Flowing silk dresses. Structured suits. Empty, forced vows. Soft, sweet nothings. Whispered caresses. Bittersweet kisses. Blue, blue eyes. This is not a love story. This is ruination. 🥀 Rosaline Beaumont. A name that once graced every tabloid, a face that used to be plastered all over social media. A girl that had all but disappeared. But now, four years after everything had turned to ashes in her grasp, she was back under the ever greedy gaze of the cameras, the watchful eyes of high society thirsting to watch their darling unravel. Standing at a wedding altar not of her choice, Rose was on the precipice of vowing to spend the rest of her life with a man she hardly knew. A deadly gamble. A hopeful new start. But could something new truly blossom, when the clutches of the past were dug so deep? Could she ever truly move on, when she couldn't close her eyes without dreaming of him? And could a marriage really last, when her heart would forever beat for another? 🥀 Completed on July 5, 2025.

Best rankings - #1 - Monsoon; #1 - Revenge Plot Aaradhana has spent her life bound by pain and sacrifice, punished for a past she didn't choose. When all hope seems lost and the future collapses around her, a solution arrives in the most unlikely form - Viper. Feared by many and trusted by none, his name is a warning. Still, Aaradhana dares to seek him out, risking everything to strike a deal. And with that one fateful decision, she steps into a world that will rewrite her destiny forever. -x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- "What do you want, Aaradhana?" He murmurs, his hand sliding under my pallu, squeezing my thin waist. "You," I bury my hands in his hair, "I want you." That was it. The moment I handed him the match, and let him set my world on fire. He is temptation wrapped in secrets, a man who could ruin me with a kiss and wreck me with the truth. And I'm not innocent either. I came to him with a deal... and he turned it into a binding I can't escape. We're both too damaged to be safe, too addicted to let go. I bargained with the serpent in a tailored suit. Now I wear his mark. Is this obsession going to be my salvation... or the beginning of my downfall? NOT SLOW BURN | MATURE CONTENT| 18+