💍 A Marriage Signed in Ink, Not in Love
Amina Balarabe never wanted this life. One day, she's the dutiful daughter from a conservative Hausa family, the next she's the unwanted bride of Jide Bashir-a cold, impossibly powerful Yoruba-Hausa billionaire who treats her like a stranger in his own home.
To him, she's a contract. A tradition forced on him. A wife he refuses to touch.
To her, he's a wall she can't break through.
The Bashir estate is a cage of silent dinners, empty beds, and stares that remind her she doesn't belong. Her family says to endure. His family says to obey. Leaving is unthinkable. Divorce is forbidden. And yet, Jide's cruelty cuts deeper when she learns the truth-he's already written her out of his life. In his will, he's promised her to another man...
When Jide dies unexpectedly, the will is carried out.
Enter Khalil Bashir-everything his father was not. Warm. Gentle. Patient. And unlike Jide, he doesn't see her as an obligation-he sees her as a choice.
Now Amina must decide:
💔 Stay bound to a family that caged her.
🔥 Take a chance on the man who might love her.
🌹 Or, for the first time in her life... choose herself.
In a world where family honor is everything, breaking the rules could cost her everything,
But so could following them.
Bound by His Will - messy, forbidden, addictive. Once you enter the Bashir world, there's no going back.
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