Until I met you

PROLOGUE Some people leave your life quietly. And some leave behind a silence so loud that even years can't drown it out. Four years ago, Ruhi had loved Ansh with the kind of certainty only young hearts could have. She had believed some people were meant to stay. She had believed promises meant something. She had believed that no matter how badly life tried to pull two people apart, there would always be a way back to each other. She was wrong. Four years later, she saw him again. And for the first time, Ruhi understood that forgetting someone and pretending you don't remember them are two completely different things. The moment her eyes met his, her heart recognized him before her mind could stop it. Ansh. The boy who had once known every version of her. The boy who knew exactly how she took her tea, what made her laugh, what made her angry—and what made her cry. The boy who had once promised he would never become a stranger. Yet there he stood. Four years older. Four years changed. Still looking at her like she was the only person in the world. And Ruhi? She looked straight into his eyes and lied. "I don't know you." Because sometimes loving someone isn't enough to make you stay. Sometimes the only way to protect the pieces of yourself they left behind… is to pretend you never knew them at all. But Ansh knew her. And he knew one thing Ruhi couldn't hide. She remembered everything. Every promise. Every goodbye. And him.