[THE VOWS OF FAITH, #2] KANAK Six years of marriage. A lifetime, people would say. Then came three years of silence, enough to suffocate a marriage slowly. That evening changed everything. My husband. My life. Our future. To the world, Vanraj and I are still the perfect couple. Wealth, power, and a marriage that looks untouched by time. But behind the closed doors of our curated life, we have become strangers sharing a house too large for two people who no longer speak. Only one thing has remained constant: sex. If I start pulling at the thread of this marriage... Which end will finally unravel first? Him. Or me. ~~~~~ VANRAJ I don't remember the moment I started caring for Kanak. It was destiny, a collision six years ago. I'm blue blood. I'm used to owning everything I see. But three years ago, a tragedy swallowed the woman I married, leaving a stranger in her place. I thought silence was a mercy. I was wrong. It's a slow-acting poison, and it's killing us both. The only time she's truly mine is when I'm inside her. When I'm not, I'm losing her. She is a rose. Velvet, thorny, and the only thing that makes my cold blood run hot. She wants out. She wants to tear up our oaths and disappear into oblivion. But she's forgotten who I am. I'll burn this entire legacy to the ground before I let my rose wither. ~~~~~ This standalone features a second chance fueled by years of lethal silence, bone-deep obsession, and aggressive scenes of sex in anger that will leave you breathless. It contains a guaranteed HEA and no cheating.