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    Fake Date Number Three
    Fake Date Number Three
    Fake Date Number Three
    Ebook28 pages21 minutes

    Fake Date Number Three

    By Mina V. Esguerra

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    Frances and Sebastian are friends. Who agree to date, for show, when convenient. It’s fine and probably won’t cause feelings because Frances never actually dates anyone more than three times. But do fake dates count?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMina V. Esguerra
    Release dateJun 2, 2024
    ISBN9798215063590
    Fake Date Number Three
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    Mina V. Esguerra

    Mina V. Esguerra writes and publishes romance novels. Her young adult/fantasy trilogy Interim Goddess of Love is a college love story featuring gods from Philippine mythology. Her contemporary romance novellas won the Filipino Readers’ Choice awards for Chick Lit in 2012 (Fairy Tale Fail) and 2013 (That Kind of Guy). In 2013, she founded #RomanceClass, a community of Filipino authors of romance in English, and it has since helped over 80 authors write and publish over 100 books. She is also a media adaptation agent, working with LA-based Bold MP to develop romance media by Filipino creatives for an international audience. Visit minavesguerra.com for more information about her books and projects.

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      Fake Date Number Three - Mina V. Esguerra

      Fake Date Number Three

      Fake Date Number Three

      A SHORT STORY

      MINA V. ESGUERRA

      Fake Date Number Three

      Copyright © 2023 by Mina V. Esguerra

      All rights reserved.

      Cover created with Canva

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Contents

      Content Note

      Fake Date Number Three

      About the Author

      Books by Filipino Authors #RomanceClass

      Content Note

      The events in this story are set before 2020. There are no mentions of covid.

      This short story follows #romanceclass guidelines requiring HEA/HFN for romance. It is heat level 2.

      #romanceclass community heat levels:

      0 - No sex on or off the page

      1 - Off-page sex mentioned in story

      2 - At least one Closed door sex scene

      3 - At least one Open door sex scene

      4 - Open door sex scenes, erotic romance elements, with HEA

      Fake Date Number Three

      So you do want to do this?

      He said yes because he did that. If Frances knew this power she had over him, she would use it more often, and more playfully. If she said Sebastian, would you give me the last largest piece of buttered prawn? Yes. Sebastian, there’s a flying ipis on the wall. Who’s going to kill it? That would be him. Sebastian, would you run twice around the track naked in the rain please? Not that she’d asked, but yes.

      Sebastian said yes to Frances, would say yes to Frances, would be a hero in the face of flying ipis, if that was what

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