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"Life was never meant to be a fairytale, but still we chose to believe that ours would have a happy ending." Honest, straightforward, pretty and a hell of a temper, that was Gauhar Siddique. Passionate about serving the right cause and ensuring that nobody could defile the pure tenets of justice. She was a warrior of the law, and you were in deep trouble if you ever found yourself on the wrong side of her fist. Little does she know that trouble was brewing within the paradise her father has worked hard to build. "A little bit of deceit in the grand scheme of things never hurt anyone, especially if it were to uphold the shaky pillars of Justice." Charming, kind, friendly and handsome a deadly combination that would lure even the best in. Altamash Ahmed Quadri was a spider who's expert manipulation wove you right into his web. And once you were in, you could never escape. That was how Youngest Director of the Fairfax and Co Solicitors worked. How would these two opposites clash when Altamash forces Gauhar to marry him? There would be sparks and fireworks for sure. But why did Altamash force her to marry him? And most importantly, could these opposites ever fall in love? ••••••••••• "It's not him, it cannot be him!" I could feel the tears stinging my eyes, but his face stayed resolute. As he slowly walked towards me, I stepped away. I couldn't let him smash everything I'd known to the ground, to wreck havoc to every notion I had held as true. As the back of my head hit the wall behind me, I sucked in a breath. The sight of the animalistic smirk on his face scared me, he looked like he had won. Like I was exactly where he wanted me to be. Pushing his hands in his pockets he approached me, and stopped only when there was a hairsbreadth between us. I could feel the warmth of his breath fan my forehead. And I couldn't breathe. Leaning in his lips ghosted against the sensitive skin of my earlobe, "Deception my love." His voice was a smooth whisper against me, as warm as the blazing fire in his eyes and as smooth as the honey that reminded me of the colour of them. My pulse hammered erratically on my throat and he noticed, because he chuckled softly, "it's not easy to act in a way that is against what you actually feel Gauhar. He had you fooled, just like i have your body fooled into thinking that I am going to ravish you." "That's false." I bit out through grit teeth, my voice a vehement hiss. He placed an arm beside my head, caging me in and looking straight into my eyes, his own were dark the amber of orbs almost eclipsed. "It's not false and you know it, let's not deceive ourselves darling." Leaning in he inhaled a deep breath, "our bodies currently believe that we like eachother, when that's as far away from reality as could be." He abruptly stepped away, "it was all an illusion the same way Gauhar, he had spun a lie around you. Just like I had spun one around us." ••••••••• PS: The beginning of this book is super slow, because you guys gotta get acquainted with the characters, but I promise it'll get Interesting as the story moves on. And be warned this is a slow burn novel so if your expecting instant fireworks and sparks...this is not the book for you. But if you like to feel pain and emotions (masochistic?) and bit of solving cases of law, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. P.PS: The book is written in the POV of the four protagonists Anyways, you should go read the book cuz that's obviously what your here for. Happy Reading!
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Chapter 1 - Prologue

Life never is predictable, you never know what will happen next. And that, I suppose is the beauty of life.

If you were to know where your life is going to take you - what your future would be like, I'm sure you would be happy. I mean who wouldn't? Knowing what's going to happen would offer a sense of security, and that's a good thing isn't it?

But once the initial excitement is over you will find that being in the dark was better. One might ask why, well the answer is that the thrill of knowing the future would be the last time that you would feel the euphoric sensation of excitement...because after that nothing will be new to you and you will soon get bored of your own existence.

Every new happiness and every sadness brings a new colour to life, be it the melancholy shades of black and grey or the lively shades of the spectrum.

The colours filled on the canvas of life give us a painting which, when life draws to a close, we are sure to admire.

When you look back at your life you will appreciate the bad as much as the good if not more. Because it is the hardships in life which help you to grow, and it is the difficulties we face which give us the best things in our lives, even if they aren't evident in the beginning.

It's against the black and dull shades that the lively colours shine against. If it wasn't for them, then the bright blues and bubbly pinks wouldn't appear as cheerful as they do.

It's the hardships that help us appreciate the good things in life. If not for them we would definitely cease to be grateful, because then, life would have been monotonous.

We often view things around us in the bleak shades of black and white. Everything is either starkly dark, sinisterly evil. Or blindingly white, divinely pure. It's easy for us, as beings of reason to judge and differentiate between the good and the evil. It's easy for us to make up our minds about the things we see, although we might not know much...or anything about them.

Knowing this, where would you place yourself? Are you good, or are you bad? Would you agree with the opinion people make about you?

Most probably not.

It's a question, that is difficult to answer. Because we find it hard to judge ourselves. And when it comes to answering it, we realize that we don't fit the moulds that we create to judge those around us. We find ourselves in a grey area, although aware of our flaws…. we know that we aren't entirely bad either.

So then, is there truly a villain in a story? Or is it that we assume ourselves to be the hero in the story when in reality that might not be the case.

It's perhaps our decisions that turn the tide against us, it's not what someone does that ruins us….it's our decision to let them do it that brings our fall.

"Trust is not meant to give everyone, why is it then that it's the ones we put our faith in that betray us?"