BETROTHED ✓
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deey_jah
Complete, First published May 29, 2021
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It has always been Larai's dream to go to school and become someone prominent in future. She dreams of meeting her Prince charming. She desires true love, but in a community that relegates girl's education to the background and embraces child marriage? Things prove to be even more difficult than she thought it would be when she discovers she had already been BETROTHED to a man who is old enough to be grandfather, since birth. 

She fights so hard to change her fate, but how strong is she, a frail, timid and naive teenager against an entire community? 

Will she eventually wave the white flag?

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Started 14th July 2021

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