The Queen He Left Behind

Raghini was fifteen when she was married into a world that did not want her. Loud and unpolished, too far from the wife he might've choosen for himself.

And one night, hidden behind walls that were never meant to protect her, she heard the truth he never intended her to know. He did not just resent the marriage. He resented all of her, her village language, her simply beauty, her lack of understanding towards the modern world and lifestyle.

He left before she could even understand what it meant to belong to him, carrying his ambition across oceans while leaving her behind with nothing but a name she did not know how to carry.

So she swore to stop waiting. In the years he spent building a life away from her, she built something of her own in silence. She learned, she adapted, she endured. Not for him, but for herself. By the time he returned, expecting a girl he could easily discard, he found a woman standing where she once had been. And far beyond anything he had ever expected.

The way she no longer looked at him with hearty eyes, the way she didn't chatter endlessly, the way she didn't care.

Bound by duty once more, they are forced into a relationship that had long since turned into nothing more than a formality. A year, she offers him. One year of her name, her presence, her silence, in exchange for the crown he had always wanted. After that, she walks away.

But Ridhaan Vanshraj wasn't a patient man, neither did he ever let go of what was his and she was HIS.