"What the hell are you?" a tall powerfully built man said standing above her. Thando was still coughing trying to get some air into her longs. She had been submerged for quite some time and her lungs were burning. "I said who are you!" The mans booming voice echoed in the night sky as he yelled. "My name is Thando." Thando finally said with a shaky voice. "Are you human?" The man said hunching on his legs to get closer to Thando's face. "Yes." She said softly. Her throat hurt and fear was making her shake uncontrollably. "You are lying! You came out of the water! You must be a mermaid spirit." The man said reaching for something next to him. "No! I am human please believe me." Thando yelled out putting her hands in the air to block whatever was about to hit her.

She snapped her head up, ready to give him a piece of her mind but instantly wished she hadn't when their eyes met. His eyes and skin were the colour of coffee beans and his big nose protruded from his face, enhancing his full lips and the neatly trimmed stubble, framing his strong jawline. She loved that he had a clean shaven head, already imaging it between her thighs. Colour stained her rounded cheeks as she banished the thought from her head. Whoa, Kgomotso! Get a grip! He truly was beautiful, like a work of art meant to be admired for a lifetime. He oozed sex appeal, effortlessly, and for the first time since Xola, Kgomotso was mesmerized by a man and this was most interesting because Xola never aroused her like this stranger. Yes, stranger, she needed to remember that because her thoughts were already going off course. She slowly shook her head, gathering her thoughts and returned her gaze on him. She hoped he was oblivious to the effect he had on her treacherous body. "If you weren't so busy on that thing, you would've noticed me, and none of this would've happened," she said, poking at his taut chest. Her fierceness stirred something in him, something he'd long thought was dead and would never resurrect. He found it sexy that she didn't back down even though it was obvious she found him attractive. He noticed the deep yearning, which glistened in her warm-toned eyes when she blushed. He could almost imagine what she was thinking and that stirred his erection to life. He wanted her, to feel her soft skin against his, kiss the furrow between her brows and make love to her. Love? No. You're getting way ahead of yourself, buddy. The thought shook him so bad he almost jumped out of his skin.

...Till death do us part. Dlamini's story... No 2 south African (08/10/2021) No 3 South Africa. (25/11/2021) No 11 south Africa (07/10/2021)

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Words We sat on opposite sides of the room, she was asleep. I think he was exhausted, so was I,but we both didn't want to sleep. We couldn't sleep, maybe a bit scared that if we close our eyes then she will be gone. Nathan"I'll ask the nurses if they can organize a bed for you" Me" Am fine here" He didn't argue, for once he didn't try to control the situation. "You can get one for yourself" Nathan" I'll sleep next to her" For the next two days we spent waiting for her to wake up. Each day felt like a huge battle that we were losing, it felt like she was gone and maybe we both knew she was gone but we didn't want to admit it. Days turned into weeks, Nathan and I refused every suggestion the doctors made. Some days they said she was improving, would be taken to surgery then they would discover something new. It just felt like nothing was working, and our options were limited. Me" I can't stay here" He didn't answer me, I grabbed my things and went to the door. "Don't give up" He whispered, I turned around and looked at him. Me"I need to bring her toys here, I need to bring Mr Elephant, she needs her toys here." "I just need..." I bit my bottom lip fighting the tears "I'm sorry for everything" Pulling up in our drive way, my mind took me back to when Nate and I moved in here. The house has changed over the years, we have also grown up in a lot of ways. We were happy, we thought we had it all figured out and it turns out we knew nothing. I also never imagined myself here, in this house with him. Maybe subconsciously I know I don't belong here, maybe I am the reason my daughter is fighting for her life right now. My bad luck, why did I think I could be happy?. I drove back to the hospital and Nate was sleeping, I put the sandwich on the table then Mr Elephant next to Claire. Looking at them, I couldn't help but reminisce about the first time I met Nathan and how we got to this point in our lives. !

Prologue " I love fearlessly and I want to be loved the way I love. I am worth it, and because I know my worth I don't know how to settle for temporary pleasure or love. So please don't bother me, unless you are planning on loving me the way I deserve to be loved." We both stared at each other not saying a word, afraid to speak next because whatever is said next sets everything in motion. " You should go" I said walking towards the door then opened it. He cleared his throat, then grabbed his jacket mumbling something under his breathe; " See what happening right now? Where we are right at this moment is all your fault" He said his ocean blue eyes staring at me shimmering with tears; " You wouldn't know love because you don't even love yourself. You are the problem Zoey, no one else but you"

... And then we were three

A young lady meets a young taxi driver , after resisting his charms she can't help but fall in the pit of love BUT is the love of the man as real as he says?

Meet Jessica 'Jessie' Basset, the beast of a lawyer the country of South Africa has ever seen. She has carved her name into the books of the 'go-to-lawyers' if you want to win cases. Chances of her losing court cases were 1 in a million. She invested her all in everything she did. Men lusted after her, women wanted to be her, or kill her. She was strikingly gorgeous, fair, caramel skinned, Brown eyes and a huge black afro hair that was her signature look. She feared nothing, she was vicious, a go-getter, and thought the world was at her mercy until she met the mobster, Kai 'Fantasma' Neverson, who showed her that all the men she met in her life were full of games, and he was the real deal. Killing was a sport for him, selling drugs and smuggling diamonds was the game he played all so well, earning him the title of 'The biggest mafia boss' South Africa has ever seen. Police, government, they couldn't get through to him, he always slipped through their fingers, but one time he was caught and was held in police custody and who else to represent him during his trial than the beautiful Miss Basset? Read to find how Jessie fought her feelings hard that she had for the dangerous man who came into her life like a wrecking ball. He was dangerous and evil, and everything he did was illegal and Jessie wanted no part of that, or did she? □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ illegal love is my third book in the mafia/romance genre. PLEASE DO VOTE, LEAVE COMMENTS, MESSAGES AND SHARE! You can talk to me here about any of my books👇👇 Twitter: @MatshidisoBella 😗😗😗😘😘😘

what happens when she sneaks her way into his cold heart and makes him feel things he has always denied himself to feel.