FEAR AND FALLING

She met him on a night the rain wouldn’t stop.
Under a bridge she was warned never to cross.
With a man she was never meant to know.
Anaya is just a student trying to make it home when the city fails her—missed buses, empty streets, and a storm that pushes her into the shadows. There, she meets Aarav. Quiet. Watchful. Kind in a way that feels rare at night.
He never asks questions.
She never pries.
What begins as chance turns into routine—brief conversations in the dark, shared silences, a friendship built on safety she doesn’t question. She sees only the man who tells her to go home, who waits until she’s gone, who never lets fear touch her.
She doesn’t know he rules the very darkness she walks through.
She doesn’t know mercy is the most dangerous thing he’s chosen in years.
Because loving her means lying.
Protecting her means blood.
And the truth—when it comes—won’t ask permission before it destroys everything.
Somewhere between fear and falling,
they forget which side of the night t

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