Author's POV

"No, I can't let her go back to that hell. I can't let her go. She is mine, and I will make her officially mine soon too," Vedant said.

"But don't let her be sad anymore. That girl has suffered a lot, and she only deserves happiness now," Yuvraj said.

"I know, and I will give her all the happiness she deserves," Vedant said.

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"What are you doing? Leave my hand, Vedant. I will not marry you," Ditya shouted.

"You will marry me today, with or without your will. It doesn't matter," Vedant said, looking directly into her eyes.

"I will marry you today. It doesn't matter whether you want it or not," he said.

"Will you marry me forcefully?" she asked, tears continuously falling from her eyes.

"If I have to, then I will," he said.

"A marriage without consent is void," she said.

"In my case, it's different. It's never void, but valid," he said, looking straight into her eyes.

"I will file a case against you, and because my consent is missing here and you are forcing me to marry you, I am an aggrieved party and I have every right to file a case against you. Then all this will end because this is not a valid contract," she said.

"Seems like you love studying law a lot, but remember one thing. All these things happen only in your world because, in my world, everything happens according to me. Okay, so tell me the first thing - how will you file a case against me? I am never letting you go out of this mansion, so tell me, how will you go?" he asked. She remained silent.

"What happened? You don't have any answer? Okay, next question. If you somehow even manage to get out of this mansion and file a complaint, do you know what will happen?" he asked.

"Yes, they will arrest you for marrying me forcefully and kidnapping me," she said, and he laughed.

"So innocent of you to think that," he said.

"You know what will really happen? Let me tell you. There are only two possible situations that could happen. First, the police will call me directly without even letting you know because they all live on my money, or they are my men pretending to work as police officers for everyone else. So they will bring you directly back to me," he said.

"Now, second thing - the real police don't have the audacity to come and arrest me because they are all scared of me. And even if they let you go, I will catch you again because where else would you go other than India?" he said.

"So there are many situations, but in the end, you will be with me, in my arms. But one thing would be different, and do you know what that thing would be?" he asked. She denied.

"That thing is that I will be more strict with you and even punish you. And trust me, darling, if I punish you even once, then you won't even think about running away from this mansion again," he said.

"What punishment will you give me?" she asked innocently, and he fell for her all over again.

"To know that, you have to do something punishable because I can't tell you about it right now. It's a secret. But you won't do anything punishable, right? Because it would be very bad for you, right?" he leaned closer to her and whispered in her ear.

"Yes, I won't," she said, and he moved back, maintaining the distance.

Maybe I will, she thought to herself, and he smirked, clearly knowing what was going on in her mind.

Curiosity kills the cat, he thought.

"But still, I won't marry you," she said.

"And still, I will force you to marry me," he said.

"It's still wrong," she said.

"And I don't fear doing wrong because people who are scared of punishment live according to this world and follow its rules, like speaking the truth and helping others. But people who aren't scared of anything are like me. They don't let other people's decisions rule their minds. They decide what is good and bad for themselves, and they don't let others control them," he said.

"I don't care about right and wrong," he said finally.

"This world never gives justice. It never works on goodness; it works on money. If you have money, then you will always be right, but if you don't have money, then you will always be wrong," he said and forcefully took her with him and married her while she continuously cried.

"Welcome, Mrs. Ditya Vedant Malhotra," he said.

"I hate you, Mr. Malhotra," she said.

"I won't let you hate me anymore. I will turn your hatred into love soon, very soon," he said while wiping her tears.

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They both were sitting in the car, going back to the mansion.

"Now there is a slight change in the plan. I am not taking you back to my mansion. Instead, I will be taking you to the other mansion where my parents live, and from now on, we will be living there with my family. But don't think that you will get freedom there. You won't be allowed to leave that mansion either. Also, I won't tolerate you creating any chaos there or trying to run away because your parents' lives are in my hands, so be careful with what you do. One wrong move and you will be out of that mansion and back to my mansion where your life will be hell, and your parents will lose their lives because of your one wrong move," Vedant said.

"Also, my grandmother is very strict, so don't argue with her much. Just agree with whatever she says," he added.

"Are you taking me to another mansion or another hell? So many restrictions you are imposing on me," she said.

"Whatever you want to think, you can think, Ditya, but remember that I won't tolerate anything from your side that hurts my family," he said.

"And what about me? What if they hurt me?" she asked.

"they won't. i know them," he said.

"but what if they do?" she asked.

"then i will always be there to protect you," he said.

"but what if you are outside and then they hurt me?" she asked.

"trust me, ditya, they are not devils who will hurt you," he said.

"i don't know who they are, vedant, and when you can hurt me, then why can't they? they can hurt me too because they are your family," she said.

"don't you think, ditya, that you are speaking too much? i told you that they won't hurt you, which means they won't, so stop your illogical questions because the only person who can hurt you right now is me," he said.

