The Royal Pawn - Ch(9-12)

The Royal Pawn

Gone for more than a decade. Athulya Oberoi is a stranger to her own motherland, returning to the soil that once buried her innocence. Not as the wide-eyed girl who waited by locked doors for affection that never came, but as a storm-cloaked shadow of herself - distant, unreadable, and done hoping. To the parents who never looked past their plans, To the brother who never remembered to be one, To the house that echoed with everything but warmth. Twelve years and the board is finally set. What began as careful placement of pawns... now nears its final, fatal move. But whose victory will be written in blood - and whose downfall in silence? Will she remain the captured pawn... Or walk the path to become the queen? The stakes are higher. The lies, thicker. Her past isn't forgotten - it's waiting. And what's coming for her won't knock twice. The biggest question - She returned as their daughter. Will she leave as their ruin?

Ch 5-8