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He was never supposed to love me

Aisha_Umar_7995
Zara’s life is built on control. Same café. Same time. Same routine. It keeps things simple. Predictable. Safe. Until Adrian starts watching her. He notices everything. The time she arrives. The way she moves. The patterns she didn’t know she had. And worse, he knows things she never told him. At first, Zara tells herself it’s coincidence. Then she starts testing him. And he keeps passing. What unsettles her isn’t just how much he knows… It’s how long he’s known it. Adrian doesn’t chase. He observes. Learns. Waits. By the time Zara realizes she’s been seen—truly seen she’s already inside something she doesn’t understand. Because the more she pushes back, the more the pattern tightens. And the more she tries to step away, the more she finds herself drawn in. This isn’t a love story that begins with a spark. It begins with attention. And attention, in the wrong hands, can become something else entirely. Something controlled. Something deliberate. Something Zara isn’t sure she wants to escape.
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