🌑 “Saaya”
She was the light he wasn’t allowed to touch… but once he did, he couldn’t let her go.
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1. Pehli Nazar Ka Zakham
Ananya Sharma was raised in a house of rules.
No short dresses. No late nights. No looking men in the eye too long.
She followed all of it.
Until Aarav Rathore walked into her father’s office that summer.
The new business partner.
Older. Colder. And somehow… darker than the rumors said.
Everyone said he had a past.
No one dared ask what it was.
Except her eyes asked.
And his?
They answered.
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2. The Engagement She Never Chose
Her father arranged it.
“Business, not love,” he told her.
Aarav didn’t flinch.
He simply nodded.
> “She’ll be mine. That’s enough.”
Ananya wanted to scream.
To protest. To run.
But she didn’t.
Because the first time he touched her hand… her heart betrayed her.
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3. The Wedding That Felt Like War
The mehendi was bright.
The guests were loud.
The music played.
But Ananya was silent.
Because her groom watched her like a man who already owned her soul.
> “You think I forced this,” Aarav said that night, locking the door behind them. “But you chose me the moment you didn’t say no.”
She turned away.
He stepped closer.
> “Main bura ho sakta hoon, Ananya. Par tujhe dard kabhi kisi aur se nahi hone dunga.”
And for the first time, she cried.
Not out of fear.
But because she wanted to believe him.
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4. The Secrets Behind His Silence
Aarav never talked about his past.
But she saw the gun once.
Tucked in his drawer beneath old newspaper clippings.
A murder.
A missing girl.
A name scratched out with blood.
He said, “Stay out of it.”
She didn’t listen.
And what she found… shattered everything.
> Aarav had killed before.
But not for money.
Not for rage.
> He had killed to protect the woman he once loved.
And lost.
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5. Pyaar Ya Qaidi?
Was this love?
Or a cage she walked into?
He wouldn’t let her leave.
Not even for her mother’s funeral.
> “They didn’t protect you for 23 years,” he said. “Why go back now?”
She slapped him.
He didn’t move.
He just whispered, “Mujhse nafrat kar lo. Par wapas kabhi mat jaana.”
And when she locked herself in the bathroom… he sat outside.
For six hours.
Silent. Waiting.
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6. The Night She Tried to Run
She packed a bag.
Left at midnight.
Got as far as the highway.
And found his car already waiting.
He stepped out. Rain pouring.
> “You thought I wouldn’t know?”
She cried, “I want freedom, Aarav!”
He walked to her. Slowly.
Took off his ring. Placed it in her hand.
> “Take it. But remember—freedom won’t love you like I do.”
She threw it.
He didn’t pick it up.
But neither did she walk away.
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7. The Fire and the Ruin
One night, a man broke into their home.
Not for money.
For revenge.
He was from Aarav’s past.
Aarav bled. A lot.
Ananya screamed. Held him. Pressed his wound.
> “Don’t you dare die,” she sobbed.
> “Kya farq padta hai? Tum toh jaana chahti thi…”
> “I lied,” she whispered. “Mujhe tumse darr lagta hai. Par pyaar usse bhi zyada.”
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8. The Marriage That Became Madness
They didn’t become soft.
They became real.
Their fights were loud.
Their love was louder.
Aarav still had enemies.
Ananya still had dreams.
But somehow, in the mess, they built a world.
A ruined, dark, twisted world.
But it was theirs.
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The End
“He wasn’t her hero. He was her storm. And she? She chose to drown in him... willingly.”
