LOST IN THE BILLIONAIRE'S SCANDAL
Maya Rami is a survivor. As single mother in Dubai, she has worked relentlessly to provide the best for her daughter. But when she loses her job at an elite private school due to a scandal she had no part in, her life is thrown into turmoil. In an attempt at stability, she takes on the position of tutoring billionaire Adam Saif's son.
Maya expectes that Sami will be just like any other pampered kid, yet he isn't. He's genius, withdrawn, and completely silent. Nobody, not even his powerful father has any idea how to reach him.
Then there's Adam himself. Ice-cold, ruthless, and inscrutable, his entire life revolves around control. But behind the hardened facade, Maya senses something else, a man shaped by secrets, not authority.
What starts out as a simple assignment soon turns a lot more complicated. The more time Maya spends in Adam's world, the more she sees the cracks in his armor. The late-night conversations turn into lingering looks. The chemistry between them is undeniable, yet Adam has made one thing very clear, he doesn't believe in love.
Just as Maya begins to penetrate his defenses, his past comes back to haunt him. The enemies that encircle him close in, targeting everything, including Sami.
Now Maya has to make an impossible choice: walk away before she's pulled into the storm or stay with the one man she never imagined she'd fall in love with.
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Chapter: Chapter 50Maya's PovThe silence between us stretched out longer than I could bear. That night, after I'd gone to bed and left Adam sitting alone in the kitchen, I couldn't sleep. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, counting the cracks in the plaster and listening to the wind push gently against the windows.My chest ached in some strange, quiet way like something inside me was coming undone. I thought about disappearing. Not because I wished to but because, maybe it would be easier than staying in a story when I wasn't aware of my role.I woke up early the morning after. Everyone in the house was still asleep. Adam hadn't come here yesterday. He might have slept in the mastars bedroom. I snuck into the laundry room with a basket of clean laundry and started folding it just keep my hands busy. I needed to do something and folding calmed me down. Socks, shirts, little pajamas… each fold a tiny gesture of fake stability. The kids gave me that. When I came back to the sitting room, I found Adam
Last Updated: 2025-08-01
Chapter: Chapter 49Maya's PovThe house wasn't the same.Not like the way it happens when you change furnitures or lighting to a different colour. It was deeper and quieter. A change in the air that buzzed just beneath the surface, unseen but impossible to escape. Like someone had opened a window I hadn't seen, and now everything warm and sure was seeping slowly away.It started the day after Lena’s visit. I was folding laundry in the hallway, separating socks in silence, when I caught Adam's voice in the study. The door wasn't wide open but not completely closed. He hadn't even se me walk by. I paused… I shouldn't have done it, but I did."You can't hold visitation over my head, Lena," he said. His voice was annoyed and strained. "Sami's not something we bargain for."My heart stumbled. I edged closer, holding a set of small pajama bottoms against my chest. He sigh heavely. "No one's replacing her. Maya isn't trying to be anyone. She's…she's just here. And Sami's happy. That's all that should matter t
Last Updated: 2025-07-31
Chapter: Chapter 48Maya's PovThe sound of laughter echoed through the living room. It gave a feeling like sunlight on cold skin. It was soft, warming, and full of life. I sat cross-legged on the floor between Sami and Lee, clutching a handful of letter tiles, eyes squinting at the board as if I could force a better word into existence. Adam sat across from a little father away from us with a warm mug of tea in hand, leaning back against the couch with a smile that reached all the way to his eyes.This was what happiness felt like… this right here. Simple and unassuming. The kind you don’t dare question because you’re too afraid it will vanish the moment you acknowledge it out loud. It's been a week since Adam asked me to marry him and we were taking things one step at a time. As the days went by, I was remembered of the reasons I decided to try this out. “Scrabble Queen strikes again,” I said happily as I placed the word zephyr on a triple word score.Sami groaned dramatically and flopped over. “Not f
Last Updated: 2025-07-28
Chapter: Chapter 47Adam's PovI couldn’t sleep. I hadn’t moved since she left the room. Not because I was giving her space but because I was too afraid that if I did, I’d break something sacred. Something that needed to breathe on its own.I pulled on a hoodie and wandered out to the back porch with a blanket, settling onto the loveseat. The stars were clear tonight and too many to count. Their stillness should’ve comforted me but all I felt was the chaos inside.I loved her. God help me, I loved her.It hit me like an unexpected punch. Not all at once, but slowly. The first time I watched her talk to Sami even though he didn't respond. Her calmness, her patience, it all made me marvel. The night she sat up with him when he had a fever, humming under her breath. The way she stood her ground even when I pushed, even when I didn’t know I was pushing.The door creaked behind me.I didn’t need to turn to know who was there. I felt her before I saw her. The smelt her and the warmth of her body nearby.She ca
Last Updated: 2025-07-26
Chapter: Chapter 46Maya's PovI slipped out of bed the moment I was sure he had fallen asleep. I don’t know what scared me the more, his words or the aching truth of how badly I’d wanted to hear them. Three words, whispered in the hush between heartbeats, had managed to move something inside me. I stepped on the floor gently and moved quietly, careful not to disturb the silence he'd wrapped himself in after his confession.It was very strange for Adam to be asleep by this time. He was mostly the last person to go to bed but today, he was the first. "I love you." The words echoed in my head like a bell still ringing long after it’s been struck.I stepped out of the room, leaving behind the comfort of the shared bed. The hallway was quiet and the house wrapped in shadows and warmth. I walked down the stairs barefoot, then through the back door and into the garden. I needed the fresh air… I needed space to think. The evening sun kissed my skin accompanied by the soft, cool breeze. I walked slowly across
Last Updated: 2025-07-25
Chapter: CHAPTER 45Maya POV.I felt rigid and stiff on the bed. Every muscle had hardened like stone, as if the air around me had frozen into a suffocating shell. The silence of the room felt heavier than usual, like a weight pressing against my chest. My heart skipped a beat, then began to pound in my ears, the ‘thump, thump, thump,’ growing louder with every second that passed.Did he just say what I thought he said? No… I had to be imagining it. I was hearing things, hallucinating, maybe. My sleep deprived fantasies were conjured by my mind desperate for something it wasn’t sure it could have."What did you say?" I whispered, the sound barely escaping my throat. It didn’t even sound like me. The voice was too soft, too breathless, like it belonged to someone else entirely. Someone more fragile.But there was no answer.I turned my head slowly, cautiously, like I was afraid I might disturb something sacred and my eyes landed on him. His lashes rested against his cheeks and his breathing was soft and s
Last Updated: 2025-07-25
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