#1 bottom ( 15.04.2026) #6 bl ( 25.04.2026 ) "I hate you," he said...his voice trembling with fury. "I hate your voice. I hate the very sound of your breathing." Before he could walk away, fingers curled around his collar, slamming him against the wall. A whisper followed...low, dangerous, and sealed like a dark promise. "It isn't hatred," he murmured. "It's love. Whether you accept it or not." "Lies," came the broken reply. "Everything you've said is a lie." "Yes, I lied," he admitted calmly. "And I'll lie again if I have to. I'll do anything....but I will never let you walk away from me." The cold sting of a syringe pressed into his skin. ~~~~●●●●~~~~~●●●●~~~~~~~~●●●●~~~~~●●●~~ Agniv Mehra, a 24-year-old Indian student, arrives in New York carrying ambition, rebellion, and a past he refuses to speak about. He doesn't follow orders. He never has. Karen Craves, a 32-year-old British professor, is authority personified-controlled, commanding, and dangerously unreadable. Everyone listens to him. Everyone obeys. Except Agniv. Two men.Two secrets. One Line should never meant to be crossed When stubborn defiance collides with ruthless obsession, boundaries blur, lies deepen, and control becomes addictive. Is this love...or something far more merciless? And when the truth finally surfaces... will either of them survive it? Tropes & Themes ●Top Student × Bottom Professor ●Dark Academia ●Power Play ●Age Gap (8 years) ●Mild BDSM ●Lies & Manipulation ●Good Boy Kink ●Indian × British ●Hidden Identities ●Obsession vs Control

"Sometimes we call it hate because love would have ruined us." They used to be inseparable... two boys against the world, bound by a friendship that felt like forever... until it shattered. Now, years later, Kairav Sinha is everything people expect, charming, reckless, the college football captain who doesn't believe in staying. And Ishaan Sehgal? He's the opposite, cold, composed, the student president who built walls no one dares to cross. They've learned how to ignore each other. How to walk past without stopping and how to pretend there's nothing left. But when they're forced into the same space again, it doesn't feel like nothing. It feels like unfinished conversations. Like words that were never said.... Like something that never really ended. And maybe it didn't, because the more they try to keep their distance, the harder it gets to ignore the way their eyes linger at each other... the way it stings to see the other with someone else... the way hate starts to feel a little too much like something else. Maybe some things don't fade or leave. Maybe... the boy he learned to hate was always the one he couldn't let go of.

sʜᴀᴛᴛᴇʀᴇᴅ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ sᴇʀɪᴇs - 𝟷 ✧˖°── .✦────☼༺☆༻☾────✦.── °˖✧ Avi and Varun grew up holding on to each other tighter than fate ever planned. Best friends. Roommates. Almost inseparable. Until one kiss changed everything. One truth neither of them are ready to face. One choice that will cost everything. Between love that hurts and the responsibility that binds - can two people find their way back to each other, or will growing up finally pull them apart? ✧˖°── .✦────☼༺☆༻☾────✦.── °˖✧ ·:*¨༺ 𝔗𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔰 ༻¨*:· 💜 Best Friends to Lovers 💜 Slow Burn 💜 Shared Apartment 💜 Angst 💜 Jealousy 💜 Drunken Confessions 💜 Touch Him & Die 💜 Second Chance 💜 BL / Boy x Boy 💜 Playboy x Charmer ≿━━━━༺❀༻━━━━≾ 𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐚 - The Sunshine & Charmer 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧 - The Playboy & Chaos ≿━━━━༺❀༻━━━━≾ 🔞 Mature content - 18+ only Read at your own risk. New chapters regularly. Follow so you don't miss what's coming💗 If this story finds you - vote and let me know. It means everything 🤗 First book of this series and completely in english...Can be read as a standalone 🎀 Happy Reading 🫶🏻 🥰