The women in her world are given three choices. Be perfect. Keep secrets. Or run. At nineteen, Meerab Alarcón chose the third - leaving her family, Los Angeles, and Murtasim Khan behind. In that order. Eight years later, he walks back in like he belongs there. A man who notices everything, says nothing, and refuses to leave. She has two rules. Rule one: nobody gets close enough to hurt her. Rule two: Murtasim Khan is not an exception. She just can't figure out why rules are suddenly so hard to keep.

✮ 𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𓂃⟡˙ ⋆ Four ruthless brothers. Four broken brides. One binding fate. What will happen when the four Rajvardhan brothers, cold-hearted, power-driven, and scarred by their pasts, are forced into marriage under family pressure? Thrown into unwanted vows with four women, these men are about to face a storm of secrets, rebellion, and desire. Will they cage the women they're bound to, or set themselves on fire in the process? But within the heart of this empire, beneath the gold and glass, something else is moving. Something ancient. Watching. A whisper in closed rooms. A name erased from every record. A presence that slips through power like smoke, leaving chaos in its wake. They call it a phantom, a myth, a curse woven into the Rajvardhan bloodline, a force that does not bleed, does not bow, and cannot be seen. It moves between them, twisting truths, and marking its next prey. And as the brothers fall for the women meant to ruin them, the shadow begins to rise, pulling everyone into a game where love is a weapon, and survival is the only sin worth committing. The question isn't who will win. It's who will remain once the phantom is done rewriting history. ! MATURE CONTENT ! Started on: 01/08/2025.

He killed her mother to save her life. That life of hers turned into a living hell in his absence.

"𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱'𝓼 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓮, 𝓪 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓬𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓼 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮. 𝓑𝔂 𝓻𝓸𝓸𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝓼 𝓸𝓷𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓯𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓼, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝔀𝓸𝓷." 𝕍𝕚𝕘𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕤: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕦𝕥𝕝𝕒𝕨𝕤 follows a group of five university students who discover they've gained extraordinary powers, propelling them into the role of unlikely heroes. Bound by friendship and fate, they must confront a cosmic entity whose shadow threatens to consume all. As they struggle with their abilities, dark secrets, and each other, the group unravels ancient mysteries through cryptic dreams and visions, leading to a battle where only the combined force of cosmic and nature's essence can tip the scales between light and darkness.

𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐱 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 (A multimedia-epistolary story) (Read Hurt Side:A for understanding) 7 years later A reunion mail is sent to all the students including her. Thousand of unasked questions. And the greatest of all- did they make it?

"Back then, I didn't know what to call it. Not the ache. Not the silence. Not the way I only ever felt like myself when she was near." He was when the world teaches him to perform - to smile, to sing, to pretend. In a school where he's everybody's favorite boy, no one knows what he hides. Not the pain. Not the shame. Not the secret that makes his stomach twist every time his uncle calls him "beta." She was the new girl in school - blunt, curious, loyal to a fault. She doesn't understand why he flinches at touch or why he stares at the stars as if they owe him answers. But she stays. And in her quiet stubborn way, she becomes his only safe place. Until she isn't. Because in this world, she isn't safe either.

it takes seven days for the poison to work. seven days until ACP Darsh and his team figure out the mess untill the killer takes away something very dear to him. Because the count has begun

"Six years and you still hate me, hm?" "Of course. You're unbearable, González." "Somehow you manage to handle me, though." ✧✧ In which childhood friends/rivals reunite years later...and as they get to know each other again, they start to feel an underlying tension pulling them closer than ever.

3 failed attempts. One impulsive journey with strangers. And 20 days of freedom. Nothing ever will stay the same for Arvind Singh