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#𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝟭 𝗶𝗻 "𝐖𝗋𝗂𝗍𝗍𝖾𐓣 𝗂𐓣 𝐅α𝗍𝖾" S͟e͟r͟i͟e͟s͟.
- can be read as a standalone.
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Yanika Roy has spent years convincing herself that some stories are better left unfinished.
After the boy she once loved never bothered to reconnect when their friend group fell apart, she stopped waiting. She stopped hoping. And somewhere between heartbreak and earning a seat at AIIMS for her postgraduate studies, she decided that her future had room for only one thing-her career.
Love? A chapter-long closed.
Ritvik Singha knows better.
Because the biggest regret of his life has Yanika's name written all over it.
Back in high school, he was too careless, too blind, and by the time he realised that the girl everyone teased him about was the one person he truly ever liked, it was already too late. He stayed away because she seemed happy without him. He tried to move on.
She succeeded.
He didn't.
Years later, fate throws them together again when Yanika reluctantly agrees to meet a prospective groom before leaving for Delhi. She expects an awkward conversation and a quick rejection.
What she doesn't expect is Ritvik.
The boy she once loved.
The man she never forgot.
Determined not to make the same mistake twice, Yanika refuses to let old feelings cloud her judgment. But when Ritvik asks her to fake-date him for reasons she can't quite understand, staying indifferent becomes far more difficult than walking away.
As old wounds resurface and buried emotions refuse to stay buried, Yanika and Ritvik are forced to confront the question they've spent years avoiding:
Did they truly move on, or were they waiting for a second chance?