I'm Not Coming Back This Time

Kabir Ali was never supposed to leave Dhaka.He was supposed to become a footballer, make his parents proud, and live the life he had always imagined.Then he fell in love with Rabia Tasneem Neela.Neela was the girl who wore his jersey with "Kabir's" printed on the back. The girl who turned his world upside down. The girl who made him believe that two people meeting could never be an accident.For her, Kabir left everything behind and followed love all the way to Vancouver. He gave up football, but more than that, he gave up the version of himself he had always wanted to become. In a small, cozy apartment, they built a life out of late-night ramen, old jokes, warm hugs, and fights they were too young to survive.Then one night, everything fell apart.Kabir returns to Dhaka, trying to find his way back into the world of football. But no matter how much he tries to move forward, a part of him keeps looking for a way back to Neela.And then, impossibly, a way appears.A stranger named Ryan arrives from the Cosmic Council with an offer no broken heart could refuse: a chance to travel back in time and fix the moments that destroyed them.So Kabir goes back to Vancouver.He says the words he should have said. He stays when he once walked away. He becomes softer, kinder, better. One by one, he changes the memories that ruined them, until the future finally begins to look like the life he had begged the universe for.And when Neela walks toward him as his bride, Kabir thinks the story has finally found its ending.But love is never tested only by the person we lose.Sometimes, it is tested by the person who finds us after we are broken.Kabir travelled through time for the woman he lost.But what happens when the love he was chasing is no longer the only love waiting for him?

Pagina's: 212, Paperback, Independently published