Maa turned to me. "Riya beta, go outside and bring the flowers from the garden. And if you see him, bring him along with you." I nodded, clutching the thali a little tighter, and stepped out toward the garden. He was nowhere in sight. Shrugging it off, I bent down to lift the large basket of flowers placed near the parking area. The tiny blooms felt impossibly heavy. As I struggled, the sharp edge of the basket nicked my wrist - hidden beneath the soft folds of my dupatta. Great. If anyone notices, I'm doomed. Ignoring the sting, I stepped onto the marble path cutting through the grass - and lost my balance. "Whoa-" Before I could fall, strong arms wrapped around my waist, pulling me back. My breath hitched. Time stopped. The world went silent - no birds, no distant traffic, no rustling leaves. There he was. Dhruv Rathore. Standing so close I could feel his warmth, his steady presence grounding me. The boy my heart had never quite let go of - even after four long years - was holding me in his arms. He looked exactly how memory had preserved him. Calm. Composed. Effortlessly commanding. And then reality crashed into me. He's my sister's devar. ✨A slow-burn romance set against the chaos of an Indian wedding, filled with family drama, soft moments, and emotions that refuse to stay hidden. ✨ #1 in rituals🌸✨🎀(3/02/2026) #1 in rituals (12/03/2026) #9 in beautiful ( 27/03/2026) #1 in past love ( 5/04/2026) #2 in beautiful (8/04/2026)

"How dare you touch me?" she shouted, losing her senses. she was about to get up from the couch when he held back my neck and brought her back to the position and roared in a dangerously calm voice " NOT ONLY TOUCH I HAVE ALL FUCKING RIGHTS TO FUCK YOU HARD WHENEVER, WHEREVER I WANT. GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD." "What are you doing?" he questioned, trying to calm himself, but it came out in a harsh tone. "I won't sleep with you and you fucking don't touch me" she asserted with a voice full of demand. He took slow steps towards her, which resulted in her moving back. Now, after three to four steps, she was caged between him and the wall. "I DARE YOU AADRIKA KABIR SINGHANIA TO SLEEP AWAY FROM ME EVEN AN INCH. I PROMISE TO FUCK YOU ON THAT DAMN COUCH UNTIL I MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE THE ENERGY TO MOVE A SINGLE FINGER OF YOURS AWAY FROM ME." she visibly gulped, listening to his words. Without wasting even a second, he picked her up in his arms and moved towards the bed. ｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡ "why are you doing this? " She said sobbing badly. "I want you anyhow," he said in a cold tone. "I was going marry him," she said helplessly. "That's the reason dove, I am going to marry you " He casually asserted. "But why me? " She whispered leaving her remaining hopes. "I am not answerable to you," he said in a harsh tone. "Be ready to become Mrs. Aadrika Kabir Singhania" he said leaving the place. _______________________ Tropes ✨ ~Grumpy X Sunshine ~Mafia X engineer ~30 X 24 ~Age gap ~Office romance ~Forced marriage ~Obsessed MML _______________________ What will happen when they meet for their sibling's marriage proposal? She will be forced to marry him? Will they be able to understand each other? Indulge in this story to know more.

