Snowfall blanketed the city in gentle silence, muting the chaos that had taken over Noah’s life in the last forty-eight hours. The paparazzi scandal. The headlines. The threats from his management. The fan war online. The damage control meetings. The way his name had been tossed around like firecrackers.
And through it all—
Aarush never left his side.
Noah had expected him to disappear, to pull away the second things got messy. That’s what people usually do. But not Aarush. Not the lawyer with steel in his spine and quiet fire in his eyes. He had stepped between Noah and the cameras, argued with Noah’s PR team, shut down journalists, and even stayed up an entire night drafting statements to protect him.
No one had ever protected Noah like that.
He didn’t know what to do with the feeli
