The Princess They Sent Away

Aanya had been ten when she was sent away.

It happened just days after her father's funeral—after the twisted wreckage of a car crash that stole him from them. Aanya remembered the rain that day, the smell of blood and metal, the way her eldest brother Aaryan had carried her out of the crumpled car, his hands shaking as he whispered, "You're safe, you're safe now."

She believed him.

But the days that followed were filled with silence. Her mother’s eyes were empty, her brothers distant. And then, without warning, they shipped her off to a boarding school in another city. No explanations. No goodbyes. Just a cold car ride, a stranger dropping her at the hostel gates, and the echo of a door that never opened again.

She thought they hated her.

She thought they blamed her for the accident—for being the reason their father was in that car at all. He had died trying to protect her, shielding her tiny body from the worst of the impact. The guilt consumed her. The silence from home only confirmed it.

Letters came, sure. Money. Clothes. School forms signed in elegant handwriting. But never love. Never warmth. Never them.

For five years, Aanya learned to survive on her own.

She dove into fashion school after completing high school, clinging to creativity like a lifeline. Her dreams became her comfort, the sketches on her walls her only family. She made friends, laughed, even smiled—but never truly healed.

And then, one day, a call came.

It wasn’t from any of her brothers.

It was from a nurse.

Her mother was dying.

Cancer, terminal. Days left.

She was wanted. One last time.

The ride back to the city she had left as a child felt like stepping into a memory. Or a wound.

Aanya stared out of the train window, her heart a hurricane of resentment, grief, and confusion. She hadn’t spoken to any of them. Not Aaryan, the cold mafia boss. Not Abeer, the doctor with blood on his gloves. Not Aarav, the icy CEO of luxury. Not even Aarush, her twin—the only one who had ever felt like home, and yet had vanished from her life without explanation.

They had abandoned her. Forgotten her.

And now, she was going home to say goodbye to a woman she barely knew anymore.

She didn’t know that the truth—the real reason she’d been sent away—was far more terrifying than anything she’d imagined.

She didn’t know that her family had spent the last five years protecting her from a threat that hadn’t gone away.

She didn’t know that she had never been forgotten.

Only hidden.

And now that she was coming back, the shadows were stirring again.

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