❤️️🔥 CHAPTER 3: "Signed in Blood, Sealed with Power"

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🔐 Mini Recap:

> She slapped the devil. Now he wants her in sindoor.

A marriage contract. A threat. A countdown.

Prisha’s world is crumbling—and Rudra Raichand is watching with a glass of scotch and a smirk.

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Prisha walked into Sharma House that morning after delivering breakfast to a job interview she was overqualified for.

But her phone had already begun vibrating.

Aarav opened the door, panic in his eyes. “Di… Di come fast!”

Inside, Mahendra was sitting on the sofa, pale, holding another document.

Prisha snatched it from his hand.

> "Sharma Enterprises: Seized under Section 19 of the Corporate Code."

> Reason: Pending 50 crore lawsuit by Raichand Global.

The stamp was red. Final.

"No..." Prisha whispered. Her knees buckled. Savita caught her.

"They sealed the office today," Aarav said. "Police took everything. Computers. Files. Even Dad’s chair."

She couldn’t breathe.

But Rudra could.

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In the glass-walled tower of Raichand Global, Rudra stood in his cabin, sipping espresso.

Aryan entered. "Sir, done as you ordered. Sharma Enterprises is frozen. The media will cover it in an hour."

Rudra nodded.

"What if she still refuses, sir?" Aryan asked.

Rudra turned slowly, dark amusement in his eyes.

> "Then we cut deeper. Her college admission. Her old savings. Her passport renewal. Everything."

> "I don't want her to fall. I want her to crawl."

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At dinner, no one spoke.

Mahendra's hands trembled too much to hold the spoon. Savita stared at her daughter like a mother watching her child drown.

Prisha sat still, expressionless. The papers in her lap.

Her father whispered, "Beta... I don't want this for you. But I'm also scared. I'm too old to fight men like him."

Aarav slammed his hand. "Let me go beat him—"

"No!" Mahendra cried. "He's not just a man. He's a storm."

Savita clutched her daughter's hand. "Maybe if you marry him... you can fight from inside."

Prisha looked up, a bitter smile.

"And what if he eats me alive?"

No one answered.

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Prisha stormed into Rudra’s office.

He didn’t look surprised.

"You've frozen everything. Smeared my father's name. How far will you go?"

He stood, walking to her slowly.

"As far as you went... when your slap echoed in that ballroom."

"You’re insane."

"I’m obsessed. There's a difference."

"What do you get from forcing me?"

He leaned in.

"Control. Regret. Obedience."

She slapped the contract on his table.

"I will never love you."

He smiled.

"Love? Oh no, sweetheart. This isn't a love story. This is a transaction."

He leaned closer.

> "And you're the most expensive deal I’ve ever signed."

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That night, a courier arrived at the Sharma house.

A wedding lehenga.

Red. Heavy. Covered in gold thread.

A note pinned on it:

> "One week. Or I walk over your father’s grave in a black sherwani." — R.R.

Prisha held the fabric.

It wasn't clothing.

It was prison silk.

Her mother wept in the background.

Mahendra silently walked away.

And Aarav punched the wall until his knuckles bled.

Prisha stood under the shower, tears mixing with water.

> This wasn’t a proposal. It was a punishment.

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Rudra sat in his mansion's study.

He circled a date on the calendar: "Wedding Day: 6 Days Left."

Aryan entered. "Sir, media outlets are starting to leak wedding rumors."

Rudra smirked.

"Good. I want every camera ready when she takes my name."

He held the marriage contract up to the candlelight.

> "I don’t want to marry her quietly."

"I want the world to hear her yes... as her last act of freedom."

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🌟 End of Chapter 3

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🔐 Mini Spoiler – Chapter 4: “The Deal is Sealed in Blood”

> Rudra pushes Prisha to the edge. Her father falls sick. A ruthless media leak forces her hand. And finally... with trembling hands... She signs.

But Rudra doesn’t just want her name.

He wants her soul.

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