It's Not Love, It's Lust
kiara Nicole Rivers has spent years building a life entirely on her own terms. Her career is thriving. Her apartment is immaculate. Her future is carefully planned. Every detail is exactly where she wants it to be. Love,...
kiara Nicole Rivers has spent years building a life entirely on her own terms. Her career is thriving. Her apartment is immaculate. Her future is carefully planned. Every detail is exactly where she wants it to be. Love, however, is one thing she refuses to make room for. After a devastating heartbreak, Kiara has mastered the art of keeping people at a distance. No complications. No vulnerability. No risks. Then someone moves her table at a charity gala. Xavier King is a successful real estate developer from Bed-Stuy who built everything he has from nothing. Patient, perspective, and impossible to ignore, Xavier sees through the walls Kiara has spent years constructing. He notices things others miss, including the fact that someone has been watching her. For Months. As a dangerous ex from her past becomes increasingly obsessed, Kiara finds herself drawn to the one man who refuses to let her face it alone. What begins as professional friction slowly turns into trust, friendship, and a connection neither of them expected. But love has a way of uncovering old wounds. And Xavier is carrying secrets of his own. Secrets that could change everything. With danger closing in and their hearts hanging in the balance, Kiara and Xavier must decide whether the risk of loving again is worth the possibility of losing everything. Because sometimes the hardest part isn't falling in love. It's learning the difference between what merely desired you and what truly loves you.