Mumbai's night skyline stretched endlessly, shimmering with a million city lights that masked the darkness lurking beneath. Beneath the surface of wealth and grandeur, behind the high walls of empires built on power, secrets thrived-some buried, some festering, waiting to bleed into reality.

At the heart of it all stood Rivan Singhania, a man sculpted by pain, wrapped in ice, untouchable. He moved through life with measured indifference, his world built on detachment, his heart a fortress no one had ever breached. He had learned long ago that warmth was a fleeting illusion, that love was nothing but a trick of the mind-dangerous and unreliable.

But the past had its ways of creeping in. Of whispering when the world was silent. Of turning the shadows into demons he could never escape.

And then there was Samaira Malhotra-all softness and light, a dreamer who had no place in his world. She wasn't meant to know the weight of his name, the scars he carried, or the ghosts that followed him. Yet fate was cruel in the way it played its games, weaving paths together that should never have crossed.

She saw him before she knew him.

He intrigued her before she could stop herself.

And when their worlds collided, she learned the truth- her Mr. Brooding was not just a stranger haunting her thoughts. He was the heir to an empire built on cold ambition, the son of Rajveer Singhania.

He was everything she should stay away from.

But the more she tried, the deeper she fell.

And Rivan? He never planned on looking her way. Until he did.

Until she became a crack in his carefully built walls.

Until she made him question everything.

This is not just a love story.
This is a war between past and present, between healing and destruction, between a girl who sees too much and a boy who feels nothing at all.

But in the end, will love be enough to save them?

Or will the ghosts of yesterday pull them under?

✨ Thank You for Reading the Prologue! ✨

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