𝑯𝒊𝒊, 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔... ♡

Ready to meet the two souls who were never supposed to find each other? 🥀

𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒊 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂 🥀

I'm Pankhuri.

Nineteen years old.

A girl from a tiny village in Rajasthan, where the days begin with temple bells and end beneath a sky full of stars.

I was raised by my grandparents.

They taught me that happiness doesn't need to be expensive, that kindness is never weakness, and that a good heart matters more than a beautiful life.

Maybe that's why I've always been...

too trusting.

too hopeful.

too innocent for the world waiting outside my door.

I've never travelled far.

Never lived alone.

Never imagined a life beyond the narrow lanes of my village, the little courtyard I called home, and the dreams I was sometimes too shy to say aloud.

I thought my life would remain simple.

Until one night.

One accident.

One stranger.

And a decision that would change everything.

I didn't know his name when I first saw him.

I only knew that he looked like someone who belonged to a world I could never enter.

Later, I learned who he was.

Dr. Armaan Rathore.

Thirty-four.

A renowned doctor.

A man with money, power, influence...

and a silence far more frightening than anger.

Our worlds couldn't have been more different.

Yet somehow, fate decided that I would become his wife.

Not in a beautiful mandap surrounded by people I loved.

Not with dreams of love.

Not because we chose each other.

But because circumstances left us with no other choice.

And then he took me to Mumbai.

To his penthouse.

To a life where everything was unfamiliar-

the city, the people, the rules...

and him.

He told me to stay away from his world.

His family couldn't know about me.

His colleagues couldn't know.

To everyone else, I was supposed to be invisible.

His secret.

But how do you remain a secret from the man you wake up beside every morning?

How do you stay untouched by someone whose presence slowly becomes part of your everyday life?

I don't know what will happen to me.

I don't know whether this marriage will become my greatest heartbreak or the most beautiful thing fate ever gave me.

But perhaps I'm going to learn something along the way.

That being innocent doesn't mean being weak.

That being sheltered doesn't mean being incapable.

And sometimes...

the girl who knows nothing about the world is the one who ends up changing someone else's completely.

This is my story.

I'm Pankhuri Sharma.

And this is the story of how one accident...

turned my ordinary life into something I never imagined.

- Pankhuri 🌸

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𝑵𝒐𝒘, 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔... 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉. 🖤

Because it's finally time to meet the man who knows everything about the heart...

except his own.

𝑫𝒓. 𝑨𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒂𝒏 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆.

Dr. Armaan Rathore.

Thirty-four.

A cardiologist and cardiac surgeon-

the kind of man who spends his days holding people's hearts in his hands, yet somehow never learned what to do with his own.

Brilliant.

Calm.

Disciplined.

Cold.

Very, very difficult to impress.

He doesn't believe in unnecessary emotions.

He doesn't make promises he can't keep.

And love?

Well... let's just say it has never been on his list.

His world is built on precision-

his hospital, his reputation, his penthouse, his carefully controlled life.

Nothing surprises him.

Nothing shakes him.

Nothing gets under his skin.

Until Pankhuri.

A nineteen-year-old village girl who knows almost nothing about his world...

and somehow becomes the one person he can't simply walk away from.

He'll tell himself she's just a responsibility.

A secret he has to protect.

A marriage he never wanted.

But feelings have a very inconvenient habit of growing where they're never invited.

SOMETHING FROM THE UPCOMING CHAPTERS...

I spend my life listening to hearts.

I know the difference between a heartbeat caused by fear and one caused by anticipation.

I can hold a dying heart in my hands and remain calm.

But then she looks at me...

and suddenly, I don't know what the hell is happening to mine.

I'm a cardiologist.

A cardiac surgeon.

A man trained to keep his hands steady.

So why does one nineteen-year-old girl make them tremble?

She was supposed to be my responsibility.

I never expected her to become my weakness.

~ Armaan🖤

𓆩♡𓆪 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆

This is a work of fiction, created entirely from my imagination.

All characters, places, events, and situations are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

This story contains mature themes, emotional situations, forced-marriage elements, age-gap romance, and intense relationship dynamics. Please read according to your comfort level.

I'm a new author and still learning, so the writing may not always be perfect. Your patience, votes, comments, and su

pport mean more than you know. ♡

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Thank you for entering my little world. 🥀

- ALISIAN INK 🖋️