She was born in loss.
Her first cry was an echo of her mother's last breath.
From that moment, Adhira Seghal was not the daughter of a home-
she was its burden, its curse, its unspoken wound.
A father who should have been her shield,
turned his face away in shame.
A family that should have embraced her,
made her a shadow in her own house.
But shadows have a language too.
Adhira's was dance.
Every twirl was defiance, every step a prayer,
every silent rhythm a way of saying: I will not break.
And then came Rudraksh Singh Shekhawat.
A man carved by grief,
haunted by a love that had long turned to ashes.
To him, Adhira was no more than a substitute,
a name on a marriage contract,
a woman he swore never to love.
He gave her silence, she gave him smiles.
He gave her absence, she gave him devotion.
He gave her cruelty, she gave him forever.
And still-
she stayed.
She stayed when her father called her a curse.
She stayed when her in-laws whispered bad omen.
She stayed when Rudraksh looked through her,
as though she were nothing but air in a crowded room.
And when his heart bled,
it was her hands that stitched it.
When his body broke,
it was her love that carried it.
When his soul fell apart,
it was her presence that held it together.
But who would hold her?
Who would see the fractures behind her smile?
Who would hear the silence she swallowed every night?
By the time the truth clawed its way into Rudraksh's heart,
her light was already fading.
Her body failing.
Her love, unheard.
This is not the story of a princess crowned with jewels,
but of one crowned with scars.
Not of a fairytale where love rescues,
but of a tragedy where love comes too late.
Adhira Seghal-
the girl who stayed when the world turned away.
The princess who fought with silence,
and loved until it destroyed her.
A story of devotion mistaken for weakness,
of silence mistaken for surrender,
and of a woman who was both the poetry and the ruin of her own tale.
𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐲 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐡𝐠𝐚𝐥
𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 | 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 -𝟏| 𝟐𝟏+
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"You think you can buy me off like the rest of your pawns, Reyansh?"
"I don't need to buy you, Athira. I'll break you... make you beg. And you'll fucking love it."
- - -
To the world, Athira Roy is perfection-a golden girl, the epitome of grace, smiles, and charm. But the moment Reyansh Sehgal enters the room, her light extinguishes into a dim flicker.
They say power is everything, but what happens when the rich heiress is forced to marry the heir to the most dangerous mafia empire?
When love, hate, and dominance blur together until the lines don't exist?
When secrets buried so deep, they were never meant to be uncovered, come crawling to the surface?
Their worlds were never meant to collide-but when they do, it's destructive, chaotic, and inevitable.
Because once those secrets start unraveling.
They'll be bound by more than just fates.
And neither of them will be able to escape.