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Part of the anthology [b:Wish Come True|26400212|Wish Come True|Keira Andrews|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444129075s/26400212.jpg|46402615] this was one of my favorites.

Privileged Ben has been tasked by his parents to earn money to continue the high standards of Christmas for his younger brother. He gets a little sidetracked with his "down-on-his-luck" classmate Seb, and endeavors to help him out as much as possible, unable to resist falling for the good natured and tenderhearted guy.

Beautiful and understated, the true meaning of the holidays really shines through.

In direct contrast to what this fic was, I'll be succinct.

As a disclaimer, Stiles is Stiles in all his verbose glory - times a hundred. He sets his sights on Derek and goes about wooing him with single minded determination.

This took me way too long for me to read. Interpret that as you will. However the sex was hot, and long (no surprise there), and sorta featured KNOTTING.

Holy hell. How has this been on my TBR pile since December and I'm now just getting to it??

Hello. A/B/O.

Of course this made me squirm.

Ridiculously hot with KNOTTING.

Everyone knows I love me some A/B/O and though this didn't feature our favorite couple, it didn't lessen my enjoyment one bit.

This was another well thought out fic showing the more complex social and cultural ramifications of the different classes, and how reciprocal the very nature of an alpha and an omega are to each other.

Jackson and Isaac are each hot in their own right, and together they are even hotter. It's always nice to see a stoic jerk like Jackson have a soft side, and reading about their love for each other melted me.

I wholeheartedly beg the author to write Sterek's story - I think I speak for the pack when I say we need and want to see Derek go bad ass alpha on Stiles, who just won't be able to resist his omega urges!! Honest to moon Lilia, that would be the icing on the cake!!

Stiles has the worst luck ever because of course a rogue alpha wants him for his mate and won't take no for an answer. What's a guy to do?

Enter Derek.
Both hesitate to pretend they're mates, but to sell it, they need to be "fully involved".

"Derek pulled out a fistful of three of his favorite pairs of underwear…The thought of Derek strutting around in his underoos was kind of… well, hot as fuck."

Hell yeah!
Lines definitely blur in the best ways possible as they wear each other's clothes, go out on dates, kiss in public, and spend all their free time together.

This was a well executed, canon based setup - with great Stiles snark and a fun/tender evolution of the feels between these two. It hurts not one bit that the smex was equally excellent (ahem… with KNOTTING).

Definitely one of the better Sterek fake boyfriend fics!