Mahira Sharma was no victim. She was a phoenix, forged in the fires of ambition and now, vengeance. The drug bust that had landed Ansh behind bars, his reputation shattered, his future a bleak expanse of concrete walls, was a masterpiece of her own design. A quiet, surgical strike, executed with the same precision she applied to her most complex business deals. Justice, she had learned, was a dish best served cold, and with a side of irreversible ruin.
Yet, even with Ansh neutralized, the embers of disaster still glowed. His reckless actions had left her company vulnerable, a wounded gazelle in a savanna teeming with lions. And the largest, most formidable lion of them all was Yashwardhan Chauhan. His name was synonymous with ruthless acquisition, his conglomerate, 'RP Enterprises,' a shadow that loomed perpetually over her own. He was her antithesis, her equal, and her most dangerous rival.
Mahira, her voice a silken whip, had laid out the terms. She held the leverage, a secret that could unravel Yashwardhan's carefully crafted public image, a weakness he couldn't afford to expose. The price for her silence, for the survival of her company was a ring on her finger and a shared surname. A marriage, not of love or even convenience, but of calculated survival.
"I only wanted to watch the story unfold... not become part of it."
One morning, I awoke not as myself, but as a minor side character in my favorite novel-the quiet daughter of a Count destined to fade into the background. My plan was simple: stay out of trouble and enjoy the view as the heroine and her destined lover blossomed before my eyes.
But fate had other ideas.
The cold, dangerous Crown Prince-the very villain fated to bring chaos-set his sights on me.
Now, instead of peacefully watching the love story I once adored, I find myself trapped in a dangerous game of obsession, desire, and a future that was never written in the book.