📅 Last Updated: January 11, 2026
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"You're my hero, Superwoman," he said, his voice rough like gravel - like he wasn't used to saying anything soft.
I smiled, his gaze steady as I tied the last strip of the bandage around his shoulder.
"How come my superpowers don't work on you and me?" I asked, quietly, like it wasn't already eating me alive.
He didn't flinch. "Maybe they don't work on people who already belong to you."
His callused hand brushed my cheek. My chest ached.
"Sukhala mama, ungowami wena."
And the tears came. Because I'd asked him to fake love me. And now I didn't know where the lie ended and the truth began.
He said "mama." inqondo yagoloza,intliziyo yavuma. (my brain said no, but my heart said yes)
Ngewami Mamba is a force-an award-winning gynecologist, tech mogul, and humanitarian with a passport full of stamps and a bank account in pounds, not rands. She's the woman every man wants and every woman envies. But when her younger sister announces an unexpected engagement, Ngewami's perfectly curated world tilts off its axis.
She was supposed to be first. The wife. The bride. The standard.
Now, with the spotlight slipping and her ego bruised, Ngewami will stop at nothing to beat her sister to the altar-even if it means faking a relationship with the one kind of man she's always sworn off:
A Zulu man.
Sharp-tongued, emotionally armored, and unapologetically ambitious, Ngewami isn't looking for love-she's looking for a win.
But love has a twisted sense of humor.
And it just might be written in bold, bloody Zulu.
I smiled, his gaze steady as I tied the last strip of the bandage around his shoulder.
"How come my superpowers don't work on you and me?" I asked, quietly, like it wasn't already eating me alive.
He didn't flinch. "Maybe they don't work on people who already belong to you."
His callused hand brushed my cheek. My chest ached.
"Sukhala mama, ungowami wena."
And the tears came. Because I'd asked him to fake love me. And now I didn't know where the lie ended and the truth began.
He said "mama." inqondo yagoloza,intliziyo yavuma. (my brain said no, but my heart said yes)
Ngewami Mamba is a force-an award-winning gynecologist, tech mogul, and humanitarian with a passport full of stamps and a bank account in pounds, not rands. She's the woman every man wants and every woman envies. But when her younger sister announces an unexpected engagement, Ngewami's perfectly curated world tilts off its axis.
She was supposed to be first. The wife. The bride. The standard.
Now, with the spotlight slipping and her ego bruised, Ngewami will stop at nothing to beat her sister to the altar-even if it means faking a relationship with the one kind of man she's always sworn off:
A Zulu man.
Sharp-tongued, emotionally armored, and unapologetically ambitious, Ngewami isn't looking for love-she's looking for a win.
But love has a twisted sense of humor.
And it just might be written in bold, bloody Zulu.
Comments (39)
From where I'm standing yiur family wants to be you so much they envy you
Ah so sweet!😍😍
Yebo baba🤣🤣🤣❤️
✨️❤️
❤️❤️❤️ I’m loving this book.. i can’t put it down
she’s getting kidnapped? oh God. 🙊
🤣🤣
Me too😔
Philasande’s side. 🤷🏼♂️
I so wish I could slap you right now, webabo ! 😭🙊
Love this for Phila and Wami,hope he can come clean about his life.
Zama ingathi uzobayinkinga 🫠
yhoo what happened 😳
I’m so in love with this read!!!!! So captivating the emotions are so real… love it
Best intro💋!
Plsssss continue😭😭.
😭😭😭am I wrong for thinking he really sees a wife in her??
sana I keep coming back to check if you updated😭😭👍🏾
Please continue 😩
Loved the story🥹🥹please
Continue
Best introduction ever
Please continue bakithi,now that is a nice novel
Can you please continue this book. You cannot get me this high then stay 18 days without writing something, it is unacceptable..please turn ngiyakucela
Please continue bandla
NOOOOO
Hhawu kanjalo nje
I love the introduction
Awa bantu why ,next😩
Hau next?
Such a good novel can’t wait for the next part
What a nice novel this is so ncaah
Please continue
Tjo?left us hanging vele
Can you please please continue I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to know how this love story will end I'm begging on behalf of all who read and commented on this beautiful love story
Can you please continue, I’m enjoying this. Their kind of “love”, I’m rooting for them coz wow.
Love is blossoming finally she's met someone who is just there home comfortable I'm certain his everything she's been looking for and more
Hawu she just mate her savior.... I'm rooting for them
What I'm actually thinking of 😑
Why is he agreeing to be his fake husband? What ulterior motive does he have?
Mmh I cant wait to see how this unfolds