When Love Breaks the Rules: He gave her his name, but lost his soul to someone else.
Series Name: Unconventional Love
Book 1: The Other One (Live and available to read on Amazon Kindle)
Book 2: Crooked Love – The Prequel (Live and available to read on Amazon Kindle)
Book 3: The Unwanted Wife – Coming Soon.
Book 4: Crooked Destinies – Coming Soon.
The Unwanted Wife: When Love Breaks the Rules
Marriage.
What’s it, if not responsibility?
Hi, I’m Kairav Raichand. I’m the guy who dared to let his heart fall for someone else while being legally bound to a woman I never wanted. When you’re asked to marry someone you have no feelings for—and you can’t even argue because you’ve never done it before—you just obey. Especially when the one asking isn’t just your father but the man the whole world respects, the man you’ve always wanted to become. The man who gave you rules instead of warmth. So when he asks you to do something, you don’t question. You just do it.
I got married. I had to.
But before the damn wedding, I told her. I told her how I felt. That it wasn’t about someone else, that I wasn’t built for a traditional relationship, that my lifestyle—my emotional makeup—was different. That I had special needs, darker ones, when it came to intimacy. She didn’t hear me. Or maybe she didn’t want to. So I gave her what she asked for—my name, a home, children.
Years passed. And it was smooth—life, or something that pretended to be. She lived in the illusion of a happy marriage, while I existed in isolation. I threw myself into work until it consumed me from all directions. I didn’t just grow my father’s business—I built an empire on my back. But I never found peace. Insomnia became my closest companion. And despite the wealth, the accolades, the control… inside, I was still the same hollow man.
Then she came.
Angel. That’s what I called her, because that’s what she was. She didn’t walk into my life—she breathed life into me. She lit something inside me that refused to die down. Her smile, her confidence, her submission—it was like she had been crafted for me, like she knew exactly how to reach the parts of me I didn’t even know were still alive.
“Do you like me, Sir?” Her innocent voice still echoes inside me.
Like her? Love, devotion, madness—was there even a word for what I felt? She wasn’t just someone I liked. She was someone I placed above myself. She held that sacred space—the kind of place you reserve for someone you never thought you’d find.
A. Angel. Akansha Puri. A minx who turned my carefully structured world upside down.
And now she’s gone.
And I don’t know how to survive.
I let her go. I told myself it was the right thing to do. But you never really understand how deeply something cuts you until you’re bleeding from it. I didn’t fight for her. I didn’t stop the madness. I watched her walk away, and by staying silent, I gave my permission. That silence… that was my betrayal.
Now, all I feel is rage. It burns under my skin like acid. I remember how good it felt to ruin the men who tried to get too close—Jay, Jatin. I destroyed their lives just to keep her in mine. I liked the power, the control. I liked knowing she was mine.
Now I don’t even know where she is. I can’t find her. And that—this helplessness—is something I don’t know how to live with.
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