"Remember this. Your father isn't coming. And neither is mercy." His grip tightened around her wrist until it bruised. She flinched, her hazel eyes filling with tears, yet she remained painfully quiet. Her lips parted as if she wanted to speak, but no sound came. Not because she had nothing to say but because the world had taught her that speaking only invited more pain. They called him the Shah family's protector. They never saw the man buried beneath the responsibility. Aymen Shah died the day everything became duty and survival. That day, when the Shah family broke apart. But what they didn't know is, all along, they lost what they still had. And somewhere along the way, the hero everyone admired became a man capable of being someone else's villain. Noor Malik was born carrying the sins of a monster. A girl who was supposed to be an angel, became the contrary. She wasn't guilty, yet she spent her entire life paying for sins that were never hers. Behind the walls of her own home, she learned that monsters don't hide beneath beds. He vowed to make her suffer for the blood she carried. She prayed he wouldn't become another nightmare she had to survive. Hatred was supposed to be simple... until it wasn't. Because the line between a hero and a villain is thinner than anyone dares to believe. And sometimes, the light you have been searching for has been trapped in darkness all along.

"Why do you look at me like I'm still worth saving?" "Because someone should have looked at you that way when you needed it the most, Sarmad." He was the man the world feared, the man who buried his pain beneath power and silence. She was the girl who spent her life understanding broken souls, never knowing that one day she would meet the one soul that needed to be understood the most. Ayla Yildiz knew kindness could survive even the cruelest storms. Sarmad Abbas knew storms were all he had ever belonged to. She saw the boy hidden beneath the scars he carried. He saw the light he had spent years believing he didn't deserve. But when a man built from darkness meets a woman who refuses to let him drown in it, will love be enough to rewrite the past? Or will the wounds that made him who he is become the very thing that keeps him away from her? A story of broken souls, silent battles, unexpected salvation, and the love that finds someone even when they have forgotten how to be found.

"Why me?" "Why anyone else when you exist, Kabir?" She was the story he couldn't tell anyone and she was the girl who loved him and waited for him even after knowing that he can't be hers. But still, even after all those rejections and heartbreaks, she hoped.. Hoped for the fairytale of theirs which she always dreamt of. Will they have their happily ever after like she desires or is it gonna be, ek tarfa mera safar? A story of unspoken devotion, impossible choices, and the courage it takes to love someone who may never be yours. Cover by @authorrkayyyy

"I have spent my life being nobody's first choice," she whispered. "Then let me be the one who changes that," he answered, steady and impossible. She's a young woman fighting for a new beginning. London is her escape plan, her clean slate, her chance to outrun a past that never learned to let go. He's a man who swears love is a myth. His life is structured around power, precision and the safety of staying untouchable. Then he sees her. One moment. One look. And the man who doesn't believe in love falls with catastrophic velocity. She was never supposed to matter. He was never supposed to feel. Yet here they are, locked in an unexpected merger of fate by a marriage of convenience and chaos. When the woman who's only ever been second choice becomes the one he can't look away from... When the man who built walls now risks dismantling them for her... Is this a temporary alignment of circumstances, or destiny executing a long-term strategy? A story about breaking patterns, reclaiming worth, and discovering that sometimes the heart rewrites the entire plans. • Cover Credits :- @melbourne778