sends heart emojis from across the world and says he’s coming home early.Three weeks. She has three weeks to get herself under control. Ryder Holt has other plans. Possessive without touching her. Obsessive without saying it. He sees her in ways that feel both thrilling and terrifying and the closer he gets, the more Mia realizes the real danger isn’t him but how little she’s pulling away. The Wrong Pair of Eyes is a slow burn dark romance about desire arriving at the worst possible moment, loyalty cracking under the weight of something real, and a woman caught between the love she chose and the one she never saw coming.

I gave myself to a stranger in a penthouse, then ran before dawn. I thought I'd never see him again. Three days later, he walked into my lecture hall. Professor Xavier Carrington. Cold. Untouchable. A billionaire who owns half of Manhattan—and the secret of what we did. He pretends I don't exist. He treats me like air. But when my grandmother's café burns down and my bills drown me, he makes me an offer I can't refuse: a one-year contract marriage. Separate bedrooms, he says. No feelings, he promises. I sign because I have no choice. Now I live in his glass tower. I sleep down the hall from the man who took my innocence. He's ice to everyone else, but late at night, I catch him watching me. His hands shake when I get too close. He kisses me like he's drowning—then tells me he feels nothing. I don't believe him. Because there's something dark behind those cold grey eyes. Something he's buried so deep he thinks I'll never find it. And the closer I get to him, the more I realize his world isn't just cold—it's dangerous. But I have secrets too. I'm not just his contract wife. I'm gathering evidence to leave him—until I discover that his family's name is built on lies. And the truth I'm looking for might be the very thing that gets me killed. His obsession with me might be the only thing keeping me alive. He says it's just a contract. But the heart doesn't read fine print.

He’s the cocky, tattooed bad boy. She’s the quiet, fragile girl he’s protected since they were kids. Damian Windsor and Asteria Goldburn have been best friends since childhood. He’s the only person who can calm her nightmares and make her feel safe in a world that once tried to break her. She’s the only one who can get away with calling him “Dami” and make the sharp-tongued troublemaker soften. A summer spent apart leaves cracks in their carefully balanced dynamic. New relationships form, old ones begin to fracture, and secrets start slipping beneath the surface. From late-night stargazing and almost-kisses to heated nights, what begins as friendship explodes into raw, forbidden desire. Because when your best friend is the bad boy, falling in love might be the most dangerous game of all.

Maya Vance hates Liam Cross. The Upton University cheer captain and heir to a billion‑dollar empire has been raised to despise everything about the soccer captain and his family. So when Liam slides a fake engagement contract across a coffee shop table, she laughs in his face. Then her father calls. Sign it. Or lose everything. The SEC is investigating both companies for insider trading. A fake romance between the heirs is the only PR move that can save their families from ruin. Six months of pretending. A diamond ring that feels like a leash. A Homecoming crown they must win together while their families secretly undermine each other. But Maya doesn't expect Liam to hold her hand like it matters. She doesn't expect him to defend her when anonymous threats appear in her locker. And she definitely doesn't expect to miss her period. Two pink lines change everything. Now she's carrying the unexpected heir to both empires – the one thing that could either end the feud or trap her forever. As they race to uncover who forged the SEC emails and exposed their families, Maya realizes the biggest threat isn't the villain trying to destroy them. It's the boy she was never supposed to love. And the life growing inside her.

For eighteen years, Ariel Perez has believed that she is the daughter of a hardworking woman struggling to make ends meet. Her life is modest, but she has never questioned the love she receives from Mrs. Perez. Determined to change their circumstances, Ariel dedicates herself to academics and dreams of earning admission to Harvard University. Everything changes when a DNA test reveals a devastating truth: Ariel was switched at birth and is actually the biological daughter of the wealthy Dalton family. Overnight, the girl who grew up with almost nothing becomes an heiress. But wealth cannot buy acceptance. When Ariel enters the Dalton household, she discovers that not everyone is pleased by her arrival. Britney Dalton, the girl who unknowingly lived the life Ariel should have had, sees her as a threat. Determined to protect her position within the family, Britney makes Ariel's transition into her new life as difficult as possible. At Crestmore Academy, Britney uses her influence to turn students against Ariel, humiliating her because of her humble background and questioning whether she deserves to belong among them. Rather than surrendering to their judgment, Ariel channels her frustration into her studies and gradually establishes herself as one of the school's brightest students. Then she meets Theo Carter, a wealthy heir who sees beyond her circumstances. What begins as an unexpected friendship slowly develops into something deeper, but their growing relationship only intensifies Britney's jealousy. While Ariel fights to earn her place within the Dalton family, protect Mrs. Perez, achieve her Harvard dream, and navigate her complicated feelings for Theo, she must also learn how to live between two very different worlds. The girl who was once overlooked must now prove that being born into wealth does not determine who deserves to be loved, respected, or successful.

In her first life, she believed she had the perfect boyfriend. Handsome, wealthy, and charming, he treated her like a princess in public. Behind closed doors, however, he controlled her, cheated on her, and made her life miserable. Her blonde twin sister envied her, believing she had chosen the better man. Trapped in an unhappy relationship with a tough, intimidating basketball star, she wished she could exchange places with her sister. Then an accident killed them both. When the black-haired twin wakes up in her high school years, she remembers everything. This time, she refuses to repeat her mistakes. She will focus on her education, build her future, and never depend on a man for happiness again. Her blonde twin remembers their past too, but instead of learning from it, she decides to win the charming boy her sister once loved. As school rivalries, basketball games, and dance competitions bring them closer to the two wealthy boys, their choices begin to change their destinies. The female lead wants nothing to do with the charming manipulator, yet she finds herself drawn to the tough basketball star, who protects her while insisting he feels nothing for her. Her sister mistakes his kindness for another attempt to steal what belongs to her. Determined to ruin her twin's reputation, she uses a black wig to impersonate her and frame her for scandals. But the blonde twin eventually discovers the cruelty hidden behind her chosen man's charming public image. Desperate to escape, she tries to reclaim the basketball star, only to find that he has fallen for her sister. Both sisters received a second chance. One chooses growth; the other chooses envy. Can the female lead escape her past, or will her sister drag her into the same nightmare again?

