The Love I Could Never Forget

I fell in love with him when I was sixteen.

Not because he was handsome.
Not because he made every girl turn her head when he walked into a room.

I loved him because he was my home.

For years, Zayan Malik was my best friend, my safe place, and the keeper of every secret I had ever whispered into the dark. I spent half my life loving him silently, believing that one day he would look at me and realize that I had always been the one standing beside him.

But love stories don't always begin the way we imagine.

Sometimes they begin with heartbreak.

The day Zayan announced his engagement to another woman, my world collapsed.

And before I could gather the shattered pieces of my heart, I found myself trapped in a marriage I never wanted-with Arham Sheikh, a powerful and dangerously mysterious man whose cold eyes hid wounds deeper than my own.

I thought my story was over.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life loving someone who could never belong to me.

But fate had other plans.

Because the man I married wasn't the villain I believed him to be.

And the man I loved wasn't the hero I had imagined.

As buried secrets rise to the surface and old feelings refuse to die, I am forced to choose between the love I spent years dreaming about and the love that quietly fights for me every single day.

One man owns my past.

The other may become my future.

And somewhere between heartbreak, betrayal, forgiveness, and healing...

I discover that sometimes your first love isn't your forever love.

Sometimes forever arrives when you've already given up on being loved at all.