A situation where two completely different people are brought together by fate - you would think the famous 'opposites attract' line would apply to them also. But would it??? They say opposites attract. Nobody warned them about what happens when they repel. Tasneem was warmth, noise, and colour. Zayn was silence, discipline, and distance. Their arranged marriage was never supposed to be a love story - and for a long time, it wasn't. But love has a way of arriving exactly when you've stopped looking for it. And sometimes, it takes losing everything to understand what you actually had. Some hearts find their way back. But the journey back is never simple. --- "You can't go out until we've had this discussion Zayn" I voiced He glanced at me daringly and stood up leaving me alone in the study I'd really like to see how he goes out with a busted Tyre I ran out of the room and got the nails which I had once come across at the store, running to his car, I placed them carefully in front of the tyres, as soon as I was done, I ran back in almost getting caught Yes I'm a bad person, I know I sat in the sitting room, waiting for the outcome of my actions and soon enough he came back yelling my name I don't know where he learnt to yell, I hope I'm not driving him nuts "Sumayya!" He stopped as he saw me at the sitting room smiling sheepishly I don't even intend to hide the fact that I damaged his tyres "Oh how comes you want to talk to me now?" I batted my lashes "What did you do to my car??" Well..... Have fun❤️

Some choices are made for love. Others... are made in anger. Zafirah thought she understood sacrifice - leaving pieces of herself behind for a marriage she believed in, for a man she chose without hesitation. Julaybeeb thought he understood control - discipline, order, doing what was necessary even when it wasn't easy. But love, as they would soon learn, is neither controlled nor contained. One decision. One moment of hurt. One line crossed that cannot be undone. And suddenly, everything they built begins to unravel. Distance grows. Silence deepens. And choices - the kind you cannot take back - are made. Because sometimes, love is not enough. And sometimes... the only thing left is The Final Choice.

Zafirah Abdullahi has never had trouble finding her place in a room. Charismatic, bold, and impossibly herself, she moves through life the way she moves through a crowd - effortlessly, and always at the center of it. At Air Force Comprehensive School, she is known by everyone and loved by most, and that has always been enough. Final year was supposed to be simple. Study, survive exams, attend prom, go home. It is not simple. There is Ajmal - calm, patient, and quietly certain about her in a way that is both flattering and terrifying. There is Jawad - her cousin, her person, her most complicated relationship, whose feelings neither of them have found the courage to examine too closely. And then there is someone else entirely. Someone who doesn't fit neatly into any category she has, who looks at her without softening what he sees, and whose indifference bothers her far more than it should. Three people. Three different kinds of attention she wasn't looking for. And Zafirah, who has always known exactly who she is, slowly discovering that knowing yourself and understanding yourself are not the same thing at all. Some choices are easy. The first one never is.

A girl who cannot feel. A man who was never supposed to matter. An ex who doesn't know when to stop. And a secret that rewrites everything. Welcome to In My Feelings.

There's a name she's been avoiding her whole life. Not because she hates him - though she'd like you to think that. But because he has always had a way of making her feel like the ground beneath her feet was slightly less stable than it was before he walked into the room. She thought it was irritation. She was wrong. Now she's nineteen, engaged to a man she didn't choose, banned from her hostel, and about to spend every day in dangerous proximity to the one person her heart apparently didn't get the memo about. *She didn't know it was him.* *He always knew it was her.* --- The Only Choice - Book Two of The Choices Series 🌚

She survived him. Rebuilt herself from nothing, buried the truth so deep she almost believed her own silence. Then a quiet man chose her - carefully, consistently, without condition - and Warda let herself believe that was what healing looked like. It was almost enough. She had one secret she never spoke aloud. One name she never said. One chapter of her life she had closed so completely she stopped feeling the weight of the door. She should have known. The past does not forget just because you do. When it finds her - and it finds her - Warda must choose between the silence that kept her standing and the truth that might finally set her free. Even if telling it means losing the only love she ever allowed herself to keep. Some things the heart survives. Some things it was never meant to carry alone.

--- Chained Desires She never believed in love - not the kind that stayed, not the kind that healed. To her, life was a game of hearts, and she always knew how to win. But then he came - quiet, confident, and impossibly sure of himself. The kind of man who didn't chase, yet somehow made her want to be caught. He wasn't looking for love either, but something about her drew him in - her fire, her laughter, her truths. She made him feel alive again, even as she drove him insane. What started as a daring attraction soon became something neither of them could control - a love so fierce it blurred the line between devotion and surrender. Now, bound by emotions they never meant to feel, they must decide if love can truly set them free... or if some desires are meant to keep us chained forever Ranking - #2nd place Nigerian fiction