"Look at the way she is dancing.. Don't you think she is hot.." , a boy piercing at a girl in pub told. "Yes, she is hot.." , another boy in the group said. "What do you say Arun.." , they asked the guy who is busy in sipping his mocktail "Ravi, why do you even ask him after knowing very well that he will never get feelings on any girl? " , another guy replied Arun just shakes his head with a smile on his face while keeping the glass down. "Rey, look at her.. She is so..." , when one guy was saying this, another guy shouted as "isn't she our Chaitu.." , Arun immediately turns his head towards the door only to see a girl wearing a knee length sleeveless black dress entering the pub. He without giving a second thought walks towards the door and drags her outside the pub.

Tropes Forced Arranged marriage Enemies to lovers Banter Billionaire North Indian X South Indian Best friend's brother Sassy heroine Smut Hridhaya always knew Karthick was bad for her blood pressure-grumpy, arrogant, and permanently stuck in rage mode. But when their families drop the ultimate MARRIAGE bomb and decide they should get married, she realizes she's officially living in her worst nightmare. HRIDHAYA: Marrying Karthick worser than to: ❌ Be buried under a mountain of cockroaches. ❌ Watch a three-hour TV serial in slow motion (with dramatic zoom-ins on everyone's shocked face). ❌ That's worse than being trapped in an elevator with a nosy auntie. ❌Worser than eating soggy panipuri all my life But no. Instead of living my peaceful, Karthick-free life, I'm now stuck in a wedding I never signed up for-with him, Mr Always Angry, cactus Karthick. The man who argues with me like it's his full-time job.This isn't a wedding. This is a hostage situation. KARTHICK: If someone had told me I'd be married to Hridhaya, I would have laughed in their face. Or screamed. Or maybe jumped into a crocodile-infested river-less painful than this. I hate her Because marrying Hridhaya? ❌ Using a blunt razor on the face and ending up with battle scars. ❌ Worse than being stuck in a never-ending WhatsApp family group. ❌ Worse than getting stuck in traffic right before reaching home when you really need to pee. She's bossy, loud, and has an answer for everything. And now? She's my wife.This is not a marriage. This is a lifetime sentence. The Real Problem? Between petty sabotage, accidental attraction, and a wedding they never asked for, their battle isn't just about avoiding marriage anymore-it's about surviving it. Because the more they fight, the closer they get... and the closer they get, the more dangerous this game becomes. Brace yourselves. This isn't just a wedding. It's an all out war.

𝓡𝓾𝓱𝓲 𝓢𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓱 𝓡𝓪𝓳𝓿𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲 𝓧 𝓡𝓾𝓭𝓻𝓪 𝓜𝓪𝓵𝓱𝓸𝓽𝓻𝓪 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭'𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻. 𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓸𝓭𝔂𝓰𝓾𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓼𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓬𝓽 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻-𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰. We are worlds apart. She grew up surrounded by love, wrapped in the warmth of a joint family. I grew up alone, left to fight battles life threw at me. We don't make sense together. I have nothing to offer her-no grand promises, no dreams worth sharing. Yet, she managed to steal something I didn't know I could give-my heart. I built walls around myself, hard as stone, to keep her out. But she doesn't break them; she slips through the cracks I didn't know existed. She's healing wounds she didn't cause, mending a soul I thought was beyond repair. 𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝔀, 𝓪𝓼 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓼 𝓘 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓹𝓾𝓼𝓱 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝔂, 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓸𝓷.

AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE LOVE STORY.

Two of the country's most influential families are united by a marriage that exists only in name. Under immense family pressure, Tashyam and Raya agree to marry not out of love, but obligation. Yet on the very night of their wedding, they walk away from each other, abandoning the marriage before it ever begins, and choosing separate paths. Two years later, fate brings them face to face once again. On an unexpected night, Tashyam encounters Raya in a devastating condition, fragile, silent, and carrying wounds no one can explain. Her state raises unsettling questions. What happened to Raya during the two years they spent apart? Why does her past remain shrouded in silence? And what will this sudden reunion mean for a marriage they once left behind? As buried emotions resurface and hidden truths begin to unfold, Tashyam and Raya must confront the bond they tried to escape. Will they give their abandoned marriage a second chance?

