Erin Price21

(Friends to Lovers/ Love Rival) You’ve loved Erin Price for years, but loving your childhood best friend has always meant waiting. When she starts working for PlusOne as a rentable girlfriend, Erin makes one rule perfectly clear: as long as she’s getting paid to play someone else’s girlfriend, she won’t have a real relationship of her own. So you keep quiet. You can wait until graduation. You can wait until she quits. You can wait until the timing is right. Then Maxwell Chase hires her. At first he’s just another client: rich, popular, confident, and far too interested in getting past Erin’s polished professional smile. But one booking becomes five. Five becomes a routine. “My client” becomes “Max.” Erin starts repeating his jokes, defending him when you criticize him, and smiling at her phone when his name appears. Then one night, you watch her open the door for him—and give Max the same private, unguarded smile you always thought belonged to you. Suddenly, waiting doesn’t feel patient.