Chapter 35

Chapter 35

"Let's flip a coin.

Heads, I'm Yours.

Tails, You're Mine."

"Kabir's nostrils flared as he glared at nothing in particular. He wanted to meet Riddhima. Till now Vansh Rai Singhania had made it impossible. He closed his eyes as if in pain as he recalled Riddhima in Vansh's arms. He hated it. He hated him.

He was surprised at first when he saw Vansh's care for Riddhima the day they found her injured. It was the complete opposite of what he had seen and heard of VRS to date. Too bad he chose the wrong girl. Riddhima was his. He had been patient with her for months. Making her comfortable with him, so when the time arrives she will definitely say yes. He won't let Vansh ruin this.

But what about Riddhima? What if she loves Vansh? No, it can't happen.And even id she does she will learn to love him. He can't lose her. He will make sure she returns back to him anyhow. He just has to show her that VRS is a bad person, involved in many illegal dealings. He was sure that a pure soul like Riddhima can't get involved with a man like VRS.

It's not like he did not try to forget her. Since the day he got to know that she has agreed to get married to Vansh. He dated many girls to forget her. In fact, nowadays Ahana has become his temporary bed partner. She was happy, but he was not. Sex with Ahana was great, but it was just that, sex...No one can fill the void he felt since Riddhima left his life. 

Then he saw her, almost on the verge of dying. And his emotions returned back with full force...Now, he can't stop his sexapades with Ahana, as it was keeping him satisfied and her happy, which in turn helped him manipulate a series of favors from her...

The consistent ringing of his mobile broke his musings.

"Hello, Officer Kabir"

"Hello Sir"

"I have pulled some strings. You can officially work on this case now."

"Thanks a lot, sir!"

"Remember one thing, I am doing this for my daughter. Ahana convinced me to help you. I can't refuse my daughter."

"Yes, sir. And I can never forget your help."

"I don't like you." Ahana's father took a pause "But if you ever hurt my daughter..." He left rest unsaid

"Never sir, I value Ahana more than anything. I can never dream of hurting her"

Ahana's father grunted in response and disconnected the call.

'If you ever hurt my daughter...' Kabir mimicked his words and laughed. Like he cared about Ahana...He knew how to destroy her father's political career...her father was involved in human trafficking. He had several extramarital affairs. He had enough proof to destroy that man. And once her father is destroyed, Ahana can't do anything...

At present, he needed her father's protection and contacts, till he has Riddhima with him safe and sound. He has decided to go against VRS, and he is going to need all the protection he can get if he plans to bring VRS down.

Finally, he got the authority to investigate Riddhima's kidnapping. Now he can be around her whenever he wants, no one can stop him...

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"Mam, you are not allowed in." They heard Pasha's stoic voice

"Who is going to stop me?" They heard a female voice

Riddhima looked at both to see that Nia and Sahil wore the same puzzled expression. 

Who was it? They didn't have to wait long as the lady walked in.

"Who are you?" Nia stood up.

"Riddhima knows me. I am not answerable to you. I need to speak with her. Now get out"

Nia gazed angrily at the rude girl before turning her questioning gaze at Riddhima 

"Ishani, Vansh's sister." Riddhima informed them "You guys leave. I will speak to her" she requested sensing Nia's protest

"Let's go Nia" Sahil urged her

Nia gritted her teeth and forced a smile "Sure"

"What the f**k!" Ishani exclaimed as Nia bumped her shoulder on the way out.

Riddhima hid her smile

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Pasha quickly dialed Aangre after Riddhima's dismissal

"Drag her out of there. Riddhima does not know about her sister's involvement if Ishani blurts something we are done for..."

"Riddhima Mam said she will speak to Ishani. She told us to leave"

"Shit!" Cursed Angre.

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"How are you?" Ishani was wearing a plastic smile. It was clear as the day that she would be anywhere but here

"Cut the crap Ishani. What do you want?" Riddhima asked her directly

There was a sudden change in Ishani's expression 

"Fine if that is what you want." Ishani shrugged "I want to come home."

"So?" Riddhima raised her brows

"Convince Bhai. He will listen to you. Make him understand, do anything you want..."

