#1 of Elite legacy series 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, between hate and heartbeat - 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? Between Hate and Heartbeat - 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."

In a world where death has found a voice, the living cling to survival behind the walls of Stillwoods. Outside, the Eaters roam-zombies driven not by instinct, but by the cunning of ancient, mind-controlling beetles. Aria never imagined, in her first ever battle, her only weapon would be a rusty trumpet... or that one note could turn the tide against a Prime, a lethal zombie unlike any other. In this fight for survival, sound becomes power, and every choice could echo through life-or death. #ONC2026| Prompt #36 #35 ‼️ Content/Trigger Warning: Contains gore, violence, some strong language. All rights belong to the author and no reproductions are allowed without the permission of @Renaissance111. Please respect the author's copyright. 😊❤️ 2026 C.S. Marie