"𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬?"
His voice slithered through the darkness, a deadly whisper that wrapped around my throat like a noose, tightenin...
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Challenge!
A mere challenge!
That infuriated the decision-making process of Miss Vanya Oberoi.
Driven by an insatiable hunger for her career, she found herself caught in a spiraling game of high stakes-one from which escape seemed impossible.
Every calculated step she took only tightened the noose of her own ambition, pushing her closer to the edge, until the lines between her goals and her nightmares blurred.
A web!
A dark web of deceit and obsession, where she found herself trapped in feelings for a man she once despised, yet it was far more than just emotions; it was a force pulling her deeper into the abyss of his world.
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✧PROLOGUE ONE
"I said, fucking answer me, or I might snap this neck of yours..."
His hazel brown eyes bore into me, cold and unrelenting, piercing my very soul.
The darkness in his gaze was terrifying-paralyzing-leaving me trembling from the inside out.
Fear.
A fear deeper than I had ever known clawed at me, suffocating me with every passing second. His grip around my throat tightened, my pulse racing beneath his fingers.
"Yes or no?"
His voice was a thunderous growl, echoing in the air, each syllable heavy with threat.
The tears brimmed in my eyes, blurring my vision as the weight of the situation crushed me. I had trapped myself in a whirlwind far beyond my control. The audio-God, the audio-it was mine. There was no denying that, but...
Why?
Why had I let it come to this?
His voice snapped me out of my spiraling thoughts, louder, harsher this time. "Yes or no?"
The shout reverberated in the room, pushing me closer to the edge of panic. The grip around my throat grew vice-like, cutting off the air just enough to remind me of his power, his control. His hand was warm but unforgiving, like the fire I found myself bound to, burning yet impossible to escape.
"Y...yes..." The word barely escaped my lips, a broken whisper that I could hardly recognize as my own.
The admission felt like a death sentence, and I could see the storm darkening in his eyes, feel the rage vibrating through his body. His veins throbbed under his skin, neck muscles taut as though he were moments away from losing all control.
A beast, barely restrained!
The silence between us was deafening, thick with the weight of all my lies, all my secrets.
I had lost control-control of my life, of my choices. And now, under his unforgiving gaze, I was paying the price.
His next words sent a shiver down my spine, colder than anything I had felt before.
"Did the person who shot my father... was it you?"
Each word dripped with venom, fueling the anger that ignited within him. The atmosphere crackled with tension, and I felt as if the very air around us had thickened with dread.
My eyes met his once again, but I couldn't hold his gaze. The weight of his piercing hazel brown eyes felt like a spotlight, illuminating the darkest secrets.
"ANSWER ME!" he roared, shoving me away with a violent jerk that sent me stumbling backward. The world around me blurred, and I coughed, gasping for breath as my heart raced in terror.
"Ye...ye..s... It w..as... m...m.e... but it w...as an ac..ciden..t..."
My words were cut off by a slap that echoed through the air like a gunshot, sharp and stinging. The pain radiated across my cheek, but it was nothing compared to the turmoil swirling in his eyes.
✧PROLOGUE TWO
The piercing sound of glass shattering sliced through the air like a knife, stopping me in my tracks.
My body locked in place, ever nerve on edge, as if the entire world had ceased to exist for that single, agonizing second.
I blinked, my vision swimming, but no amount of blinking could clear away the dread that crawled up my spine.
............... ................ ................
When I finally managed to drag my gaze forward, the world around me blurred into significance.
My breath hitched, trapped in my chest like a weight crushing my lungs. No sound, no movement, just the brutal reality before me, so vivid and impossible that my mind refused to accept it......
I swallowed hard, but the fear was too thick, too raw....
This can' t be real.
It can't..
It's a nightmare.....
Abhimaan...
It's only a nightmare...
The ground beneath me felt as though it was crumbling away , slipping under my feet, but I couldn't focus. I couldn't breath. Everything blurred beside me, the world fading out. Voices, footsteps, people-they all vanished, like whispers swallowed by the wind.
I took a shaky step forward, as if an invisible force yanked me toward the car, toward that shattered, blood-streaked glass that screamed something I couldn't bear to understand.
No.
No...
No!
I stumbled, my knees weak, my legs like lead as I forced myself closer, closer to the sight that was ripping my soul apart.
A tear escaped my eye, burning my cheek as it fell, and still, my vision blurred again, as though my body was fighting the truth itself. I didn't want to look, didn't want to see-but something inside me demanded it, craved the confirmation of the unbearable pain that had already begun devouring my heart.
I blinked through the haze, but I couldn't see clearly. My eyes refused to let me.