"Out" Aangre strode over to her and took a hold of her arm and started dragging her out

"No, Angre leave me. I am not moving to Goa. Bhai and You can't do this to me" Ishani protested

Riddhima was baffled by the turn of events. Goa? They are shifting her?

"Aangre leave her" Riddhima stopped him

"Boss told me not to..."

"And I am telling you that I want to speak with her. I will tell Vansh that I called her." Riddhima replied firmly

Aangre was in two minds, he quickly pulled her close and whispered "not a word against Sejal and stuff"

Ishani raised her brows and smirked a little "Ishani, I am serious"She nodded her head

"Fine but I am staying here" he declared and went to stand in a corner. With his hands folded before him, he kept a steady gaze on Ishani

"So I was saying I want to get back to the VR Mansion. For that, I am ready to apologize to you if need be"

"Okay then do it," Riddhima told her

Ishani narrowed her eyes and looked at Aangre to see him looking at them with a satisfactory smile

Ishani gritted her teeth and forced a smile on her face "Riddhima, I have realized, the way I spoke to you that day was not acceptable. Please accept my apology. I am sorry"

Riddhima exhaled "It's alright. Look I know you won't believe me but I have already tried it, on Chandrika Mam's insistence and Vansh refused. I can't help you here"

"Obviously you didn't try hard enough" Ishani rolled her eyes "Try something else"

"Like what?" Riddhima looked at her exasperated. What an attitude...

"For once you can seduce him or sleep with him. Seriously, why are you even asking me this? Isn't this how you got him to agree to marry you? Let me tell you, you must be terrific in bed otherwise he has slept with many women and never agreed to marry anyone"

Mortified Riddhima looked at Angre and then Ishani. She felt a flush start up her face.

"That's enough. She heard you. Now leave" Riddhima was grateful for the interruption

"I need my answer. What is she going to do?" Ishani resisted

"Whatever she wants. Leave" Angre escorted Ishani out of the room.

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Aangre returned after a while "I want to speak with you" Aangre sat beside Riddhima

"If it's about Ishani..."

"No, it's not" Aangre stopped her

Riddhima looked at him curiously. She had never spoken to Aangre at a length except for that car ride where she questioned and he made monosyllabic replies to her questions. She wondered if he was angry about the fact that she tricked him...if he was he did a great job of hiding it.

"You need to..." Aangre cleared his throat "I need your help" she stared at him, her eyes widening,

"Boss...he does not know I am talking to you about this...I don't know if you know about it. Boss is physically harming himself" he told her with a grave voice

"What? Why?" Riddhima asked shocked

"Because you got hurt and he could not protect you. He has been making cuts on him for each day you have spent in the hospital. I know you are not okay with what Boss is doing. And it is not my place to comment on your personal life..."

"But that's madness." She spoke, stunned with the revelation 

"He loves you madly. If you could help. I think he will listen to you. Please think about it." Aangre left to answer his phone

*****

A tremor of panic vibrated in his core. He was blind, restrained. A lamb awaiting slaughter. He could hear the screams of his companions. He prayed to God to kill him quickly.

Suddenly someone untied his right hand and before he could make a move he felt someone punch him hard.

"I am so... sorry. I beg you. Please leave me" he screamed as suddenly felt excruciating pain. Someone had cut his hand till wrist...

"You know why I did this? Because you slapped my love with this hand. This is how she must have felt when you pushed her, slapped her"

The man kept crying as Vansh continued."Hurts right? This is just one hand. Remaining we will cut off later on" Vansh looked at him with anger and disgust once and left to meet Angre.

"Boss, Ishani came to the hospital today. Don't worry she didn't say anything about Sejal." Aangre narrated the whole incident minus his bit of discussion with Riddhima. 

Vansh was going to know about it if Riddhima decides to approach the subject. But he was ready for the consequences...

"Pasha is so useless now that he can't even control a girl?"

"Riddhima Madam told him..."

"I know what she told him. Pasha should have handled it before the matter reached Riddhima." He replied back as he sat in the car

"Drive" he ordered

Vansh was livid, he could not wait to get his hands on those two b***ards, Agrawal's. Even though right now they were going through a bad phase of their life, what with the loss of all the money, home, going bankrupt...Vansh was satisfied with the progress but not anymore...he wanted their blood...

