𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚢. 𝚁𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚢. For eleven years, she lived in a house where screams were silenced and love was a lie. Her owner never touched her... but he made her watch. Now she's eighteen - and he's ready to make her his. But before the monster can claim her, another man steps in. Cold. Powerful. And burning for revenge. He didn't buy her to save her. He bought her to destroy the man who broke her. She's quiet. He's broken. And neither of them are prepared for what obsession looks like when it starts to feel like love. •❅───✧❅✦❅✧───❅•

The One she loved left her a day before her marriage The ones she cared humiliated her,despised her and blamed her for everything but what will happen when she will be forced to marry a mere stranger Aditi Sharma a 24 year old aspiring CA an ambivert who loves her family Daksh Agnihotri a 30 year old businessman, introvert doesn't like to express his emotions, lives with his only grandma [Dakhs: you wanted to see me married right? Grandma: yes beta I'm dying to see ur bride who will bring joy to our empty lives Who will fill this quite mension with the sounds of her anklets (Tears gathered in her eyes) Daksh:Then I'm getting married Her eyes widened Grandma: what when did you meet he-, What's her name , what's her age, how does she looks Daksh: I Don't know Grandma: WHAT THE- U're getting married to her and you don't even know her name??????]

Love - a feeling he had buried long ago, and she had never known. But destiny had its own plans - binding them together as each other's only desire. Advik Singh Malhotra - CEO of ASM Industries. A man shattered by loss, still mourning the death of his first love who battled cancer till her last breath. Grief turned him cold, ruthless - a shadow of the man he once was. When a scandal threatens to tarnish his reputation, Advik makes a decision he never thought he would - marry a woman he barely knows. But can a man who has forgotten how to love bring happiness to a heart that has only known pain? Or will he break her even more? Aakriti Pandey - A girl who fought fate with bare hands. Born into a patriarchal family where daughters were seen as burdens, sold into a forced child marriage at the age of three, her life was a prison built on fear and cruelty. Tortured, abused, and betrayed - when faced with being sold again, she chose the only way out: escape. Running away from her past, she crashes into a future she never imagined - a future that begins with marrying a stranger... a man with scars of his own. When two broken souls are forced into a bond neither asked for, will they heal each other... or destroy what little hope remains? Desire (Book 1) Aakriti Pandey × Aadvik Malhotra A story of shattered hearts, unspoken pain, and a love neither believed they deserved.