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Battered and Broken.
Two words to describe Amanda.
Born with a silver spoon and raised with a golden cup, Amanda had the perfect life on papers.
But behind those perfectly adorned make ups and overly expensive accessories was a woman battered and broken, left with nothing but bitterness and pain. Hot tempered and rude was a mild way to put it, independent and strong another.
Determined not to make the same mistake as her mother, Amanda will do anything but get married, but when she's presented with a marriage agreement by the one man she hates the most, she will do anything to thwart it.
And what Amanda wants she gets, unless what she wants are two opposing things...
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Henry's life was perfect until his uncaring father decided to care.
Familiar with the opposite gender, he has always loved demure, submissive, innocent and easy to bend women.
But being presented with a marriage proposal, to a woman who he knew was far from what he wanted, he was determined to go against it.
But the chocolate eyed, easily irked beauty like a magnet draws him in.
Drawn into the family with enough trouble to put Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba to shame and enough hatred that surpass the three, Henry was just about to realize that money may not entirely be the solution.
With death threats looming, and an obsessed psycho on the loose, the story is about to get more intense.
With everybody a suspect Henry will just have to wonder, what exactly has he gotten himself into.
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"Is that so? He doesn't seem to think so, he looks like one who will want to keep you for himself, but unfortunately he's late, cause we are already engaged."
"Don't be too certain" she retorted, "if everything goes as plan we will soon go our separate ways" his hold on her tightened, she couldn't help her body's reactions to that.
"Maybe till then" he whispered, his voice hoarse "but as of now, and as long as this engagement is on. You.Are.Mine."
"You Raven are to be my wife whether you like it or not" Toni huskily whispered into the enraged woman's ear.
"No, I will not! Over my dead body will that happen" Raven screamed in frustration glaring at him.
"Why are you fighting me on this? Don't you know how much I love you?" Toni says in desperation trying to induce the little lady's displeasure with him.
Raven scoffed at his choice of words 'love'
"Antonio you know that you don't do the thing called love so stop trying to make me give in to you." She told him with so much venom dripping out of each word since that is her intention on conveying it to Toni.
"Please Raven I always loved you and I'm still in love with you. I rejected your confession years ago because I knew that I wasn't good enough for you, I still to this day regret the fact that I foolishly turned you down" Toni looked at her with a pained expression pleading with an adamant Raven.
"I can't Toni I don't want to get hurt" Raven gazes into his eyes and saw the apparent melancholy look didn't belong on his face.
As she was about to speak again "We are not good toge-" Toni cuts her off mid-sentence kissing her ever so passionately.
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Raven Jones is an independent 25 years old business woman and a world-class chef, she had no time for anyone's bullshit, always minds her own business because they don't and can't benefit her well being.
She wears her confidence like it's her favorite pair of shoes.
Now what do you think will happen when she is dragged into an arranged marriage with the Man that once broke her heart. The question is: "How do you mend a broken heart?" Will she give him a chance or resist and reject him like he once did to her...