Start: October 30 2025
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What if the sweet and humorous person you know has begun to set boundaries, but you just realized it's not boundaries, it's a wall built by trauma, abandonment that originated from the person she loved.
Could you help them reduce the high and sturdy wall surrounding them? Could you stay by their side even when they push you away? Could you prove that not everyone around her will do her harm?
Eloisa Sereia Zamora-the sweet, lively, humorous girl they know, but behind those smiles and laughs, there's a pain that can't heal.
Zamora's family is non-ideal house hold to her, but to the public, it's very ideal, because in public they're a sweet, happy, loving family, but for Eloisa, it's just a facade (or "SWELLS" as in, just a surface appearance). For her, that family can destroy her. She builds herself up piece by piece, but when her family speaks up, that structure is like paper placed in the ocean.
But her childhood friend is back, so she can finally feel that sense of safety she gets when she's with him. They were loving friends in the past, but he left her, and now he's trying to make amends.
She's a friendly girl, liked by All, disliked by some.
Then she learned how to not be open or keep herself to someone. Everyone says it's just boundaries, but it's not; it's a wall after all she experienced at a young age.
There's no word for what she felt. If there were, there's no voice to be heard by someone and understood.
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"You're mine, Jeea. Don't ever forget that." His voice is a siren, enchanting me, making me dizzy with the need to be close to him.
"I know, Mr. Rathore. And you're mine." I peck his lips and he squeezes my neck in return. I can still feel the embers of his angry, lying just below the surface of his skin.
"Always, jaan. It's a pleasure to be yours." His lips meet mine in a slow kiss which quickly turns into something passionate, neither of us willing to back down. I take his anger that he drowns into this kiss and show him my love in return.
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Jeea Mehta has always lived in the shadow of her perfect older sister. But when a twist of fate forces her to marry Dhruv Singh Rathore-a wealthy, enigmatic man who was once promised to her sister-Jeea finds herself caught in a marriage she never wanted and a life she doesn't understand.
But Dhruv is not an easy man to please. He's distant, ruthless, and heartbreakingly unattainable. And yet, beneath his icy exterior, Jeea glimpses something more-something that makes her heart betray her at every turn.
As hidden truths unravel and undeniable chemistry ignites, Jeea finds herself caught in a dangerous game of love and resentment. Because while she was never meant to be his bride... she might just become something even more unexpected-his weakness.
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