Beneath The scars 📚
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Some debts are paid in money.
Others demand pieces of your soul.
When Risha Verma's family café is destroyed and her father's life hangs by a thread after a devastating heart condition, desperation corners her into a choice she never imagined making. A single contract. Nine months. One secret that could change everything.
The arrangement is simple on paper.
Stay silent. Follow the rules. Never get emotionally involved.
But behind the polished walls of power and wealth lies a world stitched together with control, buried rage, family wars, and dangerous truths, that refuse to stay hidden. And the deeper Risha sinks into it, the more she realizes that some scars do not heal quietly.
They bleed beneath the skin.
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