A slowburn journey from strangers in class to souls on the same road.

🌹 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 She walks in like a shadow, carrying a weight no one sees. Aria doesn't ask for attention. She doesn't trust easily. Every glance, every smile, every gesture is guarded. She has built walls so high even the world feels small. Yet her quiet hums louder than anyone dares to hear. He notices. Shivansh Rawat. Calm, steady, protective - a presence that refuses to be ignored. He doesn't promise instant healing, only patience, understanding, a hand when the world feels heavy. He sees the cracks in her walls without them being shown. And even though she fights, she feels it: he might be the only person who won't break her. "Then let me earn it. Let me show you that love isn't a weapon, it's a shield." Love this intense ignites chaos, tests limits, threatens to break the fragile balance Aria has built. Some walls are harder to climb. Some hearts aren't ready to surrender, even when they want to. Around them is a circle that laughs, fights, teases, protects - a web of friendships that feels like family. Rohan and Avni clash, their fire hiding unspoken feelings. Akshat and Saavi tease, banter, and spark a connection that feels inevitable, warm, and dangerous in its subtlety. Aria doesn't just observe. She disrupts. Every glance, every touch, every silent question sparks reactions no one anticipates. Trust is a gamble. Love is dangerous. Secrets wait in the shadows, ready to surface when you least expect it. Some hearts fight to stay hidden. Some are waiting to be found. Some are broken in ways only the brave can understand. Guarded Heart will pull you in and refuse to let go. Every chapter hums with tension, every line aches with longing, every moment leaves you questioning: who will survive? Who will surrender? Who will finally let themselves feel? 💞 Slow Burn × Emotional Healing 🔥 Enemies to Lovers 🫶 Brother's Best Friend 🌸 Found Family & Fierce Friendships 📖 School Life × Secrets

When a cold, ruthless billionaire crosses paths with a middle-class girl who believes in love more than money, their worlds collide. He hides his pain behind power. She hides her strength behind simplicity. In a storm of secrets, pride, and unexpected love - will she calm his chaos, or be destroyed by it?

Katha was only 25 when she chose her daughter over her husband. Vedant wanted a son. When Vedika was born, he withdrew-never holding her, never celebrating her, never seeing her as more than a burden. So Katha did what generations of women were told not to- she divorced him. She left. She walked away from silence, from a loveless marriage, and from a house that never saw her daughter. She returned home to Kashi, hoping to rebuild something soft, safe, and loving for Vedika. What she didn't expect... was Rudraksh Thakur. Her first love. Her ex boyfriend. The boy who broke her. Now a man who won't stop fighting to earn her back. Where Vedant failed, Rudraksh rises. As a father to Vedika. As a lover to Katha. Because no matter what time took from him-she was always his. But after everything.. he did to her in the past... Will Katha be able to give him a second chance? Will Katha let herself be loved again-by the man who once shattered her? **** "Rudraksh... I have a daughter..." Katha whispered against his lips. His hand slid to her bare waist beneath the saree, pulling her closer, his lips brushing against her neck. Slowly, he began to kiss her there. She gasped, but he didn't stop. "No, Katha..." he murmured, voice low and certain. "Vedika is our daughter." Tropes: • Single Mother x First love • Second Chances • Obsessive but Soft Hero • Small Town / Kashi Romance • Old school Romance

Gauri Sharma, a 23-year-old orphan and single mother, lives a quiet, grounded life in Delhi with her 4-year-old daughter, Manya - her entire world wrapped in tiny hands and innocent smiles. Gauri doesn't know who Manya's father is, and she's long stopped trying to chase the past. All she wants is a peaceful life for her daughter and herself. But peace is shattered the day she steps into the dazzling chaos of her best friend Vaani's high-profile wedding. There, she crosses paths with Reyansh Malhotra - a 30-year-old billionaire CEO, a man cloaked in power, pride, and shadows. Reyansh doesn't believe in love. He doesn't care for innocence. But the moment he sees Gauri, and then hears the soft giggles of little Manya, something in him begins to shift. Drawn to both mother and daughter with an intensity he can't explain, Reyansh finds himself pulled into a dangerous game of obsession, desire, and buried truths. Manya's sweet affection touches a part of him he thought long dead... and Gauri's warmth begins to melt walls built over years. But love never comes easy - especially when secrets, scars, and silent enemies threaten to destroy everything. He was meant to rule empires. But a woman and her daughter might just conquer his soul.

PRIYANKA:- Loving, caring, kind and a broken person. She is 21, living alone and attending her university in Delhi. _________________________________________ "When you love someone, you protect them from pain, you don't become the cause of it." _________________________________________ KARTIK:- Loving, friendly, kind and a humble person. He is 23, living in Delhi with his family, and attending his university. _________________________________________ "I wanted to prove to you that not everyone leaves, but you proved to me that love isn't for everyone." _________________________________________ What happens when these two souls meet? How do they meet each other, love each other, heal each other and break each other? Are they meant for a happy ever after? Or do they become each other's life lessons? To get answers to these questions, you must unveil their story.

She was the anchor in every storm-until she forgot how to swim. Meera has spent her life holding others up, keeping quiet, and staying steady. A dutiful daughter, a perfect sister, a friend who always picks up the phone. But late nights alone in a rented apartment come with their own kind of silence. When love arrives-gentle, persistent, and unexpectedly kind-it doesn't demand strength from her. It offers her something she's never had: A place to rest. A heart that listens. A love that finally, finally says- You don't have to carry it all anymore.