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Running Mate: A Sweet, Sexy MM Omegaverse College Fake Dating Romance
He was supposed to be a campaign stunt—now he’s the only truth Noah can’t spin.
Noah Park knows exactly what student politics looks expensive smiles, donor-approved promises, and boys like Adrian Bell pretending power is the same thing as care.
Then Noah’s latest column about Bellbridge University’s budget hypocrisy goes viral—and suddenly the future of The Nest, the student-run scent-friendly lounge he’d do anything to protect, is tangled up in election season.
Adrian Bell is polished, composed, and running for student body president with the kind of golden-boy image Noah usually files under absolutely not. But when a donor event goes spectacularly wrong, Adrian blurts out that they’re dating…and Noah, because his life is cursed and The Nest needs leverage, agrees to keep up the lie in exchange for a written funding pledge.
It’s supposed to be simple. Strategic. Temporary.
Instead, fake study dates in the library turn warm and intimate. Campaign photos feel too convincing. Debate-night hand-holding lingers longer than it should. And the more Noah sees Adrian after the cameras leave—jacket off, guard down, still fighting for student care when no one important is watching—the harder it becomes to keep pretending this is all politics.
But Noah has spent his whole life trusting words more than people, and Adrian has spent his whole life being polished into something publicly acceptable. When leaked messages make Noah look like campaign armor and Adrian look like exactly the manipulative alpha Noah feared, the lie they built starts collapsing around the real thing underneath it.
Set against snowy Chicago nights, glowing library windows, student-union chaos, campaign posters, donor drama, and the warm heart of The Nest, Running Mate is a witty, emotionally charged MM omegaverse college romcom about fake dating, public image, private longing, and the terrifying thrill of choosing honesty when the easier option is performance.
Come for the razor-sharp banter, the election-season chemistry, and the staged romance that gets much too real. Stay for the softest hard-won love story on campus.
You’ll love this if you like…
fake dating that turns dangerously realsharp omega / polished alpha chemistrycampus politics with cozy found-family heartpublic relationship tension and private piningwinter-college romance with a hard-won HEA
Noah Park knows exactly what student politics looks expensive smiles, donor-approved promises, and boys like Adrian Bell pretending power is the same thing as care.
Then Noah’s latest column about Bellbridge University’s budget hypocrisy goes viral—and suddenly the future of The Nest, the student-run scent-friendly lounge he’d do anything to protect, is tangled up in election season.
Adrian Bell is polished, composed, and running for student body president with the kind of golden-boy image Noah usually files under absolutely not. But when a donor event goes spectacularly wrong, Adrian blurts out that they’re dating…and Noah, because his life is cursed and The Nest needs leverage, agrees to keep up the lie in exchange for a written funding pledge.
It’s supposed to be simple. Strategic. Temporary.
Instead, fake study dates in the library turn warm and intimate. Campaign photos feel too convincing. Debate-night hand-holding lingers longer than it should. And the more Noah sees Adrian after the cameras leave—jacket off, guard down, still fighting for student care when no one important is watching—the harder it becomes to keep pretending this is all politics.
But Noah has spent his whole life trusting words more than people, and Adrian has spent his whole life being polished into something publicly acceptable. When leaked messages make Noah look like campaign armor and Adrian look like exactly the manipulative alpha Noah feared, the lie they built starts collapsing around the real thing underneath it.
Set against snowy Chicago nights, glowing library windows, student-union chaos, campaign posters, donor drama, and the warm heart of The Nest, Running Mate is a witty, emotionally charged MM omegaverse college romcom about fake dating, public image, private longing, and the terrifying thrill of choosing honesty when the easier option is performance.
Come for the razor-sharp banter, the election-season chemistry, and the staged romance that gets much too real. Stay for the softest hard-won love story on campus.
You’ll love this if you like…
fake dating that turns dangerously realsharp omega / polished alpha chemistrycampus politics with cozy found-family heartpublic relationship tension and private piningwinter-college romance with a hard-won HEA
185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 19, 2026
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