To Love Beyond the Scars prologue

prologue

Aaradhya kapoor (fl)

Aaradhya kapoor (fl)

Aaradhya Kapoor, 21, doesn’t believe in love. Not anymore.

Once upon a time, she thought love meant forever. That people who said they cared actually meant it. But life taught her otherwise. Every person who claimed to love her—her parents, her childhood best friend —used her, left her, or broke her beyond repair.

Now, she lives with walls around her heart, trusting no one. Instead, she hides behind her blog, Inked Truths, where she mercilessly critiques romance novels—calling them delusional, sugar-coated lies. And her favorite target?

Rehan Malhotra (ml)

Rehan Malhotra, a 30-year-old bestselling romance author whose books paint love as something beautiful and eternal.

She thinks his stories are fake. He thinks she’s afraid to believe.

A Clash of Words and Wounds When Rehaan is invited as a guest lecturer at Aaradhya’s college, she’s forced to sit in his class. From the first lecture, sparks fly—but not the good kind. She challenges his stories, calling them fantasies with no place in real life. He pushes back, forcing her to question why she’s so desperate to prove love isn’t real. Every argument, every debate, turns into a battle of emotions neither of them can ignore.

But what Aaradhya doesn’t know? Rehaan has been following Inked Truths for months. He knows she is the anonymous critic who has been ripping his books apart. What Rehaan doesn’t know? The reason behind her hatred isn’t just cynicism—it’s pain. A past so fractured that love, to her, is just another word for betrayal.