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Life rarely offers full illumination. We navigate it in half light, where truth flickers uncertainly, love bruises rather than heals, and redemption hides in the shadows. 

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꧁༺ 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭 ༻꧂

Some men are forged in fire. Devashish Vashisht was forged in blood.

Branded a killer at seventeen, he wore the label like a second skin— tight, suffocating, impossible to peel off. In prison, they called him DV. A name stripped of softness, shaped by fists and silence. He spent years outrunning the ghost of that one night that defined his fate, chasing redemption like a man chasing light through fog.

And for a while, he found it. One man saw past the headlines, past the scars, and offered him a second chance at life again. But redemption is a fragile thing: easily cracked, easily stolen.

When the only person he counted on asked him to leave, DV found himself back in the rains of his old life. Alone. Not the kind of alone that echoes in empty rooms, but the kind that settles in your bones. The kind of alone that feels like rust— slow, silent, irreversible. Belonging with no one. Unmoored. Until fate cornered him in the most unlikely place.

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A Spin-Off  from the book Better Together.

(DV's character plays a small role in Better Together. While not necessary, it's recommended you read Better Together first.)

Please Expect Slow Updates.

I would like to know your thoughts and expectations. What do you think life has in store for DV? 

—Anami! ♡