Naqab (Standalone "Raichand Brother Saga Universe")

"A story of the boy who was never meant to be seen..."

He wasn't abandoned in the dead of night.
He was abandoned in the daylight - eyes open, voices loud.
Left behind not because he was lost...
but because he was born wrong.

Rohan never had a family.
He had a place - cold, clinical, temporary.
He had people - indifferent, passing, practical.
But never belonging. Never love.

Scoliosis, they said. Deformity, they whispered.
But he learned early - the curve in his spine hurt less
than the silence that followed whenever he entered a room.

He didn't carry hatred.
Just questions.
Why was being different a reason to be erased?

Now, at 15, Rohan isn't searching for those answers.
He isn't looking for lost parents or perfect reunions.
He came back for one reason -
Aayan.
His friend. His compass. His only constant.

But fate is rarely kind.

He is forced to walk back into the lives of people
who made him feel like nothing -
and act like they remember.

They don't.

And maybe he doesn't want them to.
But what if living under their roof isn't a choice?
What if pretending to be part of a family that never claimed him
is the only way to destroy himself?

"Naqab" - the standalone book in the universe of Raichand Brothers Saga -
is not about revenge.
It's not about pity.
It's about survival.
It's about a boy who was never invited into the world he was born into,
and still chose to walk with his head high.

This is not a story of forgiveness.
It's a story of boundaries, of hidden truths,
and of a boy who learned to wear his pain like armor.

He never wanted to belong.
He just didn't want to be erased.