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Chapter 1: The Birthday Wish

At fifteen, mind-bending Anya Chandra feels invisible at her own birthday party. Her father Vikash, Mumbai’s crime boss, orders her to destroy Kiara Sharma—daughter of a lawyer who tried to expose him. But Anya has her own motive: reclaiming Aryan Khanna, whom Kiara stole at thirteen. Using supernatural gifts and voodoo dolls, she systematically ruins Kiara through mysterious illnesses and mental manipulation. The chapter introduces Dilip Shrivastava, a divorced father whose path will eventually cross Anya’s, and establishes the Chandra empire built on Partition-era blood money. At fifteen, Anya becomes her father’s weapon, already damned.

Chapter 2: The High Profile Breakup

Anya executes her revenge with precision, collecting Kiara’s hair and fabric to create voodoo dolls. She inflicts headaches, nausea, and anxiety, making Kiara miss crucial events with Aryan’s family. Anya projects consciousness into Kiara’s mind, twisting conversations while Vikash spreads industry rumors about unreliability. The relationship crumbles when Kiara must choose between a film reshoot and the Khanna anniversary party. Aryan ends things, exhausted. Yet Anya never wins him either—she’ll eventually be drawn to India’s biggest YouTuber, ten years younger. Kiara’s life is destroyed, but Anya’s real war is only beginning.

Chapter 3: The Years of Broken Things

Three years post-Kiara, eighteen-year-old Anya attracts Aryan’s attention, but Maya intervenes—marriage would expose family secrets. Sent to NYU, Anya meets French filmmaker Jean-Luc, who’s mysteriously deported after three months. A comedian boyfriend loses all gigs after joking about powerful families. Assistant director Rohan attempts drugging/blackmail and disappears. At twenty-five, she has a hysterical affair with married cricket star Kartik Mehra. Every relationship is systematically destroyed by her father’s invisible hand. By thirty, Anya is hollow, broken, waiting—accepting her inescapable cage while understanding she’ll never have genuine freedom or love.

Chapter 4: The Fashion Book Launch

Forty-year-old divorced Dilip Shrivastava attends a fashion book launch hoping to see historian Aditi Sengupta. Instead, he spots thirty-year-old Anya Chandra—stunning, lonely, somehow aware of his staring without looking. He’s mesmerized. Later discovering she’s Vikash Chandra’s daughter and received his earlier email about collaborating, he realizes she knew who he was. When Cafe Mangi offers significant advertising shortly after, he suspects connections. The timing feels orchestrated. Anya recognizes Dilip as exactly what her parents seek: ordinary, controllable, grateful—someone who’ll seem like her choice while remaining manageable for Vikash’s purposes.

Chapter 5: The Three Meetings

Dilip and Anya have three orchestrated encounters. First: a mythology talk where Anya deliberately sits beside him, briefly touching his knee. Second: an art exhibition where Vikash himself walks toward Dilip radiating warmth while Maya looks worried. Third: coffee at Gloria Jean’s, suspiciously packed with extras who leave simultaneously afterward. Anya does most talking, asking about family; she leaves with wet eyes and flushed cheeks. That night, Dilip reads her a rambling love letter by phone. She says she’s leaving for New York with a boyfriend, then texts: “I’m not too young. I’m 30”—a clarification suggesting hidden complications.

Chapter 6: The New York Exile

Thirty-year-old Anya flees to sister Priya’s Brooklyn apartment. Maya suggests mentoring Rohan Bhat, a clueless twenty-year-old starting a YouTube fitness channel. Anya finds unexpected satisfaction teaching him. Her father shelves her documentary—two years of work killed. Lonely, she begins an affair with cousin Abhay Malhotra. She confesses to Maya, who responds with surprising warmth while warning that Abhay now knows dangerous secrets. Worse, Anya develops attraction to brother-in-law Marco. When pregnant Priya suspects betrayal and explodes, Maya convinces Anya to return home. At thirty-two, Anya finally understands even her mother’s warmth serves Vikash’s control. Her cage is inescapable.

