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Fathia never planned to become a mother at twenty-two.
When her sister Khadijah loses her husband, grief swallows her whole. And when Khadijah takes her own life months later, she leaves behind an eight-month-old son-and a note that changes everything. Hammad is left in Fathia's care, along with the weight of guilt, love, and a responsibility she cannot walk away from.
At twenty-three, Fathia's world revolves around survival: raising a child that is not hers, living in a home that suffocates her, and carrying grief she was never allowed to fully express. Love is the last thing on her mind. Healing feels impossible.
Yusuf Nazeer has always watched from a distance. The older brother of her best friend, a respected doctor eight years her senior, he has had a quiet soft spot for Fathia long before tragedy bound their lives together. Controlled, protective, and deeply reserved, Yusuf believes in duty more than desire-and when family decides their paths, marriage becomes inevitable.
One year after loss rewrites everything, Fathia and Yusuf are brought together by tradition, expectation, and a child at the center of it all. What begins as obligation slowly turns into something neither of them planned.
This is a story of grief and healing, motherhood born from loss, and a love that grows not from passion-but from patience, protection, and learning how to stay.
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