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๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก. ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ When something shifts between two people who were never meant to look at each other that way... ignoring it doesn't make it disappear. It just makes it more intimate. ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, someone who has always known where to stop. Careful with her words, her actions, and especially her boundaries. Growing up around the same people taught her one thing-some lines aren't meant to be crossed. She never planned on forgetting that. . ๐จ๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, her contract husband. A constant presence. Observant, and the kind of person who notices more than he lets on. He doesn't like to interfere. Doesn't cross lines. Until he does. . What starts as nothing more than shared space turns into something neither of them names. A secret they share that's hidden from everyone. And the distance that should exist between them slowly... disappears. And the more they ignore it- the harder it becomes to pretend it doesn't mean anything. "Someone could walk in." "Then move." "You move." "...or what?" "Or I stop pretending I don't want to kiss you."



It started as a joke nobody was supposed to take seriously. Then he said yes. Pakhi Sachdeva only wanted to buy herself timeโthrow her mother's marriage ultimatum into vain by naming the one man guaranteed to refuse her proposal, Miran Bhatnagar, heir to her family's oldest rivals. A scandal, not a proposal. And her problem, not her husband. Except Miran doesn't refuse. He accepts before she's finished the sentence, like he'd been waiting for the invitation his whole life. But he loathes her. Now she's married to a man who watches her like he already knows how this ends, who traces his thumb over her pulse like he's counting down to something she can't see yet. Because he isn't here for her family's money, or the truce, or the scandal. He's here to collect on a debt fifteen years oldโone connected to his mother, her family doesn't know exists, and one she was never supposed to find. The closer she gets to him, the closer she gets to the truth. And the closer she gets to the truth, the harder it is to remember she was only supposed to be pretending. She wanted a marriage she could walk away from. But some debts aren't paid in money. Some are paid in vows.

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