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Meher Kukreja is a teacher-soft-spoken, gentle, the kind of woman who builds her life around quiet love and the promise of stability. She is pregnant, happy, and finally stepping into a future she believes is safe.
Until the night everything collapses.
At her engagement party, a sniper targets a mafia boss. The shot misses its true mark-and instead kills her fiancé in front of everyone she loves. In seconds, Meher loses her partner, her future, and the life she was quietly building.
The aftermath is chaos. Blame. Panic. A grieving family left unstable in the wake of violence no one can control.
And in the middle of it all stands Zavian Zorawar, billionaire businessman by daylight, feared mafia boss by reputation. Ruthless, controlled, and used to deciding outcomes before others even understand the cost.
He doesn't offer comfort. He offers a solution.
MARRIAGE.
A way to stabilize the situation. A way to take responsibility for the woman now left exposed, pregnant, and tied to a death that has shaken their world.
To everyone else, it looks like protection.
To Meher, it feels like being pulled into something she never agreed to survive.
It should have been simple. A contract. A name on paper. Survival.
Meher agrees.
But on the wedding night, she disappears.
She leaves behind a letter. She thinks she has escaped him.
She hasn't.
Because men like Zavian Zorawar don't lose what they've already decided to claim.
And women like Meher still think running is an option.
Until they learn what happens when the monster stops asking her to stay... and starts making sure she never has to choose again.