Strangers-lovers Stories

In Abuja, Humeyrah struggles with past trauma, family expectations, and the exhausting weight of suffering alone, while her love with Zayd forces her to confront the life she has been running from.

𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒃𝒚. 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖. Libby Wren's learned how to exist quietly around her illness-how to hide the exhaustion, ignore the warnings, and act like her life isn't measured in hospital visits and test results. If she looks normal enough, maybe it won't feel real. Theo Aldridge has lived his entire life waiting. Waiting rooms, waiting lists, waiting for a heart that might never come. He jokes about it because silence makes it worse. They're not supposed to matter to each other. Just two patients passing time in the same place, at the same hour, in the same too-quiet world. But somehow, they start to. And for the first time, waiting doesn't feel like the end of everything. Until it does. Because some hearts don't break all at once. They just... don't keep up.

a broody guy who can't show his emotion falls head over heals for the overly excited cutie (mlm)

Dr. Isabella "Izzy" Marquez is a respected trauma surgeon known for her steady hands and strict moral code. She's built her life around saving lives - not entangling herself with criminals. But when a wounded man is rushed into her ER with gunshot wounds and no name, she follows her duty and saves him... only to discover he's Matteo De Luca - the infamous and untouchable mafia boss feared throughout the city. Izzy wants nothing to do with his world of blood and power, but Matteo isn't used to being told no. As he keeps finding ways back into her life, she begins to see the man beneath the crime - broken, loyal, and fiercely protective. Caught between the safety of the life she knows and the thrill of a love she never expected, Izzy must decide: can she love a man the world calls a monster... or will his darkness consume them both? Let me know if you'd like this idea turned into a plot outline, character profiles, or a sample chapter!