Hate Love

In a house where daughters are debts and love is a liability, Syra Kaushik learned early that softness gets you killed. Sharp-tongued, cold-eyed, and violently unimpressed by men, she survives by keeping everyone at arm's length. Especially love. Especially hope.

Then her father sells her future with one signature.

Raghuvansh Raizada is older, richer, feared, and emotionally hollow in ways money can't fix. A man raised on control, silence, and the aching belief that he was never meant to be loved-only obeyed. He agrees to the marriage for reasons Syra doesn't understand, and he never bothers explaining.

What possibly could go wrong when she hates touch but he craves?
Everything.

***

He punched the wall fuming in the flames of jealousy.
"You're mine." He sneer

She scoffed.
"Come again?"