They brought him back to square one with Riddhima. Even though little, there was some progress in their relationship until last night. Until Riddhima remembered everything. Her words still haunted him "It happened because of you..."Since then she maintained her distance from him, not that she was overly comfortable with him. But at least she had started speaking with him on her own, she stole glances at him whenever she thought he was not looking. She asked him for help if she needed something, everything came to halt.

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Riddhima was stunned at the revelation done by Angre. She didn't know what to think of him anymore. No, she can't let him do that, agreed she blamed him for whatever happened with her, because that was the truth, Vansh's love was harmful. But that does not mean she wanted him to self harm...

"How is my favorite student doing?"

"Dr. Batra!" Riddhima smiled at him 

"I feel perfectly fine now. A while ago I was discussing with Nia and Sahil about when I can get a discharge?"

"Yes, Sahil told me. We could have sent you home a few days back, but just wanted to be sure, you had a severe internal injury and you were in a partial coma..."Riddhima nodded in understanding

"But today I come bearing a piece of good news. You are getting discharged tomorrow" he informed her with twinkling eyes

"Finally! I am so happy. I will inform Sejal and Nia and Sahil..."

"And your fiancé Vansh..." Dr. Batra observed her silently as Riddhima's rambling came to a halt

"Ah, yes and him"

"Riddhima, are you happy with him?" He suddenly asked 

"Why do you ask?" Riddhima asked him uncomfortable with the subject

"It's just that, I have known you for more than a year now. I know you don't make friends quickly. When VRS announced about you two at the party I, like many others, thought that you bonded with each other over his sister's treatment and decided to take your relationship forward. But now that I think about it, it feels like moving a lot faster." He frowned in thought 

"I don't mean you should not. If you are absolutely sure about your feelings..." He added quickly "it's just he looks a bit much possessive about you" he kept his thoughts forward with hesitation

"If you are done with asking my fiancé if she is happy with me or not then you can leave"

Dr. Batra turned around startled. Riddhima looked at Vansh in fear

"I am sorry. I did not mean it..." Dr. Batra started. His eyes looked troubled

"Leave" Vansh bit out. His tone controlled

Feeling flushed Dr. Batra left. 

Riddhima looked at him in fear as he stormed into the room but instead of speaking with her, he went to the washroom. He returned after some time, opened his laptop, and worked on it without a word to her.

Riddhima peeked at him. When he kept silent, she decided to approach both the topics.

"You may know that your sister came to visit." Of course, he knows, his bodyguards practically guard the door 24/7. Was he ignoring her? She frowned

"Vansh, I am talking to you. Look, I saw the news, about the place Ishani is at present. Her friends are bankrupt. She needs your help. She apologized. I think you should just accept her back in your home instead of shipping her off to another place" still there was no answer

She huffed as she got down from the bed. Standing before him she continued "Look, if you don't want to speak or ignore me then that's fine by me. But at least take your sister back. She is pregnant and she does not deserve this."

Her hands twitched, she wanted to shut the laptop screen where he kept his focus but decided against it.

"And by the way, you can stop harming yourself now. I am getting discharged tomorrow. I don't even understand what was the need to do something like this. That is sheer madness." still he was deadly silent

"At least I tried" she murmured and returned back to bed. 

Oh, she so wanted to grab the apple from the nearby table and throw it at him, just to get a reaction from him she sat down and stared at him for a whole minute.

"Actually, I prefer it this way. You should actually ignore me like this all the time. And you can go your own way and I can peacefully return back to my life. I didn't know my running away would get such a desired effect. I would have tried to run away long back" she kept talking to herself as she adjusted her blanket back on her legs. Between her ramblings, she failed to see an angry Vansh charge at her like a bull.

Vansh grabbed her arm tightly, making her wince in pain. She looked at him and gulped 

"of course, you will love that, won't you? And why just you, I think your complete friend circle would want that. Including your dearest mentor Doctor Batra right? So what will be your next plan after getting your old life back? Oh, how can I forget obviously then you can go back to that havaldar. Do you plan to marry him, sweetheart?" He mocked her

"N..no...Ahh" she winced as he pressed her arm tightly and pulled her up. Now she sat on her knees on the bed. 

