Forbidden
Book 0.5 of the FORBIDDEN series (Prequel)
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Forbidden © 2020 by Zee Shine Storm
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
December 2020 Edition.
Contents
Copyright
Blurb
Playlist
The Wounded Lioness and the Playboy Prince
Deep Blue Eyes, Mouth Full of Lies
The Jerk in Shining Armour
Black Sheep from Her Past
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
The Sweet-talker
Careful What You Wish For
Playing With Fire
Submission
Temptation
Utterly Enslaved
Nothing Like She Imagined
Reunion (Part I)
Reunion (Part II)
Master Manipulator
Always Second
Truth Hurts
Newly-weds
And So It Begins
Bonus Scene
Book 1 Teaser (Three’s A Crowd)
FORBIDDEN series books!
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Blurb
Sometimes the journey towards true love can be dark and twisted.
This story contains an illicit affair, erotic romance, true sexual awakening and some very flawed human beings.
An orphaned Jasmine Khan finds herself falling for and indulging in an affair with her best friend's married brother, Hamza Qureshi, who she believes is her one true love and who showers upon her the kind of care and attention she desperately needs after she loses her family.
But life has other plans for her and throws Armaan in her path who makes her discover a sexual aspect of her nature which she had never explored.
Torn between love and lust, Jasmine must decide who she really wants to be. The heartbroken yet devoted girl who has sworn her heart to someone else's husband or the bold and brazen woman that she finds herself becoming in Armaan's charming company. He is sexy, sweet and incapable of taking no for an answer.
Jasmine must recognise the difference between love and lust before it is too late and she loses the man who would be willing to do anything to ensure her happiness.
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*Mature themes meant for 18+ readers.
*Trigger Warning: Contains cheating and a few disturbing sexual encounters
(Disclaimer: Amira is a fictional nation and not based on any specific place in the Middle East therefore all religious practices described in the book are only loosely related to Arab or Islamic culture.)
Playlist
*T-pain ft Baby Bash: Cyclone.
*Christina Aguilera: Genie In A Bottle.
*Two Feet: Think I'm Crazy.
*Maroon 5: Lips on You.
*Rita Ora: Let You Love Me.
*Shawn Mendez: Treat You Better.
*Meg Myers: Adelaide.
*Maroon 5: One More Night.
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Full playlist on my YouTube channel:
Zee Shine Storm
To Amatullah Tyba for being Jas&Aaru’s biggest fan
The Wounded Lioness and the Playboy Prince
1
Portofino, a fishing village on the Italian coastline in the province of Genoa, was out of the way but convenient for a girl who had wanted nothing more than to escape the real world and lick her wounds in private. It had been over a year since she had arrived there and now, she was the proud owner of a little cottage on the terrace with a wild garden and a view of the azure ocean. Beautiful. Her safe haven. Here, she had made a few choice friends and had managed to remain emotionally unattached.
The weather suited her too. Hot and sultry as it was in towns that existed near the Gulf of Genoa during the summer. Italy had always been at the top of her list of places to visit but when she had made that list, she had had no idea that it would one day become her country of refuge. She breathed in the air coming in from the Ligurian Sea and shook away the familiar homesickness that threatened to engulf her.
This was home now. This small town with its cheerful faces and the promise of a fresh start had drawn her in inextricably. She was happy here. As happy as she could be. Her name was Jasmine Khan and a year ago, she had made an oath to never allow anybody to get close enough to hurt her again.
So far, things were going exactly according to her tastes. But there was restlessness pervading her soul now. Finally, she was ready to go out in the world and do something that she had always wanted to do. She was going to make money. Lots and lots of money. Money meant power and a person like Jasmine needed power more than anything else. If Allah was willing, that seat of power was going to be hers very soon.
She grabbed her iPad and checked her reflection in the hallway mirror before heading over to the trattoria where the agent she had contacted was waiting for her. The walk down to the restaurant took about three minutes and she inhaled deeply when she reached there, reminding herself to have faith and success would kiss her feet soon. This was it. She was going to go global. Not as Jasmine Khan but under the pseudonym of Crystal Reynolds. The Reynolds was from Ryan Reynolds who was one of her favourite actors.
The trattoria was not very large but it was designed beautifully and served amazing food so there was never a lack of customers. Her gaze skimmed over all the people and dismissed the familiar faces before landing on a guy seated at the far end. He was using a tablet and was dressed casually in jeans and a pale purple shirt. The table he had chosen overlooked the bright, blue ocean. Jasmine relaxed and made her way over to him.
Her agent, Alexander
