everinktales
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I hate her.
But I love her a little too much in desi fits.
Draped in elegance, she walks toward me. And as I sit in the wedding aisle, surrounded by rituals and vows I never asked for, she becomes the only thing my eyes can see.
Astara Bharadw-
No.
MRS. ASTARA PARISKSHIT RAGHUVANSHI
My soon-to-be wife.
The one person I claim to despise.
And yet, her mere existence makes my heart betray me. That is what I hate most about her.
This marriage was never her choice.
It wasn't fate's either.
It was mine.
I planned it. I arranged it. I told the world it was two powerful families coming together. The Bharadwajs and the Raghuvanshis. A union built on tradition, respect, and old expectations.
That part was true.
What I didn't say was this-I couldn't let her be someone else's wife.
I knew everything about her. Her habits. Her fears. The way she goes quiet when she's hurt. I watched from a distance long before I stood beside her at the altar.
She sits beside me, and the first thing I notice is her hand, extended as the pandit asks. Her palm. Her palm is adorned with intricate henna-dark, impossibly dark.
How?
I never loved her.
Then why is her mehndi this deep?
The thought cuts sharp. Did she write another man's name on her skin?
My jaw tightens at the thought. That made me twist my neck. If she did, that man is already dead in my mind.
Because whether I want it or not, once something becomes mine, it belongs only to me.
ONLY MINE.
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