They met in Russia. Somewhere between endless snow, quiet mornings, and stolen moments, ARSEN and AADHYA fell in love. So deeply... that they forgot everything else. Their families. Their responsibilities. The lives waiting for them beyond those fleeting days. Until one phone call changed everything. Aadhya returned to India. She promised she would come back. But she never did. Months later... Arsen crossed countries for the woman who had unknowingly taken his heart with her. Not to ask why she left. Not to relive the past. But to bring her home. Because some promises are worth waiting for. And some loves... are worth fighting for. . . . . . . . DUET 2 of series RED AND SAFFRON but can be read as standalone. . . . . . . . Published: 4 / 07 / 26

♛ The Mafia King & The Royal Princess ♛ "You are always being so optimistic, bright and cheerful." He says, staring at me intensely with his magical grey eyes. My heart literally skips a beat with his gaze, and I feel my cheeks getting warm in shyness. "Is that bad?" I ask curiously, hoping that he can't see my blush in this darkness. "Yes. Because you will be shattered when you face reality out of your small happy world." He states harshly, his relentless eyes drilling into mine making me breathless. He stares at me like reading me, as if he can look into my soul directly. ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ Riddhima Rose, The President's only daughter. The Epitome of an Angel! Vansh Rai Singhania, The King of Mafia world. The Epitome of the Devil himself! Having many enemies around the country, the President Richard Evan Rose has kept his daughter who lost her mother when she was infant, inside the palace protected all these years without letting any danger or even a single scratch affect his Princess. She is the apple of his eye, the only person he loves the most in the world. Unfortunately, Riddhima Rose was kidnapped by a powerful Mafia leader in another country. The President knows he couldn't save his Princess. Though he purely loathes the Mafia king Vansh Rai Singhania, the most feared man in the country, who practically rules the country more than him, he has no other way than to ask his help to save his only daughter in exchange of a deal which he is yet to know about. When Riddhima Rose meets Her Knight with a shining pistol aka the Vansh Rai Singhania, she couldn't help but get fascinated by his inexplicable nature while he doesn't want anything to do with women. What will happen when she starts falling for the Mafia king with her innocent heart? Will he break her heart or give her place in his stone heart? Read the story to know about their rollercoaster life and find the answer! ◉ ◉ ◉ #1 in #heartless #1 in #devilangel #4 in #knight

She was born into politics. He was born to rule it. When Indu's father - leader of the opposition - strikes a desperate deal to save his party, he offers the one thing Prithvi Devraj might take: his daughter. Cold, calculated, and destined to become the next Chief Minister, Prithvi doesn't believe in love - only power, loyalty, and control. Now bound to her father's greatest enemy, Indu is forced into a marriage she never wanted... to a man whose name she grew up fearing. But Prithvi doesn't touch without consent. He doesn't raise his voice.He destroys in silence. "I won't touch you unless you ask me to... But if you ever betray me- I'll make you wish you never walked into my world." In the war of politics, hearts are collateral. And in a house where passion burns colder than power, someone's going to get hurt.

Marriage is a connection between two souls for their entire life. The partners are going to be together for infinity. We are supposed to choose who we wanna spend our life with But this choice wasn't given to me I was married without my choice and wishes. To a girl I didn't knew. Only if I knew saving someone from trouble will land myself in trouble! ******* How can a girl who believed marriage to be so pure and important phase of her life will live with guy unknown to her? That too when they have to keep their marrige a secret? Can she bridge the distance between her husband and her? ♡⁠▽⁠✿⁠▽♡⁠ Started : 9 April 2024 Ended :

•|𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐄 (Replaced Bride) 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘|• ✦ RITVIKA KAPOOR ✦ A girl who carries the sun in her smile and storms in her silence. She wasn't raised in riches, but she's richer than most-in love, in softness, in strength. A single mother at 24, her heart beats not just for herself, but for her little girl who calls her "Mumma." 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 is her language and 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝 her comfort-she loves quietly, endures deeply. Every scar has a story, but she chooses not to tell them, only to live past them. She dreams of love, but doesn't expect it. She hopes for a miracle, yet walks through life with calm acceptance. She is a - ❝ Khud se zyada kisi aur ke liye jeene wali ladki. ❞ ━━━━━━━━━━ ✦✧✦ ━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ VIDYUT RAJVANSH ✦ His presence demands silence. A man built from shadows and steel. Cold eyes, sharp suits, and a reputation darker than the night. He's the kind of man who doesn't flinch at loss, and never looks back once he walks away. A CEO, a name whispered in fear, a heart hidden behind layers of pain and pride. Commitments? He avoids them. Emotions? He shuts them out. Children? He doesn't do soft things-until Tara calls him "Dadda." He doesn't believe in second chances, but somehow, Ritvika feels like the home he never had. He is a - ❝ Mohabbat se door bhaagne wala, lekin mohabbat mein doobta hua aadmi. ❞ ━━━━━━━━━━ ✦✧✦ ━━━━━━━━━━ Join the Journey of RITVIKA & VIDYUT 💗

