There are love stories that make you fall in love ; the ones that give you hope and make you believe in forever. But what about those stories that end with something called ALMOST? Almost love. Almost trust. Almost them. I feel sometimes, love doesn't fail, but the circumstances do. What happens when a nameless orphan with a license to kill crosses paths with a forensic expert who has every reason to bury him ? Set in the heart of Delhi, where power hides behind a polished office and secrets breathe within the walls of the Crime Branch, Akira Vashisht believes in evidence and conclusions that never change. Until him. Farooq Ali has no last known address, no family to call, and no past the government will ever acknowledge. She is 25. Surrounded by a beautiful family, who treat her love life like a group project, especially dadi, who has already mentally planned her wedding to someone well known and respectable. He is 32. Surrounded by silence that follows you from safe house to safe house and tucks you in at night with nothing but a mission file and a loaded weapon. They were never supposed to meet. She finds the evidence. He is the very same evidence. Somewhere between stolen glances across a police cordon and arguments that feel dangerously close to flirting, something neither of them planned for begins to take shape. Not love Not yet Just an Almost. How do you love a man whose name changes with every mission? And How do you trust a woman whose entire existence is built on proving the truth, when yours depends on burying it?

(#1 in AGENT) 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬. 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐨. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥- 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐨. 𝐌𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐮𝐫. 𝐌𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭. ----------------------------------------------- "𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐨, 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞." 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞. ---------------------------------------------- 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬- 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬.

Love is just another word for destruction. But some loves go beyond destruction. A city stalked by a killer. Blood on the floor, secrets behind every locked door. Each clue leads to another lie, and each lie draws someone closer to their own grave. Faces that seem the most innocent are often the ones deceiving you. Every truth uncovered comes at a price. And sometimes, the real danger isn't in the shadows-it's standing right beside you. Trust no one. Or become the next prey.

Featured in: "Head Over Heels" by @Romance "Shattered Memories" by @WattpadAsianFiction "Ace Of Hearts" by @WattpadChicklitIN *** Naina Mathur is an Indian blogger working at Vogue, who couldn't help but wait for her friend Meeta's wedding to arrive. And finally, when she was a month away from the big moment, she couldn't help but pack her bags to rush to India. The last thing that resident surgeon Angad Sharma would ever do was marry the girl his family had fixed for him. He was ready to sell his soul to stop that wedding. That was when destiny chose to reintroduce his crush Naina back into his life. Though Angad was a stranger to Naina, Naina was Angad's soulmate. And when Naina chooses to trust and love that stranger, fate plays the spoilsport in their romance as Naina comes to know that Angad is the guy Meeta was to marry. Will Naina choose her best mate or her soulmate? Will Angad survive the wedding tornado swirling around him? Will Meeta let go of her soulmate for her soul sister? More drama ahead. Enter at your own risk. *** Formerly known as "Turbulent Hearts" Cover by @arrowgig

"Some stories are heard best in silence." Aria is a film student who finds more meaning in the pauses than the dialogue. She lives life in the quiet, editing the world frame by frame. Reyhaan is the noise. As the lead singer of the world-famous band VYER, he's spent his life under stadium lights-until he walked away from it all. Now, he's in Aria's class, not to be seen, but to disappear. When a shared project forces them into the same orbit, they discover a language that doesn't need sound. Between late-night edits and rain-soaked tram rides through Amsterdam, something steady begins to take root. But in a world that never stops talking, can a love grown in the quiet survive the return of the noise? A slow-burn story about identity, artistic longing, and the spaces words can't reach.