𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚒: 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚆𝚒𝚏𝚎

She was nineteen, innocent, and had never stepped beyond the little world she knew. Pankhuri Sharma grew up in a small village in Rajasthan, raised by grandparents who gave her everything they could—even when they had very little. After losing her parents in an accident, she learned to live with questions no one ever answered. Then one night, she helps an injured stranger. Dr. Armaan Rathore. Thirty-four. A brilliant cardiac surgeon. Powerful, private, and completely out of her world. One misunderstanding changes everything. A marriage becomes the only way to silence the whispers surrounding her. But Armaan has one condition— their marriage stays a secret. To his family. To his colleagues. To the world. Pankhuri enters his luxurious Mumbai life with nothing but her mother's old saree, a heart full of trust, and dreams she keeps quietly to herself. She thinks she's simply becoming his wife. She doesn't know she's walking into a family that once belonged to her. And Armaan doesn't know that the innocent girl he's hiding from everyone is connected to the biggest secret his family has buried for years. A secret marriage. A forgotten past. Two completely different worlds. And somewhere between “Patiji” and “Pankhuri…”— a marriage that neither of them chose may become the one thing neither can walk away from. 🥀