Sold to the Underworld King

warning mature 18+, Mafia, dark romance, Beneath the glittering skyline of Mumbai, where luxury masks corruption and power is bought in silence, a hidden underground auction sells the most forbidden commodity of all — human lives. When Aarohi Singh, a young woman from Jaipur, wakes on a cold stone floor with a number stamped on her wrist, she realizes her name, identity, and freedom have been stripped away. She is not a captive. She is merchandise. As wealthy men bid on her life, terror freezes her breath — until a voice from the shadows calls out an earth-shattering price, silencing the entire hall. She is sold to an unseen buyer. Taken to a fortress-like mansion and treated not as a prisoner but as something valuable, Aarohi learns the truth that shatters her world: The man who bought her is Armaan Khanna — the ruthless kingpin of Mumbai’s underworld… …and the same man she believes murdered her father. But nothing is as it seems. Her father died protecting a secret powerful enough to destroy politicians, billionaires, and crime syndicates. Armaan did not buy her to own her. He bought her to keep her alive. Now trapped between revenge and truth, Aarohi must decide: Will she destroy the man she hates… or uncover the truth that could burn the entire empire of corruption? Because in a world where power is currency and trust is a weapon— love is the most dangerous risk of all.