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Prologue

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"No Dadi, she'll stay with me! My voice pierced through the quiet drawing room like a crack in glass. My small face, flushed with frustration, quivered with determination. At only ten years old, i already spoke with the authority of a conqueror, one who was never denied anything.

Dadi looked down with a mix of confusion and unease, "she's....the cleaner's daughter, Raghav. You shouldn't befriend someone like her."

"I don't care." I shouted, fist clenched "I want her, only her." There was a pause, a long one, Mrs Malhotra who stood nearby her expression tight and unreadable.

Finally,

She exhaled, "Alright, alright." She muttered, defeated by love, "How can I go against your wish my prince."

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"Rajesh," said the madam of the house, her manicured fingers drummed against the polished wood of her throne-like chair.

Rajesh blinked, unsure if he had heard correctly, "Madam...but she is just a child."

"Your child," she said coldly "is now important to our raghav, he wants her." She paused letting the words sink in before leaning back. " Fifty thousand monthly, you will get, if she stays.... If she obeys."

Rajesh lowered his eyes to the floor, he had never seen such money in his life, "okay madam." He whispered, "she will stay, she will do whatever the prince says."

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"Mommy" the little girl sobbed, clinging to her mother's dress, "Please don't send me there, I will be good here.....I don't want to go away."

Her mother pushed her away roughly, voice like ice, "you unlucky girl, what do you think this is? A choice."

The woman's eyes flashed with cruelty, "You have always been a burden, one we never asked for. Now finally you're worth something. Fifty thousand every month, and you are saying no?"

She grabbed the child's face in her calloused hands bringing it close, "Listen carefully, if they tell you to sit, you will sit. If they ask you to stand, you will stand. If they say it's morning then it is, even if the moon is right above your head."

Tears streamed down the girl's cheek. Her mother hissed," if you dare to come back here, then you'll see what I will do to you."

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He brought her as a child- not out of cruelty, but to protect her.

Defying royal protocol and his iron-hearted grandmother, the young prince gave the maid child everything: food, shelter, education, and even his love.

She was his closest companion, his hidden joy in a life of duty and cold politics.

But as they grew older, the lines blurred-between the servant and royal, between loyalty and love. The prince's devotion turned into something deeper, something dangerous. He believed she was his to protect forever.

Until the day she chose another.

Shattered by betrayal, the prince's heart darkens but not his love. The innocent bind they once shared is gone, replaced by bitter betrayal and a rage that simmers just beneath the surface..

In a palace filled with secrets and silent wars, what happens when love turns to vengeance......what happens when he refuses to accept the truth

important Note: Its Not a Cheating troop

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