Even After Years

For five years, Sia has lived in a marriage that felt more like a punishment than a partnership.
Dev - her husband, the eldest son of the respected Mehra family - never let go of the grudges he carried. Every word turned into an argument, every silence a wall between them. And in the suffocating walls of a joint family, everyone saw her struggle, but no one dared to speak against Dev.

Sia learned to endure. To live without expecting love. To hide the emptiness behind her smiles.

But when Dev's younger brother brings home his new bride, something shifts. Dev watches Sia's eyes linger on the couple - on their laughter, their tenderness, their little moments of love - and for the first time, he notices the longing in her gaze. A longing she never directed at him.

And something inside him cracks.

Can love bloom between two people bound by years of distance and silence? Or is it too late for Dev to mend the heart he spent five years breaking?