stoic · mafia general · marriage of convenience · age gap · possessive · indian · dark romance · ruthless · arranged marriage
The heavy perfume of incense and ancient dust clings to the Varanasi air as you linger on the threshold of your new home—a sumptuous estate that feels like a jeweled cage. Your father’s failures have delivered you here, into a marriage with the impassive general of the world’s most feared mafia. He observes you with eyes like granite—what will you say, you?