Y is life so unfair - Page 4

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Part 16

It took 2 seconds for Geet to register his words in her mind. Slowly the smile from her face fades as the reality hits her. She felt like someone has slapped her on her face.

His wife???!!! And the tears started making way into her eyes. It took every ounce of her self-control to fight those tears! She can not cry! Not atleast in front of his wife!!

'His wife??? He's married!!?? Why didn't he ever tell me?? Is he really that stupid that he couldn't see that I was falling head over heels for him. Was I really just a friend to him! Or was he just playing with me?' and the anger started building in her heart.

She saw him saying something to Namrata but she couldn't hear it. She was so engrossed in her heartbreak.

It was getting harder and harder for her to keep her tears in. But her pride was too big to let her cry in front of him.

She started walking away from them without saying anything.

Vicky sees her going and calls her "Geet, where are you going?"

"Washroom." She managed to say without looking at them and walked away.

Geet goes out trying very hard to control her tears. She felt like her heart has been broken into million pieces. She was in pain.

Geet has never experienced such amount of pain ever. All her dreams, her fantasies, her hopes seemed ridiculous to her. All she could think about was his hand touching that girl.

She felt terrible. She felt like how big loser she was to let him come into her life so easily, without even knowing anything about him.

She felt empty from inside. Like there's nothing left in her life, like she would never be happy again.

She tried to think what was missing in her that he chose that girl over her?? There must be something in her that he doesn't love her… she is so ordinary…

She felt like she has been made a fool of. She has made herself so vulnerable to him!! And he would probably be laughing at her right now!!

She felt humiliated and embarrassed. How will she face the world now!!!

And then her feelings take a turn on anger. She realized that it was his fault. He should have told her about his marriage. He played with her and she is not a toy.

She wipes her tears and said angrily "I am not going to cry over you Mr. Vicky Khurana! It is not my loss over here, but yours!!! You will realize what you have lost, but it will be too late by then!!!"

She went home while trying to cling to her anger and locked herself in her room.

But then she broke down. The pain of her first heartbreak was too much for her. She tries to console herself million times but the memories of past and hopes of her perspective future brought tears in her eyes again and again.

She didn't know when she dozed off while tired of crying.

Next day when she woke up, she promised herself that she would not waste her time on him. She would not cry for him and would never meet him again in her life.

She felt happy that he wasn't the boss at KA anymore, and she wouldn't have to see his face again.

When she reached office, late as usual, she got back into her work. She tried to divert her attention from other kinds of thoughts by divulging herself into work as much as she can.

And it wasn't hard because they had a show in the evening. And this was Geet's first show in which she has fully participated in the preparations.

Maan tries to talk to Geet a lot of times today, but she made an excuse every time.

She knew what would Maan wants to talk to her, and she did not want to talk about that now. She wanted to stay alone for a while.

IN THE EVENING

Geet was busy in the last minute preparations. Her whole day has passed smoothly and she hadn't thought about Vicky even for a moment.

Maan comes and said "Geet, why are you ignoring me?"

Geet looks at him casually and says "Nahin to! I'm just busy Maan."

She tries to walk away when Maan said "Tumhari Vicky se koi baat hui? Is he coming for the show?"

The name of Vicky triggered anger in Geet. She has almost forgotten about her heart break and Maan has just reminded her about him.

Geet snaps at Maan angrily "Main Vicky ki secretary nahin hoon, samjhe tum?! If you want to ask anything about him, then call his wife!!" she said the word wife disgustingly and walks away.

"Okkayyy" Maan said and smirked whiled looking at her retreating form.

After some time, the show starts.

Aditi comes and says to geet in tension

"Geet yaar there's a big problem!"

Geet asks "What happened aditi?"

"Geet yaar the varmala for the next scene broked. Could you do me a favour! We used a varmala in our last show too. It should be in the storeroom in the basement. Could you grab it please!" she said to geet in one breath and then called back to somewhere in the background "Yeah I'll be there!" and says to geet "Please Geet, please please please!!" and she walks away quickly before geet could say something.

