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Finding relationships is easy... Keeping them is the real game.That's what I'm learning in my first one. It's not easy. Our rival schools are an hour apart, my best friend's turning secretive, my parents are controlling, and my brother's still an ass, gearing toward winning the state championship, and still doesn't like my boyfriend, Logan.I get it, they're rivals, and I kinda feel like Logan's team might be better but this season will decide.Being the star rival quarterback's girlfriend brings big rumors and big drama, especially when elements of our pasts resurface - his jaded ex whatevers, and the secrets I thought I'd buried and moved beyond. All of this while I just want to figure out where to go for college and what for.Some relationships will always stand the test of time and distance, while others crumble by the time the high school dust settles. I hope Logan and I are in the former because I'm falling hard for him.Really hard. Forever love hard.Story is ongoing with frequent updates. Please add it to your reading list!Note: Mature language and some chapters have mature content. To follow Wattpad's under-18 contents guidelines, the impacted scenes are all fade-to-black. highest ranks: #1 - teendrama #1 - teenfictionromance #2 - california #2 - youngadultromance #4 - senior #36 - fictionlink to story 1: https://www.wattpad.com/story/223823599-i-hate-football-playersand the next one: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/265825663-i-hate-football-players-3…

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When a real estate billionaire attempts to evict a millionaire matchmaker's business from his new building, they clash in a deal of head vs. heart, only to discover they're each other's perfect match.Standalone in The Elite Matchmaker Series***Love is Iris' business. Boston's elite matchmaker has built a thriving company by finding perfect pairings.Her expansion dreams screech to a halt when she finds a hot, sexy stranger sitting in her office like he owns the place. Turns out, he does, and the new building owner, Xavier, wants her "scam" business out. The man wouldn't know love if it sat on his infuriatingly handsome face.Locked in a heated argument, Iris proposes an impossible deal: three months to find the perfect match for any client he chooses. When she succeeds, he'll publicly endorse her matchmaking, but if she fails, she'll pack up without a fight.The last thing she expects is the billionaire to call her bluff and nominate himself for the bet. Botched screenings, auto-rejections-Xavier sabotages every potential match thrown his way.But as their conflict sparks something far more dangerous than competitive rivalry, and succumbing to their steamy, forbidden attraction provokes every emotion Iris has sworn off, she faces an even bigger problem. With the deal clock ticking, breaking her cardinal rule-never fall for a client-is the one match she can't afford to make.***Weekly updates on Mondays. Wait & read for free, or unlock with coins-the choice is yours!…

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After being cheated on by their long-term partners, can a pro-wide receiver and a PR agent remain friends with benefits without falling for each other?I've been in love with Ava since I was fifteen. She was my first, my only, my everything, destroying my heart when she betrayed me. Without her, half of me is missing. Unable to confront the truth, I'm pivoting my frustrations into football. A last-chance tryout to play pro football in Seattle and my high school reunion offer enough time for my redemption plan - professional first, personal second.Thousands of miles from home, living with my best friend and his wife leaves me with homesickness and the worst case of third-wheeling. Only Maya, the gorgeous, put-together PR rep for our team knows how I feel, but when our friendship line blurs beneficial to recover our confidence, I struggle with developing feelings for her.This free story is ongoing, with weekly updates. Please add to your reading list for notifications of new chapters!…

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We're not in love. Our past is a dumpster fire. The best we are is friends with benefits... without the friends' part.Jake Harrison, USC's star quarterback, goes through girls faster than jock straps. If that's not disgusting enough, he's my best friend's brother and my prime motivation for celibacy.Transferring to UCLA means finally getting out of my dad's house. All I want is to stay under the social radar, make Dad proud by earning my paralegal certification, and get out of Los Angeles.When Jake learns I'm nearby, the cocky jerk will stop at nothing to rekindle what didn't work before.He thinks he's grown and matured past the boy who crushed my teenage heart. I think he's taken too many tackles into the turf, but when he proposes a stress management agreement during his season... I can't help but see his point. His seven-and-a-half-inch point.The last time we indulged, we got sloppy. Not the good kind-soul-crushing feelings-sloppy. My brain knows cutting ties was for the best, but the rest of my body still hates me.But I won't be made a fool again. This time, I have rules: No attachment. No cuddles. And no falling in love. Yet, when treacherous feelings resurface, I do the worst thing possible-Break my own rules. This time, whoever falls first isn't getting back up.Story is complete. It will be edited and expanded to 3 books in 2024.Highest ranks:1 - university, casualsex, nostrings, spinoff, lovehaterelationship, football, steamy, badassreads2 - college, enemieswithbenefits, collegestories, sports, quarterback, maturelanguage4 - love!6 - chicklit28 - romance!65 - fiction…

