sorakagazitales
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Leaning over her, he traced his large, calloused hand across the pale line of her jaw, his touch burning hot against her cold, trembling skin.
"We met after years... he is just a friend-"
Before she could finish, his hand slid down the length of her leg and firmly caught her ankle.
A violent shiver ran through her entire body at the sudden, absolute hold.
"Ra-Rana Sa, humari baat suniye," she pleaded, her voice breaking into a ragged whisper (Listen to me.)
"Hum... sun hi to rahe hain," he rumbled against her skin. (I am listening.)
Moving with a slow, territorial intensity, he bent down and pressed his lips directly to the arch of her foot.
Janaki shuddered violently, her toes curling automatically against the dark bedspread.
She was paralyzed by the sheer, overwhelming weight of his presence;
she didn't push him away.
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In the heart of the Sekhawat haveli, power is the only currency that matters. And Rana Sa is the man who holds it all.
Janaki Vardhan is the perfect wife: quiet, elegant, and seemingly demure.
But beneath the silk and the silence lies a woman walking a razor's edge.
Her marriage was a cold, calculated deal-a merger of two powerful families-but she soon finds that the real danger isn't the political alliance. It's the man who shares her bed.
Her husband looks through her, treats her like air in the room. He doesn't touch her, doesn't glance at her, doesn't share worda with her.
But is it all? Could the things that are visble on surface level be the only truth?
Or there is more?
she realizes that the only thing more dangerous than his coldness... might be his devotion.
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>Age gap
>Height difference
>Desi
>morally grey mc
>slowburn