Geet goes backstage and goes into the storeroom.

She saw Maan over there already.

"Maan, tum yahaan?!" she asked him surprised.

"Yeah, I came here to get the varmala for the next scene." He says casually and asks "What are you doing here?"

Geet: I came to get the varmala too. Did you find it?

Maan: No. I don't think its over here. Lets go!

And they go towards the door, but the door was closed.

Maan tries to open the door, but it didn't budge.

"Yeh door ko kya ho gaya!" Maan says to himself.

They both tries to open the door but the door doesn't open.

"I think the door is jammed!!" Maan said.

Geet calls to the door while knocking "Koi hai??? Hello??? Open the door!!!"

But nobody opened the door.

Maan takes out his phone to call someone. He calls

Maan: hello… Vicky… Hello… Hello… Hello….

He looks at the phone and says "Shit!"

"What happened?" Geet asks.

"There's no signal over here!" Maan tells her frustratingly.

Geet looks at her phone and he was right. There was no signal on the phones.

Maan tries to bumps into the door to break the door.

And suddenly the broken knob of the door hurts Maan's hand.

"Ouch!" he whines in sudden pain.

Geet takes his hand and blows on it. She takes off the scarf from her neck and tie it on Maan's hand.

"Bohat dard ho raha hai?" she asks him

Maan nods a no while looking at geet sweetly.

Maan again tries to knock the door and his wounded hand gets hurt again.

Geet says concerned "Maan, leave it! When someone will realize that we are missing, they'll surely come looking for us!" Geet knows that Maan is hurt and she did not want that his wound gets worse.

After some time, they sits down in the corner while leaning their backs on the wall.

After few seconds geet felt Maan's eyes on her. She looks at him and saw him looking at her intensely.

Geet felt uncomfortable from his stare and she remembers that he likes her and also realized that they are all alone in this small storeroom, and the sight of that night flashed in front of Geet's eyes. She closes her eyes to control herself and said "Aise kya dekh rahe ho Maan?"

"Dekh raha hoon ke tum itne saalon tak kahaan thi? Tum mujhe is se pehle kiyun nahin mili?!"

"Maan please!" geet murmured while looking down. Her heartbeats has already started fluttering without her permission.

Maan holds her chin gently and made her look up "Kiyun tadpa rahi ho Geet? Bol do na, ke tum bhi mujhse pyar karti ho! Bolo na geet!" and he starts leaning towards her.

Geet looks at what he's doing and says firmly "Stop Maan!"

Maan gets back and looks at her.

Geet looks away a bit uncomfortably and controlling herself she says "I have already told you Maan, that I don't love you. There is no such thing as love in this world. And anybody pretending otherwise, are just fooling themselves. Love is just for losers!! I don't believe in love and I don't think I'll ever believe in that shit word!!!" she looks away trying to control her anger.

"Someone has hurted you." She heard him say. It was not a question but a simple statement but she can hear anger in his voice.

Geet felt tears welding up in her eyes. She felt chocked in her throat.

"Geet, who is he? I promise you wo kal ka suraj nahin dekhega geet. He will have to pay for hurting you geet." Geet can feel his body close by getting stiffened with anger.

Geet looks at him but then again looks away and says "It wasn't his fault Maan. It was I who was stupid enough to fall for him. Infact I'm thankful to him that he has taught me a very important lesson: never love anybody."

"Geet, you cant be cynical towards love. Just because one guy hurts you, doesn't mean every guy will. I know you will think that its easy for me to say this because I'm not going through that pain, but please trust me on this geet when I say ke wo ladka bohat hi bevkoof hoga, jo tumhein chhodega. You are beautiful, smart and very cute. You are different from everybody. You are special Geet!"

Geet looks at him with a sad smile with tears still flowing from her eyes.

"Really?" geet asks making a baby face. She needed this self-esteem booster very much at this moment.

Maan wipes her tears and chuckles a little at her and says teasingly "Of course sweetheart! Haan yeh aur baat hai, ke tum thodi si moti ho, aur thodi si naati ho" geet frowns at his teasing and her mouth fell open in surprise "thodi si sirfiri bhi ho" she slaps him on his arm and scold him "Maan!!"

