Holding Me Down
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She promised she'd never leave him.
When her baby father is sentenced to prison on drug charges, Samaria Valencia keeps her word, raising their two-year-old son alone while holding him down from the outside. But everything changes when she meets NBA star Trey Washington, a man who gives her the love, peace, and stability she's never known.
Now Samaria is caught between a promise she made to the father of her child and a future she never imagined for herself.
Sometimes loyalty can cost you the love you deserve.
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