His Aid, Her Shade

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐤 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬/𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝.

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗥𝗼𝘆, a bubbly yet mature girl finally completes her four grueling, exhausting, depressing and utterly stressing years finishing her medical degree, she's officially a physiotherapist. Yay!

Well, not yet. Her momentary bliss is cut when she enters the office of her university dean.
Her university still needs to assign her into an 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. If they get a positive feedback from her temporary employers, it will leave a huge 5-star on her degree. She can't let that opportunity slip from her hands. Not when her past haunts and convinces her to go beyond her limits.
What happens when her internship lands her amongst India's pride, and a certain flamboyant, charismatic and audacious male with a heart-stuttering smile?

𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲𝐚, a man known for his out-standing athleticism and talent on the field of cricket, is caught off-guard when a middle-class girl, meant to be his team's physiotherapist, cracks the carefully built walls around his heart. He's even more shocked when she sees right into his soul, and wrangles out all the emotions he didn't dare acknowledge.

Amongst family, friends, exes and painful pasts will these two break the borderlines of professionalism and unravel each other?

***This story contains mature adult content that may not be appealing to everyone.