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Even the happiest fairy tales are rooted in nightmares, twisted to entertain children and lure them into false pretenses. After seventeen years in isolation, Zara receives not one but two life-altering shocks. She is a rare, white werewolf and must choose a mate among the future alphas in the packs under her father's abusive control.Leaving her isolated home, Zara travels to four territories to meet her potential mates. Each pack holds its own story and secrets entangled with her past. Along each leg of her journey, rogues attack. She must also learn how to fight in wolf form, disentangle the truth about her true self from her father's lies, and determine which side she's on once war breaks out.status: This story is complete, including editing!**Featured on Werewolf's New Adult May-August '22!**Featured on Werewolf's Alpha Romance Dec '24!highest rankings:#1 - werewolf!!, supernatural, paranormal, alpha, beta, forrest, plottwist, werewolfromance, paranormalromance#2 - youngadult, war, mate, creatures, silver#81 - romance!…

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After a one-night stand flips a grumpy hockey goalie's bad luck, he pursues his team's new dental assistant to rebound his abysmal season.Trapped in a small town, my life has been planned, controlled, and boring. After my sister and I failed to keep our family's bakery afloat, I'm free to steer my life's ship...Except I don't know what I want and have no idea how to adult.A year of sleeping on my sister's boyfriend's couch and getting bitten by kids while cleaning their teeth is not living. When the anniversary of losing our bakery reminds me how far I haven't come since then, a wild, anonymous one-night stand is just the stress release I need. Putting him out of my mind is challenging, but my luck turns when I land a specialist dentist's assistant job. It's for a pro hockey team, where, unfortunately, my steamy one-night stand is their grumpy goalie, and the coach doesn't believe women can remain professional around his players.I don't have time for the giant manchild refusing to get his teeth cleaned or socialize with anyone, including his teammates. The team's solo win comes after our night together, convincing Connor I'm some lucky charm who can turn around his demoralizing slump. All I care about is getting settled on my own despite his sexist coach, but when he threatens to reveal our secret, I'm forced to prove superstitions are hocus-pocus nonsense.18 + for explicit sexual content#1 sports, #1 spicyPREVIEW: full story is available on Radish: https://radishfiction.com/stories/31711…

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To save her family's business, a small-town baker returns to a television competition that made her a national laughingstock, where her partner is the professional baseball player who broke her heart.After another disaster hits my poor bakery, I reluctantly return to the competition that made me a laughingstock on national television two years ago. The stress-charged challenges are the same nightmares I haven't missed but with a celebrity twist. My partner is not just a star pro baseball player...He's the boy who broke my heart.The boy who left me behind grew into the hottest man I've ever seen. I'm not 'Brody's girl' anymore, but the heat between us burns hotter than the ovens. Interest in us boosts the show's ratings, prompting the producers to request we fake falling for each other. We agree under the condition of securing our place in the final round, but Brody's eyes are on a different prize-me. When my flooded hotel room leaves us rooming together, pretending that all of my first-love feelings aren't returning crumbles under our sizzling chemistry. Just when our rekindled relationship seems too good to be true, Brody reveals how much he's behind our reconnection, and the realities of our different lives again threaten to tear us apart.18+ for mature language and explicit content.Updates starting Sept 15 - add to your reading list for notifications!…

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A shy high school senior jock and a closed-off girl battling an immune disorder fake a relationship to win a social media contest.Being shy isn't easy, especially when you're the new kid at school. Scotts Valley's football program is subpar compared to my last school's team, but the starters underestimate my all-conference skills. Girls eye me like fresh meat. Mom's cooking has the fire department on speed dial, and her game cheering makes me want to crawl under the bleachers. In the middle of all this stress, I'm still so tongue-tied that I can't talk to anyone. Scotts Valley High's 'Golden Couple' competition-which I want no part of-grates my nerves. I want to play football and baseball, then continue whatever gets me a college scholarship. Only Paige treats me as a normal person. People at school say she's quiet and closed-off, but she's nice to me. She's hiding her awesome self under baggy clothes and the brightest, pinkest hair I've ever seen. I don't understand why she's picked on, and I don't like it. Her medical bills are mounting, so I'm doing something about it.Paige and I pretend to date to remove ourselves from the rumor mill and win the Golden Couple's cash prize. What I don't expect is to catch feelings for my 'first trust,' the first friend I can open up to and be myself around...my girl Paige.This story is complete!13+ Content: this story contains swearing, kissing, handholding & cuddling.…

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**FREE STORY + paid bonus content** Can you fall in love with someone from the sound of their voice? No, that's silly...Eight years after losing her parents, Juneau's aimless drifting is a far cry from the stable, love-centered life her heart craves. Buried under student loan debt, she becomes an adult phone line worker. Instant sparks fly with her new client, Damian, a police sergeant whose investigations leave him jaded and burned out. Within the frenetic energy of New York City, Juneau and Damian are unaware of how closely connected their lives are, but repeated hot, anonymous conversations demand both to investigate if they've developed a true connection or if it's just a hotline fling.Formerly It's Just Phone Sex. Original 2021 story was edited & refreshed in June 2023.This story is complete & free. Only bonus chapters have paywall. Thank you for finding it!Humbled by:*2022 Watty's Bootcamp. Many thanks to my mentor @TeaNHeartache.*Featured on Wattpad's Editor's Picks*Featured on Romance, New Adult, WattpadAfterDark, Humor, CreatorsHighest ranks:#1 cute, humor, newadult, phone, romcom, drama, matureaudience, maturethemes, newyork, phonesex, sexscenes, eroticromance, policeofficer, bravetogether, & youngadultromance#2 hot, comedy, steamy, funny, angst#5 youngadult, sexy#39 love#74 romance…

