"Some love stories aren't meant to survive... only to haunt." Aryaveer Patnaik and Ashmira Maharana belonged to the same world of power, luxury, reputation, and influence-yet they were completely different souls. Ashmira Maharana knew how to stay graceful in every situation. She spoke politely, respected people, and carried herself with quiet elegance. But her silence was never weakness. She knew exactly when to raise her voice and stand for her self-respect. Aryaveer Patnaik, however, was nothing like her. Cold. Ruthless. Emotionally distant. He never believed every problem could be solved with love, patience, or calmness. To him, some battles demanded cruelty. Some people only understood harshness. Where Ashmira carried warmth behind her strength... Aryaveer carried darkness behind his control. Their marriage was never a fairytale. It was built on pressure, circumstances, and emotions neither of them truly understood. He was the kind of man who could protect her from the entire world while slowly becoming the reason behind her pain himself. Possessive, dangerously silent, and impossible to understand-Aryaveer never knew how to love softly. And somehow, Ashmira became the only woman capable of seeing the broken man hidden behind the monster everyone feared. But some people are not meant to heal each other. Some are meant to ruin, scar, and haunt forever. And perhaps that was exactly what Aryaveer Patnaik and Ashmira Maharana were destined to become.." #2 book of "Veils & Vendettas" series Can be read standalone....

Ahhh....ansh slowly i said in trembling voice....... "Sorry sweetheart is it hurting should I stop, are you comfortable....his voice, his concern echo loudly in the room.... EKANSH RANAWAT A man who worship the ground she walks on.... . Mahira Rawat - IFS (Indian Foreign Service) Ekansh Ranawat - IPS (Indian Police Service) She negotiates peace across borders. He keeps the peace on the streets. Once lovers, now professionals - and a threat forces them back into each other's orbit. Between duty and desire- nothing stays simple. Mahira Rawat left college with one promise to herself: never let the same person break her twice. She built a life of diplomacy and steel as an IFS officer - measured, fearless, untouchable. Ekansh Ranawat stayed behind with a different kind of power. As an IPS officer, he lives in the dangerous spaces Mahira's words can't reach - enforcement, protection, and secrets that never sleep. Three years after a single event tore them apart, a college reunion pushes them face to face. Then a national security crisis pulls their worlds together - and suddenly diplomacy and policing must cooperate. Enemies by circumstance. Partners by necessity. Lovers in hiding. When your job is to protect a country, how do you protect a heart? Handcuffs & Diplomacy- a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers dark romance about duty, consequences, and the cost of keeping love alive. It is a completely a fictional story there is nothing to compares with reality ..... --- "Duty first. Heartbeat later." "Diplomacy met danger - and neither knew how to leave." "She signs peace treaties. He signs arrest warrants. Neither can sign off their past." #1 book of "Veils & Vendettas"series.... Can be read standalone....