Prologue

Power has a way of hiding scars.

The world only sees the victories, the sharpness of ambition, the brilliance of control. It claps for the empire, never asking what it cost to build. But scars—no matter how deeply buried—wait. They wait for the one pair of eyes that can see past the glitter.

Dhruvi Raichand knew this truth too well.

The world crowned her fearless, unstoppable, untouchable. She ruled with the precision of a storm—calculating, ruthless, unshaken. No one questioned her. No one dared. They saw the empire she built, but not the blood in her hands, not the sleepless nights carved into her silence, not the battles she fought alone in rooms no one entered.

She belonged to no one but herself. And she believed no one could ever reach the woman beneath the legend.

Until him.

Anmay Singhania.

The man who did not flinch before her fire, who did not kneel before her throne. He looked once—and saw what the world refused to see. He saw the scars behind her strength, the fractures behind her fire.

He did not enter her life to conquer.

He entered to reveal the most dangerous truth of all—

That even storms can be understood.

That even the untouchable can be found.

And Dhruvi Raichand, for the first time, would have to face the one battle she could not fight with power:

The battle of being seen.

But what she did not yet know was this—

being seen can be the most dangerous exposure of all.

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Here we begin the journey of Belong to Myself.

A story of storms, scars, and a love that dares to see beyond power.

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