The music pounded through the club, but to Ananya, everything had gone silent. Rehan's gaze burned into hers across the crowded room, heavy with unspoken words. Her fingers tightened around the glass in her hand, knuckles whitening as memories she had buried clawed their way back to the surface.

She tore her eyes away first, her chest rising and falling as if she'd run a marathon. She couldn't let him see the storm he still stirred inside her. Not after everything. Not after the way it had ended.