Chasing Numbers, Catching Dreams
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Last published Sun, Feb 8, 2026
Shikha Sharma arrives in Mumbai with a suitcase full of hopes, a mind full of ambition, and a heart that refuses to be shaken by chaos.
Smart, warm, and a little clumsy.
A girl who laughs easily, loves deeply, and believes that hard work can fix almost anything.
She came to survive her CA articleship, not to get entangled in emotions.
But Mumbai has other plans.
Because standing on the other side of her carefully built discipline is
Himanshu Malhotra.
Calm, controlled, and impossibly composed.
Handsome in a way that makes people sit straighter, sharp-eyed in a way that makes them rethink every decision.
A man who runs his firm with precision and expects the same from everyone else.
He corrects her reports, questions her methods, and challenges her confidence -
yet somehow keeps noticing her spirit, her laughter, her spark.
And amidst the mess of late-night reconciliations, impossible deadlines, office gossip louder than the printers, and a team that thrives on chaos...
something unexpected begins to take shape.
She wasn't looking for complications.
He wasn't looking for distractions.
But some stories begin exactly where you least expect them to -
between clashing personalities, mismatched energies, and two people who were never meant to collide... but did.
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