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𝓐 𝓗𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓗𝓮𝓻 𝓝𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓪
Can be read as standalone.
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Sometimes the best lies are the ones you have to live in.
At twenty-one, Rhea Kashyap is done being protected.
Raised by a single mother after her father walked out, Rhea has spent her life under the watchful- sometimes suffocating- care of her overprotective older brother, Kabir. So when he crosses a line in the name of 'looking out for her', she makes an impulsive decision.
Determined to prove she can make her own choices, Rhea does the one thing she knows will shake her brother to the core- she proposes a fake relationship to Vidyut Sharma, Kabir's longtime rival and his wife's friend.
At twenty-five, Vidyut is calm, guarded, and very aware that fake dating his best friend's sister is a terrible idea. He learned very young that attachment always comes with loss. So, he doesn't let him want what he can't afford to lose
But when Rhea needs a place to stay- and a convincing boyfriend- he agrees to the rules: no feelings, no lines crossed, no complications.
Living together was supposed to be temporary.
Pretending was supposed to be easy.
But stolen glances turn into late-night conversations, and playful lies begin to feel dangerously real. As family tensions rise and past wounds resurface, Rhea and Vidyut are forced to confront the one rule they are breaking most...
falling for each other.
She wanted freedom.
He needed a distraction.
Neither planned on falling in love.