Veins Of Steel

🌑 | Twisted Ties of Time

Avika Arora earned early that love was just another form of leverage.

Raised in silence and sculpted by betrayal, she's built an empire from the wreckage of her past-steel walls around a heart that once knew how to ache. The world sees a woman carved from precision and ice, a genius who rewired grief into control. No one sees the fever dreams. The locked door in her mind. The voice that still whispers in her sleep.

That voice has a name: The one and only- Aryan Kapoor.

He vanished ten years ago, the only person who ever saw behind her mask-and the one who broke her the most. His disappearance was a wound she never spoke of, not even to herself. And now he's back, slipping through the cracks in her reality like smoke under a door. Older. Harsher. Changed in ways that feel all too familiar.

He tells her he never stopped watching.
He says he came back to finish what they started.

As Avika's carefully manicured world begins to unravel, buried memories claw their way to the surface-twisted truths, half-remembered nights, and a secret that ties them together with iron threads. But she can't tell if Aryan is here to save her... or destroy her from the inside out.

And the most terrifying part?

She doesn't know which one she wants.

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Recommended to Read before starting: His Last Mercy
(NOT NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE STORYLINE‼️)