Under His Shadow

They called it a marriage.
She called it a trap.
and he? he called it karma.

Sitara Rajvanshi, the daughter of Udaipur's royal bloodline, had lived her life behind rules, tradition, and silence. But her silence was never weakness-it was survival. Until one day, the silence shattered with a single sentence.

"Tumhari shaadi fix hui hai, Sitara... Abhay Rathore se."

Not a request. A command.

Abhay Rathore-a king in his own right, a business tycoon by name, and something far darker in the shadows. He didn't believe in love. He believed in control.

For him, this marriage was business. Revenge wrapped in rituals.

He didn't want a wife-he wanted her family destroyed slowly.

And Sitara? She was the perfect pawn.
sitara: "jab dil ki deewar girti hai na, toh aadmi nahi... sach bahar aata hai."

abhay: "aur mere andar ka sach... tum dekh bhi nahi paogi."

But something unexpected happened.
The girl he thought would break... refused to bow.

The silence he mistook for weakness... turned out to be fire.

And the heart he believed was frozen... started to beat.

She challenged him in ways no one ever dared. Her eyes questioned his pain. Her presence scratched at wounds he had buried under power.

"Main tumse pyaar nahi karta, Sitara. Aur kabhi karunga bhi nahi."
Achha hai. Main bhi kisi khokhli mohabbat ki umeed lekar nahi aayi."

In a world of politics, bloodlines, secrets, and shadows-two souls bound by hate were pulled together by something far more dangerous...
Desire.
And the worst part?
The one man who planned to destroy her... now couldn't afford to lose her.