⚠️Highly Mature Content⚠️ (18+/21+ Audience only) #5 on Wattpad [04/07/26] #19 on Wattpad [21/01/26] #10 on Wattpad [06/07/26] "Chup chaap humari bitiya se byaah lo, daroga... varna jiss taesh se aaye the naa ussi taesh mein apne jigri dost ki laash saath lekar jaaoge." ("Quietly marry our daughter, officer... or else, the same rage you came here with, you'll return with your best friend's corpse alongside you.") An IPS officer. That's what I am. Stoic, trained to face gunfire without blinking, to stare criminals in the eye. And yet, here I stood in a mud-stained courtyard, stripped of power, cornered by men who didn't fear the law. Is this real? An officer dragged into a pakdua byaah like some helpless boy? With a village girl-barely literate, cloaked in shyness and fragility? Me-a divorced man, father to a one-year-old daughter who waits for me to come home? Nothing about it fit. And yet everything about it was true. Because my best friend-my brother in every sense-sat tied to a chair across from me. His hands bound, his eyes defiant, and three guns pointed to his head. Aarish. Soon to be a father himself. Husband to Suhani, who was as much my sister as blood could make her. What was I supposed to do? Marry or rebel? The choice was never mine. I whispered, almost ashamed: "Main talaaqshuda hoon... aur ek beti ka baap bhi." ("I am divorced... and also the father of a daughter.") She looked at me with steady innocence: "Nahi... ab aap ek shaadi-shuda insaan hai. Aur hum uss bachi ki maa hai." ("No... now you are a married man. And I am that child's mother.") TROPES City Boy × Village Girl IPS × Illiterate Forced Marriage / Pakdua Byaah Second Chance at Love Stepmother Role Found Family Traumatic Past Grumpy × Sunshine Duty vs Desire Single Father Romance Slow Burn Romance Innocence Meets Experience

▬▬ 𝐕𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢 𝐱 𝐀𝐝𝐡𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢 '𝘿𝙞𝙡 𝙞𝙗𝙖𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙩 𝙠𝙖𝙧 𝙧𝙖𝙝𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙞, 𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙠𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞 𝙨𝙪𝙣' ──────── 𝗔𝗱𝗵𝘆𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶 has her entire life perfectly planned out. She knows what she wants, and she is willing to do whatever it takes to get there. But when her hard-earned position as House Captain is threatened, she has no choice but to rely on the new admission, 𝗩𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶. He is everything she does not need. And the most annoying part? He always seems like he has something to tell her. So what happens when the boy she only needed for a plan becomes the one thing she never planned for? ──────── Follow along the story of a bubbly love story with a load of coming-of-age drama!