MubasshiraMerchant5
Layla Amari has spent years rebuilding her life.
After surviving a painful past, she finds comfort in routine-quiet mornings, good books, strong coffee, and the safety of keeping people at a distance. Love is the last thing on her mind.
Until a stranger sits across from her in a café.
Hyder Malek is successful, respected, and the CEO of a thriving company. Yet beneath his composed exterior lies a man searching for something he cannot name. One brief conversation with a hijab-wearing girl lost in a novel leaves him questioning everything he thought he knew about himself.
When fate brings them together again-this time as CEO and employee-their worlds begin to intertwine in unexpected ways.
But Layla carries wounds she has never shared, and Hyder must learn that some hearts cannot be won through persistence alone. Between family expectations, personal struggles, faith, and the shadows of the past, both must decide whether they are willing to trust the future Allah has written for them.
A heartfelt slow-burn romance about healing, family, faith, and finding the person who feels like home.