The Unloved Husband

"He was the CEO of a multi-billion-rupee empire. Inside his own home, he was merely the emergency contact."

Kartik Singhania has spent thirty-four years believing that love is a debt you pay in silence. He bails out his reckless younger brother, protects his father’s fragile pride, and carries the weight of a conglomerate on his back. Nobody asks what Kartik wants. Nobody remembers his birthday. So when his family arranges his marriage to an independent textile designer from Jaipur, he expects another cold corporate contract. Ruchika Sain walks into the mandap with bruised hopes and the lingering ghost of another man in her heart. She expects an arrogant, emotionally unavailable tycoon. Instead, she finds a devastatingly patient husband who remembers the exact jaggery she takes in her tea, moves an entire factory across five hundred kilometers in the dead of night to save her dreams, and demands absolutely nothing in return. Kartik is resigned to being the husband who provides without ever being loved. Ruchika is slowly realizing that real love isn't a fever dream of grand speeches, it’s the quiet, solid man standing in her corner. Until his family pushes him too far. Framed for corporate fraud and stripped of his name, title, and wealth, Kartik walks out into the rain with empty hands. He expects Ruchika to leave. After all, what good is a man who is no longer useful? He has no idea who is standing beside him. Ruchika didn’t fall for the Singhania surname. She fell for the man beneath the armor. And she will gladly burn their gilded empire to the ground before she ever lets anyone make her husband feel unloved again.