The Ones We Shouldn't Love

Two strangers. Two powerful families. One love that was never supposed to happen.Julisa Mustafa has spent her whole life being told who she'll become. The daughter of a wealthy family, her path is already set-graduate school in London, then home to take over the family empire. But for once, Julisa wants to live without the weight of her last name. No business meetings. No security guards. No expectations.Just Julisa.Then she meets Jason. Quiet, charming, a little guarded-but nothing like the men she grew up around. He doesn't ask who she is. He doesn't care about status or money. He just listens. He makes her laugh. He makes her feel seen. And she doesn't know that he's been hiding something too.Because Jason isn't just Jason.He's the son of the man her family built their fortune fighting against.In a city far from home, their worlds collide in secret. What begins as friendship turns into the kind of love that makes everything else blur-the kind that makes you forget there's a truth waiting at the edge of it all.When Julisa returns home and shows her mother a picture of the man she loves, everything unravels. Old rivalries rise, buried histories surface, and both families make one thing painfully clear: some names can never belong in the same sentence.Now, Julisa has to choose between the life she was born into and the love she found by accident. Between duty and desire. Between what's right-and what feels real.She thought she could keep her worlds apart. She thought love would be enough.Now she has to face the one truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their perfect little lie. What could possibly happen?

Two strangers. Two powerful families. One love that was never supposed to happen.Julisa Mustafa has spent her whole life being told who she'll become. The daughter of a wealthy family, her path is already set-graduate school in London, then home to take over the family empire. But for once, Julisa wants to live without the weight of her last name. No business meetings. No security guards. No expectations.Just Julisa.Then she meets Jason. Quiet, charming, a little guarded-but nothing like the men she grew up around. He doesn't ask who she is. He doesn't care about status or money. He just listens. He makes her laugh. He makes her feel seen. And she doesn't know that he's been hiding something too.Because Jason isn't just Jason.He's the son of the man her family built their fortune fighting against.In a city far from home, their worlds collide in secret. What begins as friendship turns into the kind of love that makes everything else blur-the kind that makes you forget there's a truth waiting at the edge of it all.When Julisa returns home and shows her mother a picture of the man she loves, everything unravels. Old rivalries rise, buried histories surface, and both families make one thing painfully clear: some names can never belong in the same sentence.Now, Julisa has to choose between the life she was born into and the love she found by accident. Between duty and desire. Between what's right-and what feels real.She thought she could keep her worlds apart. She thought love would be enough.Now she has to face the one truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their perfect little lie. What could possibly happen?