BENEATH THE SCARS
They say pain changes people. For Aliya Muhammad, it didn't just change her-it built her.
At 15, she watched her world collapse with the loss of her father, a man whose name still echoed through oil empires and wealth that most could only dream of. But money doesn't fill empty spaces. It doesn't sit beside you in silence when the nights get too loud. So Aliya turned to the only thing that understood her-words. Poetry became her escape, her voice, and her way of bleeding without anyone seeing the wounds. Now, at 25, she is known for her strength, her vibrant presence, and the mystery she carries like a second skin. Extroverted. Friendly. Stubborn. Or so she thinks.
Because some people don't knock before they enter your life-they crash in.
Farhan.
At 10, he learned that love doesn't last. Losing both parents carved something cold into him, something permanent. Raised by an uncle who gave him everything except the ability to feel deeply again, Farhan grew into a man who trusts no one and needs nothing-except control. At 30, he is an empire of his own: a brilliant architect, filthy rich, and dangerously attractive. People admire him. Women want him. But no one truly knows him.
And he prefers it that way.
Cold. Calculated. Untouchable.
He doesn't believe in love.
She doesn't believe in letting anyone close enough to try.
But when their paths cross, it isn't soft. It isn't gentle. It's collision. It's tension. It's two broken worlds refusing to bend-yet unable to walk away.
Because sometimes, the people who hate love the most are the ones who were never taught how to keep it.
And sometimes, the girl who hides behind words meets the man who has none.
This isn't a love story.
Or maybe... it is the kind that hurts first.