Book #2 in the BLINDING series. (cannot be read as a standalone!)
He was beautiful, intelligent and broken.
A man, a Sultan and a father. His life wasnt the same anymore, he had nobody who was alive and by his side, just his daughter, his Zarah. Until she comes in, like a remedy to all his burns, like the soothing harmony who made all his nightmares run away. But he is not able to love her. because he loves somebody else, somebody he cant have, somebody who doesnt want him.
She was a nobody.
Orphaned after her mother's death, and left alone after her lover died, she had no will to live. On the request of her queen she goes away to another kingdom, a place where nobody knew her, where nobody cared enough, except him. She never spoke a word to him, and he never stopped talking to her.
Both of them, broken, left with no one beside them, unloved and ruined.
Will they be able to look forward forgetting their past, will they be able to heal the other, from bruises too deep in the skin?
She was a thorn, and he was the rose, too beautiful to look at, too dangerous to pick.
AsadXAlaaya
*Could you ever love a broken person?*
"I understand that you're broken," he said as he lifted her chin so she stared directly into his eyes. "But I want you to understand that it is my job to restore the happiness you lost. I am your husband now, Afrah. And it is my responsibility to make you happy. So that is my mission from now until the end of time."
Afrah stared down at her hands, feeling as though her soul was being wrenched from her body. She couldn't look him in the eye. Not after what she had gone through. Not when she still saw the devil in his eyes.
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It is said that the most painful wounds leave the deepest scars. No one could attest to that more than Afrah Aminu. For eleven years she's kept a secret to herself, knowing that she might never be able to tell anyone.
Not that she wanted to.
But now, with the sudden arrival of a strange man in her life, she finds herself thrown into the terrifying situation of having to relive it all. As he tears down each and every wall she has set up around her heart, the memories of that haunting night come crashing in waves.
Will she be able to survive it? Or will she be crushed underneath its weight?