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Eshal Qadri spent her entire life becoming the perfect daughter - quiet, graceful, obedient, and incapable of choosing herself over her family. A literature student by day and an anonymous Urdu writer by night, she hides her emotions behind poetry nobody knows belongs to her.
Her future seems certain when her family arranges her marriage to Rameez Aafaq, one of the city's most respected cardiac surgeons. Gentle, patient, and impossibly kind, Rameez loves Eshal in the softest ways possible. He never forces her to speak, never demands affection, and never makes her feel like she has to earn his love. Around him, Eshal finds something unfamiliar - peace.
But peace was never meant to survive men like Zaryan Valeed.
Cold, powerful, and feared by everyone around him, Zaryan is a businessman with a dangerous reputation and a heart hardened by betrayal, power, and loneliness. He trusts nobody, keeps the world at a distance, and destroys anything that dares challenge him.
Except Eshal.
Because somewhere between stolen glances, silent protection, and emotions neither of them understand, Eshal becomes the only person capable of calming the chaos inside him.
With her, his voice softens.
His anger fades.
His control breaks.
While Rameez loves her patiently like something sacred, Zaryan loves her like a man willing to burn the world down just to keep her close.
Caught between comfort and obsession, duty and desire, Eshal finds herself trapped in a love triangle that slowly begins destroying all three hearts. As hidden truths surface and jealousy turns dangerous, she realizes love is no longer the beautiful thing poetry once promised her.
Because some men love gently.
And some love like a war.
But the cruelest part of all?
The man feared by everyone had only one weakness.
Her.