She Was Never a Stranger
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Inaya runs a grief counseling service for the broken-hearted, but there's just one problem....
she's not a real therapist.
What began as a desperate hustle to survive turned into a strangely therapeutic game : she listens to people mourn their lost lovers, takes notes, asks the right questions... and gives the wrong advice. But when several of her clients start describing eerily similar tragedies, lovers dying under mysterious circumstances, all somehow connected to one man - Inaya's carefully constructed lie starts to unravel.
That man is Rayaan: quiet, unreadable, and too familiar for someone she's supposedly never met.
As Inaya dives deeper into the pasts of the people who died, and into Rayaan's haunted world, she begins to question her own history - the fragments of fire she dreams about, the name she doesn't remember, and the truth she might've buried to stay alive.
What if the man she's investigating is the one person who's known her all along?
What if the stranger... was never him?
She Was Never a Stranger is a fictional dark romcom-thriller where laughter covers trauma, love hides behind lies, and healing comes with a body count.
>>>She fell for him without knowing the truth.
He knew the truth and still didn't fall back.
Because some love stories aren't written to end well - they're written to be survived.
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"You told them you love me ,huh?" He asks with a raised eyebrows, jaw hardened and eyes narrowed at the shy girl he has hated all his life. She was afraid of his tone,he didn't looked happy with her confession. Was her love going to be unrequited one? "I fuck*** asked you something Ezra! Answer me!" His tone made her gulp,his grip on her arm made her flinch in fear. "Yes" She finally answered looking into his emotionless eyes. Smirking he laughed at her confession,not believing her. "Ezra,do you even know what love is,Oh I almost forgot you are an Orphan,how would you know?" His words were sharp as knife, piercing her healed wounds. She fisted her hands, trying to control her tears. He sighed in frustration running his hand through his hair. "Now mom will not stop till she has made you her daughter in law! Fu**! Why you!" He said ,pacing the room . Oblivion to the tears ,she tried her best to hide. He didn't love her. He never did, she was a fool to even think that he for once did. Hate is all he had for her and those who said hate is the beginning of love,were fools mocking her right now. Gathering the little pride left in her she answers back in a quivering voice. "Yes,I love you. But I don't want anything from you." She says and he stares.Confused at her weird confession. Who says that ? "Nothing you say? Are you playing some brain games girl?" She lowers her eyes and leaves but not before whispering the words that made him feel something after a very long time. "Love is not something to learn ,but to feel Aaron. And I know what I feel. You may name it infatuation and lust,but I proudly call it my selfless love" ....................................................................
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