Maan smiles and finishes "par ho ek dam unique piece!! [yea its different thing that u are a bit fat, and a bit short, and a bit crazy too, but still u r unique piece]

Geet smiles and hugs him. Maan consoles her while stroking her hair with his hands.

After some time geet says while still hiding her face in his chest "Thanks Maan."

Maan make her look up and says sweetly "Geet, you don't have to thank me! I love you geet!!"

Geet looks at him and felt strange feeling in her heart. He is so different from Vicky! In fact he is better than him!!

He bends his face towards geet's and kissed her softly on her lips. Geet couldn't figure out as if what she should do or how she should react, but at last she gave up. She was too tired of thinking about everything that she just wants to make this hurt go away and his kisses always leave her mind blank. So she kissed him back loosing all her pain in the passion.

Maan's kiss started out as slow and sweet, but it didn't stay that way for long. As his kiss deepened, his hands began to explore her body. And his hands slided down under her top when…

Suddenly lights flashed on them. Geet broked the kiss and looks towards the source of the lights and saw that the door has opened and a lot of press reporters were clicking their pictures.

Geet was in total shock. She couldn't understand what the hell was going on!!

And then the reporters bombarded all kinds of dirty questions towards them about their relationship and what they were doing here!!!

Geet was speechless due to shock. She felt Maan's arm around her shoulders protectively and he was glaring at the media angrily and said at the top of his voice

"ENOUGH!!! With whose permission have you entered here???!!!!!"

Reporter: Mr. Maan Khurana, is this your latest girlfriend?

R: what were you two doing here?

R: Excuse me miss, what's your name?

R: For how long is this going on?

R: How do you feel to be with the most eligible bachelor of India?

Geet felt tears coming in her eyes from embarrassment and shame and she hung her head down in embarrassment and tries to hide behind Maan's back.

Maan sees geet crying and glares at the media angrily and says

"Its enough!! Just because I'm not saying anything, doesn't mean you can say anything you want!"

R: Who is she Mr. Maan?

Maan holds Geet's hand and geet looks at him with tears still in her eyes.

Maan says "This is my fianc Geet! And we are getting married pretty soon!!"

Whole room fell silent for a moment at Maan's sudden revelation. And then the reporters bombard them about new kind of questions.

Geet looks at Maan shocked.

Maan takes geet out without answering anymore questions.

Geet was in too much shock to protest anything.

Maan makes geet sit in his car and drove off.

After few minutes of drive, geet gains senses, and she remembers everything. She looks at Maan sitting in the driver's seat and driving the car mechanically.

Geet says sternly "Maan stop the car."

Maan stops the car but doesnot look at geet.

Geet was loosing her temper with every passing second and she says "How dare you Maan? How dare you say that we are getting married and that too in front of the media!!"

Maan said angrily "So what else you wanted me to say Geet?" geet was shocked to see him equally angry. "Huh? Bolo Geet?? Agar main wo naa kehta, to kal har newspaper or har news channel pe, tumhari izzat ki dhajjiyan udh gayi hoti!! Do you even realize what condition we were in when they clicked our pictures?!!"

Geet knew what he meant, but she was just not ready to accept the consequences of it.

"So what will we do now?" she words her thoughts as her mind was already working fast to find some way out of the current situation.

Maan looks at her intensely and says "Geet, is it necessary to do something?"

Geet narrows her eyes in confusion and asks "What do you mean?"

"I mean I love you geet and I really want to marry you!" Maan says while still looking intensely in her eyes.

Geet closes her eyes to control herself. It needs a lot of courage to hurt him again and again. Geet was not liking the feeling of refusing him again and again but he was leaving her with no other option. Why doesn't he give it a rest and move on??!!!

"Maan please don't start it again. I'm sorry but I cant marry you." She said with her eyes still closed.

Geet felt the car has started moving again. She opens her eyes and looks towards Maan who was looking ahead on the road but anger was clearly visible on his face.

