He was born from brutality.
She was raised in a beautiful lie.
He was forged in fire.
She was born in a house built on graves.
Rivan Malhotra learned early that love had claws.
That the only way to survive was to kill softness before it killed you.
His brother drowned in front of him.
His mother never looked at him the same again.
And his father? He made sure the pain never stopped
But it wasn't just them who destroyed him.
It was the man who smiled in family photos and poisoned everything behind the scenes.
The man who drained Rivan's family fortune, leaving them to collapse in shame and bankruptcy.
It was Arvind Mehra
He walked away clean.
With a perfect daughter.
A flawless mask.
And not a single drop of blood on his hands... at least, not that the world could see.
Ishita Mehra was raised in that lie.
She grew up in a cage wrapped in gold.
Her mother died when she was young.
Or so they told her.
She never knew the woman she mourned was trying to run.
Never knew her father locked the doors.
That the man who kissed her forehead goodnight had blood on his hands.
She never knew her father's empire was a house of cards—
Or that her mother's death was the price for trying to leave.
She was sheltered.
Obedient.
Taught to smile, to fold, to forgive.
Until she met him.
Who offered her escape.
A ring.
A promise.
A future.
She didn't know it was a trap.
Because Rivan didn't marry her for love.
He married her to destroy her father.
To make him pay.
To burn him with the one thing he still had left—
Her.
But obsession is a cruel god.
And Rivan never expected to want the girl he meant to ruin.
Never expected that behind Ishita's softness was something far more dangerous—
Hope.
Kindness.
And a heart he couldn't kill.
Now, he's addicted to her.
And she's trapped in a marriage built on lies and lust.
Her heart is breaking.
His soul is unraveling.
And the truth?
It's coming for both of them.
They were both raised by monsters.
Rivan chose vengeance.
Ishita chose hope.
And fate? It threw them into the fire together.
A marriage built on deception.
A love born from ruin.
Because she was never supposed to matter.
And he was never supposed to feel.
But feelings don't care for revenge.
And once hearts get tangled in lies...
Someone always bleeds.
This is not a love story.
It's the war that happens when two broken souls crash into each other and mistake the wreckage for destiny.
This is not a romance.
It's a reckoning.
Welcome to Vows of Vengeance.
No one escapes untouched. Not even you.
Brace yourself. You're not getting out unscathed.
You've been warned.
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