📖 Scar of Fortune
Chapter 3 — Fire Inside
Five years later.
Morning came with the shrill chime of an old bell—trinnn—trinnn.
Veer woke up. Seventeen now. Taller. Harder. Stronger. But the burned mark on his back still throbbed—an ember that never went out.
Raj was gone. Age had taken him. The house felt smaller without the old man's steady presence. Veer had taken on the weight of the home—his mother's health was failing, and Asha needed money for her wedding.
He pulled on an old shirt, swung his legs over the bed, and rode out on his battered bicycle. The city woke around him: vendors, horns, someone calling for chai. As he pedaled, the memory dragged itself back like a knife.
"Five years," he muttered to himself. "I haven't forgotten that night. Uncle… one day I'll make you pay."
A cold flame sparked in his eyes. The promise in his chest was molten and simple:
> I will take their revenge. No matter how long it takes.
Veer worked as a driver by day and studied at night. He'd been a topper back in high school—teachers liked him—but nobody really saw the storm under his calm. He learned to hide the hurt. He learned to grind.
When he returned home that evening, he paused at his mother's feet and pressed them gently. She looked up at him with tired eyes and something like a smile.
"Veer, beta… you've changed so much," she whispered. "But remember this—what burns inside you can give light to others."
He offered a small, brittle smile. Inside, the heat only grew stronger.
Lying awake that night, hand on his scar, he treated the mark like an archive of fury—each ridged line a logged memory of injustice.
"Maa… Papa," he breathed into the dark. "I swear. Your deaths won't be in vain. One day I'll take everything back. And then the world will see that I'm not just an orphan— I'm a fire."
Silence answered him. But the silence felt different now—alive, waiting.
In that quiet, the true beginning of Veer's revenge ignited.
Chapter end
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