ANJALI ~ The Star Around His Scar

SEQUEL TO 'HER REPLACED GROOM'
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"What do you need Ms. ?" He asked irritated.

"Don't you know what it means when a beautiful girl tries to block your path, Mr. Oberoi?" She asked folding her hands on her chest.

"No I don't. Now move aside!" He replied blankly and was about to leave when she suddenly held his wrist making him stop as his heart picked up it's pace.

He turned around to look at her. She quickly withdrew her hand muttering sorry.

"What do you want Ms.? " He asked.

"Your number. And yes my name is not Ms. It's Anjali. Anjali Sinha."

He widened his eyes hearing name.
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Anjali Sinha is many things.
She is bold. She is unapologetic. She is a girl who looked at a stranger across a wedding venue, felt something stir in her chest and decided - without hesitation - to do something about it. Rejection didn't break her. It never does. Because Anjali has spent her entire life learning that if you want something, you go after it. Nobody is going to hand you your dreams. Nobody is going to fight your battles. Nobody is going to choose you if you don't first choose yourself.

Then there is Arhaan Oberoi.
Successor to the Oberoi empire. Controlled. Calculated. A man who has mastered the art of keeping people at arm's length with nothing more than a cold stare and carefully chosen silence. He is someone who has learned - painfully and permanently - that love is not something the universe intended for him. That hope is a dangerous thing. That letting someone close only gives them the power to destroy you.

Arhaan Oberoi does not do feelings. Feelings have consequences. Feelings have made him into someone he spent years trying to forget.
But fate - stubborn and relentless.

What neither of them anticipates is that the story pulling them together is so much bigger than either of them imagined. That the universe connecting them has roots neither of them planted.

Can his darkness survive her shine or will her shine simply consume his darkness?