𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚 ~ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥'𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 ( 𝐃𝐮𝐞𝐭 #𝟐 )

This book is the sequel to 'Prisha: The Devil's Solace'. I suggest you read that book first, and then continue with 'Prisha: The Devil's Claim'."

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She stared at him with trembling eyes, her vision blurred by unshed tears. He was hers-her Rudhransh, her devil, her monster husband. Once, he had belonged only to her. But everything had changed three years ago. Now, he loathed her, despised her with a fury that left scars deeper than any blade.

And to hurt her, to shatter whatever was left of her soul, he was doing the unthinkable.

He was marrying someone else.

He was becoming someone else.

The room swam around her as she watched him fill another woman's hairline with vermillion, his fingers steady, his expression indifferent. The mangalsutra lay against her throat like a verdict, final and merciless.

Her heart twisted violently inside her chest, every beat sending cracks through her already fragile existence. She took a step back-then another-as the cruel reality crashed down on her, suffocating her completely.

Gone.

He was gone.

The last hope she had nurtured for six years-the hope that one day, somehow, he would be hers again-had just been crushed beneath the weight of his betrayal.

Her steps faltered.

Her vision darkened.

Before she could process the whirlwind of agony ripping through her, she felt herself falling-plummeting into nothingness.

Then-darkness.

Cold. Silent. Suffocating.

A shiver ran down her spine as the eerie quiet wrapped around her like chains, holding her captive.

And then-his voice.

Deep. Laced with something dangerous.

"What will I do with you, dewdrop?"

Her breath hitched.

No. No. It wasn't possible.

Her fingers curled against the unforgiving floor beneath her as realization struck with brutal force.

"Is Rudhransh here with her? Or is she just dreaming with her eyes open?" And who is on mandap