"Tell me to stop," he said against her neck. She didn't tell him to stop. She pulled him closer because her body had made the decision her mind had been fighting for weeks. Ananya Sharma arrives in Bangalore with a language app, a fresh start, and a past she will do anything to keep buried. She has spent five years lying to the people she loves, and the cost of being caught nearly broke her. Kabir Malhotra, the man funding her work, sees through every wall she has. The attraction between them is immediate and physical and impossible to ignore, the kind she fights every single day because wanting him means trusting him, and she has already watched what happens when people find out who she really is. He pursues her with patience that feels like foreplay. She pulls away every time he gets close, and every time she does, the wanting gets worse. When she finally stops saying no, what follows takes her apart. They are reckless with each other in offices after hours and hotel beds in the afternoon and against walls they shouldn't be pressed against, and she gives him everything, including the parts she hates about herself. Then he makes a choice that destroys her. And she learns that the person who has been inside your body and inside your secrets and inside the very worst parts of you is the person who can break you in ways you will never fully recover from.