Nandini laughed loudly, hitting him on his chest and pushing him away when Cabir told her a joke.

"What?" she asked, when he suddenly grew quiet and swallowed, looking at something behind her. She turned around, smiling as bright as the star when she looked at Manik. Until it disappeared when he looked at her with bloodshot eyes.

His raging gaze flickered towards her chest, making her look down, and with shaky hands she arranged her dupatta, which had fallen off and accentuated her breasts through her suit.

She looked up, biting her lip and resisting the urge to run away as he signaled with his head to follow him before he started to move towards their room, not ready to face what her Shohar will put her through.

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Nandini

Being the youngest, she is the epitome of innocence. The apple of everyone's eyes as her sweet laughter full of mischief and sweetness fills the walls of their house.

Until, it slowly dies as fate turns her life upside down and she is bounded to her eldest cousin, ten years her senior, through nikkah. Manik Malhotra.

Manik

Being the eldest, he is responsible and respected. The buisness tycoon is feared and loved equally, burning everyone to ashes just by his look in his anger and conquering stars for his loved ones.

But, every powerful person has a weakness. For him, it was her. Nandini Murthy.

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Manik is possessive of her. Has been since the good old childhood days and isn't ashamed of making that fact clear, as he threatened every boy, cousins alike, for even looking at her the wrong way.

Because she is only his to kiss. His to touch. His to love.

His Wife.

But, can he preserve the radiant innocent girl he know she is, instead of turning into a shell of a woman while she succumbed to his overbearing demands?

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