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She loved him first. He chose someone else. In the glass towers of New Delhi, where ambition is everything and emotions are a liability, Tara Tandon has learned to want very little. She is the one who stays. The one who listens. The one who never asks for more. Especially from him. Divan Parasher—brilliant, powerful, and impossibly out of reach—has always been her closest friend… and her greatest heartbreak. Because his heart has never belonged to her. --- 💍 Until he makes a choice he can’t take back. When the woman he once loved returns, Divan doesn’t hesitate. He chooses her. Marries her. Builds a life that has no place for Tara. So Tara does the only thing she can to survive it. She walks away. A new city. A new life. A careful, painful distance from the man she never stopped loving. --- 🔥 But some truths refuse to stay buried. In the silence she leaves behind, Divan begins to see what he was too blind to recognize… That love was never loud or demanding. It was quiet. Steady. Unwavering. It was her. --- 💔 Now he wants her back. But Tara is no longer the woman who stood quietly in the background of his life. She’s stronger. Untouchable. And no longer willing to be second choice. --- **He chose the wrong bride. Now he has to fight for the woman he should have chosen all along.** --- ✨ **A deeply emotional, slow-burn romance featuring:** * Unrequited love * Best friends to lovers * Love triangle drama * Late realization hero * Angsty, heart-wrenching tension --- 👉 *Perfect for readers who crave emotional, addictive romances where love comes too late… and the second chance isn’t guaranteed.* ---