Amara did everything right. She loved hard, gave more than she got, and told herself that was enough — until the day she came home early from a business trip and found her boyfriend’s car parked outside her neighbor’s house. That was the moment she stopped settling.She books a vacation to clear her head, not to fall for anyone. But then there’s Kian — rich, guarded, and far too busy building an empire to want anything real. What starts between them is supposed to be simple: no strings, no feelings, just heat. But simple doesn’t survive goodbye. They keep finding their way back to each other — across cities, between flights, in messages sent too late at night to mean nothing.When Kian starts pulling strings to get her closer, Amara has to decide if she’s falling in love or falling into old habits. And she’s not the only one standing in the way of her own happiness — his family has already picked someone they consider a better fit, a woman whose smile never quite reaches her eyes. Meanwhile, the ex Amara left behind isn’t ready to let her go either, showing up right when she needs clarity most.Amara spent years wanting the wrong things quietly. This time, she’s done being quiet. This time, she’s going after everything she was always afraid to want — even if it means losing everyone who told her to want less.Wanted All Along is a slow-burn, sensual romance about choosing yourself first — and discovering that the right love was worth the wait.

At twenty-one, Daphne has her life planned out.Finish law school. Build a successful career. Make enough money to give her mother the life she deserves. Romance can wait.And the last man she expects to complicate those plans is Dominic—her forty-three-year-old godfather, her mother’s oldest friend, and the powerful businessman who has spent years quietly making sure she never wants for anything.To Daphne, Dominic has always been the untouchable man from her childhood: wealthy, handsome, notoriously incapable of settling down, and once the subject of a foolish teenage crush she thought she’d long outgrown.To Dominic, Daphne has always been the one woman he was never supposed to look at twice.Until one visit changes everything.The girl he remembers is gone, and the woman standing before him awakens a desire he knows he has no business feeling. Dominic tries distance. He tries distraction. He tries reminding himself of every reason Daphne should remain forbidden.None of it works.When innocent messages become increasingly dangerous conversations, Dominic finally offers Daphne something he has offered plenty of women before: desire without commitment, pleasure without promises, and a secret neither of them can ever afford to expose.Daphne knows she should refuse.Instead, she makes a choice that will change both their lives.But Dominic makes one dangerous miscalculation.He believes Daphne will be the one who falls in love.He believes he can keep his heart out of their arrangement, encourage her to eventually find someone else, and walk away when their forbidden affair has run its course.He is wrong.Because the deeper Dominic falls, the more he wants from the one woman he was never supposed to want at all.And Daphne has never been a woman who mistakes being loved for being owned.Soon, what began as a secret built on desire threatens friendships, family loyalties, and the lifelong bond between Dominic and Daphne’s mother. And when love turns into jealousy and devotion begins to resemble possession, Daphne will have to decide whether the man who became her most forbidden desire can also become the man she freely chooses.He was never supposed to want her.She was never supposed to choose him.But some desires refuse to remain forbidden.