"Maan?" geet whispered a little scared at his not responding.

Maan did not reply and kept on driving. He increased the speed of the car with every passing second.

Geet tried again "Maan?'

But he still didn't reply and changed the gears harshly.

Now geet was seriously scared. The car was moving at 120km/hr in the city. Normally geet doesn't mind fast driving but this was way too fast and she knows that he was angry; and anger and driving never go hand in hand.

Geet almost screamed as Maan did a narrow cut near a truck "Maan slow down! Are you trying to kill me?"

No reply and he just kept on driving.

Geet again screams "Maan stop the car!!!"

But he didn't stop.

Geet was feeling nauseated by looking at the road, so she closed her eyes in fear and yelled one last time "Maan, if I die today, I'm gonna kill you!!!!"

And she felt the car stopped.

She opened her eyes slowly while breathing heavily in fear and looked around. The car was outside her house.

She let out a sigh of relief and looked at Maan "Maan are you psycho?! Just because I refused to marry you, you wanted to kill me?" she didn't realize that she was still yelling.

Maan glares at her angrily and said "Get down!"

Geet would get down with pleasure. She promised herself mentally that she is never gonna sit in his car again specially when he's driving.

Geet was gonna give him a piece of her mind on how he scared the hell out of her, but before she could say something, he drove off.

When geet went inside, she couldn't get rid of the feeling about whether he reached home safely or not! She knew he was very angry and she has just seen his rash driving!! 'What if something happens to him?! Nahin nahin Babaji!! Please use ghar sahi salaamat pahuncha dena!!!" but only a prayer was not gonna satisfy her worry. She was anxious.

At last she gave up and called his mobile, but he didn't picked it up! She gets more anxious. She says to herself "Haaye Babaji! Why isn't he picking it up?"

She calls again but still no answer.

Geet called even his landline no. but still no one picked up. Now geet was seriously worried.

She decided she'll go and check on him personally but didn't knew his address. She was thinking who should she ask for and she remembers Vicky, but then she shakes off the thought. She did not want to call Vicky.

She tried Maan's mobile one more time but hopeless. At last she gave up and dials vicky's no.

Vicky: Hello

Geet thought of hanging up but then said coldly

Geet: Vicky, Geet bol rahi hoon.

Vicky: I know Geet. Bolo!

Geet: I need Maan's address.

She wanted to be quick and short.

Vicky said a bit hesitant

Vicky: sure. XYZ, Mumbai.

Geet said coldly

Geet: Thanks.

She was about to hang up when she heard him say

Vicky: geet, by the way, congratulations.

Geet was a bit confused

Geet: For what?

Vicky: For your engagement. I just saw the news on tv. I'm very happy for you!

But his voice sounded a bit sad.

Geet ignored the sadness in his voice and said coldly

Geet: Thanks.

And she hangs up and rushes out.

She takes a taxi. Now she was double worried. 'So the news have already telecasted on TV. Tomorrow it will be in every newspaper. Shitt!! What if the news reaches London?!!' now Geet was seriously worried.

"It is all Maan's fault! I don't know what he thinks of himself?! Akroo kahin ka!! Ek to galti karta hai, aur upar se attitude dikhata hai!! Aur upar se phone bhi nahin uthata!!! Ab bataao, agar phone liya hai to use uthana bhi seekh lo! Lekin nahin!! Waise to har kisi aire-gaire ka phone utha lega, lekin agar kabhi main phone karoon, to kabhi nahin uthayega!!! Ab baitha hoga kahin muh fula kar!" she kept blabbering on and on to herself.

"Ek baar mere haath aa jaao, dekhna, tumhara wo ghatiya phone toda nahin na, to mera bhi naam Geet Handa nahin!! Arre agar phone uthana hi nahin hai, to rakh ke kya fayeda!! Hai na? haan!!"

And the taxi stops and tells Geet that this is the address.

Geet rushes inside. Geet did not give a second thought to how big the bungalow was! It was almost like a palace.

Geet saw a servant and asks about Maan. Servant tells her that Maan is in his room.

