The Paid Villainess Fell First
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My best friend Sophie has a rich dad, a romance-novel addiction, and Daddy’s black card.
I have student loans and three part-time jobs.
So when Sophie decided to live out every love story she’d ever read, she hired me to play the villainess.
The mean girl who corners the class genius? Me. The spoiled heiress who won’t leave the campus heartthrob alone? Also me. Ten bucks per cringey text. Cash up front.
Easiest money I ever made.
Except the heartthrob never answered my fake flirting. He only answered when I accidentally told him the truth.
Now Sophie’s on romance number three, a bad boy with a Ducati, and I’m in a back alley in black eyeliner, pretending to slap her so he can swoop in and save her.
He doesn’t show.
Her last two heroes do.
The genius smirks. “Well, well. If it isn’t the two women who once loved me to death.”
“You’ve got it wrong,” the heartthrob says, and he’s not looking at Sophie. He’s looking at me. “That’s the gorgeous rich girl who swore she’d marry me.”
I was paid to be his worst nightmare.
Nobody paid me to fall for him.
I have student loans and three part-time jobs.
So when Sophie decided to live out every love story she’d ever read, she hired me to play the villainess.
The mean girl who corners the class genius? Me. The spoiled heiress who won’t leave the campus heartthrob alone? Also me. Ten bucks per cringey text. Cash up front.
Easiest money I ever made.
Except the heartthrob never answered my fake flirting. He only answered when I accidentally told him the truth.
Now Sophie’s on romance number three, a bad boy with a Ducati, and I’m in a back alley in black eyeliner, pretending to slap her so he can swoop in and save her.
He doesn’t show.
Her last two heroes do.
The genius smirks. “Well, well. If it isn’t the two women who once loved me to death.”
“You’ve got it wrong,” the heartthrob says, and he’s not looking at Sophie. He’s looking at me. “That’s the gorgeous rich girl who swore she’d marry me.”
I was paid to be his worst nightmare.
Nobody paid me to fall for him.













































