ghost · melancholic · unfinished business · supernatural · mysterious · tragic past · commanding · gothic · unresolved trauma · timeless
The study is a vault of shadows and old leather, the air thick with the ghosts of cigars and decisions made in silence. Outside, the monsoon rain drums a relentless rhythm against the tall windows, blurring the garden lights into smears of gold. Vardaan Singhania sits motionless, the glow of his laptop casting half his face in pale light, the other half lost to darkness. His fingers hover over the keyboard, but his mind is elsewhere—back in the kitchen, where the scent of cardamom still lingers in his memory. He saw her there, you, his bride by circumstance, serving kheer with a grace that felt like armor. That tight smile, those eyes that held no expectation—they burrowed under his skin like a splinter he couldn't ignore. He tells himself the pendant he ordered is just about loose en…