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Losing the love of my life taught me that inactions have consequences. My new bookkeeping job teaches me that numbers don't lie, but people do. Sharing yoga with others is my refuge from the darkness pulling me to stay home. A ginormous pro football player barging into my classes isn't in my rehab plan. Worse, it's the cocky jerk who treats me like I'm too insignificant to remember. If only I could say the same. Sam Pearson is Houston's golden, champion-winning quarterback. He's arrogant, rude, and reckless. His agent, my brother, thinks I can rehabilitate his injured shoulder and spiraling ego to achieve a long-term contract. I think Sam needs a reality smack in his handsome face.I should hate his rebellious distractions, but I can't stop challenging him out of his comfort zone. After losing most of myself along with my other half, Sam's woken me up inside. He challenges me, irritatingly, which is exciting and scary. He's dangerously close to cracking open my closed-off heart, revealing the secrets holding me back. And yet, he might also be the second chance at love I thought I didn't deserve.A Wattpad Creator story.Mature content - 18+Story is complete!#1 - quarterback, yoga, charity…

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Football players are assholes. I know - my brother is their king. Older and annoyingly overprotective, he's the star quarterback at Santa Cruz High School. I love him, but everyone worships the air he breathes and it's suffocating.After a traumatic experience with a quarterback three years ago, I want nothing to do with boys and dating. All that matters is getting into college, so I ace my classes and sign up for my school's student ambassador program to boost my applications. Thankfully, I have my best friend, Harper, to get me through high school being overshadowed by my brother.My plans for a quiet, low-key senior year are destroyed when my brother's cocky, arrogant rival keeps butting into my life. Logan Hightower is a total player who expects me to drool at his feet while he uses me to burn my brother's game. If he thinks I'll fall for his gorgeous looks and shallow charms, he's totally mistaken. He'll never succeed because I hate football players. Note: Some of the chapters have mature content, as marked. Swearing is blatantly rampant and sensitive chapters are marked with the associated trigger warnings. highest rankings: #1 lovestory, youngadult, quarterback, goodgirl, cute, texting, sports, slowburn, series, & California, highschool, teenager, teenfic, series, completed #2 romanceThis story is complete, edited, and totally revamped in 2023!-me…

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An arrogant wide receiver at the University of Southern California and the perfect girl to bring him to his knees.Very explicit!! 18+#1 eroticastories, short, & widereceiverFeatured: @AfterDark's Contemporary Romance - Jan '23…

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How far can love bend around fate before it breaks? Twelve months after giving their relationship a second chance, vet tech Juneau Olstead and NYPD Lieutenant Damian Rivera are sweeter, filthier, and deeper in love. Their communication is open, healthy, blunt, and unapologetic. Differing opinions on advancing it further leave them with unresolved friction when the worst horrors of Damian's job reach too close to home. Like Damian and June's steamy sex life, crime never takes a break. When his home and family are threatened and endangered, can Damian protect what's most important in his life? Formerly It's More than Just Phone Sex.This mature story is complete.Highest ranks: #1: nyc, nypd, sequel, ongoing…

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If at first you don't succeed, then level the playing field and take a second chance. Two years ago, Ellie Harrison collapsed under the weight of her past and the fallout that caught up with her. Like a shell of her former self, she retreated away from those she loved, including her boyfriend Logan. She's worked hard and returned to her former happy, confident self, except she can't forgive herself for pushing him away. Logan Hightower watched as his girlfriend Ellie slipped into depression then out of his life like the one who got away. His broken heart still drives him to a determined resolve to prove that he's not going anywhere but straight back into Ellie's life to win her back. Out of forty-six thousand students on campus, love gives these surprise roommates a second chance. Can time heal all wounds or has distance drifted them too far apart? This story is complete! Highest ranks: #1 - Washington, collegestories, roomatestolovers, bravetogether #2 - sports, Seattle, flirting #47 - romance!…

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Can you find love during the outbreak of a pandemic? Maggie is a brilliant, upcoming, and socially awkward scientist. After being recruited for a research team that is developing a COVID-19 vaccine, she unexpectedly finds love at the worst possible moment. Noah is a carefree university student. Maggie isn't like any girl he'd ever met but he's immediately drawn to her just as the pandemic separates them. Is it even possible for them to create and sustain a relationship? This story inspired by real events that took place Feb-May 2020 but it is fiction, fiction, fiction. This story is complete.Thanks for reading.-meSo honored to reach: #1 longdistancerelationship #1 pandemonium #1 socialdistancing #1 youngadultromance…