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Irie: An Unexpected Pairing
Royal Bennett has a plan.
As the heir to Bennett Vineyards & Co., one of Charlotte's most storied Black-owned legacies, Royal knows exactly where he's headed. He also knows he's not ready — not yet. So he does something nobody in his family fully he spends a year driving for Uber Eats. Not out of rebellion. Out of intention. You can't build something meaningful for people whose lives you've never touched.
The Thursday night deliveries to NoDa's Parkwood complex are routine. Apartment 204 is routine.
The woman behind the door is not.
An Unexpected Pairing is a slow-burn contemporary romance novella set against the backdrop of Charlotte's NoDa neighborhood and the rolling vineyards of the North Carolina countryside — a story about two people who built carefully, chose deliberately, and found each other anyway.
What happens when the most deliberate man in the room meets the one thing he didn't plan for?
Some pairings make sense on paper. But, the best ones never do.
As the heir to Bennett Vineyards & Co., one of Charlotte's most storied Black-owned legacies, Royal knows exactly where he's headed. He also knows he's not ready — not yet. So he does something nobody in his family fully he spends a year driving for Uber Eats. Not out of rebellion. Out of intention. You can't build something meaningful for people whose lives you've never touched.
The Thursday night deliveries to NoDa's Parkwood complex are routine. Apartment 204 is routine.
The woman behind the door is not.
An Unexpected Pairing is a slow-burn contemporary romance novella set against the backdrop of Charlotte's NoDa neighborhood and the rolling vineyards of the North Carolina countryside — a story about two people who built carefully, chose deliberately, and found each other anyway.
What happens when the most deliberate man in the room meets the one thing he didn't plan for?
Some pairings make sense on paper. But, the best ones never do.
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Published October 1, 2026
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