Fragile Hearts
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Last published Tue, Oct 28, 2025
Zayd Yusuf Al-Husseini was born into legacy.
Quiet, cold-eyed, and fiercely private, he was raised in a grand American mansion surrounded by wealth, servants, and expectations. He doesn't laugh easily. He doesn't trust quickly. And he carries his grief like a secret - tucked behind expensive suits and polite silences. They call him the heir. The Al-Husseini boy who never let anyone in.
Then there's Aaliyah Uthman.
Spoiled. Soft. Mischievous.
The only daughter in a lively Nigerian household, Aaliyah grew up adored - with a stubborn streak and a heart too full of fire. She's never needed permission to be herself. She knows how to get what she wants, how to make everyone love her, and how to turn even the coldest moment warm.
But when Zayd returns to Nigeria for the first time in eighteen years...
she's the girl he's promised to.
And he's the boy she's never truly known.
Bound by a family oath they didn't choose, and carrying pain they never shared, Zayd and Aaliyah must learn how to exist under the same roof - in a house filled with memories, expectations, and history neither of them can escape.
What happens when a guarded heart meets a girl who refuses to be ignored?
When grief meets light, silence meets mischief - and two fragile worlds finally collide?
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