She built her life on silence. He returned to destroy it. Ria thought she had buried her past ,the mistakes, the heartbreak, the boy she once adored. But when Aaryan walks back into her life, he's no longer the boy she knew. He's a man with a plan - sharp, cold, and determined to expose the truth he thinks she's hiding. What begins as revenge becomes something far more dangerous. Every glance burns. Every lie unravels. Every secret pulls them deeper into a web of obsession neither can escape. As the line between hate and hunger blurs, hearts are shattered, boundaries are crossed, and the past bleeds into the present leaving behind not innocence, but velvet scars. A love story born in the dark , where vengeance feels like desire, and redemption comes with a price.

---▪︎ A Wattpad featured story ▪︎--- What if you run away from one wedding only to get entangled in another-with a complete stranger? *** Doing things without thinking twice is Eve Kavinsky's second nature, just like that one time she nearly burst the science lab with explosive chemicals. But hold on, that's not the worst of it. The story of her life begins in the form of a runaway bride and chasing goons. Add in taking hasty vows and 'accidentally' getting married to a stranger while trying to escape the said goons. Remember how they say 'Stranger Danger'? It isn't until Eve signs an agreement of maintaining a marriage facade for a year to both of their advantages, with her accidental husband slash supposed stranger, does she realize the man she married isn't stranger but all danger. There's something about the criminal lawyer, Axel Hernandez, that is full of lethal calm and burning vengeance. The more she knows about him, the more he confuses her. Yet, somehow Eve's atoms connects with Axel's atoms just about right and they create explosive chemistry. Not just romantic ones, but also dangerous ones. And who knows, Eve might be hiding secrets of her own. Dark, twisted secrets.