Not everything that saves you is meant to stay, but when it's the only thing that held you together while you were falling apart, how do you let it go? Some people enter your life with all the certainty of fate, only to leave behind the aftermath of a catastrophe. They were never supposed to become anything more than two strangers living on opposite sides of a wall, seeking comfort in each other's fractures. She carried the ghosts of a past she could never outrun. He carried wounds that never truly healed. "Main sirf tumhein barbaad kar sakti hoon. I don't have anything else to offer you." "How much more can anyone ruin an already wrecked man, treasure?" he murmured. "Ruin me if that is all you believe you can do, but do not abandon me." Perhaps he was always destined to lose her; whatever existed between them had long outgrown the boundaries of reason. He felt like ruin disguised as home. She felt like home disguised as ruin.