He Waited, She Healed Some people wait for love. Others spend their lives healing from the very thing they long for. At twenty-eight, Miguel Levi has built a life most people admire. Successful, well-educated, and quietly wealthy, he never seeks attention. Reserved, humble, and impossible to read, Miguel believes in one kind of love-one that lasts forever. But heartbreak and a deeply buried secret have left scars no one sees. Behind his serious exterior is a man longing for someone who can silence the chaos within and make him believe in forever again. Twenty-five-year-old Azalea Carmichael hides behind a smile. A final-year psychology student at the University of the West Indies and a growing influencer, she stays grounded despite the attention. Sweet, shy, and a hopeless romantic, she escapes into books to hide the loneliness, anxiety, and heartbreak she quietly carries. Though she dreams of true love, fear has taught her that keeping people at a distance is safer than risking another broken heart. He has been waiting. She has been healing. Neither is looking for a fairytale. They want something real-something strong enough to survive broken trust, hidden trauma, silent battles, and the fear of being vulnerable again. When fate brings Miguel and Azalea together, neither is prepared for what the other awakens. His quiet strength challenges the walls she's spent years building, while her gentle presence begins to heal wounds he believed never would. But love alone cannot erase the past. Old heartbreaks and buried secrets threaten to pull them apart before they discover what they could become together. Sometimes the greatest love stories aren't about finding the right person. They're about becoming the right person for each other. He Waited, She Healed is a heartfelt story of healing, faith, vulnerability, and second chances. But can two broken hearts overcome the past and learn to trust again, or will the very things that shaped them keep them apart?

T'ajhira Bennet is the girl everyone watches but nobody truly knows. Pretty face, soft voice, perfect image - the kind of girl people assume has it all figured out. But perfection is just what they see. Behind the filtered pictures and quiet confidence, T'ajhira is hiding more than just insecurities. There are secrets she never speaks about... rules she never breaks... and one boy she was never supposed to fall for. He's a mystery to everyone else. But to her, he's the reason her world keeps slipping out of control. In a place where rumors spread faster than truth, one wrong move could ruin everything - especially when love is the most dangerous secret of all.

"𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓰𝓸𝓭 𝓷𝓪𝓱 𝓼𝓲𝓷 𝔀𝓮 𝓲𝓯 𝔀𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮" 🇯🇲

If she Eva know weh mi do fi a living she aguh jump out a di car but mi feel connected to dah girl yah and mi just meet har Removing my gun from my waist I put it on her lap and she looks at it then she looks at me and start smiling "A weh yah smile suh fah? " I asked amazed on how she reacted "Yah badman" she asked ignoring my question "Yeah man" I responded "Alright" she replied 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝟭𝟵 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽? 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲? 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘂𝗽? 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆??? 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁.. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. 𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵. 𝗜𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀, 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮, 𝗲𝘅

AMARA BENNETT HAD A PLAN. Finish school. Make her own money. Make her parents proud. Build a life that belonged entirely to her. Love wasn't part of it. Especially not a man like Kairo. He was everything she had been warned about the kind of boy whose name carried weight, whose presence demanded attention, and whose life came with secrets Amara knew better than to involve herself in. Their first meeting wasn't romantic. There were no butterflies. No instant love. Just a few words exchanged at the wrong place, at the wrong time. But Kingston was a small world, and somehow, their paths kept crossing. A message here. A chance encounter there. A look that lasted a little too long. The more Amara tried to keep living her own life, the harder it became to ignore the strange pull between them. But Kairo's world isn't as simple as it looks. And Amara is about to learn that sometimes the people you try hardest to stay away from are the ones who leave the deepest mark. He wasn't supposed to become part of her story. She wasn't supposed to become his weakness. But some feelings don't ask for permission. They spread. Slowly. Dangerously. Like a FEVER.

What could possibly go wrong?

Nadika is just a college girl with big dreams, small paychecks, and a pen she hopes will save her one day. Between late shifts at Starbucks and deadlines that never wait, she keeps her life simple-and safe. Devonte is anything but. Quiet. Feared. Untouchable. A man built by Chicago streets and rules she doesn't understand. Their worlds collide on a rainy night, and what starts as a harmless ride home turns into something neither of them planned. Because Devonte doesn't chase. He claims. And once he decides Nadika is his... walking away is no longer an option. In a city where love is dangerous and loyalty is everything, Nadika must decide if protecting her heart is worth losing him-or if being claimed by the hustler is the only place she was ever meant to be.

Sanshanai Iverson is a struggling third year student at the University of the West Indies with a bright future drowning in student loans since the passing of her mother during her first year. With no back up plan, piling debts and the determination to finish her degree Shanai takes to the darker side of life to finish what she started, no matter the cost. Jordan Michaelson is a fresh deportee turned Don as he takes the reins of his Uncle's underground arms and drugs business in a country he'd only visited four times in his life. He carries around with him the weight of confusion and anger after six out of his ten year prison sentence for crimes he didn't commit, and he's bitter and resentful for it. But fate has something more in store when Shanai's and Jordan's paths cross once again after their very short tryst as teenagers that neither could forget. Now both their worlds are spinning on their axis and Shanai just might've bitten off more than she can chew dancing with the devil at night.

"Age is just a number" the words come from his mouth with nothing but confidence and that damn smirk on his lips says he means nothing but business. "You're just a 18 year old bowy you and I will never date get that in your head Cashmere" I said to him before taking up my stuff and made my way out side.