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Borrowed From Yesterday
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ShaziaAlhura
Ongoing, First published Mar 02, 2025
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She carries the weight of a family that barely sees her. He hides a past that no one can uncover.

Bette has always been the quiet, responsible one-tending to her blind grandmother, looking after her late uncle's children, and keeping her fractured family together. With a fortune left behind by her parents, she could have lived a comfortable life, but instead, she chooses duty over indulgence. To the world, she's just another woman getting by. To Aman, she's the most extraordinary thing he's ever seen.

Aman wasn't supposed to notice her. But he did. In the stolen moments at the coffee shop, in the way she never complains, in the smallest details no one else catches. He sees her in a way no one ever has. But Bette refuses to believe they belong in the same world.

Because Aman isn't just a man in a crisp suit-he's a ghost of his own past. A self-made billionaire who abandoned his name, his roots, and the pain that came with them. No one knows where he came from, and he intends to keep it that way. Until Bette makes him wonder if he's been running from the wrong thing all along.

When secrets unravel and pasts collide, will they break apart-or rewrite their story together?

πŸ’« A slow-burn romance filled with longing, unspoken words, and the kind of love that changes everything.
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