CHAPTER 4: The Inevitable Claim

Rudransh followed Akriti out of the hallway, his face a mask of controlled fury and bewilderment. He had just been verbally swatted away by the same infuriating girl who had shouted at him in the streets, and now she was walking into the heart of his family's most critical political meeting.

Akriti

She returned to the living room, smoothing her dress, her heart still hammering from the adrenaline rush of defying him. But her defiance evaporated the moment she saw Rudransh enter right behind her.

Abhimanyu Singh Shekhawat, Rudransh’s Dadosa, beamed and gestured grandly toward the new arrival. “Ah, here he is! The Crown Prince you all have been waiting for. My eldest grandson, Rudransh Singh Shekhawat.”

Akriti froze.