Zac and Fatima Taylor have loved each other since high school. When they become teenage parents to twins, they're forced to grow up fast after both families turn their backs on them. Determined to provide, Zac enters the drug trade, giving Fatima the chance to chase her dream of becoming an attorney while building a better life for their growing family. Just as they leave the streets behind, Zac's past catches up with him. A federal RICO case sends him to prison, leaving Fatima to raise their children, run the family business, and welcome their youngest daughter alone. After five years, Zac returns home to rebuild the life he nearly lost. Together, they must overcome the consequences of the past and discover that their greatest success was never the money-it was the family and love they refused to let go.

23, exhausted, and hopelessly overwhelmed. Fatima is a paralegal by day and a law student by night, but her most important job starts the second she gets home to three-month-old Alora. With her parents busy and the man she thought would be her "forever" long gone, Fatima is leaning on a thread that's about to snap. Then there's Zac. A real estate agent who sees the girl behind the stroller and the heavy law books. He doesn't want to overstep, but he wants to be the person she can lean on. As Fatima fights to build a future for her daughter, she has to decide: can she let someone in without losing the independence she's fought so hard to keep?

Fatima Wilson doesn't do distractions. At 25, she's built a life on control, success, and never letting anyone get close enough to shake her focus. She's sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and impossible to read-unless you know her well enough to see the softness she hides behind the attitude. Zachary Taylor is the exact opposite of everything she tries to avoid. Confident, effortlessly charming, and used to getting exactly what he wants, Zac has never met a woman he couldn't win over-until her. Fatima doesn't fall for the smile, the status, or the reputation. She doesn't even make it easy for him to stay in the same room without arguing. And somehow... that only makes him want her more. What starts as a chance meeting in a crowded club turns into something neither of them can escape when business forces them back into each other's world. Every interaction becomes a battle of wills-sharp words, stolen glances, and tension that refuses to stay buried. She calls him Zachary when she's annoyed. He calls her Angel like it belongs to her. She says she can't stand him. He says she'll get used to him. But beneath the arguments and eye rolls, something dangerous begins to form-something neither of them planned for, and neither of them knows how to stop. Because the real problem isn't that they don't like each other. It's that they do.

"Zatima Stan <3"

"I'll love you like I've never, ever loved somebody I'll give you things you didn't even know you wanted Don't tell me that it's not enough My time is up, you're over us 'Cause I think I might do anything for you If you just let me If you just let me If you just let me Just let me"

sometimes love doesn't come when you expect it - it comes right on time.

Zac and Fatima are students at Clark Atlanta with their friends. They deal with the obstacles that come with life and being young at an HBCU. They know they belong together, but will they be able to hold it together long enough to build the life they want?

Short Stories

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