The Devil Saw her first

The Devil Saw her First

Amara Nwosu knows three things.

She loves to read.

She loves to cook.

And her best friend's older brother is **strictly off-limits**.

Not because she's ever met him.

She hasn't.

He's been away for months, leaving behind a locked library that everyone in the house has been warned never to enter.

Everyone except Amara.

What starts as a harmless place to hide her ever-growing collection of romance novels slowly becomes her favourite secret.

Late nights.
Moonlight through the windows.
A quiet room.
And books she probably shouldn't be reading.

Then she starts leaving food for the brother she's never met.

He starts asking for more.

And somewhere between the lasagna, the hidden books, and the nights spent falling asleep in his library, Amara unknowingly catches the attention of a man she was never supposed to meet.

A man whose name makes people lower their voices.

A man who loves his family more than anything.

A man who has never wanted anyone quite the way he wants her.

Amara doesn't know who he really is.

She doesn't know what her best friend has been hiding.

And she certainly doesn't know that the man sitting in the darkness of that library has been watching.

Until one night, she laughs at something in her book.

A deep voice answers from behind her.

**"What's so funny?"**

And suddenly, her little secret isn't hers anymore.

Because the devil has finally come home.

**And he saw her first.**