Cursed Hearts & Cold Streets
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💔✨ Cursed Hearts & Cold Streets ✨💔
She wasn't born to be saved. She was born to survive.
Laysia "Lay" Bellamy never asked for love.
Not when love was the first thing that broke her.
Not when the streets taught her how to use her beauty like a weapon and her pain like currency.
Not when she learned the hard way that some kisses come with curses-and some men aren't sent from God, they're sent from hell with diamonds and soft hands.
At Sin City, Atlanta's most dangerous strip club, Lay built her empire with sweat, secrets, and a seductive smile. She had it under control... until he walked in.
Flex: The new kingpin in town. Quiet. Deadly. Watching her like she already belonged to him.
Trigger: Her toxic, controlling lover who would rather kill than see her slip away.
Saint: The ghost from her past who was supposed to be dead-but came back... wearing a new face and a darker soul.
And Yani-her best friend, her ride-or-die-is hiding the deepest truth of all.
But Lay's story isn't just about strippers, drugs, and love gone wrong.
This is a story about women who carry hell in their heels and still walk like royalty.
It's about surviving curses written in blood.
It's about what happens when love turns violent, and friendship turns into a lifeline.
It's about choosing yourself-even when it kills you.
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⚠️ WARNING:
This book will break you. Heal you. Trigger you.
And make you question who you gave your heart to.
If you love P-Valley, Power, Pose, or The Haves and the Have Nots...
Welcome home.
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Zaire isn't the type of man people dream about. He's the one they whisper about. The one mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. He's sharp edges, sleepless nights, and a past too heavy to carry. On the outside, he's all rage and silence. On the inside, he's drowning-haunted by mistakes, chained by loyalty, and convinced love isn't made for men like him. Then Imani comes crashing into his world. She's light where he's darkness, but she's got scars of her own. And no matter how many walls he builds, she keeps finding the cracks. Zaire doesn't know if she's the cure he's been running from...or the wound that finally destroys him. Because in his world, love isn't soft. It's survival. And sometimes survival leaves you BROKEN.
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