||| ARYAMAN MALHOTRA |||
CEO of India's oldest jewelry empire. Ruthless. Cold. A man driven by the need for vengeance.
Ever since the brutal murders of his fiancée, Naseria Oberoi, and his best friend, Karan Shergill, he's been hunting for answers...
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I don't know why I reacted so out of control in front of Aryaman. I hate him, like, I genuinely hate everything about him—the arrogance, the manipulation, the way he thinks he can control everything. But the way I acted... it was wrong. Not that he doesn't deserve every single thing I said to him, because he does, and I definitely don't regret saying it, but... something felt off about me. It wasn't just anger, it was more than that. His words were getting to me, and that's what's pissing me off the most. The way he was holding my hands, rubbing my knuckles so gently—like he actually cared. And that voice, his deep, calm, almost soothing voice... it messed with my head.
It's like he's affecting me in a way I never, ever wanted him to. I never wanted Aryaman to have any sort of power over me, emotionally or mentally, but here he is, making me feel things I don't want to feel. His words, god, they sounded like promises. Not just any promises, but lifelong, unbreakable promises, the kind you want to hold on to, the kind you wish could be true. And a part of me—this stupid part of me—actually wanted to believe him. But I can't. I won't. I know better than that. I've been hurt before, I've been let down, and I can't let that happen again. I can't afford to let myself believe in someone like him. I just want to be left alone, without all this... this emotional chaos.
Why the hell is he making me feel things I don't want to feel? Why is he breaking through the walls I've built, the ones I thought were strong enough to keep people like him out? I've worked so hard to rebuild myself, to create this new version of me—the version that doesn't need anyone, that doesn't feel anything. And here he comes, tearing it all down. He's bringing back the old Baani, the one I tried so hard to leave behind. The weak, vulnerable Baani. The one who believed in people and got crushed every single time.
He's breaking my new soul. He's changing me, making me feel things I swore I'd never feel again. And the worst part? I hate it. But at the same time, I can't stop it. I can't stop this strange pull, this weird connection that I never asked for. The way he looked at me today... it was different. The way he spoke, like I actually meant something to him. It felt like for once, I wasn't invisible, like I had some sort of existence in his world, and it confused the hell out of me. I didn't want to feel that way.
I never wanted him to get to me, to make me feel... alive in some way. Because feeling means vulnerability, and I can't let myself be vulnerable around him. I won't let myself be hurt again.
But he's doing something to me, something I don't even fully understand. And it scares me, because if he can make me feel like this, what else can he do to me? What else am I letting him control without even realizing it?
I don't want to change. I don't want to go back to being that girl who cared, who believed, who trusted. I don't want to be her again. But Aryaman... he's pushing me in that direction, and I don't know how to stop it. Or if I even can.