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✨Aaliyah Jackson is 25, a single mom, and an ER supervising nurse at NY Presbyterian-used to holding everything together even when she's falling apart.
Her daughter, Chole, is five years old, brilliant, and the only reason Aaliyah ever learned how to survive.
But the man who helped create her... is also the man who tried to destroy her.
Kamari James is 35, a master manipulator with a dangerous ego and a toxic grip on the woman he refuses to let go of. After stealing from Aaliyah and cheating with her own cousin, he thought she'd still come running back like she always did.
Until she didn't.
And the day Kamari puts his hands on her in a school parking lot...
Aaliyah meets the one man he should've never crossed.
Malik King is 28-quiet, powerful, and far more dangerous than he looks. A kingpin with legal businesses across the city... and a heart that softens for his mom and his little niece, Nia.
When Nia and Chole become best friends, Malik and Aaliyah's worlds collide.
And once Malik decides Aaliyah is his to protect...
Kamari won't just lose a woman.
He'll lose everything.
Because a man like Malik King doesn't warn twice. 🖤