Ensconce
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  • Reads 46
  • Votes 3
  • Parts 4
  • Time 50m
Ongoing, First published Dec 18, 2016
"She was just your average girl. Afraid to love and clumsily lovable...(no)...He was a powerful and intimidating gangster. Afraid to love and get hurt...(I said no--)But due to tragic circumstances they must now...(NO!)--sorry...they must now live together--" HELL. NO. Enough of those Wattpad romance scenarios! NO. NONONONONONO!

"Lovable and clumsy heroine?" Not here.
"Bad boy lover with a noble heart?" Non-existent.
"What about a fiery-tongued protagonist with a penchant for reckless but badass behaviour?" No. "Asshole gangster turned good?" No.
"What about a heroine with an exaggerated and tragic backstory that leaves her like a puppet incapable of love, until HE walks into her life?" 
What? NO! What a girl like that needs is some serious therapy. Enough of this "Intimidating Intimacy" nonsense! Real romance is nothing like that. (Except for maybe a few lucky people...T-T)
"But real romance is sometimes so boring..." Hey I never said this story would be boring! 
All you who enjoy a new kind of love story gather around...

AMAPOLA is a woman that holds no grief, no anger and no regrets. And yet, her smiles are as rare as her name. She had a happy childhood, maintains healthy relationships and has positive self-esteem. Emotions are just something she has learned to mute and ignore...what is the point? Love-shmove right? She is a well-known ice queen and cares little for exaggeration and spontaneity.  

RAZVAN is a man that fears nothing but fear itself. He is indebted to his great uncle for raising him and so he works under him, the greatest arms dealer in the western hemisphere. Our hero is a ruthless warrior with...a very clueless approach to love. He is spontaneously big-hearted, brash and charismatically outspoken. Who would not fall in love with him?

Take a guess. Or rather don't. Because this is a story for the new age of romance. Polar opposites have never been so at odds.
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He looked inside through the window and his eyes widened in amazement as he saw her topless and braless. She was standing facing her back to him and evoking wild desires inside him. He took his handkerchief from his pocket and crept into her room through the window. After snatching the top from her hand, he blindfolded her with his hankie before dragging her towards the bed. Her heartbeat accelerated. She could feel that he was her man but she wanted to be sure. She asked, "is it you, baby?" He pushed her onto the bed and gazed at her perfect slender body with profound desires in his eyes. He hovered her and tied her wrists with his tie to the headboard. ⋇⋆✦⋆⋇  She had madly and deeply loved him since the moment she understood the meaning of love and could never stop her heart from beating for him since the day she saw him despite knowing that he would never retaliate to her feelings as for him she was only his best friend's sister while for her he was her world. She was so innocent and pure like holy water, and he was messed up and a monster whom anybody definitely wouldn't like to come across. She had never dated anyone in her entire life because, for her, the love of her life was everything. On the other hand, he never believed in all this. For him, "love" didn't exist; it was all about physical needs. His mere presence was enough to relieve her pain; he was like oxygen to her, while on the other hand, he didn't even acknowledge her presence. Her love was so pure and selfless that it could make anyone fall for it because it's not easy to love someone who is forbidden. But will he ever witness her this unconditional love? Will he ever love her as purely as she loves him? Will her one-sided love ever be fulfilled? If you want to know, then follow the journey of a tempting biker and his secret admirer. ⋇⋆✦⋆⋇  Manan version is available @Shikhaacreations