✦ 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒚 Book One of The Cost of Outrunning Fate ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘ Some destinies chase. Others haunt. ∘₊✧──────✧₊∘ Aarvika Arora. Polished. Poised. Perfect. The golden heiress of Arora Vision - born into legacy, raised to rule. By day, she's the epitome of elegance - all sharp heels and sharper words. Admired, envied, untouchable. But when the clock strikes 12:30 a.m. she isn't Aarvika anymore. She's Ash - the anonymous fourth rider in an underground biking crew. No name. No face. Just speed, asphalt, and adrenaline. None of the boys know who she is. And that's exactly how she wants it. Until one night - she crashes. And Aaryan Thaakur pulls off her helmet. Her family's biggest rival. The man who sneers at her in meetings and mocks her in magazines. The one person who should never have known. But now that he does? He won't expose her. He'll taunt her with it. Play with it. Corner her with ruthless obsession until she either breaks - or burns. But what she doesn't know? He's not the first to find out. Adin Zayeer - the silent heir to India's most powerful empire - figured it out long before. And while Aaryan prowls around her like fire, Adin watches like a shadow, quietly claiming pieces of her with every stolen glance. Now, caught between two obsessions - one dark and silent, the other blazing and loud - Aarvika is left spinning in a game that no one warned her about. Because once Ash's helmet comes off, Aarvika Arora stops being a girl on a bike... and becomes the woman they can't let go. ლ⁠(⁠'⁠ ⁠❥⁠ ⁠'⁠ლ⁠) "One word from me, and your perfect little world goes up in flames. But don't worry, Miss Grace- I'm not done playing yet."-- Aaryan Thaakur. "I won't burn your world, Aarvika. I'll invade it-inch by inch, breath by breath-until it forgets it ever belonged to you." -- Adin Zayeer