Geet rushes towards where the servant has pointed for Maan's room. The servant calls after her that she cant go in his room but she did not listen.

Anger has taken place of worry. She was angry now that Maan didn't pick up her phone on purpose and that how worried she was from the last half an hour!!

She bangs into his room angrily without knocking and..

"Aaa…….." A scream………oops!!!

Part 17

As Geet entered Maan's room, she saw Maan standing near the dressing table in just a towel wrapped around his waist.

When Geet enters, Maan jumps in surprise and the towel slips from his waist.

Geet's eyes widens momentarily at the sight and then she closes her eyes with her hands and screams

"Aaa..." Maan quickly picks up his towel and wraps it again. He looks at Geet who was standing with her back towards him but wasn't screaming anymore and a smile came on his lips at her uncomfortness.

Geet says with her back towards him "Maan, sharam nahin aati hai, itne bade hoke nange ghoomte ho?!" [aren't u ashamed of roaming naked?]

"Excuse me, this is 'my' bedroom, aur apne bedroom mein, main jaise chahoon ghoom sakta hoon!" he wears his sweat pants from the bed and continues in a teasing tone "aur tum to aise behave kar rahi ho jaise pehli baar mujhe bina kapdon ke dekh rahi ho!!" [I can roam in my bedroom as I like... and u r behaving like u r seeing me naked for the first time]

Geet closes her eyes to shake off the sight of that night that flashed in front of her eyes by his words.

Maan continues sarcastically "And if you don't want to see something like this, then you should have enough manners to knock the door before entering someone's bedroom." he was still angry at her.

He said coldly "What are you doing here?"

The coldness in his voice triggered the anger in her again. And she remembered that he wasn't picking up her phone on purpose.

She looks back at him angrily and says "Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, What the hell do you think of yourself? I have been trying to call you from last one hour! Why aren't you picking up my phone dammit??" She didn't realise that she has started screaming.

"Geet I thought you were smart enough to figure out that when someone doesn't picks up your phone, that means he doesn't want to talk to you!!" he said with cold expressions.

"Fine! Even I don't want to talk to you!! You know what, you are right! It 'was' my fault! Main hi pagal hoon, jo mujhe tumhari fikar ho rahi thi. Mujhe laga ke tumhein bohat bura laga hai, aur gusse mein tumhein kuch ho na jaaye!! But guess I was wrong!! Jab meri wahaan fikar se jaan nikli jaa rahi thi, to tum yahaan aaram se baith kar apna 'bubble bath' le rahe the!!! Thankyou so much Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, for letting me know how much you care about me!!" Geet was so angry that she didn't realise what she was saying.

She was about to go when she heard him say "To tumhein meri fikar ho rahi thi!!" [so u were worried for me!]

Geet stops in her steps and realises what she has said.

Maan walks slowly towards her and slides his hand in her waist and makes her face him and says "To aakhir dil ki baat zubaan tak aa hi gayi na Geet?" [so at last u said whats in ur heart]

Geet was looking on the ground trying to think of some excuse to cover up her words and says fumbling

"Nahin... Woh... Main..."

Maan holds her chin gently and makes her look up. Geet looks up at him and her heart skips a beat.

Geet hasn't really saw him before as anger has clouded her vision.

Maan had come out of shower just before geet entered his room.

The water was still dripping from his wet hair onto his forehead and there was still some drops of water on his face. He was looking very sexy in his half-naked wet form.

"Bolo na Geet! Bol do... Bol do ke tum bhi mujhse pyar karti ho. Fikar karti ho meri!!" Geet again looked down as her traitor heartbeats have again started to deceive her by thumping very loudly in her chest. [say it geet! Say it that you love me. That u care for me]

She tries to control herself and says while looking down "Aisa kuch nahin hai Maan! You are my friend, that's why I was... worried for you!!" [its nothing like that]

Maan leaves her while anger has again started building up in him and he moves back.

He again said coldly while putting on his vest "Fine! Now that you've seen that I'm ok, so you can leave now."