✫ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 ᕯᕯᕯᕯᕯᕯ She walks like royalty. He moves like a storm. She commands courtrooms with fire. He rules boardrooms in silence. She hides pain behind sharp words. He buries his behind calm eyes. She trusts no one. He lets no one close. She is rage wrapped in grace. He is restraint edged with danger. She used to laugh. He used to be the reason. . . . . RITIKA SINGH RATHORE Born into Rajasthan's most powerful royal family, Ritika is the pampered princess. But she is a Queen of her own world by strength and sheer will. A fierce lawyer feared in courtrooms, her silence is sharper than most screams. But behind that cold brilliance is a past steeped in blood and betrayal. She used to be the third-in-command of the Indian underworld, but now she doesn't even look at that direction. ADWAIT SINGHANIA A self-made billionaire forged by pain, Adwait rose from the ashes of a brutal past. He thinks like a strategist, moves like a soldier and trusts no one with his heart. He is only cheerful around his family and for others, he is nothing more than a silent storm. Once the second-in-command of India's deadliest crime syndicate, he has now cut ties with the crime world. Reason? No one knows. They were once each other's biggest supporter and secret keeper. Until one night shattered it all. Yet, years later, fate throws them together again. Not as friends. Not as enemies. But as two people bound by a past that refuses to die. Because the past isn't done with them yet. Enemies are watching. Alliances are shifting. And every heartbeat draws them deeper into a war they thought they had left behind. This isn't just a second chance. It's a collision course. This is not a love story, not yet. This is a battlefield and their hearts are the most dangerous weapons of all. ✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫✫

#Book-2 in Lost Royalty series ( CAN BE READ STANDALONE ) He is heartless, While she is a heart specialist He kills mercilessly, And she lives to save lives Both are accustomed to blood, but with different intentions: One to give back life, the other to snatch lives In the collision of their paths, will they find a way to reconcile their differences or remain irreconcilable opposites? What will happen when destiny plays its game, binding them in a knot of marriage of convenience, where both are forced to marry each other, just to fulfill a promise?

He's cold, powerful, and broken. XX She's fiery, kind, and fighting for her future. Reyansh Raizada doesn't let anyone near his son-not after losing the only woman he ever loved. Arjun barely speaks, and Reyansh's world is built around protecting him. Then Ishita comes along-a teacher with a secret past and a heart bigger than her pain. When Arjun bonds with her, Reyansh's icy walls start to crack... but he won't make it easy. "Stay away from my son." His voice is sharp, his eyes colder than steel. "One more tear from him, and you'll regret it." She's no stranger to battles. "I'm not afraid of you, Reyansh." Forced into a marriage neither wanted, trapped under the same roof, can these two broken souls find light in each other-or will their pasts destroy them both? Hate. Pain. Fire. Love. Welcome to their story. ________________________________________ Mature Themes | Obsession | Hate-to-Love | Grumpy vs Sunshine "You are not my lover," he growls. "Then why do I belong to you?" she questions. ________________________________________ Contains Hindi dialogues with translations

"Do you regret kissing me, Ishika?" His voice dropped-dark, low, and possessive enough to steal the air from my lungs. My entire body froze. Not because I didn't know the answer- But because I did. My breath hitched, sharp and aching. Regret? God. If only he knew what that kiss did to me. His grip didn't loosen. His fingers dug gently into my wrist, grounding me to him, to the heat of his body pressed against my back. I could feel every inch of him-dangerous, intoxicating, magnetic. "Ishika," he rasped again, each syllable laced with something desperate. Something real. "Do. You. Regret. It?" I should lie. Say it meant nothing. That it was a mistake. But my heart? It was screaming. Screaming for him. No. No, I didn't regret it. I couldn't. If I had, I wouldn't still feel his taste on my lips. I wouldn't still be burning from the ghost of his touch. I wouldn't still be aching for more. "We wouldn't be kissing for so long...and still not want to let go...if I regretted that," I whispered-my voice trembling, My voice trembled. "If I regretted it, Veer..." I whispered, "...I wouldn't be standing here, craving your mouth on mine again." And that's it- I felt the pull.

They performed her last rites, while she was still alive. Akshara Maheshwari was erased from her own family before she could even understand what she had done wrong. Abandoned, forgotten, and declared dead, she disappeared from the world that once called her blood. Years later, she returns.. not as a broken child begging for answers, but as AK - a name the world admires, fears, and follows. She doesn't come back for forgiveness. She doesn't ask for love. And she doesn't reveal herself easily. Because some wounds don't need apologies... they need truth, power, and reckoning. As the Maheshwaris celebrate, lie, and protect their secrets, the past claws its way back into the present. A past involving betrayal, silence, a sold child, and a savior who changed her fate. What happens when a family realizes the daughter they buried... is the woman who now controls their empire? And what if revenge isn't her goal, but taking back what was always hers? A story of abandonment, survival, silent revenge, and a girl who learned to smile while planning her return. Read to find out: Will the truth destroy them... Or will Akshara destroy the truth first?

