Win You Over

Continuing on a TBR/Beat-The-Backlog kick (and ignoring my ARCs kick). Here's "Win You Over" by CS Autumn.

["𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧
My life changed when my father died, and in the time since, I’ve learned to accept that my voice will never be the same. There are years and a literal ocean between the boy I was and the man I am now.
Scholarship student.
Loyal best friend.
Talented fighter.
The only thorn in my side is Remington Langford. Cocky, popular, far too handsome for his own good, and insistent on calling me his friend.
When a lost bet turns into a trip to Italy as his fake boyfriend, we grow closer than we ever intended, and it’s not long before the lines between what’s for show and what’s not blur.
Something not everyone is happy about.

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧
Holden Booker is a mystery—quiet, strong, guarded, and seemingly immune to my charm.
Not only do I want to know 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 about him, but I need to show him he can trust me.
I don’t intend to fall in love with him. I don’t even do relationships, but he’s everything I never knew I was looking for.
Faking our relationship is impossible when everything we feel is so 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭.
Enough to have someone I trust out to destroy us, breaking my heart along the way."]

I needed something sweet and addictive and wholesome and relatively angst-less (well…the romance was low angst).

They were so fucking adorable, even if Holden wanted to push Remi off a cliff. They fit. That feeling of contentment and safety and silliness was there from the beginning. It was understanding and soft and kind (even if the dirty talk was hot as hell). 

Though that prologue was rough as hell. 

Trigger Warnings: bullying, mentions of death of a parent by suicide, violence, anxiety, PTSD, and more.

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