Geet was taken aback at his cold behaviour. She couldn't understand what's wrong with him! He is so sweet in one minute and the next minute he is so rude!!

Geet was about to leave when she remembers something and says "What about the news?"

Maan looks at her angrily and then picks up a file from nearby table and says coldly "You don't have to worry about it! I have called a press conference tomorrow, and I'll declare that we are not together anymore!!"

Geet was shocked "WHATT???!!!"

Maan looks at her surprised. He couldn't understand that what was the reason for this outburst. Isn't this what she wanted??

Geet says unbelievably "You mean to say you are going to break up with me in front of the whole world!! No way!!! Nobody dumps Geet Handa, you get that?!"

Maan was so shocked at her words. Does this girl even listens to herself when she speaks?!

Maan says casually "Fine, then you are welcome to marry me!!"

"In your dreams Maan!!" Geet scoffs.

"Geet, you are getting on my nerves now. Aakhir tum chahti kya ho? You don't want to marry me and now you even have a problem with 'breaking up'!! Miss Geet Handa, maybe you are forgetting something. So let me remind you! The break up is not 'real'! For really' breaking up, we have to be 'together' first!!" he said sarcastically.[ what do you want!?]

Geet makes a 'whatever' face and says "I know that! I'm just saying that since you put me into this situation, so I get to dump you and not the other way around!!"

Maan looks at her unbelievably. 'In all of this, she only cares about who's gonna dump who? She's unbelievable.'

And he says faking indifference "Fine! So the press conference is at Khurana Arts 10 am"

Geet says "Ok" and was about to leave when she heard him say sarcastically "And please, har roz ki tarah late mat hona! Otherwise I'm not gonna wait for you, and you have to live with this shame that I dumped you!!"[don't be late like everyday]

Geet rolls her eyes and says "Fine!" and leaves.

As she steps outside, the lights flashes on her and she realised that the media has cornered her. They were asking her all kind of dirty questions like 'what are you doing here miss geet?' or 'are you guys in a live-in relationship right now?' or 'were you here just for a night?' and many more...

Geet just stood there dumbfounded. She couldn't find her tongue out of shock when she felt a hand sliding into her waist and she looks at the source and saw Maan standing there and glaring at the reporters.

"Excuse me. Don't you guys have anything better to do than to sneak up on my fianc? Geet was just here to talk about some important stuff! And we will give all of your question's answers tomorrow, so just have some patience!! So now if you'll excuse us, I'm gonna drop my fianc home."

Maan makes her sit in the car and sits on the driver seat and drove off.

When they were few blocks away from Maan's house, geet says "Maan, thanks."

Maan says angrily "Geet mujhe to ye samajh aana band ho gaya hai, that what do you want? Who asked you to come to my house this late at night?? Meri izzat ki na sahi, kam se kam apni izzat ki to parwah kar leti!! You knew media would be after you for few days and still you..." he left at that unable to control his anger. [geet I don't understand what u want... if u cant think about my honour, at least think about yours]

Geet says in a little voice "I'm sorry."

Maan controls himself and says "Just forget it now!!"

Geet says "you don't have to drop me home.. just park it on the side, I'll take a cab!!"

"Yeah right! So that the next headlines would be that Maan Singh Khurana cant even drop her fianc home!!" he said with irritation.

"I'm not your fianc!!"

"Well as of now you are!!"

They didn't talked for the rest of their way. When they reached home, geet was gonna gets out and said "Good night!"

But Maan didn't reply and drove off.

Geet sighs and goes inside. When she reaches inside, she realised that the news of her so-called-marriage-that's-apparently-never-gonna-happen have spread everywhere like fire.

When she entered home, everybody was looking at her shocked. At first she didn't realise what was going on, then suddenly pinky came running towards her and hugged her tight and said

"Geet, you are getting married? I'm so happy for you!! But I'm also mad at you!!" Pinky said faking anger "Why didn't you tell me? My BFF is getting married and I come to know about it from news!! Tu mujhse baat mat karna Geet!!" [u don't talk to me]

And geet realises what was happening. She says to pinky "Pinky, tu mere saath room mein chal!" [pinky u come to the room with me]

She drags pinky with her to the room.