Marinette Dupain-Cheng, a completely, ordinary girl. Or so I thought... Ever since I started public school, I had noticed her. She was absolutely gorgeous. But there was something about her, the way her lips curved in a smile threw me off the edge. But she was different... Secretive. Ladybug was amazing, she was the one I had always and would never stop loving. But here she was, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, making her way into my heart. But she was just an ordinary girl... Right?

#BOOK1 of Devil&Angel series ♡ 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓷 𝓐𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓰𝓮, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓐𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 ! ♡ ♡ ♡ " App mujhe pasand nahi.. " I said hesitantly. " Mujhe tum bohot pasand ho. Agli wajah? " He stated bluntly. " App mujhse bade hai. " " Toh main jyada pyaar kar lunga .. " gasped hearing him. " Appko sharam nahi aati? " " Woh tum kar lena. Main besharam he theek hu. " His bold answer made her amazed . ♡ ♡ ♡ " You were mine since the moment I laid my eyes on you sweetheart... Today or tomorrow, doesn't matter , I'll make sure I'm the only one who loves you, touches you and makes you feel things that you never felt before. " He thought looking at the numerous pictures or her that was all over his room. ♡ ♡ ♡ A marriage alliance that was arranged by the 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋 to make the 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋 his ! ♡ ♡ ♡ He was adamant to make her his while she had her own reasons to stay away from him.. She was the reason he believed in love unknown to the fact that she has already lost her beliefs. It wasn't going to be easy for the Devil to bring his Angel in his life but we are talking about Kabir Rathore , The Devil who if wants something, he gets it by hook or by crook. ♡ ♡ ♡ ᵀʳᵒᵖᵉˢ : ᴬᵍᵉ ᵍᵃᵖ ᴳʳᵘᵐᵖʸ × ˢᵘⁿˢʰⁱⁿᵉ ᴰᵉᵛⁱˡ × ᴬⁿᵍᵉˡ ᴰᴱˢᴵ ᴿᴼᴹᴬᴺᶜᴱ Started: 28.12.23 Ended :

"I won't let him look at you, touch you, feel you. Because you're mine and I don't like others touching and stealing what's mine," he whispered in my ear. His lips were inches away from my neck, I could feel his breath touching me. "And how about her? Isn't she the love of your life? Why me? Why don't you just throw me or kill me?" I replied damn scared of his reaction. "Don't you ever say anything about hurting you," and he punched the wall so hard that I had no other option but to flinch. "Why?" I shouted. Wow, I really had the guts to say that after what just happened, I'm so stupid! Someone, please save me from this devil! "Because I love you god damn it!" ... Kiara is a very simple girl who loves everyone and has no hatred towards anyone. She's bright, a dancer, and a girl who wants to live her life to the fullest. Her parents love her unconditionally and she does too but a twist of events led to her life being hell. Her father's last wish. Kiara's dad falls sick and is about to die. He wants Kiara to marry his best friend's son Arman, the most arrogant, cold and rude person in the whole world. He doesn't care about anyone, he only cares about him, his grandmother and no one else. So what will happen when Kiara marries Arman? Will their marriage be full of hatred or love? What would happen when Kiara finds out that her childhood best friend loves her and is framed to have a child together? This book is full of twists and turns along with romance and much more. Hope you enjoy it. Note: There will be some mature scenes throughout this book. I will be giving warnings when such scenes appear. There is also cursing throughout chapters, if you are still triggered by them, please avoid this book. No cheating trope! Thank you! 💕