Gulaabo :- His Arranged Royal Alliance

# Book 1 : Royal Alliance Series

The way you hold me, is actually what's holy...

°• Abhirit Singh Suryavanshi •°

I build empires out of nothing. Production companies, five-star hotels, sprawling resorts, theme parks that defy imagination-everything bends to my will, crafted by my hands. Power, it's my birth right . They call me the puppeteer, the man who pulls the strings while others dance like fools on my stage. Cross me, and your existence becomes a mere inconvenience, erased with a single flicker of my displeasure.

But my father, has woven a noose of a contract around my neck. To claim the throne of Suryagarh-the ultimate jewel of my legacy-I must marry and sire an heir before I turn thirty. A childish clause I signed in my arrogance, and now a ticking clock that threatens to take away the empire I wanted to have since I was born.

Then she arrived. A woman with almond eyes dark as the void covered behind her round black specs, dimpled cheeks , who defies my control with a single glance. The world fears me, but she dares to make me her puppet.

I hate her for it. Almost as much as I crave her.

°• Yukta Rao •°

I've always dreamed of being independent, of living the kind of love stories I read in my books-where the man sees you as the heroine, the one he cherishes above all else. But I'm not like the girls I see around me-beautiful, confident, and whole. I'm broken, scarred, a collection of insecurities stitched together by past hurts. Every time I gave my heart, I gave it completely, and every time, it was shattered.

Now, on my wedding night, I stare at the empty side of the bed, and I can't help but wonder-am I cursed? The man with hazel eyes, the one I thought will always by my side, has also walked away like others.

I crave him from the time I first saw him. But will he ever really see me? Or am I destined to fade into the shadows of my own insecurities, never able to escape the fear that I'm not enough?

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