PROLOGUE Some people enter your life quietly... and change everything without asking permission. Fatima Abubakar Hameed always believed she understood the people around her. She knew how to listen, how to smile, how to be the one everyone leaned on when life got heavy. But no one ever taught her how to let herself be leaned on. Not until him. Muhammad Khalil Muhammad was never loud enough to be noticed easily. He didn't try to be. He simply existed in silence-distant, unreadable, and far more complicated than anyone cared to understand. And somehow, without trying, he became the one person she couldn't stop noticing. They didn't meet in a dramatic way. It was quiet, ordinary... the kind of meeting that doesn't feel important-until it is. Nothing about their lives suggested they would matter to each other. At least, not yet. But some connections don't announce themselves. They just begin.
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