Zachary Taylor and Fatima Wilson were never supposed to be anything more than friends. Seven and a half years later, nobody believes them. Not when he calls her first after every game. Not when she shows up to every practice like she belongs there. Not when his daughter cries for her before anyone else. And definitely not when they argue like a married couple who forgot to sign the papers. They swear it's nothing. Just friendship. Just loyalty. Just life. But life has a funny way of looking like love when you stop paying attention. Especially when you've already been living like a family without realizing it. And when outside relationships, old history, and unexpected truths start to blur the lines... One question becomes impossible to ignore: If they're just friends... why does it feel like they've already been married this whole time?

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.

"You want me to gamble my heart on a spin?" he asked, a dry little laugh slipping under his breath. "No," she murmured, sliding off the stool and stepping closer to him. "I want you to stop pretending love could ever survive in a place you have to lie to keep it."

Our love ended years ago... or did it?

Zac Taylor and Fatima Wilson meet in the shimmering in-between just before college begins, where stolen glances and late-night conversations turn into a love that feels rare, deep, and impossible to ignore. But when an unexpected event shifts the course of their lives forever, what they share is tested by secrets, fear, and the fragile hope that even when everything changes, their hearts might still choose each other.

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Sequel to Destined.

Fatima Wilson has spent her life rebuilding from the ashes - from foster care to law school, from heartbreak to healing. On the surface, she's strong and steady, but her past still lingers in quiet corners she refuses to face. When she agrees to fill in for a Chain Breakers session inside a local jail, she doesn't expect to meet Zachary "Zac" Taylor - a man whose silence speaks louder than words and whose eyes mirror a pain she knows all too well. What begins as an unexpected connection behind prison walls turns into a bond neither of them can deny. As their lives intertwine, Fatima and Zac must choose between the safety of who they've been and the risk of who they could become - together.

She's supposed to keep him out of prison. He's determined to keep her in his orbit. And somewhere between courtrooms and gunshots, Fatima has to decide which will ruin her first: the case... or the man.