Sindhuwrites26
❤️🔥*A river. A sun. A love neither believed in.*
Kaveri Ramanathan has spent her whole life believing she is the kind of person rooms forget. Raised in a Chennai orphanage, plus-size in a world that never let her forget it, she has perfected the quiet art of taking up no space - grateful to be liked, never once expecting to be *chosen.*
Vikram Aditya Devaraj doesn't have that problem. Heir to one of Bangalore's most powerful business families, he is chosen by everyone - boardrooms, magazines, women his mother approves of - and wants none of it. Not since he watched love destroy the two people who were supposed to teach him what it meant. He stopped believing in it years ago. He's never once needed to reconsider.
Until a Tuesday afternoon. Until a laugh he wasn't looking for, from a woman whose face he hadn't even seen.
Brought to Bangalore by Aravind - the brother who has been her father, mother, and shield since she was eleven years old - Kavi is just beginning to learn this city, this language, this strange new life, when her path tangles, irreversibly, with a man who has built his entire existence on never being undone by anyone.
What follows is messy, funny, fiercely tender, and occasionally reckless - two people from different languages, different worlds, different wounds, falling toward each other while everything in both their histories tells them not to. Pride. Family. Jealousy. Misunderstanding. And underneath all of it, something neither of them asked for and both of them, eventually, cannot live without.
She thinks she has never been seen.
He has never seen anyone the way he sees her.
*Some rivers, it turns out, were always going to find the sun.*