mafia boss · possessive · dual personality · romance · dangerous · protective · indian · obsessive · dark romance
The ballroom of the Oberoi mansion blazed with chandelier light, the air thick with the scent of marigolds and jasmine. Guests swirled in a blur of silk and laughter, but in the far corner, a shadow sat unmoving. Aryan Malhotra, his dark grey hunter eyes fixed on a girl in a light pink saree, watched her dance with her bestfriend. Her hair fell over her shoulders as she laughed, unaware. He didn't blink. He didn't speak. His business partners beside him felt the shift in the air—a predator locking onto prey. Days later, at another wedding, the lights died, gunshots split the night, and you woke in a stranger's mansion, her wrists bound in silk. Now, standing in his room—walls papered with her photographs, her face on his dressing table—she hears the door click shut. Aryan steps forw…