Sugar And Sin Bound By Contract by Eliana Stephens at Inkitt

Story Notes

A traditional Indian bakery girl is forced to marry Delhi’s most feared gangster. She wants to save her shop. He wants revenge. But love? That was never part of the recipe.What begins as a deal soon becomes something darker, deeper and harder to escape. Meher begins to see the cracks in Aarav’s armor. Aarav begins to taste the sweetness in Meher’s fire. But when truths are revealed and blood is spilled, the lines blur.Is love enough when betrayal runs deeper than bone?Is sugar still sweet when it’s laced with sin?She was sugar. He was sin. Together, they melted and burned.

Summary

He married her to ruin her. She married him to save her dream. Neither expected to fall in love. In the tangled alleys of Old Delhi, Meher Sharma runs her father’s beloved sweet shop, a tiny sanctuary of rose-scented laddoos, saffron kheer, and inherited dreams. She's traditional, stubborn, fiercely loyal and she believes sugar can heal anything. Even grief. Aarav Raichand, Delhi’s most feared underworld king, cloaked in secrets and drenched in sin. He has enemies everywhere and a vendetta that goes bone-deep. To destroy the last name on his list, he needs two things, Meher’s bakery and Meher’s heart. Aarav offers a deal... marriage in name, money to rebuild, and protection. What Meher doesn’t know is that he’s the man responsible for her father’s death. What Aarav doesn’t expect is that her kindness will gut him deeper than any bullet ever could. But revenge doesn’t sleep and neither does the past. As betrayal scorches trust, and bullets graze love, they’re forced to decide.... Will their sweet love survive the bitter truth? Or is some sugar just too poisoned to ever taste sweet?

Genre: Romance

Author: Eliana Stephens

Status: Ongoing

Chapters: 11

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

My Desi Darlings

Hello, lovely sinners and sweet-tooths! 🍬💀Welcome to Sugar & Sin, a story where mithai meets mafia, laddoos meet loaded guns and one poor girl’s halwa gets tangled with a very dangerous husband who doesn’t even like sweets (at first 😉).

I’m your humble creator of emotionally unstable gangsters and traditional Desi queens who can destroy hearts while offering jalebis.

When I’m not writing, I’m dreaming of mithais gulab jamuns, barfis, and the kind of romance that melts slow like hot ghee. 🍯

If you love......

🔪 Contract marriages

🍮 Enemies to lovers

💋 Slow-burn tension (not-so-slow moments too)

🔥 Guns, ghoonghats and gripping secrets...

Then this story is for you!

Fair warning: Aarav has tattoos and trauma. Meher has bangles and backbone. Together? They’re as explosive as a pressure cooker left on high flame. 🧨

So buckle up ...there will be sugar, there will be sin… and there will be moments you’ll want to throw your phone (please don’t.... I like you.)

All characters, names, events, places, and scenes are purely products of imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.