Protectivefmc Stories

Ishani Kukreja learned early that survival isn't about strength-it's about control. Daughter of a ruthless former mafia boss, she grew up a princess of shadows: trained to fight, to shoot, to survive. By the time she could make her own choices, there wasn't much left of her that resembled innocence. She became a doctor to save lives, to protect those her family's dark world couldn't-but a few kills on her own name prove walking away isn't that simple. Ishani exists in a world she neither trusts nor respects-until she meets a man who is the very definition of evil. The problem? Ishani doesn't flinch. She meets darkness with bravery, and that is far more dangerous than hiding from monsters. Vayde Rao doesn't ask. He doesn't warn. He doesn't tell you to run-unless he plans to chase. And Ishani? She doesn't run. She fights.

tw's: mentions of emotional and physical child abuse, drugs, alcohol "You'd love me even if the star doesn't shine?" "Even then, Nova. Even then." This is a reverse grumpy x sunshine, childhood ex best friends college hockey romance. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Maeve Nova Leigh-Foster. She's the girl I've known since I was five years old. The only thing I knew that was right at such a young age. But when we're forced apart and reunited over seven years later, nothing's the same. She hates me as much as I love her. She can't even look at me when all I can do is stare. She doesn't even breathe in my direction when all I want is her. But do I take the hints that she doesn't want me around? No. I plan on earning her back even if it opens things from our past that leaves us both even more heartbroken than the start.