Forever? (Ebook)

He stayed. But staying cost him everything.

Malik didn't plan to become a father. He just kept showing up—for the woman he loved, for the boy who started calling him Dad, for a family that needed him more than they knew how to say.

But somewhere between the school pickups and the late-night bedtimes, between the missed dinners and the empty apologies, Malik stopped being a partner and became a placeholder. The man who held everything together while she built a life that didn't include him.

Forever? is the story of a man caught between the family he's building and the self he's losing. A story about invisible labor, quiet resentment, and the kind of love that keeps you anchored to a life you're not sure you recognize anymore.

This isn't a story about walking away.

It's about what happens when staying becomes its own kind of leaving.

For readers who love emotionally complex fiction that doesn't offer easy answers—just honest ones.