Once upon a time, Arundhati Shah was the girl who believed in soulmates, reincarnations, and second chances, the girl who loved Aiden Acharya from the time they were fifteen years old, straight through law school, straight into a ring on her finger and a wedding on the calendar. Now she's just the Ace. Twenty-six years old. Managing partner of her own firm. Harvard undergrad, Yale Law, a hundred percent win record, and a client list of the rich, the ruthless, and the unforgivable. She charges a hundred thousand dollars a case and has never once lost. She's the most feared, and most beautiful, attorney in Manhattan, and everyone from cable news anchors to sitting senators is convinced she's building toward something bigger. A Senate seat, maybe. A legacy. Whatever it is, Aru Shah plans to win it the way she wins everything: alone. She hasn't spoken to Aiden Acharya in three years. Hasn't spoken to Brynne, or Mini, or Nikita, or Sheela. Hasn't let herself look at a single headline about the boy who once sacrificed his life for her, who built a hundred borrowed dollars into a media empire. Now Aiden's a billionaire CEO with the kind of face that stops elevators and the kind of company that makes front-page news, and he's just been arrested for the murder of his own best friend and co-founder, Marcus Wren. Every piece of evidence says he did it. Every lawyer in the city says the case is unwinnable. His own board is drafting his replacement before the trial even starts. And the only people left standing beside him are the two friends who once chose his side over hers, desperate, out of options, and about to do the one thing Aru swore she'd never let them do again: bring her back into his orbit. Because there's exactly one attorney in New York with a record good enough to save him. And she used to be the love of his life.

Random Aruden+ Other TPQ ship oneshots I made up at 2am. Yall we read and we don't judge, Its my first time writing on Wattpad so................ ENjoy.

"...𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔..." Aru Shah is the younger princess of the Rakshasi kingdom. She's got a great life: loving parents, a WONDERFUL big sister, a great best friend, and generally nothing getting in the way of it. Except, of course, the Devas. The war with Indraprastha- the kingdom of the Devas- has been going on and off for thousands of years with no end in sight. So when the Devas cross a line and threaten the royals themselves, Aru goes to their kingdom to give them a kick in the face. But the people she had thought to be mindless monsters turn out to be everything but. "...𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚..."

Aru Shah's life get's absolutely upturned when she has to move from her beloved mother's house to her aunt's orphanage. Not choice, but need. But there, she finds true companionship when she meets Mini and Brynne who are also stranded in the place. And the mysterious, closed up, Aiden Acharya: beautiful, perfect, ethereal. And silent. He won't talk to her, anyone, and no one knows anything about him. As Aru navigates the true secrets behind her sentence to the orphanage and helps Brynne understand her past, she finds herself drawn to the cold boy who keeps everyone out.