✨ Completed on SCROLLSTACK ✨ He married her for his son. He never meant to fall for her. But some hearts don't ask for permission. They just break the rules. Rudra Singh Rathore is ice-unfeeling, untouchable, and utterly devoted to the only person who matters: his abandoned two-year-old son. Love? Dead. Trust? Buried. All he needs is a mother for his child, not a wife. Enter Aadhya Verma-kind-hearted, steel-spined, and completely unprepared for the storm she's walking into. An arranged marriage. A broken family. A man who warns her not to hope. But Aadhya doesn't listen to warnings. And Rudra doesn't see her coming. She softens his silence. She becomes his son's entire world. And slowly, painfully... she starts to matter. This was never supposed to be love. But fate has no mercy-and hearts have no rules. When the walls fall, will he choose to love her... or lose her forever?

Book 1 where he fell first. ~♥︎♥︎♥︎~ A Girl creates an Instagram account where her schoolmates can confess their feelings to their crushes without revealing their identity. The twist comes when the Most Popular Boy of the school reveals about his secret crush and it turns her life upside down, giving her a chance to taste the sweetness of young first love. ~♥︎♥︎♥︎~ ★ Vinisha Sharma ★ The Good girl, an introvert, born topper, sweet, innocent, kind and beautiful. Books are her comfort place and romance is her favourite genre. All her life she's been a hopeless romantic. Looking for nothing but love. A kind of love which is only found in books. And then, she meets a boy who becomes her sunshine. Turning her fictional love into reality. ~♥︎♥︎♥︎~ ★ Aryan Malhotra ★ The Bad boy, an extrovert, flirty, tall & handsome, good at sports but bad in studies. A god-gifted face with a dimple. He was everything a girl wanted but he only wanted and needed her. He never thought that he will fall for someone completely opposite of him. But he fell.... hard. He never had expectations but just one hope. He tried to resist but failed. As she became his desire, addiction, obsession and a never ending temptation. ~♥︎♥︎♥︎~ Join this tale of first love that refreshes our school memories and gives birth to a lot of butterflies in our tummy throughout the story!

As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams? ***** Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]