Forever Is Always You

✧ 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 ✧

Keerthi Rathore, a girl with modest dreams and a fragile heart. She never pursued grandeur or limelight. All she wanted was to be loved, to be cared for, to belong, to feel what a family felt like.

In her tenth grade, she mistook attention for affection and fell in love with her brother's friend. But his intentions were never pure. When the truth finally revealed itself, the world she had built in her innocence collapsed in an instant. Trust shattered. Love bruised her deeply.
And from the ruins of that heartbreak, she learned to shrink her dreams, scared that love would cost her everything.

"Your love is a galaxy, a universe unto itself, and I am just one small planet rotating in its orbit. I am simply too little for something so vast."
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Ashwin Deewani, the man whose ambitions took shape based on her! The moment he saw her, his monochrome world burst into seven brilliant shades of colour, like a rainbow after a relentless storm. Yet, as her brother's closest friend, he buried his feelings deep within himself, choosing respect over desire, silence over confession.

He watched her fall in love with another man.
He watched her break-the day he chose her over every rule, every fear, and every boundary he had once sworn never to cross. And he stayed for what he didn't break.

"The oceans could dry up, the mountains could crumble, and I would still love you."