One desperate decision. A night that was never meant to be remembered. And two hearts that can't seem to forget. Gloria needs one thing - time. Time to save her mother, time to pay for the next hospital bill, time to keep her world from falling apart. But time, in Lagos, costs money she doesn't have. So when she meets Vincent, a man whose name opens doors she's never been allowed to walk through, she makes a choice she swore she never would. One night. No strings. No names. Just survival. But life doesn't keep promises that simple. For Gloria, that night was supposed to be the end of…mehr
One desperate decision. A night that was never meant to be remembered. And two hearts that can't seem to forget. Gloria needs one thing - time. Time to save her mother, time to pay for the next hospital bill, time to keep her world from falling apart. But time, in Lagos, costs money she doesn't have. So when she meets Vincent, a man whose name opens doors she's never been allowed to walk through, she makes a choice she swore she never would. One night. No strings. No names. Just survival. But life doesn't keep promises that simple. For Gloria, that night was supposed to be the end of something-a sacrifice made to save her dying mother, boundaries written on paper to protect what little dignity remained. She blocked his number. Walked away without looking back. Tried to forget the man who paid for what she had to sell. But Vincent kept her note. Honored every rule. Saw worth where she expected shame. Then he offered her a job. And suddenly the man she tried to erase became her boss, her colleague, the person who believed her without proof when enemies tried to destroy her. The person who made her want things she swore she'd never risk wanting. Now Gloria has a choice: keep running from what they started, or stay and discover whether two people who met through survival can build something based on choice. Whether transactions can transform into trust. Whether the worst beginning can become the best love story. If only they can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly between them: some nights cost everything, but sometimes they're worth the price.
Elara Marceline writes stories that feel like movies you can live inside-filled with longing, quiet tension, and love that always finds a way through the mess. Her books explore what happens when ordinary people are caught between big emotions and impossible choices. She is the author of It Ends With Her, Pregnant by Her Ex, The Girl Who Left Everything, and The Ones We Shouldn't Love-all cinematic, emotionally rich love stories about the kind of people who stay in your mind long after the last page. When she isn't writing, Elara loves long walks, soft music, and quiet moments that feel like scenes from a film. She believes that every story is, at its heart, about finding your way back home-to love, to honesty, to yourself.
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