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the soccer romance you didn't know you need

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obsessive, spicy, and perfectly on theme

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"I’ve seen the way he looks at you, like he’s trying to commit you to memory. Like he’d kill me if I touched you"
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sundays are for letting fiction ruin me a little & pretending it’s self care.
i don’t “wake up early” – i simply regain consciousness and reach for my kindle.
decorating my kindle like it’s an altar to all the fictional men who will never text back.
“just one more chapter” is how i time travel from 9pm to 2am in a single blink.

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for the reader who loves one book boyfriend too much

the lead obsession, then two more books with dangerously similar energy.

if rhys mackley is your type
athlete with heart energy, with a dangerously familiar pull.
quietly curated for the reader who fell for rhys mackley and gives athlete with heart energy.
if Zevayr is your type
tortured prince energy, with a dangerously familiar pull.
quietly curated for the reader who fell for Zevayr and gives tortured prince energy.
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mafia boss energy, with a dangerously familiar pull.
quietly curated for the reader who fell for Thiago 'El Diablo' da Silva and gives mafia boss energy.
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morally gray villain energy, with a dangerously familiar pull.
quietly curated for the reader who fell for alex lancaster and gives morally gray villain energy.

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