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When You Weren't Looking
bookishxrich
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  • Reads 40,389
  • Votes 3,534
  • Parts 33
  • Time 7h 11m
bookishxrich
Ongoing, First published Jun 12
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Set in early 2000s India, this is a slow-burn romance of unsaid feelings, stubborn silences, and hearts that take their time to fall.

"I have loved you since I was six."

But I never told him.
Because he was my best friend's brother. Because he was eight years older. Because he never looked at me the way I looked at him.

Years passed. I never moved on.
Not even a little.
And then... he came back-older, colder, and wearing a police uniform. Then, I did the one thing I never dared before.
I wrote him a letter. A letter full of everything I had buried inside me for years.

He read it.
And broke my heart with five quiet words: "You are not my type."

But fate, it seems, has a twisted sense of humour.
One letter. One rejection.
And one arranged marriage proposal later, suddenly, I'm his fiancée.

He asked me to say no.
I said yes.
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