Beneath the vows
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Last published Sun, Jun 22, 2025
29-year-old Zara Khanna is Mumbai's most feared businesswoman by day and the quiet guardian of her family's mafia legacy by night. Nobody dares to cross her. Until a moral, soft-spoken assistant walks into her life named Aryan Kumar... and into a secret marriage he never cared to have.
What starts as a cold, contractual agreement soon becomes dangerously real because Aryan is not who he believes he is.
And Zara? She has been hiding a truth that could ruin them both.
As truths unravel and loyalties are pushed, they have to navigate a world where love is a weakness, power is to survive and every promise has a hidden price.
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