Introduction
Dedication-
To the baddie who crave a man who will ruin your lipstick with kisses that taste like sin but never your mascara. One who wants to be the reason your leg shake and your voice goes breathless when you say his name. Who's also a gentleman that knows exactly where he should be tender with his women....and where he should ruin you
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✧CHHAYA JOSHI✧
Meet Chhaya Joshi.
The eldest daughter. To her real family she's simply Haya. At twenty-five, she carries a rare balance-part quiet observer, part vibrant soul. She is someone who believes that words can heal even the deepest wounds.A girl with the heart of innocence, gentleness, and kindness. She gives more than she ever asks for. But never received love from family like she wanted. Because Chhaya belongs to a mafia family-The Joshi's-who live in Italy. But unlike them, she doesn't crave power or fear. She doesn't want to carry the weight of a gun or the burden of blood. She only wants to live free-untouched by the darkness she was born into. Yet her family don't LIKE HER....they treat her like a servant
Family
Akshat joshi- father
Celina joshi- mother
Amita joshi- step mother
Myra joshi
(elder daughter of Amita)- step sister
Meera joshi
(younger daughter of Amita) - step sister
Daksh Romano- cousin brother
Sana ahuja- family friend
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✧DIVIT RAGHUWANSHI✧
Meet Divit Raghuwanshi.
Twenty-eight years old. A man who walks like he owns every room-every step, a red carpet rolled beneath him. Ruthless. Sharp. A perfectionist to the bone.
But beneath the tailored suits and the steel gaze lies a boy who once lost everything. His scars were carved the day The Joshi's slaughtered his family, leaving him drenched in silence and rage. He was only a child. Raised by his grandmother, Sumitra Raghuwanshi-the only soul he bows down to-he grew up with vengeance stitched into his veins. For eighteen years, every breath has been a reminder of his promise.
Now, he is returning to italy.
Not as the broken boy who left,
But as the man who will burn everything that stands in his way.
The Joshis took his family. Now, he comes to take their world.
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Family
Abhijit raghuwanshi- father
Ariana raghuwanshi- mother
Sumitra raghuwanshi- grandmother
Rudransh Kashyap- cousin
Nishthi Ahlawat- family friend
Enzo moretti- bestfriend
Lorenzo de luca- business partner/ friend
NOTE- More characters will be introduced in upcoming chapter
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She is innocence. He is vengeance. And fate doesn't just play a hand-it drags them into a war of fire and desire
Chhaya Joshi chooses peace over bloodshed. A kind and gentle soul, she wants nothing to do with the dark world of her family. Born into a mafia family in Italy, they don't see her as family.....they treat her like a servant
Divit Raghuwanshi has returned. Eighteen years of exile, eighteen years of silence, eighteen years of rage. Powerful, ruthless, feared....he carries a single promise: revenge. The Joshi family destroyed his world, and now he will reduce theirs to ashes
But fate, as it always does, laughs at plans
She shouldn't matter. She shouldn't even exist in his plans. But when Chhaya stands in his path, his perfect plan begins to fall apart.
What was meant to be manipulation turns into obsession.
What was meant to be hatred turns into longing.
NOTE:- A little bit peek of upcoming chapter
"You know what? Just stay away she tells her to stay away, she does it anyway....voice barely more than a ghost
He moves as if the world bent toward him. His reply is a low strike, not loud but impossible to ignore "I can't." The syllables scrape the air, rough with want and something colder. "You're here" he says, slow, deliberate. "In every quiet place I have. Every secret you bury - I carry it. Every fear you swallow - it lives in me now"
Her chest tightens. The words are a warning she offers like a shield "You'll ruin me" she breathes, the sentence fragile and fierce at once
He doesn't deny it. Instead he closes the gap between them with the kind of certainty that makes the world tilt. His fingers find her wrist and lift it.... not cruelly, but with an unyielding possessiveness that leaves no room for argument. He pins her hand to the wall, his other arm brackets her waist. He leans in until his mouth is an ache by her ear, his breath a quiet claim
"I already have." His whisper is velvet wrapped around iron "And I will...again and again. Every dawn that cracks the sky, every night that falls over us, every single damn second in between. Until there's no corner of you that isn't mine" He pauses, close enough that the heat of his breath traces her skin. His voice drops, half promise, half threat "Not the way you fear, janna. I'll break that hate into pieces.... but I'll do it softly... I'll fold the shards into something sweeter, until loving me is the only language left on your lips"
Her pulse answers him with a staccato drum. Shame, fear, something reckless and bright.... they all rise together until she can't tell which feeling owns her. Heat blooms under her ribs, the world narrows to the press of his palm, the rasp of his words. For one breath, she imagines resistance and finds it softer than she expected. For another, she imagines surrender and finds it more terrifyingly sweet
He watches her like a man who knows her without needing to be told, as if his certainty could map the hidden rooms inside her. She hates him for the way he sees her, and she hates herself for how fierce it makes her blush. The air between them thrums with a dangerous promise....one that could break her, and, impossibly, make her want to break
When she finally speaks, it's nothing like the brittle command she started with. Her voice is small, raw, honest "And if I refuse?"
His smile softens but his fingers hold firmer. He leans in close her lips just an inch, voice thick and quiet. His eyes never leaving hers"You can't say no to something that lives in me already. And you Janna....you're already inside my chest. Every beat is yours"
Will he burn her with vengeance-or will her love ignite the darkness inside him?
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