Author_Nilz
Mira Thakur thought the worst decision she had ever made was falling in love too quickly.
At twenty-one, she married Kian Dutt almost as impulsively as she fell for him.
Then she discovered he needed something she owned.
At twenty-one, she was a sheltered college student in Shimla, spending her afternoons helping at her uncle's little bookshop when a storm brought Kian Dutt through its doors. Charming, persistent and impossible to ignore, Kian belonged to one of India's wealthiest industrial families-and somehow, he seemed to want only her.
Their whirlwind romance ended in a marriage Mira believed was for love.
Until she discovered the truth.
Kian needed something she owned.
By the time Mira understood why he had married her, he already had it. And when forced to choose between protecting her heart and protecting his ambitions, Kian made his choice in front of everyone.
Mira walked away from the marriage and eventually from the country, building a life in which Kian Dutt had no place.
Years later, she is successful, independent, polished-and determined never to be that foolish girl again. But when the failing health of the Dutt family matriarch calls them both home, Mira finds herself under the same roof as the husband she stopped considering hers years ago.
Kian is older now. Quieter. Harder to dismiss. And irritatingly, devastatingly familiar.
Mira may have learned how to live without him.
The problem is, she never quite learned how to stop loving him.