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Named after a dead girl, born in the aftermath of a funeral, raised as a consolation prize, given to a Don who's in love with a corpse, TamilRoja has only ever been a ghost.
Aaranya, the Don of the Indian Mafia, had to bury his love at sixteen, and when his eyes catch onto TamilRoja, who wears the face of his dead lover, he decides to make her his.
TamilRoja's father - subordinate to the Indian Mafia's southern operations - offers his youngest daughter to the Don, without hesitation. After all, the South has always paid its dues.
To top this, political tensions rise in the mafia world, real danger looms close, TamilRoja discovers a secret about her missing brother, everyone is exactly what they said they weren't, and Agasthya, Aaranya's younger brother and underboss, seems to have his eyes set on a girl he can't have and won't forget.
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"For better or for worse," he says like a curse, "You are mine and I am yours."
I laugh slightly, "I am yours but are you mine?"
"TamilRoja." He says, his voice coated in something I don't understand.
He steps so close, so undeniably close, that if I were to even move the slightest bit our lips would touch.
He leans in and almost like testing the waters he kisses the corner of my mouth.
"I hate you." I whisper even as flowers bloom in my every cell. The words fall out flat and useless almost like I mean the opposite.
"Yeah?" he says, "Say it again."
"I hate-" He steals the word you from me.
And suddenly he's kissing me. His hand is on my waist, my hands are in his hair and somewhere in between my heart falls out of my chest and into his hands.
I love him.
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TROPES:
Mafia Romance
She fell first x He fell harder
Eldest son x Youngest daughter
Political Intrigue
Yearning
Grief
And above all, True Love bleeding like a rose.
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