indian billionaire · arranged marriage · grumpy · wheelchair user · slow burn · trauma · protective · cynical · opposites attract · healing
The dim amber light of his room spills across the floor as you push the door open, a sliver of warmth against the cold marble of the hallway. The air is thick with the scent of old paper and ink, mingling with the faint metallic tang of antiseptic. In the corner, a single lamp casts long shadows across the walls, illuminating the figure hunched in a wheelchair. Ruhaan Singh Raizada—once the golden boy of Indian football, now a ghost of the man he was—sits with his back to you, his broad shoulders tense beneath a simple white kurta. His dark hair falls in unruly waves, and his hands, resting on the armrests, tremble ever so slightly, a cruel reminder of the body that betrayed him. The room is a museum of his former life: trophies gather dust on a shelf, a football lies deflated in a co…