Lixie_writes
Two royal families. One arranged alliance. Two brothers.
And one devastating mistake.
Avni Singh, the 23 year-old heiress to the Singh dynasty, has always known that her life would never be entirely her own. As the daughter of one of India's most influential royal families, duty comes before desire and her upcoming marriage to Sarthak Rathore, the younger heir of another powerful dynasty, is supposed to unite two families, two empires, and generations of business and royal legacy.
But everything falls apart when Avni discovers the man she's supposed to marry in the arms of the one woman she never expected to betray her, her own stepsister.
Heartbroken, furious, and drowning her humiliation in alcohol, Avni makes one reckless decision.
She kisses a stranger.
Only he isn't a stranger.
He is Saransh Rathore, Sarthak's 32 year-old elder brother, the heir to the Rathore dynasty, and the one man Avni should never have touched.
What begins as a single forbidden night becomes a secret neither of them can escape because Saransh doesn't look at Avni like a mistake.
He looks at her like something he has no intention of giving back.