"but you said that you love me, which means you won't hurt me," she said.

"who said i won't? i will hurt you in many ways that you can't even imagine," he said, pulling her closer by her waist.

"what are you doing, vedant? leave me," she said while struggling to remove his hand from her waist.

"i haven't done anything yet, sweetheart. wait till tonight and then i will show you the real me," he said near her ear in his dangerously low voice.

"what? tonight? what is there tonight?" she asked.

"you don't know what is tonight?" he asked.

"tonight is our first night, sweetheart. we just got married, remember?" he said while moving back and looking directly into her eyes. when he said this, he saw the change in her eyes. there was fear in them. she forgot about the first night, and she didn't really think that they would have a first night because she thought they would continue living the same way they were before.

"f-first night?" she asked.

"yes, sweetheart. first night," he said, and he saw the way her breath hitched. he saw how scared she suddenly looked.

but why is she scared? she is a dark romance reader. how can she be scared of all this? he thought.

the car stopped at the mansion. vedant stepped out and then walked towards her side, opening the car door for her. he extended his hand towards her like a gentleman. she took his hand and stepped out.

the mansion was huge and decorated as if his family already knew they were coming.

why is it decorated? she thought.

she walked behind him and then stood at the door. he pressed the bell, and his mother opened the door. his whole family was present there, and the mansion was decorated beautifully from the inside too.

ditya already knew about all the family members because vedant had told her about everyone before.

"vedant, my child, you finally came back," his mother said.

"yes, mom," vedant replied, and they walked inside while he still held her hand.

"finally, today you got married. i was waiting for so long to see you married," his mother said.

"my daughter-in-law is so beautiful. you have a very good choice," she said.

"of course she is beautiful," he said while looking at ditya, who had been looking down the whole time.

"did you both eat something or not?" his mother asked.

"no, mom. we came here directly," he replied.

"alright then, let's eat together. dinner is ready," she said.

everyone walked towards the dining table and started eating while talking in between.

vedant was watching ditya eat and noticed that she wasn't eating properly. most of the time, she was just playing with the food.

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DITIYA'S POV

He married me forcefully.

That Vedant.

First, he kidnapped me, and now he married me.

What the hell is going on?

I am tired of everything.

I am not his puppet that he can do anything with me.

And then, after kidnapping me and marrying me forcefully, he still has the guts to threaten me.

He told me that I have to listen to him and that I shouldn't try to escape from him. That I shouldn't run away from his mansion.

Like seriously?

Does he really think that I am going to listen to him?

If he thinks so, then let him think because nothing like that is going to happen.

How can he think that I won't try to escape and live with him silently just because of some punishment?

He was threatening me by saying that he would punish me badly, as if I would listen to him.

But I let him believe whatever he wanted to by acting innocent and scared at that time, but I am not scared of him at all, neither of his punishment.

I will definitely try to escape. I am not going to spend my whole life here.

Definitely.

It would be my worst nightmare to stay with him forever.

I would rather choose death than live with him for the rest of my life.

And as if all this wasn't enough, he told me that we would be living with his family.

Like seriously?

Oh God!!!!!!!!

Why are there so many troubles in my life?????????????

What wrong have I done to you?

I am really sorry for whatever I did.

Please forgive me.

Don't punish me like this.

I am really tired of all this.

This is too much for me.

I can't handle it anymore.

Please show me a way out of this.

Otherwise, he and his family are going to eat me alive.

And I can't let that happen because I only have one life, and I can't waste it on them and their drama.

First, he told me that he loves me, and now he is telling me that I have to bear however his family treats me.

What kind of love is this?

I don't understand any of this.

Why the hell is he doing all this?

He is not someone special to me that he has to act all innocent.

He can easily get whatever he wants from me, then why is he doing all this?

I don't know.

I just don't.

I am sitting here eating dinner with him and his family as his wife.

Like seriously?

I am doing all this just for my parents; otherwise, I would have never listened to him.

I don't trust him. He can do anything to my parents.

I can't even trust this food. What if he added poison to it? Or what if I lose consciousness after eating this?

He was already talking about the first night like it was something very casual.

I can't trust him now.

Not after he talked about hurting my parents.

Neither is this another Wattpad book where I can take everything casually, nor is he some fictional man who won't hurt them knowing how much I love them.

But for now, I am scared about the first night. What should I do? He married me only for this, and now I have to escape from him somehow because I can't let this happen.

I can't.

I don't want to do all that.

At least not with him.

"where are you lost, ditya? eat properly," he said, and I shivered before coming out of my thoughts. his whole family and friends were staring at me now.

"what happened? why did you shiver?" he asked.

"hmm...? nothing," I replied.

"you were lost in your thoughts for a very long time. what were you thinking about?" he asked.

I blinked once, twice, thrice.

"nothing," I said, and his eyes clearly showed that he knew I was lying, but he ignored it.

"eat," he said.

I nodded silently.

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