Kashigupta108
She was never supposed to run.
Especially not while wearing the pendant he had placed around her neck on the first night of their marriage.
But tonight, she has broken every rule.
Six months pregnant, barefoot, drenched by a merciless storm, and terrified of the men hunting her, she runs through the darkness with only one thought in her mind:
She has to protect her baby.
When she reaches a lonely roadside shop, a kind stranger gives her food and a shawl. For a few precious minutes, she feels safe.
Until her fingers touch the pendant.
Her husband's voice returns to her mind.
"Never take it off. If you do, I'll know."
She doesn't understand how he could possibly know.
She doesn't want to find out.
So she tears the pendant from her neck and throws it into the darkness.
Then she runs again.
But freedom doesn't last long.
The headlights appear behind her.
His men have found her.
Desperate and exhausted, she flees into the night-until she crashes into a stranger.
A tall man in a white shirt and blue jeans.
Calm. Strong. Mysterious.
She doesn't know his name.
She doesn't know why he is there.
She only knows that when she looks into his eyes, something inside her tells her to trust him.
"Please," she whispers. "Save me... and my baby."
He doesn't ask for an explanation.
He simply steps between her and the men.
And suddenly, the stranger becomes the only thing standing between her and the life she's desperately trying to escape.
But the closer she gets to him, the more questions begin to surface.
Why does his presence feel strangely familiar?
Why does he look at her as though he knows something she doesn't?
And why does every instinct inside her tell her that trusting him could either save her...or destroy herm, and secrets are impossible to separate, nothing is what it seems.
Because sometimes the most dangerous person isn't the one chasing you.
It's the one you desperately want to trust.