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Maya never meant to fall in love with her boss.
It began quietly-too quietly to notice when the line blurred. Arjun was everything her world wasn't: controlled, distant, impossibly composed. At thirty-nine, he carried authority like a second skin, his presence commanding silence in boardrooms and obedience in corridors. To Maya, he was intimidating at first... and then slowly, dangerously magnetic.
She worked in his office, close enough to observe the cracks no one else saw. The way his jaw tightened when he was tired. The rare softness in his voice during late evenings when the office emptied. He was married, yes. A fact she told herself she understood, that she respected. He had a family. A wife. Two children. A complete life that existed far away from the glass walls of the company.
But feelings do not obey rules.
Maya, with her open heart and fearless honesty, fell without resistance. She loved deeply, recklessly, the way only someone young and alive could. Arjun didn't touch her heart at first-he reached her silence, her curiosity, her need to be seen. And when he finally crossed the line, it wasn't with promises, but with moments stolen in shadows and glances held too long.
What started as tension became closeness. What became closeness turned physical-heated, consuming, impossible to undo. Arjun never spoke of love, yet the way he looked at her said enough to keep her hoping. With her, he was no longer the cold CEO. He laughed softly. He listened. He let himself feel.
And that was the most dangerous part.
Because every time Maya left his office, reality waited. His ring. His home. His children calling him father. She was never meant to exist in that world-only on the side of it, hidden and unspoken.
Maya loved a man who could never be hers.
Arjun wanted a woman he could never choose.
And somewhere between desire and guilt, a dark love began to take shape-one that would demand a price neither of them was ready to pay.....