SHUAIB M.O

SHUAIB M.O's Book(1)

The Forbidden Ties

Romance

5.0

"Oh my darling Uncle. I missed you so much. Why didn't you come to visit?" I said while hugging him as he was backing me. "Uncle?". A different voice asked and it seems to come from the person I'm hugging. He turned around with me in his arms and I stared into his eyes. Dark eyes. Uncle Max's eyes are blue, like mine. I let go of him immediately like I had been burned and blushed furiously. "Uhm... sorry. I... I thought you... were my uncle". I told him facing down. A chuckle brought my attention back to his handsome face. "Hello cutie, why do you think your uncle is here?" He said, his voice sending shivers down my body. "My mom said he would be here, in the groom's room". Then I glanced at his tailored suit matching trousers, and gasped. "You're the groom". I whispered but he heard me anyway. "Yes darling. I am". That voice again. He brought his hands to my chin raising my face to meet his, the movement sending electricity through my body and I gasped leaning towards him. "Your-". He was cut short by the door opening and we pulled apart. *** Happiness Matthews, a 19-year-old college freshman, thought she had everything figured out when she left her small Texas town for the bright lights of California. But after a dangerous security guard targets her in her new apartment, she has to move in with Mason, her uncle's friend, who she met two years ago at his wedding. Mason, a man in his thirties still haunted by the woman who left him at the altar two years ago, never expected to share his home with his best friend's niece. At first, their living arrangement seems like a temporary inconvenience-but the longer they stay under the same roof, the harder it becomes to ignore the magnetic tension building between them. As the lines between family and desire blur, Happiness finds herself drawn to the man who carries both charm and a painful past. But with every passing day, the unspoken rules become more difficult to follow, and a dangerous truth about Mason's past threatens to tear them both apart. In a story where forbidden attraction and unresolved heartbreak collide, Happy must choose between loyalty, family, love, and her own future-before the stakes get even higher.