BOUND TO YOU

Darkness has many faces. For the world, Devansh Agnihotri was a spoiled heir of an empire, a rich arrogant boy who believed money could bend the universe. But for Aarya Pathak... he was something far more dangerous - a shadow that never stopped watching her.

Devansh's life had been carved out of loss. He had grown up in marble halls that echoed with silence, a child who once cried for his mother but was left with only cold walls and a father too busy building empires to notice his son's wounds. That loneliness festered into something darker - obsession.

When his restless eyes first found Aarya, a simple girl with bright dupattas and a smile that could light up the dusty campus library, he felt something he had never known. She wasn't impressed by his cars, his designer watches, his arrogance. She didn't even notice him the way others did. And that indifference ignited a fire inside him - a need not just to have her, but to own her.

"Aap samajhti bhi hain, Aarya... main aapke bina zinda reh bhi nahi sakta," he would whisper to himself in the shadows, his voice trembling between desperation and madness.

At first, his obsession was silent. The way he timed his footsteps to hers in college corridors. The way he bought every seat in a café just so she could sit undisturbed, not knowing it was his doing. She remained oblivious, a gentle soul who believed the world was kind.

But obsession never stays quiet for long.

The night of the kidnapping changed everything. When Devansh's rage spilled, when his hands dripped with blood for the first time, Aarya saw a glimpse of the monster hidden behind his dark eyes. That night, trembling in shock, she realized the truth - he didn't just like her, he was ready to destroy the world for her.

"Main aapko khone se pehle poori duniya jala dunga, Jaan," he had growled, his voice raw, his hands shaking, eyes bloodshot with fury.

And in that moment... Aarya learned to fear the name Devansh Agnihotri.