Under the Lesser Light: A Friends To Lovers PARANORMAL-ROMANCE✓

"What are you?" I ask as I take a step closer to her. She doesn't seem threatened by my question or movement because she is still standing in the same position.

Then she turns to face me...

Before I can stop myself, my left hand traces the side of her face. And I can notice her shift away from me.

"Don't hide from me Safiya, please. This doesn't change anything -"

"This changes everything." She cuts me off. "...do you see how that works?" She asks, her voice already threatening to break down in tears.

And as I contemplate on how to say my next words, she disappears and appears behind the tree I'm resting on. Her breathing makes me shift in my spot as I find her again.

"I'm sure there's a way. I'll find a way, I promise." I say between breaths.

"Don't promise anything you can't fulfill... I don't expect you to help me."

"But I want to. I - I have to, Safiya."

She looks up at me after my words are out, like she is trying to read me. Maybe she reads minds, too.
....
"...You don't even know me." She begins again and then adds, "And yes, I do read minds." She says, and then looks away to the lake again.

"I'm not afraid of you, Safiya. And I do care. Don't you see what you are doing to me?" I say as I rake a hand through my hair, taking quick steps away from her.

"I am in love with you..."

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Against her wish, and in order to remain on Earth, Safa has to marry Ashton, the man her parents choose for her, before she turns twenty-two. Backing out would mean saying goodbye to her best friend, Anna, forever. Safa believes all hope is lost until she meets Ian.

Ian Trace is cocky, arrogant, and brilliant, on the outside. But there is more to what Safa sees in him. And she knows it.

What happens when Safa's mystical world collides with Ian's human world? Will it change what is destined to happen?

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