lostbruberry
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖔𝖜𝖘 𝕾𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝕿𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖊
╰┈➤ "𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌."
Arohi has always known the cruelty of irony, a romantic heart trapped in a body that might betray it at any moment.
She dreams of being loved, of being wanted as something more than fragile, more than the girl with the faint heartbeat that stutters at the smallest provocation. She longs to be seen not as breakable, but as whole.
So when her sister's fiancé asks her to help his friend, a widowed father desperately in need of a nanny, she says yes. It's just temporary. Just kindness. Just safe.
Until it isn't.
Maan Agnihotri is everything she didn't expect. A criminal lawyer with a courtroom reputation for being unshakeable, yet his hands are gentle when he braids his daughter's hair. His words are soft in the quiet moments. And his eyes, those dark, intense eyes, make her feel more alive than her own heartbeat ever has.
For the first time, her heart races for entirely pleasant reasons.
But she can't let herself believe it's real. His wife, the woman he loved fiercely, is gone. What if Arohi is just warmth in the cold? What if those lingering glances exist only in her desperate imagination? Why would a man like Maan, brilliant, grieving, whole, want someone like her?
Yet slowly, painfully, beautifully, she's learning that sometimes the romantic heart does get its fairy tale. Not without scars. Not without fear. But perhaps worth every ache, if the man at the center of it is named Maan.