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Loving you was not Permission

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They say Lagos is a city that never sleeps, but for Laura Okoye, it's the city where dreams go to die under the weight of a scandal she didn't start. Overnight, she went from a rising professional to a social pariah, buried in debts and watching her father's legacy crumble. Then comes Jason Quinn. He is the king of the Lagos skyline—cold, untouchable, and calculated. He doesn't offer a shoulder to cry on; he offers a pen and a twenty-page contract. He needs a wife to secure a merger; she needs a miracle to survive. The terms are simple: Two years. No feelings. A heavy settlement at the end. But there's a secret Jason hasn't accounted for: Laura has loved him in the quiet spaces of her heart for years. To Jason, this is just another business acquisition. He expects a submissive bride who will play her part and disappear into the background of his glass-and-steel empire. What he gets is a woman with a spine of iron and a heart that refuses to stay silent. As the lines between a fake marriage and a dark obsession begin to blur, Laura realizes that the man who saved her might be the very one who destroys her. Because in Jason's world, everything has a price—and he's decided that the price for her freedom is her soul. In this game of power, someone has to break. And Laura is tired of being the one in pieces.
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