CAN BE READ AS STAND STAND-ALONE. This book serves as a prequel to Twisted Family of Sikandars, focusing on Aairah and Hayaan's journey from their first meeting to their early married life. This story is a journey through time-a tale of love, longing, and the inevitable pull of fate. Aairah fell first. She fell hard, surrendering her heart to a man who barely acknowledged its existence. For four long years, she loved him in silence, watching from a distance as her feelings grew deeper, stronger, and more unshakable. Hayaan Sikandar, the man who had unknowingly captured her heart, was a force of nature-powerful, untouchable, and entirely uninterested in love. But destiny has a way of playing its own games.

When two shattered hearts meet under fate's darkest shadow... can love rewrite what destiny has written? She was forced into marriage - a young girl handed to a man twice her age, a man who saw her as a trophy. On her wedding night, her tears fell unheard... until the night ended in blood. Fleeing with trembling hands and a broken soul, she became a widow before she ever became a wife. Now hidden in shame, locked away from the world, she lives beneath the crushing weight of family honor. He was a man who never truly loved. His beautiful wife was chosen for him by duty, not desire - and when she left bringing his daughter into the world, he was left with guilt he couldn't name... and a heart that refused to feel. His only joy is his baby girl - the one light in his darkened world. When fate draws them together - at a wedding neither wished to attend - one glance changes everything. He sees her, cradling his crying child, and something long dead stirs within him. A stranger. A widow. A bond forged in silence. When the world urges him to marry for duty, he chooses the unthinkable: the woman no one else would choose. But can love grow where shadows of sorrow still linger?