#𝟐 𝐢𝐧 "𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞" 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝑳𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒉 𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒋𝒂𝒂𝒎~~♡ 𝑳𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒏 ~ the invisible string of fate, bridging soulmates, though miles apart, their fates played its cards in harmony. Two strangers, barely knowing each other, yet bound by a shared struggle of one-sided love and the fight to find their own identity in the world, as life challenges them at every turn. What began as a facade, a love to hide the cracks of broken hearts, little did they know that fate had already intertwined their lives for eternity. The relationship was fake, but the growing feeling... it was 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍. They held each other's hands in pretense, their destiny linked as a sign of forever. But as their bond deepens, the lines between truth and deception begin to blur. Secrets they tried to bury resurface, threatening to unravel everything they've built. The weight of their unspoken fears hangs heavy in the air. 𝑭𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 turned into a secret love, but can it survive the unpredictable path ahead as their love story comes to light, or will their Lakeerein be 𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 by fate? ~ Fake Dating ~ Forbidden Love ~ Ghar ka chota beta x Ghar ki eklauti beti ~ Family drama ~ Slow burn ~ Rom-Com

Rihaan : "Anya is like the sun... she's the one who makes everything warm and bright, even when I'm scared. I think, if I hold onto her long enough, maybe the world will stay like that-soft and warm, and I won't have to worry about the dark." Ananya : "I would break myself a thousand times if it meant he could stay unbroken. His heart is a fragile thing, and mine will always be the shield that holds him safe from a world that doesn't deserve his light." _______ In the sequel to Innocence, life for Ananya and Rihaan is messy, yet beautifully tangled. Their days are filled with laughter, love, and the subtle ache of a past Rihaan can't fully recall. Ananya, ever the protector, cherishes his innocence, but beneath the childlike demeanor lies a brokenness he's unable to confront. One day, the cracks in Rihaan's facade begin to show. His playful nature falters, and the depth of his trauma surfaces. Ananya is forced to confront a truth she's long feared: Rihaan's past is far darker than she ever imagined. When Raj, Rihaan's brother, finally reveals the horrors he endured in his childhood, Ananya makes it her mission to heal him, to strip away the layers of pain and replace them with love. But Rihaan's mind-torn between the child he once was and the man he's supposed become-resists. The harder Ananya tries, the deeper the battle becomes, as Rihaan's past and present collide in ways neither of them can control. In the end, can love heal what the mind refuses to remember? Or will the ghosts of his past break them both?

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?

•𝐌𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘• "यदा त्वं मम दृष्टे तदा कालो न हन्यते। जन्मान्तरे च त्वया सह अहं तिष्ठामि नित्यदा॥" 【𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐦𝐞. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐬, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮.】 In the divine timeline of the Satya Yuga stood a kingdom that was once revered for its righteousness, harmony, and unshaken dharma. But now, its glory is buried due to a curse. A curse that is waiting for the divine power, that resides in a different timeline. When time and fate tried to bound love, the devotion was carried across eras by the warrior, who denied to bow down to prophecy. Read the story to know what happens when the cursed prince of the Satya Yuga, bound by duty and destiny, travels to the Kali Yuga to find his soulmate. Will he be able to break the curse or get lost in the wheel of time? Will he be able to survive in the era of moral decay? Or will he kneel before the evil forces of the Kali Yuga?

•|| Book Two in a Royalty Series ||• A rose in the imbroglio with the devil incarnate. when lekha crossed vicinities abandoning her family kingdom and travelling to Rakshatra to serve her princess and friend, she gets entangled with the green orificed barbarian devil who rules his own hell. Born with common blood in their veins a fiery bud blossomed in the summer to become the prey of the devil incarnate. -------------------------------------------- A short story on Lekha and Meglos. *Cannot be read standalone. this book is a special gift to all my "Ranisa" readers who wanted more scenes with lekha and meglos* ON POPULAR DEMAND! All rights reserved © Aditi Singh Started on - 18 June 2022