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"I have envied you for a long time, hated you for most of my life, and sometimes, in those rare moments when you cried into my arms, I have loved you."
- RUBY
They called her a child of sin.
A mistake born out of a single night of weakness - between a man of law and a woman who loved too recklessly.
Commissioner Ranveer Yadav was known for his honor, the kind of man whose name carried weight even in silence. But when his raid on a human trafficking ring uncovered Devika - his long-lost love - he wasn't the same man anymore. She was barely breathing, broken beyond recognition. And beside her, shivering in the corner, was a girl with his eyes.
Ruby. Fifteen. Trembling. Silent.
The past he had buried was now staring back at him, alive.
He couldn't save Devika. But he saved Ruby.
He took her home.
And that was the day everything began to fall apart.
For Ekant Yadav, the golden boy, life had been perfect - until she arrived.
The bastard child. The ghost of his father's sin.
From the day she stepped into their home, laughter died. His mother's eyes lost their light, and his father stopped coming home. Ruby stood in the center of it all - fragile, guilty, and painfully beautiful - a reminder of everything he'd lost.
He swore he'd make her pay.
For his mother's tears.
For his father's silence.
For every piece of his world she shattered.
But hate is a strange thing.
It lingers. It burns. And sometimes, it turns into something you can't control.
He didn't know when his cruelty softened. When his hatred began to ache. When his anger began to want.
All he knew was this - what they felt was wrong.
And neither of them could stop.