Love that comes with a condition

Nandini Ahuja never imagined her life would change with a signature.

At twenty, she was content in her quiet world-final-year literature student, daughter of a self-made businessman, lover of simple joys and silent corners. Her days were filled with poetry, paperbacks, and the comfort of knowing that love-if it ever arrived-would come softly, and on her own terms.

But fate had other plans.

When her father enters a high-stakes business deal with one of the country's most powerful corporate empires, Nandini is blindsided by the fine print: marriage.

To a man she barely knows.

A man who is everything she isn't.

Arnav Singh.

At twenty-eight, he is cold, calculating, and infuriatingly controlled. The CEO of a billion-dollar empire handed to him on a silver platter, Arnav knows the rules of power all too well-and he plays to win. For him, marriage is not about love. It's about legacy, loyalty, and leverage. And if it takes a signature and a ceremony to seal the deal, so be it.

But Nandini isn't just another condition in his contract.

She's fire wrapped in quiet rebellion, softness laced with steel.

And what begins as a forced arrangement soon unravels into a dangerous dance of proximity, tension, and feelings neither of them can afford.

He never believed in love.

She never wanted a love like this.

But sometimes, the heart doesn't wait for permission.

It simply chooses.