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A lone tear slipped from the corner of my eye before they were shut close again on their own accord. The slumber overpowered my will.
A little more sleep couldn't be so harmful, right?
That was where I had been wrong. When I next opened my eyes, I was lying on an unfamiliar bed and when I tried to move, I still couldn't. My brain started to focus on the surroundings rather than the emotions that were threatening to burst out of me. My habitual panic after waking up in new places alone, threatened to take over me.
By some miracle I hadn’t already gone into a frenzy of palpitations and trepidation. Perhaps it was the drug that they had given me that kept me calmer than usual. Yet, it wasn’t enough.
I still couldn't feel even my fingertips, it was so numb and that was the reason that I started to freak out. The drugs might have been wearing off because the new surroundings had started to give me palpitations. The only thing I wanted to do was get back home, I wanted to go home to my family so badly.
I was scared. In fact, I was terrified.
The movement on my right caught my attention, my vision still blurred from the drowsiness but the silhouette looked oddly familiar. My brain kept chanting like a mantra,‘be brave, do not under any circumstances let the other party know how badly he was affecting me’but my facade of bravado couldn't stop tears from escaping.
My tongue rolled around with difficulty, slurring my words, "W-Who… are... you?"
Only to hear the words that chilled my spine. Or rather it was the familiar voice and the creepy tone.
"Oh my darling, I have waited for such a long time to have you. But now, now you are exactly where I want you to be."
That voice gave rise to goosebumps all over my skin but the sight that came before me was even more soul-crushing.
Out of the shadows came a man whom I had never imagined to be able to do such a thing. But he had, surprisingly. His protruding belly made him look like he was six months pregnant but then again I had to remember that he was a man, that too an old man to even have that as a possibility.
He slowly came to sit on the bed beside my limp body and brushed his hand against my hair like he was taming them. And why not? When he almost didn't have any left as his own... I felt disgusted and wanted to crawl away but unfortunately, I wasn't able to. Still, it didn't prevent me from dry-heaving but he seemed to have ignored it.
"You know, everything was going perfectly. Just as I had planned. I let no other suitor, eligible enough to marry you, approach you even from miles away. Because you were only for me. I've waited more than a decade to marry you," He became bolder and traced my cheek with the back of his fingers. I flinched at his touch but again he seemed to have ignored it.
"Even if Viaan hadn't married me, Ravi would have. I wasn't going to marry you," I said, feeling elated that my verbal ability was back to almost normal, "Mr. Surya Kant Nath."
44. CHAVAALEES
Assoon as I said his name, Surya Kant Nath smiled that creepy smile of his as if none of my words affected him. He combed his fingers through my hair like he had been doing that for a long time like it was an old habit of his.
"That is where you are wrong, my sweet, sweet Rynah. If that Raivardhan bastard hadn't stepped in to ruin all my plans, you would have been carrying my child by now," I would have shuddered in disgust at his words if another word hadn't caught my attention.
I asked him, unable to hold it back, "what plans?"
Though he had mentioned the same before, I was too busy getting disgusted by him to focus on anything else. But now, I hadn't missed it.
"The plan of making you mine. You know how hard I had worked on it?" He pouted as if I was going to let out an 'aww' for him and praise him for whatever dirty work he had done.
"Like?" I challenged him just to ruffle his old feathers some more.
"Why, I never let any suitor even consider you to be available! I had appointed a man just to keep an eye on your household and report me about any eligible bachelor's interest in you. Then, I would seek them out separately, either make them understand that you were mine or divert their course to some other girl. Sometimes even get the guy beaten up if he was stubborn. I cannot let them have the fruit of the tree I have been guarding now, could I?
"I still remember when you were in your SSC and for the school trip you had visited my brother-in-law's resort, I had made up my mind to marry only you right there and then. I kept tabs on your family and followed you to Hyderabad. I would have married you a long time ago if your parents would have been a little more cooperative. But they wanted their daughters to graduate and I was like 'fine, let them fulfill their wish before fulfilling mine'. But no! They had to go around searching for a groom. While keeping my proposal on hold. I was still okay with it but then that imbecile Ravi popped out of nowhere."
He stopped his rant to grit his teeth and I didn't disturb him because, to be honest, I couldn't. I was so shocked that I had lost my ability to speak at the moment.
Surya Nath continued, "I had dropped by your office only to check out if you were involved in any affairs I should be handling, so how wouldn't I plan to remove this barrier named Ravi? I learned that the rock star Aaryan was a big time flirt and a playboy, no one would question him and at the same time doubt any story that involved him. And using the office scandal along with your disappearance to achieve my purpose, wasn't it a clever move? My man had been keeping an eye on you and was smart enough to extract enough information about you being a suspect of a theft for the Raivardhans.
"Everything was playing in my favor. I just had to fill Ravi and his family's ears and all was fine, which I did. And I got my expected result. I was sure that Raivardhans wouldn't marry someone they classified as a thief or someone below their social standards, but then again I had never seen them as a threat, especially Viaan Raivardhan!"
My stomach clenched as his words kept spilling out.
"I don't understand, he why would marry you when he couldn't even stand the sight of you?" He exclaimed, making me ask, "how did you know that he couldn't stand the sight of me?"
He snorted, "his reputation, his arrogance, the way he treated you in the office, they holding you captive, the Nishika Raichand affair. It was as clear as day even for a blind to see that he had no interest in you, making me lower my guard and my hunch had proved right at the event night when he himself handed you over to me telling that you missed me." His hand caressed my cheek.
