This is a short story about Tahir and Mercan. It shows how a young boy developed a deep love for his childhood best friend, Mercan, and how he grew into a man while holding onto that love. After they were torn apart, Tahir vanished and became Ateş Karahan just to survive the cruelty of life. For twenty years, he has loved her secretly from far away, watching over her every day until the moment finally comes where he introduce himself as Ateş Karahan to Mercan.

This is a story of obsession that feels like protection, dominance that masks fear, and longing that survives even when love fails. In this book, Ates love too fiercely and say too little. Mercan feel too deeply and wait too long. Between them lie moments that could have changed everything but didn't. Graveyard confessions, late-night drives heavy with unsaid truths, stolen touches that linger longer than words, every story captures a fragment of a love that was never simple. This book is not about happy endings. It is about almosts, afters, and what remains. For readers who believe that sometimes love don't fade they fracture, and live on quietly inside us. Purva Narang ~

A fanfiction on popular Turkish Drama "Arafta." Will try to alternate some slot with some story angles. Mostly one shots and series of shots.

In the cold, calculating world of the Karahan empire, Ateş Karahan is a man who takes what he wants and keeps what is his. He rules with a legendary stubbornness that leaves no room for defiance-until his path crosses with Mercan Yildirim. A girl who has only seen luxury and protection Mercan is a world away from Ateş's iron-fisted reality. But when fate intervenes, their separate lives collide in a whirlwind of obsession and duty. Can two warring legacies coexist, or will the weight of their names destroy the very thing they are trying to protect? Two families. One unbreakable will. A love that was never part of the plan.

A standalone story continuing from "If we die we die together" after the graveyard scene from Episode 100 of Arafta. The story is also called Arafta Season 2. It is entirely fictional. The sole purpose of this story is to give all lead characters proper closure, peace and respect that they deserved. Will Ateş Survive? Will Mercan and Ateş have a lovely peaceful married life ahead?

Mercan Yildirim survived against all odds, she thought she was destined to live a lonely life. But fate had other plans. Ates Karahan was a man of few words, but he was fiercely protective of his own. He would go to any lengths to make sure what's his will stay his. Mercan's will doesn't stand a chance in front of Ates's stubbornness. But will fate allow them to lead separately or will they have to put their differences aside for their loved ones?

Retelling of the Turkish Show: Arafta Bound By Fate The characters would remain the same, however the plot lines would differ from the show.

He bought her freedom... and chained her to himself instead. When her father's debts threaten to destroy everything, a stranger steps in with salvation - Ates Karahan, a powerful and dangerously controlled businessman with eyes that hide storms and secrets. His offer is simple. The debt disappears. Her family survives. And she becomes his wife. For 187 days. Forced into a contract marriage she never agreed to, Mercan enters a world ruled by cold rules, hidden motives, and a husband who treats emotions like weaknesses. To the world, they are the perfect couple. Behind closed doors, they are strangers bound by obligation, resentment... and an undeniable tension neither of them expected. But Ates didn't marry for love. He married for revenge. As past wounds resurface and truths begin to unravel, hatred slowly collides with desire, and the line between fake and real starts to blur. Because the biggest danger isn't the contract... -it's what happens when hearts refuse to follow it. 187 days. One contract. Zero promises. And a love neither of them planned to feel. This story will be according to my imagination 🤧🙌🏻 Following the Show some characters and their personalities will be the same.. HOPE YOU ALL WILL LIKE THIS STORY VOTE AND COMMENT ✨🤍 AND SUGGEST ME IF U WANNA ADD SOMETHING

Some people you are destined to find , not because the universe is kind, but because the wound that made you and the wound that made them were cut by the same hand. This is a story about revenge that becomes something else. About enemies who were never really enemies. About the truth that surfaces no matter how deep you bury it and two people who find each other in the ruins of everything they thought they knew. He came to destroy her world. She came to find him. They found each other instead.

> "They were bound by revenge, trapped by fate, and doomed by love." --- 🔥 Ateş POV ~ "I married you for revenge... but loving you became my punishment." "I wanted to break your world, Mercan. Instead, you became mine." 🌙 Mercan POV. ~ "You entered my life like a storm... but somehow became my shelter." "Even when you hurt me, my heart chose you." --- Tropes.. ~ 💍 Marriage of Convenience 🔥 Enemies to Lovers 💔 Revenge Turns Into Love ⏳ Temporary Marriage / Time-Bound Love 🖤 Cold Male Lead × Soft but Strong Female Lead 🌪️ Dark Past / Broken Hero 💕 Forced Proximity 😭 Slow Burn Romance 🩸 Family Feud 💌 He Falls First (but hides it) 🌙 Angst with Romance 🕊️ Healing Through Love 🖤 Touch-Her-and-Die Energy 🪞 Love vs Destiny