Ruthless Romance Web Novels & Sports Stories

Landing a transfer scholarship to the ultra-elite Westridge University was supposed to be her fresh start. Instead, her very first day turns into a total nightmare when she crosses paths with Damien Blake. To save her critically ill mother, scholarship student Elena Reyes becomes the personal maid to Damien Blake, the brooding, billionaire hockey captain she absolutely detests. He makes her life a nightmare until a campus scandal forces him to claim Elena as his girlfriend, under fake circumstances. But there is a major catch. To secure a secret contract from Damien’s billionaire father, Elena must force this closed-off guy out of his dark shell and make him do the impossible things she and his father had listed. Is it truly possible to tame an emotionless heart?

She loved him until she lost herself. Now, behind locked doors and shattered glass, she must learn to breathe again. When she first met Lloyd, he was magnetic and intoxicating. The kind of man who turned every head when he entered a room, who spoke in promises sweet enough to taste. With him, she felt chosen, cherished, and safe. But safety was an illusion, and love became a weapon. And slowly, piece by piece, he dismantled her until nothing of the woman she once was remained. Now institutionalized after a breakdown, she begins to piece together the brutal truth of what really happened in the shadows of their love story. Memories sting like open wounds: the manipulation disguised as tenderness, the apologies that blurred into threats, the desperate hope that tomorrow he'd be the man she fell for again. Yet beneath the grief and the shame, a quiet rebellion stirs, a vow to reclaim her voice, her freedom, and her life. Because this is not just a story of how she fell apart. It is a story of how she rises. Haunting, raw, and achingly intimate, Boys like him peels back the glittering mask of a toxic love affair to reveal the kind of darkness that hides in plain sight, and the unbreakable strength it takes to escape it.

Blurb: Betrayed by her boyfriend who she had helped build his volatile hockey image, Dahlia is set to prove him wrong when he carelessly makes the remark that she can't find work again in his team if she quits, because all the other players wouldn't get on his bad side. According to him, he held all the cards. But what she doesn't know is that by trying to prove him wrong she will be setting herself up for more than she could have ever bargained. Because the very man she is going into this deal with, wants more than she has to offer.