Journey of love - KriYam SS

Despite being born within wedlock, Sayyam had been abandoned by his mother, Mrs Suhani Birla, who after giving him birth, had left him in an orphanage, forgotten about his existence, and gone back to live her life as Yuvraj Birla's wife - the man sentenced to jail for the murder of Sayyam's father.

Now, after two decades and a half, Sayyam - who had lived his life in an orphanage, after finding out the supposed truths - had enough of being the only one who was suffering. Intending to take revenge and along with millions of questions, Sayyam barged into Birlas' lives like a hurricane, discovered himself, the whole truth, and learned to love and to be loved.

Krishna was an orphan who couldn't claim to be one as she was loved by the Birlas, or at least, by some of them. With her father missing before her birth, and no memory of her dead mother, it was easy for her to see Suhani her mother figure, and accept Birlas as her only family. Sheltered by Suhani's overly protective nature, nurtured by the wisdom of Dadi, she lived her life as Yuvaan's sidekick. Yet suppressed under Suhani's wings, Krishna hadn't known how to fight on her own or for herself, until Sayyam came into her life like a storm, turning everything upside down.

Sayyam, to her, was a force of nature, rage in persona, a wounded animal to pay caution to. Within days of knowing her, he had forced her out of her meekness by cornering her enough for her to fight back. Whenever he snapped at her for walking into him, taunting her for her lack of backbone, a fire sparked within her that made her fight back, harder than their last fight, forcing her to discover a hidden side of her: she had a voice, could scream, could be vindicative, could plot and plan, be restless with the urge to hurt someone.

Together bounded by an act of revenge, they discover how similar they are in their pain, loneliness, longing, and in their desire to be accepted.

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Book Cover by the lovely @_khusiyaan_