All in 29 years, she had welcomed the every challenge that life did throw her way. Orphan. Poor. Illiterate. Ill Omen. Were the names she was called by. But the only thing that kept her gathered was her unshakable attitude; of dreaming high and living with a raised head. She, Ishrath Malik, was never weak before. She never had let anybody's words to distress her. But the decision of marrying a criminal, crates a havoc in her life. **** Marriage was the last thing he could think of. But the circumstances forced him to tie a knot with a lady older to him. Theif. Murderer. Blackmailer. Criminal. Words that everybody called him. And yet he lived and cared only and only for his motive. He had his secrets, deep and dark, only known to him and his soul. Kareem Siddiqui, hell pissed of his wife, does every possible thing to make her leave him. But then something brings an abrupt change in him. He turns Soft towards her. *TW: Content of the chapters include rape, suicide, substance abuse, physical abuse. Regards Amreen.