𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 (On Hold)

#Book 1 of 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚

Aarush Singhania × Avyukta Roy

All I ever asked from life was love.

Not wealth. Not power. Not even happiness.
Just love. A little piece of it to call mine. Just someone to choose me.

But life has never given me even that.

Everyone I've ever wanted, everything I've ever held close, has been taken away from me.
My mother-torn away in front of my eyes.
My father-his love drowned in battles I never understood.
Even my voice-silenced when I needed it most.
My dreams-shattered before I could ever reach them.

And now, my love.....even the one person I dared to love.

The one who once looked at me like I was the only woman in the world...
is walking away.
Not because fate was cruel this time.
But because his heart belongs to someone else-
to my sister.

Because his heart was never mine to keep.

I've always been the second choice. The shadow, the substitute, the one left behind.

A daughter who couldn't protect her mother.
A girl who wasn't enough for her father.
A woman who couldn't hold on to her own voice.
And now... a lover who was never truly loved.

And yet, some foolish part of me still hoped. Hoped that maybe, just once, love would stay. That maybe, for once, someone would look at me and see me-not as a second option, but as the only one.

But today proves what I should have known all along.
Love was never mine.

It was never meant for me.
Because I am, and will always be...

the second choice.