༺♡༻ 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 Ⅰ 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 "𝑯𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔" 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 ༺♡༻ "Some secrets are meant to stay hidden... until fate decides otherwise." ✦ ─────── ❖ ─────── ✦ Rajveer Singhania is the ruthless king of the business world. Cold, arrogant, and feared by all, he is a man whose heart is as unreadable as his piercing gaze. People know him as a devil who never lets emotions rule his decisions... Ishqi, an orphan with a heart full of kindness and dreams, has only known Rajveer as her best friend's terrifying elder brother, a man she has always tried to avoid... But fate has a cruel way of changing destinies... A wedding that leaves everyone speechless. A bride no one saw coming. A groom who looks as though he had planned every moment long before anyone else realized it... Some believe it was revenge. Others think it was anger. But if that is true... why was Ishqi's name already written in Rajveer's destiny? Why did his eyes hold a secret no one could understand? "Just wait till tonight... after that, you will be mine." Who was he talking to? Was she merely a pawn in his game... or the only person he had been waiting for all along? Sometimes the greatest love stories begin with the deepest misunderstandings... And sometimes, the Devil hides his Angel where no one would ever think to look. ✦ ─────── ❖ ─────── ✦ 🖤 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬: ❖ Secret Love ❖ Arranged Marriage ❖ Force Marriage ❖ Possessive Hero ❖ Slow Burn Romance ❖ Family Secrets ❖ Protective Husband ❖ Emotional Healing ❖ "He Fell First" ✦ ─────── ❖ ─────── ✦

❝The freedom I thought I had was nothing but an open cage - one he had built just for me.❞ ╼╾ Sanjana. An obedient girl to her parents with high moral values and a shining dream in her eyes to fulfil all her wishes one day. All she wants is to be an independent woman, earn her own bread, gift her parents a comfortable future and be with the love of her life forever. Forever ~ the word seems celestially cursed for her. ╼╾ The love of her life is a deceiver! Not what he appears to be. He is a territorial and egotistical rich man having an extremely contrasting mentality with her who wants nothing but a docile wife. He forces her into marriage but fate has some unexpected twists for the girl! She has an obsessive stalker... A stalker who would turn the world upside down to keep her to him. A man who had watched, waited, and shaped her life from the darkness. She was never meant to be "just a wife." She was meant to be his. He only needed one thing -her existence, bound to him forever and at any cost. ╼╾ When devotion turns into destruction - will she survive Vedant's darkness, or will she drown in it? ╼╾ ● The story will contain violence, abuse, self-harm, use of alcohol, mature scenes and other mature topics. (Warning has been given. Don't accuse me later.)

#BOOK ONE OF DISTRACTION SERIES '𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 : 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧' or may be love. She was led astray by him but still she fell more and more madly for him. ✧ I saw a man was brutally stabbing two people one by one on the road. He killed two people in front of my eyes. Seeing this horrifying sight before my eyes, my soul trembled, my body became cold as if I was not alive. There were some men around him, but no one was even trying to stop him. Who is this man and why is he killing them so brutally? And suddenly he stabbed his victim right in the middle of the neck, seeing which I screamed, "Ahhhh!" It was going to prove to be my biggest mistake, he turned his gaze towards me and stood up from his place. He started moving towards me while wielding the knife. It seemed as if I had become frozen, neither was I able to move nor was I able to react. His hands were stained with blood, there were blood stains on his face too. He was slowly taking his steps towards me, but I was not able to even move from my place. I could clearly see my death in his scarier eyes. I understood that within a few moments I too would meet the same fate as those two people. As soon as he reached me, he extended his blood soaked hand towards me, I was scared to death and immediately took a few steps back. He smirked and took as many steps forward. He extended his hand towards me again and said softly in his heavy voice, "Will you marry me?" ✧ The story of two entangled souls, will they be able to sort themselves out or become even more entangled with each other? Arshveer Singh Randhawa × Amber Williams

BOOK1 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐇 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐗 𝐊𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐊𝐀 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐇