Lavender&Oud
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Umaiyrah Abdulmalik is soft like lavender-quiet, graceful, and content with living a simple life in Gwagwalada. Between supporting her family, planning events, and finding peace in routine, she has no room for the chaos of Abuja's elite world.
Until the day she walks into a penthouse lounge in Maitama...
and meets Zayd Yusuf Abubakar
He smells of oud-rich, warm, and dangerously unforgettable.
A multi-billionaire energy mogul with hazel eyes, a calm voice, and a presence that shifts the air around him. Zayd is the kind of man people whisper about powerful, quiet, and impossible to reach.
But for reasons even he can't explain...
he can't look away from the modest event planner who carries herself like she doesn't know her own beauty.
Their worlds clash-soft and strong, lavender and oud.
She wants simplicity.
He lives in luxury.
She plans events.
He plans empires.
Yet destiny weaves their paths together, drawing them into a slow-burning connection neither of them saw coming.
In a city where status speaks louder than hearts, can a gentle girl from Gwagwalada and Abuja's quiet billionaire find a love that feels like home?
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