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Bound to the Cold Billionaire

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Aisha Sharma has three days to save her family.The landlord is threatening to throw them out, her younger brother’s school fees are overdue, and her mother’s medicine bill is growing every week. Every job she has applied for has either rejected her or tried to pay her in “exposure”. When she sees a last‑minute walk‑in interview at Rai Technologies, the most powerful tech company in the city, she knows it is a crazy dream—but she goes anyway.One small accident changes everything.Rushing into the glittering glass lobby, Aisha crashes into a stranger in an expensive suit and spills hot coffee all over him. The man’s eyes are dark, cold and unreadable. He does not shout, but the quiet way he looks at her makes her knees shake. Only inside the interview room does she discover the truth: the man she has just ruined coffee with is Arjun Rai, the ruthless billionaire CEO who is famous for firing people on the spot.Everyone expects Arjun to destroy her application. Instead, he starts asking her questions himself. Aisha answers honestly, even when her voice trembles. She argues with him about how his company treats small customers and even points out an error in his own brochure. The other candidates whisper that she has just committed career suicide.That evening, when Aisha is sure she has failed, she receives an unexpected call.“Mr. Rai personally requested you. You are hired as his temporary personal assistant.”Aisha knows that working for a man like Arjun Rai will not be easy. He is strict, distant and terrifyingly smart. He hates mistakes and believes that feelings are a weakness. Office gossip says no assistant has lasted more than three months by his side. But Aisha cannot refuse the salary he is offering. For her family’s sake, she promises herself she will endure his coldness, no matter what.Very quickly, she discovers that her new boss is more complicated than his reputation.Arjun demands perfection and pushes her to her limits, but he also notices details nobody else sees—like the way her hands shake when she is too hungry, or how she falls asleep on the late‑night train after overtime. He never talks about his past, never laughs, never lets anyone get close, yet Aisha keeps catching glimpses of something broken and lonely behind his ice‑cold eyes.And then strange things start to happen.A landlord who used to bully her suddenly becomes cooperative. A hospital bill that should have been impossible to pay is quietly “adjusted”. A man who tried to harass Aisha on her way home is found the next day with a bruised jaw and a warning he refuses to describe. Every time, there is no proof, but Aisha feels the same invisible shadow following her—tall, silent, and wearing a familiar expensive suit.Bit by bit, the line between “boss” and “savior” begins to blur.Aisha fights her growing attraction, reminding herself that Arjun is her employer, her complete opposite, and the most dangerous man she has ever met. He is a billionaire king in a glass tower; she is just a temporary assistant trying to pay rent. Their worlds are not meant to mix. But when Arjun finally lets his guard down for a second, she sees a man haunted by guilt, nightmares, and a secret promise he made years ago.A promise that involves her family.When Aisha discovers that Arjun’s company is connected to the accident that destroyed her father’s business and ruined their lives, her heart shatters. The man she is slowly falling in love with might be tied to the pain she has carried for years. Is Arjun her enemy, trying to silence his guilt with money and protection? Or is he the only person strong enough to fight the powerful people who truly destroyed her family?Caught between revenge and love, duty and desire, Aisha must make an impossible choice.If she walks away, she can protect her heart but lose the one chance to clear her father’s name. If she stays, she risks everything—her job, her family’s safety, and her own heart—for a man who has built his entire life on secrets and lies.“Bound to the Cold Billionaire” is a slow‑burn, emotional billionaire romance featuring a fierce, ordinary heroine, a scarred and dangerous CEO, an intense boss–assistant relationship, and a web of family secrets that refuses to stay buried.Will Aisha break free from the chains of her past, or discover that the man she fears the most is the one person her heart has been waiting for all along?

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Three days left
Aisha Sharma stared at the crumpled final notice in her hands and tried to breathe. Three days. That was all the landlord had given them. Three days to find the money, or he would throw her family and their belongings out onto the street.In the next room, her younger brother was practicing exam questions by the dim light of a flickering bulb. Every few seconds he coughed, the sound thin and tired. Their mother slept on the narrow bed by the window, her medicine bottles lined up on a plastic chair beside her, half of them already empty.Rent. School fees. Medicine. The words spun in Aisha’s head like a storm she could not escape. She had sent out dozens of applications in the last month. Some companies had rejected her politely. Others had simply never replied. A few had offered “opportunities” that turned out to be unpaid internships or shady “modeling jobs” that made her skin crawl.Her phone buzzed with a new notification. For a second her heart jumped, but it was only a reminder from the school: pay the overdue fees or her brother would not be allowed to sit his exams. Aisha swallowed the lump in her throat and forced herself to stand. Sitting and crying would not change anything. She needed a job—any real job—now.She grabbed her worn‑out folder of certificates and stepped out into the narrow corridor of their building. The landlord’s voice floated up from the ground floor, loud and impatient, as he argued with another tenant. Aisha hesitated at the top of the stairs. If he saw her, he would start again: reminding her of the money, making comments about “responsible daughters” and “families who live for free.”Instead of going down, she slipped out through the back door and walked quickly toward the bus stop. The morning air smelled of dust and frying snacks from the stall on the corner. She checked the time. If she hurried, she could still make it to the city center and try to follow up on a few applications in person. Maybe someone would finally say yes.The bus ride was long and crowded. Aisha clung to the overhead bar, her folder pressed to her chest, while advertisements for luxury apartments and new cars flashed past the dirty windows. In another life, she thought, she might have been one of the people inside those cars—well dressed, relaxed, not constantly calculating how many rupees were left in her purse.By the time she reached the center, her feet already ached. She spent the next few hours going from building to building, leaving CVs with bored receptionists and listening to the same empty promises: “We’ll contact you if there’s an opening.” Each time she forced a polite smile, but inside, panic was building.It was almost evening when she finally stepped out of yet another glass tower, rejected once more. The sky was turning orange, and the wind between the tall buildings felt colder. Aisha leaned against a wall for a moment, closed her eyes and whispered, “Please… just one chance.”When she opened them, she saw the poster.

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