Lawa Rashidat

LOVE, LIES AND FORGOTTEN NIGHT

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LOVE, LIES AND FORGOTTEN NIGHTCharlotte Gomez thought she knew exactly who she could trust.For five years, Ethan Cole was the man she loved, the man she planned to marry, and the man she believed would stand beside her forever.Vanessa was her younger sister—the person Charlotte never imagined she could lose.Then one night, Charlotte walked into Ethan’s bedroom and found them together.Her fiancé.Her sister.In her own home.What destroys her even more is the truth: their affair has been going on for six months.Heartbroken and humiliated, Charlotte runs to Noir, the city's most exclusive nightclub, determined to drown her pain in alcohol and forget Ethan for one night.Instead, she meets a stranger.Damien Ashford is dangerously attractive, mysterious, and completely unlike anyone Charlotte has ever known. In a moment of reckless desperation, she spends one unforgettable night with him.She leaves before sunrise.She doesn't give him her name.She never expects to see him again.But weeks later, Charlotte discovers she's pregnant.And the father is the mysterious man from Noir.Before Charlotte can decide what to do, her family discovers the pregnancy. Rather than stand by her, her parents demand that she get rid of the baby and reconcile with Ethan.Their reason?The Gomez family's reputation, business interests, and carefully protected alliances are at stake.Charlotte refuses to sacrifice her child to protect a family that has already betrayed her.For choosing her unborn baby, she is cast out.With nothing but her broken heart and the support of her best friend, Zara, Charlotte leaves the country and disappears from the life she once knew.Three years later, she returns.But the woman who left is gone.Charlotte is now a successful, independent businesswoman and a fiercely protective mother to her three-year-old daughter, Aria. She has built a new life from nothing—and she has no intention of allowing anyone to destroy it.Then fate puts Damien Ashford in her path.Now a powerful billionaire heir, Damien has spent years unable to forget the mysterious woman who disappeared after their unforgettable night.The moment he sees Charlotte again, something about her feels strangely familiar.Neither of them knows the truth.Until Damien discovers that Aria is his daughter.Suddenly, the woman he can't stay away from is the mother of his child—and the woman he has unknowingly been searching for all these years.As Damien fights for a place in Aria's life and Charlotte struggles to decide whether she can trust the man fate has returned to her, old enemies begin resurfacing.Ethan isn't willing to let Charlotte walk away so easily.Her family has secrets they desperately want buried.And Charlotte is about to uncover the biggest secret of them all.The woman she called Mother her entire life isn't her biological mother.Everything Charlotte believed about her family, her childhood, and her identity begins to fall apart.Now she must confront the people who lied to her, protect the daughter she fought so hard to keep, and uncover the truth about where she truly came from.Damien may be the father of her child.He may be the man fate chose for her.But after everything Charlotte has survived, love is the one thing she can no longer afford to trust blindly.Because sometimes the person who breaks your heart is hiding the truth.And sometimes the stranger you spend one unforgettable night with turns out to be the man who was destined to change your entire life.

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