Dedication 🥀❤️

To everyone who believes in unconditional love, even when life gives them a hundred reasons not to.

To those who believe that a heart can love again without betraying the love it once held. That a second love doesn't have to replace the first, and that beginning again doesn't mean forgetting what came before.

To those who have lost someone, lost a dream, or lost a part of themselves while trying to hold on to something they once called forever.

To every Madhavi who believes her story ended with her first love, and to every heart that needs a gentle reminder that perhaps, just perhaps, there are still beautiful chapters waiting to be written.

And finally, to everyone who needs a fictional man like Agnee. The one who doesn't ask you to be less complicated, who doesn't demand that you heal on his timeline, who stays patient when your heart is afraid, and who loves you without making you feel guilty for the scars life has left behind.

The man who doesn't try to become your first love, but hopes to become the love you choose next.

Because sometimes, we don't need a perfect man.

We just need one who makes love feel safe.

This story is for you. For your soft heart, your impossible expectations, your belief in second chances, and the little hope you carry that a love like that might exist somewhere.

Until then, may you find him between these pages. ❤️‍🩹

With love,

Palak Bhaskar 🪷