It should've ended with distance. A silence. A closed door. But instead, it began here-pressed against a balcony wall, with her breath caught between fear and temptation, and his eyes burning with something far more dangerous than lust.
He didn't touch her. Not yet.
But the threat of it lingered in the space between their bodies, in the way his chest nearly brushed hers every time he exhaled.
She could feel the tension rippling off him, barely contained-like a storm pacing behind his ribcage, just waiting to destroy.
"You shouldn't be here," he said, voice rough, low, and shaking with restraint.
But he was the one who had cornered her.
He was the one who couldn't stay away.
And she?
She hated how much she didn't want to run.
Because this-whatever this was-felt like standing on the edge of something irreversible.
"You're my employee," he snapped. As if the label could cage what was already unravelling inside him.
"You're a mistake I keep choosing."
Her eyes met his-furious, pained, exposed.
"I never asked you to," she said, but her voice cracked around the lie.
His hand lifted slowly, brushing the side of her jaw with a touch that contradicted everything his words said. Possessive. Tender.
He stared at her like she was the very thing he was never meant to want-and the only thing he couldn't stop needing.
"I've spent years building walls to stay in control," he muttered, his thumb grazing her lower lip. "You walk in and wreck all of it... without even trying."
She swallowed hard.
This wasn't love. This wasn't even hate. This was obsession-raw, electric, and utterly doomed.
And as his lips hovered over hers, trembling with the weight of a thousand wrong intentions, they both knew-
🥀It started with a look. It spiraled with a touch. And before they could stop it, they were already each other's greatest undoing.
Book 1 of 'Royally Arranged Hearts' Series
Ranawats are considered as the most powerful family because of the positions they uphold. They are the number 1 businessmen of the country and are very famous worldwide. They are involved in the underworld. Third and the most important one is they are from the royal family of Jaipur.
Shivaay Singh Ranawat would be king and the CEO of the company that holds a huge respect worldwide. He is very cold and merciless. He never thought of getting married but his fate brings him closer to a beautiful girl.
Niharika Verma a girl who is studying to become a cardiologist and to become a successful and independent person who would not rely on others for money. She is kind and sensitive.
What will happen when these two people who are poles apart will be tied into a sacred bond from where there is no escape.
"You will regret marrying me jaan." _Shivaay Singh Ranawat
"God loves to see me suffer, it won't hurt if you will also make me suffer I am used to it. " Niharika Shivaay Singh Ranawat
She said with her brown colored eyes that showed nothing but only and only pain and he hates to admit but he hated that.
How will they pass the ocean of problems?
How will they bear each other?
How will they love each other?
That is a mystery that you need to read if you want to know that.