Ming thought hiding her supernatural side would be easy... until she fell for the mysterious boy in her college. Now her carefully controlled life is falling apart, and her biggest secret might be impossible to keep. What happens when a half-vampire tries to have a normal college romance? Spoiler alert: Nothing goes according to plan.

Three years after her father's death, her mother announces that she's getting married to someone. Stacy, overwhelmed with grief, runs away into the night, she gets drunk and wanders out from a club. A gang of guys want to attack her but she gets saved by a stranger, one which gives her a night she couldn't forget only to discover the next day that he was her stepbrother and they would be living under the same roof, going to the same school, basically doing everything together. She hates him. For the fact that he already knew who she was but he still did it. She thinks its out of spite But to him, it's because he wants her and he'd do anything to have her.

Stolen as an infant, Isla has lived her entire life under the control of cruel strangers who never let her feel like she belonged. Years of abuse dampened her spirit, and when she escapes to college, she only wants to finally live her life without any dark cloud looming over her. Instead, trouble seems to follow her. Stalkers, threats, and shadows from her past keep dragging her into danger.     That’s until she keeps bumping into her college lecturer in unusual places and she realizes that there’s a whole lot more to him than what he lets on. Protective, ruthless, and dangerously charming; willing to risk everything for her, he vows to keep her safe.     The deeper she’s drawn into his orbit, the more she realizes her past isn’t what it seems to be — and the truth may be darker than she ever imagined.

I've accidentally made a deal with the devil in a Gladdis jersey. Everett Griffin. Cocky captain of the men's volleyball team. My annoying next-door neighbor. My collegemate. The single biggest pain in my entire existence. All it took was one desperate favor—begging him to deliver an energy drink to my favorite player—and boom. I'm his maid. For one. Entire. Week. Worst. Decision. Ever. I thought surviving seven days of Everett's relentless teasing would be the hardest part. But I was wrong. Because somewhere between stolen glances, heated volleyball matches, ridiculous arguments, and a deal I'd give anything to escape... The last person I ever expected to fall for is becoming impossible to ignore. And that's a problem. A really, really big problem.

Scarlett Hayes never wanted to be a killer. But when her family's debt threatens to tear them apart, she takes the only offer on the table: a full scholarship to her dream school, in exchange for one task. Kill a stranger. That stranger turns out to be Adrian Whitlock, Ravenwood's hockey captain, and the longer she stays close to him, the harder it gets to remember why she's supposed to want him dead. Adrian has no idea the girl he's falling for was sent to end him. And the deeper Scarlett gets pulled into his world, the more she realizes her assignment was never as simple as she thought.

Lilian Williams has spent years trying to become someone worth loving. Behind her family's wealth and perfect surname is a girl who hates looking in the mirror, hides the scars on her face, and keeps giving everything she has to a boyfriend who makes her feel like she's never enough. Then Michael humiliates her in front of everyone. Desperate to save face, Lilian makes one reckless claim. Alex —the university's hockey captain and Michael's cousin—is chasing her. He isn't. But instead of exposing her lie, Alex agrees to play along. One week. One fake relationship. One chance to make Michael regret humiliating her. For Lilian, pretending to be Alex's girlfriend should be easy. Except Alex has his own problems. Between the pressure of being hockey captain, his rivalry with the Westbrook Ravens, and the expectations placed on him by the people who control his future, he has no time for a fake relationship. Yet somehow, Lilian becomes the one distraction he doesn't want to escape. As their staged romance pulls them deeper into university drama, hockey rivalries, and Fiona's growing interest in Alex, the line between pretending and falling becomes dangerously thin. Lilian only wanted to prove she could be wanted. Alex never expected to want her for real.

The rule was simple: No sex in school. But I broke it. It was supposed to be the perfect first time with my boyfriend, the moment I had been waiting for all summer…until everything went wrong! We were caught by my lecturer. My boyfriend abandoned me without a second thought, leaving me to face the consequences alone. Desperate to protect my reputation, my grades and my future, I begged for mercy. And he listened, but at a heavy cost. “Suck me off,” he ordered and in no time, I went down on my knees. From that day on, I was no longer just his student. I became his secret, his obsession, and his favorite slut to fuck behind closed doors. I should hate him, I should even run away from him. But the more he takes me, the more my body betrays me. This is wrong, forbidden and so fucking dangerous because if anyone finds out, it'll ruin everything! But when he fucks this good, how can I stop craving him?

Some hearts are made of paper. Some people are worth the burn. Wren Delacroix thought escaping to Aurelia University meant leaving her controlling father and quiet household behind. She never expected to run into Kai Sterling—the boy who slept down the hall for three years, outran his father’s ghost, and somehow knows her better than anyone else. While Wren tries to hold on to a toxic relationship with campus golden boy Trent Bellamy, Kai quietly becomes the only person she trusts when her life starts to unravel. Between hidden bruises, broken trust, and secrets lurking behind closed doors, Wren soon realizes that Trent isn't the hero she thought he was. When a shocking revelation changes everything, Wren and Kai must face the truth they’ve been avoiding for years. But as buried secrets come to light, loving each other means risking a fire that could destroy everything they thought they knew about family, loyalty, and love.