# The First Clause

Author: Hind Badr Qahtani
Site: ReadNovelHub
Canonical: https://readnovelhub.com/novel/the-first-clause
Genre: Mafia-Dark-Romance

## World
She reads the first clause aloud. His signature follows her name.

## Tropes
- Forced Proximity
- Dark Romance
- Billionaire Romance
- Contract
- Marriage Clause
- Contract Marriage
- Majlis
- Family Office
- Gulf Romance
- Signet
- Private Wing

## FAQ
### What is The First Clause about?
She reads the first clause aloud. His signature follows her name.

### Who is the author of The First Clause?
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### Is The First Clause a Forced Proximity story?
Yes. The First Clause is tagged for Forced Proximity, Dark Romance, Billionaire Romance readers looking for North American romance-fantasy tropes.

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### What happens at the start of The First Clause?
The executive Majlis smelled of Oud and old paper, and the Dallah had not stopped pouring since I sat down.

## Chapter 1 teaser
### Untitled Chapter

The executive Majlis smelled of Oud and old paper, and the Dallah had not stopped pouring since I sat down. Tariq Al-Fahad's man filled my Finjan to less than half, right hand first, and I took it because refusing would have cost my father more than a coffee. The Majlis at KAFD was colder than the towers it sat between — limestone walls, a single long table, my father's name already written on the page in front of me in someone else's ink. I had been in the room eleven minutes before Sheikh Tariq entered. He entered without hurry. White Thobe, hard collar, Bisht with black-gold Zari turned back over one shoulder, a Patek thin as a coin at his wrist. He did not sit at the head. He sat across from me, which was its own insult, and then he read me. He had greeted me first, before he took the chair. The room heard it. I let it pass, because a greeting costs him nothing and buys me an hour of not being handled. *Ya ustadh,* his deputy called him from the door. Tariq lifted two fingers and the man closed it behind himself. The clause was on the third page. I had already read it twice. *Clause One.* The Al-Sayed practice, the drawings, the name over the entrance — all of it would remain standing, signed over, protected, untouchable by the council's vote. In exchange, everything with my signature on it would belong to the register he kept. Publicly, I would answer to him. I set the Finjan down. "This is not a partnership." "No," he said. "It is a shelter. You may call it by its name when you are inside it." His Misbaha began to move between his fingers, one bead, then the next, patient as a man counting what he already owned. He drew a pen from inside his Bisht cuff and set it flat, and did not yet touch it. "I need your answer before the coffee cools, Sayyidati." I looked at h

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