Chapter 7: The Betrayal and the Accident

Back in Mumbai at thirty-four, Anya works as Vikash’s invisible weapon while mentoring Rohan’s successful YouTube channel. Her cousin Abhay has been compromised—sleeping with Korean CEO Min-Jun Park and betraying Vikash’s operations (₹3,500 crores lost). Vikash orders Anya to confirm Abhay’s treachery using clairvoyant gifts. She discovers complete betrayal and defection plans. Next day, Abhay “accidentally” drowns in Goa—obvious assassination disguised as cardiac arrest. Devastated, Anya realizes her intelligence work caused his death. Rohan provides uncomplicated comfort, offering genuine friendship. The chapter reveals lethal consequences of Anya’s gifts and Vikash’s ruthlessness while establishing Rohan as sincere presence.

Chapter 8: The YouTuber’s Rise and Fall

Twenty-four-year-old Rohan keeps Anya afloat with his growing YouTube success—secretly controlled by Vikash’s algorithm manipulation. Rohan dreams of billionaire status, working obsessively. Maya initially approves but grows jealous of Anya’s influence. When Anya spends two months in Albania, Vikash observes Rohan’s content becoming recklessly opinionated. Deciding he’s unacceptable, Vikash throttles his performance while scheduling impossible opportunities. Orchestrated Valentine’s photos with actress Jhanvi Kapoor appear compromising. Hurt by weeks of cancellations, Anya ends it. Meanwhile, Dilip has written emails for ten years despite silence—persistence Vikash notes as useful. At thirty-nine, approaching forty, Anya receives “the talk” about her future.

Chapter 9 — After Ten Years

At fifty, Dilip Shrivastava writes a farewell email to Anya Chandra after a decade of unanswered letters. Vikash, always monitoring his daughter’s communications, instructs Anya to re-engage him using a fake identity, @Alish99. Their light social-media chats evolve into intimacy as Dilip falls for her voice again. When he confesses a past affair with a rich man’s wife, Anya lashes out, ending contact—only for him to unblock her days later. Their bond resumes under Vikash’s surveillance, who studies every exchange to weaponize affection into control. The “love story” becomes a psychological experiment setting the stage for complete domination.

Chapter 10 – The Vashikaran

At forty, Anya deepens her psychic bond with fifty-year-old journalist Dilip Shrivastava after her father Vikash orders her to stop written contact and bind him through ritual. She performs a vashikaran—using his hair, clothes, and her blood—to enslave his mind. While he mistakes the telepathic link for love, Vikash and Maya manipulate Anya through her ex-lover Nandita’s paid “reappearance.” Dilip gradually perceives the trap: every relationship in Anya’s life has been orchestrated by her parents to keep her dependent. The realization fractures their connection and exposes the family’s total psychological control.

Chapter 11 – The Alibaug Secret

Dilip’s visions confirm that Anya is sexually enslaved by her father. She telepathically reveals the truth: on Independence Day in Alibaug, Vikash forced her compliance, beginning their ongoing incestuous relationship. Maya senses the shift at home, choosing silence for survival. A careless public kiss between father and daughter nearly exposes them, prompting Maya’s furious warning that one slip will destroy the family. That night, Vikash re-asserts control, promising secrecy while continuing the abuse. Dilip, consumed by jealousy and powerlessness, realizes he can never compete with the Chandras’ wealth or domination, as Anya retreats further into captivity.

Chapter 12 – The Breaking Point

After Vikash’s heart attack, Anya becomes his caretaker while secretly conspiring with Maya and Priya to escape his grip. They plan a clandestine New Year’s Eve marriage between Anya and YouTuber Rohan to block Vikash’s chosen match, the subservient Dilip. The wedding succeeds, but Rohan flees after witnessing Anya and Vikash’s dark rituals of torture and magic. Dilip tries to expose the abuse to police, politicians, and activists, only to be dismissed and left to die under Anya’s voodoo control. By January, he escapes Mumbai for Prayagraj, still bound to her telepathically. Anya remains a prisoner in her father’s empire—the cycle of power and possession unbroken.