BETWEEN DEADLINES AND HEARTBEATS A Campus Slow-Burn Romance by Alabi Olayinka
By Alabi Olayinka
Length3h 26m
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Book Description
Between Deadlines and Heartbeats is a slow-burn campus romance set in a Nigerian university, where two emotionally grounded students find themselves drawn into something neither of them planned—and neither can fully explain.
Zainab is disciplined, analytical, and controlled by structure. Mek is observant, calm, and unsettlingly consistent in a way that challenges her sense of order. What begins as ordinary academic proximity slowly evolves into something deeper, quieter, and harder to define.
As their paths keep crossing, what should have remained simple interaction turns into a continuous emotional current—one built on awareness, restraint, and unspoken tension. In a world filled with noise, deadlines, and expectations, their connection grows in the silence between words.
This is not a story of instant love. It is a story of repetition, resistance, and the slow realization that some connections don’t ask for permission to exist—they continued
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Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreRomance
Length3 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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9Start Part 9
2Start Part 2
10Start Part 10
3Start Part 3
11Start Part 11
4Start Part 4
12Start Part 12
5Start Part 5
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