He clenched his teeth and continued 

"You know, I don't like any of your friends but I kept quiet because you care about them. Don't mistake my silence as an act of kindness. I am anything but that..."

"It's hurting" she winced again, he loosened his hold but kept a firm grip.

"From hereon if I hear any of your friends say anything against us being together then I will make sure they disappear from your life forever. And if they still won't stop..." he took a pause staring at her fearful face. They both know who he was hinting at...

"I will make sure to wipe them from the face of the earth." Riddhima's looked at him terrified.

"I still stand by my words sweetheart," he said taking her back to the day when he had told her 'I will kill for you and I will kill anyone who tries to take you away from me' she gulped her throat turned dry

"What did you say? This happened because of me? You are in this hospital because of me right?" He asked her in belligerent tone

"Am I wrong? The girl did say she is doing this because she loves you" Riddhima asked him quietly. She immediately cringed internally. She really should learn to keep her mouth shut, especially when the devil before her was so angry...

His other hand seeking her head went at the back of her head. He held her hair lightly, drawing her face close. 

"No doll, you are absolutely right, this happened because of me and you know what it taught me?" He gave a dark chuckle. 

"You need protection all the time. The kind of protection you can get by being my wife."Riddhima looked at him fearfully, wide-eyed. 

"So that brings us to the conclusion that we will be getting married at the earliest"

marriage...she never thought about it since she gained her consciousness back.

"What? Why so shocked sweetheart? You thought I would forget about it?"

She hoped. She didn't want this marriage, it was one thing Vansh trying to be with her against her wishes, but spending her entire life with him... being his wife...no she can't see that happening. She has to stop this.

Vansh could see the myriad of emotions getting played across her face. He gritted his teeth, even after everything that has happened she was still planning to go away from him? He recalled the day she got kidnapped...his resolve strengthened more. She will marry him as soon as she is fit and fine. No one can take her away from him. Not even she has a right to do that...

She squeaked "eww" as she felt the wetness along the side of her neck. He licked her!!!

"Penny for a thought, sweetheart?" His face looked calm now but somehow Riddhima felt he was faking it...

Riddhima lightly shook her head, still in trance. She gasped suddenly as he left her arm simultaneously, making her lose her balance. She stumbled on the bed.

"I think you should rest now. Today is your last day in this hospital"

"What are you doing?" She cried out as he pushed her on the bed, took her blanket, and tucked her in. But instead of leaving her, he climbed on the bed. Trapping her small form effectively with his hands and knees on either side of her.

She could feel his breath on her face. He was impossibly close to her. They were in an intimate position. If someone walks in now, they will think...

"Move" embarrassed and horrified at his move she pushed at his chest.

"Boss" someone knocked on the door

"Oh god! Move!" Her efforts to push him away turned frantic.

"What?" Vansh growled still staring at her with hooded eyes

To her utter mortification, she saw one of the guards walk in; he looked at them and quickly looked down.

'Never had she faced this kind of embarrassment till date, nothing can be more embarrassing than this' she thought. Clearly, she was wrong as she heard guards next words

"Boss" the guard cleared his throat as he continued still looking at the floor 

"There is a new officer who wants to question mam for the kidnapping fiasco. He said he would like to do it now as he has recently taken over this case"

Vansh frowned "Who is he?" he moved back a little and Riddhima took a deep breath. 

She tried to get up but froze the next second when she heard the name

"Officer Kabir Sharma" the guard informed them

Riddhima looked at Vansh, who was already looking at her. She saw a dark shadow cross his face before he smirked at her. 

She had a bad feeling about this. She looked at him pleadingly and instead of moving back he moved closer to her

"Send him in" she heard his order

"Vansh, please" she begged when he did not budge from his place

Vansh quietly pressed the button which brought Riddhima's bed up from the top half, making her sit in a half-lying position. Her small hands clutched his shoulders in surprise.

Instead of moving away from her, he leaned into her with his whole body almost in a sleeping position and covered the view of her face with his arm. He bent towards her lips aiming for a kiss, even though he knew she would turn her face away. As expected, she quickly moved her face to the side.

"This is embar..." she gasped as he nibbled on her earlobe.

And this is how Kabir found them when he walked in...

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