Captivated: A Dark Steamy Indian Mafia Arranged Marriage/Rejected Wife Romance (Crimson Vows #6)

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Vedika Maheshwari arrived at the Singhania haveli with a treaty obligation and a secret. Behind the closed door of her study, she was T.S. Raahi — one of India's most celebrated dark romance authors, beloved by half of Mumbai and unknown to the man she married. She had learned, early and well, how to make herself invisible. In a house that hadn't asked for her, it was simply the safest way to exist.

Ekansh Singhania didn't believe in marriage. He believed in power, in loyalty, and in an old wound that had never fully healed — the one that bore her family's name. His arranged wife was a treaty obligation he intended to honor at a distance. Whatever she was, she was a Maheshwari. That was enough reason to keep the length of the dining table between them.

Until it wasn't.

A monsoon storm. Ten months of careful distance collapsing in a single moment that neither of them planned for.

What follows is more dangerous than either of them expected.

A pregnancy that violates every clause he insisted on.

And a world — Mumbai's glittering elite, its shadowed underworld, a family that groomed another woman to stand where Vedika stands, a father who still sees his daughter as currency — that is not interested in letting them have this quietly.

Ekansh will discover that the wife he tried to ignore has become the one thing he cannot survive without. Vedika will discover what it means, for the first time in her life, to be someone’s priority.