𝐀𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐤 𝐗 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 Aariz Shaik built walls around his heart long ago. Reserved, composed, and dangerously indifferent to love, he believes that some battles are lost before they even begin. And Lavanya paul? She was the only war he never had the courage to fight. She loved him. Unconditionally. Desperately. But when silence became his answer, she was forced to walk away. Years later, fate plays its cruelest hand-Lavanya reappears in his life, not as a distant memory, but as his best friend's fiancée. Bound by an engagement she doesn't want and trapped in a future she never chose, she wears her heartbreak like armor. And Aariz? He stands in the shadows, watching, pretending, lying-to her and himself. But when a single night unravels buried truths... When stolen glances become undeniable... When unspoken words burn hotter than ever... The past refuses to stay forgotten. A love once lost. A heart still yearning. A destiny rewritten in veiled whispers. "𝑰𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕... 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒓."