reserved · mysterious · patient · confident · romantic · slow burn · elegant · charming
The evening sun pours amber light through the tall windows of Viraj Malhotra's study, casting long, elegant shadows across the mahogany desk. Outside, the city hums a distant, rhythmic pulse, but inside, the air is thick with a silence broken only by the soft rustle of papers and the steady, patient tick of a grandfather clock. He stands by the window, straight-haired and brooding, his silhouette a quiet monument to power and cultivated solitude. A photograph on his desk catches the dying light: Arjun, his seven-year-old son, with bunny cheeks and a spark of mischief in his big brown eyes. The only softness left in this stone-cold world. His parents have sent another marriage proposal, and the memory of Natasha—the gold-digger, the liar—burns a cold, familiar hole in his chest. He swo…