The edge of her smile
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Divine Tunde has hit the jackpot. He is a successful businessman, surrounded by friends and family who never ran out of love to give. And now he has met the love of his life. Beautiful, confident and alluring. Aria Justice was everything he was looking for in a woman. Very quickly, their relationship blossomed into something more, and he wasted no time making her his fiancé. But as their relationship deepens, subtle cracks begin to show. What once felt like an all-consuming love began to feel like an inescapable trap. And by the time Divine realized that there was nothing more left for him in the relationship, he had already resigned to the fact that there was no way out.
But then Aria does something drastic and he watches the life drain out of her, refusing to believe that it would be this easy to gain his freedom. But her death was an eye opener and only then could he see the full extent of the damage she had done, being left to pick up the pieces while trying to stay out of jail for the death he knew he had a hand in.
The edge of her smile is a haunting psychological thriller that explores the toxic nature of love, manipulation, and the dangerous power of deception. Can Divine find redemption, or will the damage Aria caused haunt him forever?
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