Five years ago, Eric Valence left Draven H. Malcom's hometown to find himself within the literary industry. The passing of his friend Melissa drove him away, and he soon became a well-known author.
However, when Draven H. Malcom encounters Eric Valence at an award show, he was taken aback when Eric was no alone, rather with his new fiancé, Kyle Merchi.
The ongoing battle for Eric's attention between Draven H. Malcom and Kyle Merchi is causing tension within the literary industry, and when information become exaggerated in the media, storylines for new comic books leaked to other authors, Draven H. Malcom is left confused as to who to trust.
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"I don't know what else to do. Coming back here made me realize how much I love you but I can't just forget about what Kyle did for me, we were together two years-!"
"I never said you fucking had to!" Draven shouted, broadening his shoulders, "All I asked was for you to be real with me. I didn't come to you and ask you to have sex with me, you came to me. I didn't ask you to come tell me you love me again, you came to me. Nobody asked you to fucking break up with your fiancé, Eric!"
"Then what do you want me to do?!"
"Nothing!" Both of them had been screaming their lungs out, Draven with veins in his neck as he continued, "Not a fucking thing!"
"Draven, come on-"
"No, just stop, please."
"I love you, you know that." Eric tried to reach for him again, and was surprised that when he touched Draven's fingers, Draven did not pull away. "Don't give up on me, please Draven."
Draven shook his head, "Then choose. It's either Kyle or me, choose right now."
Eric seemed taken by surprised, and he frowned, "I can't do that."
"Then we're done."
They performed her last rites.
While she was still alive.
Akshara Maheshwari was erased from her own family before she could even understand what she had done wrong. Abandoned, forgotten, and declared dead, she disappeared from the world that once called her blood.
Years later, she returns - not as a broken child begging for answers, but as AK - a name the world admires, fears, and follows.
She doesn't come back for forgiveness.
She doesn't ask for love.
And she doesn't reveal herself easily.
Because some wounds don't need apologies -
they need truth, power, and reckoning.
As the Maheshwaris celebrate, lie, and protect their secrets, the past claws its way back into the present.
A past involving betrayal, silence, a sold child, and a savior who changed her fate.
What happens when a family realizes the daughter they buried...
is the woman who now controls their empire?
And what if revenge isn't her goal -
but taking back what was always hers?
A story of abandonment, survival, silent revenge, and a girl who learned to smile while planning her return.
Read to find out:
Will the truth destroy them...
or will Akshara destroy the truth first?