When in the room, geet locks the door and tells pinky all the story. Pinky was shocked by listening to it.

When geet is finished, pinky asks her "So what are you gonna do now?"

"Maan has called a press conference tomorrow. We are gonna end this and fake a break-up in front of the media!" Geet says as a matter of fact.

Pinky was looking at Geet unbelievably.

Pinky said "But why?"

Geet was surprised at pinky's question. She says "What do you mean by why? Kiyunki main Maan se shaadi nahin karna chaahti!" [because I don't want to marry Maan]

"To kis se karna chahti hai geet? Vicky se??" Pinky said sarcastically. [then who do you want to marry geet?]

Geet was taken aback by her question. Did she really want to marry Vicky? No, probably not! Maybe if Vicky wasn't already married, she might think about marrying him in the future. But right now no. The truth was she has never thought of marriage till today. Not Maan... not Vicky... not anybody... she just wasn't ready for marriage.

Pinky saw geet lost in thoughts and she said sweetly "Dekh Geet... maybe you are not understanding the seriousness of the situation right now. Do you realise what will happen if this news reaches London? You know your dad better than me! He will not tolerate anybody to play with his family honour!! If you supposedly break-up with Maan now, those pictures will ruin your reputation very badly. And it will not take much time before these news reaches London. London is not that far from India!!"

Geet got very scared at the thought of her father seeing those pics. She realises what pinky was saying was true.

If she finishes off this relationship now, the media was gonna make a big issue out of it! And on top of that, those pics gonna ruin her reputation very badly.

But she cant even marry Maan! She didn't love him and moreover she wasn't ready for marriage.

Pinky continues "And Geet, right now only your marriage is gonna put a stop to all this! Geet, Maan is a very nice guy. He is your such a good friend. And on top of that he loves you! Maan is a guy, this wont affect his reputation as much as it will affect you!! But still he is ready to marry you!!! He is even ready to do anything for your happiness!!! Geet where will you find a guy like him??!!"

But geet was still not ready to accept it. Something in her was stopping her telling her that this is all wrong...

She said with a baby face "But I don't love him!"

Pinky says frustratingly "Oh for God's sake Geet! You are not a kid anymore!! So stop behaving like one!! I'm your best friend, so at least don't lie to me!! We both know why you don't want to marry him. It is because of that Vicky right? Geet why aren't you understanding that he is married!!! You cant change that!! He never loved you and he never will love you. He was just playing with you geet!!"

Geet looks down feeling very low. It still hurts her to think about him. She wasn't over him yet!!

Pinky realises that she has been very harsh on geet. She shouldn't have said these harsh words to her when she is already so hurt.

Pinky hugs geet and geet breaks down in tears.

"Geet yaar, tu kaise us Vicky se itna pyar karne lag gayi yaar? You didn't even knew anything about him!" [geet how did u started loving Vicky so much?]

Geet said in between her sobs "I don't know pinky. But now it feels like I will never be happy in life again."

Pinky scolds her and says "Geet don't be stupid! Of course you will be happy geet! It is just a phase geet. Trust me, it will pass! You just have to be strong! Forget about him and move on!! Maan is a very nice guy geet. He cares for you so much. He's a god-sent gift. Give him a chance geet. He loves you and I'm sure you will be very happy with him. But its still totally your decision geet. I'm your best friend and I just want to see you happy!" and she goes leaving geet in a dilemma.

Geet couldn't sleep for the whole night. She kept on thinking what is right and what is wrong.

x-x-x-x-x-x-

Next morning she reached office at 9.30. For the first time, she has reached office on time.

When she entered the office, first of all everyone was shocked momentarily to see geet on time! And then everyone showered their wishes towards her. So she was right... the news does spread like fire!

Geet was still a bit lost in her thoughts. She has already made her decision but her mind was not stopping from thinking the alternatives.

Suddenly geet saw Vicky standing there.

Geet looks frowning in anger at him as he start moving towards her.

"How are you Geet?" he asks concerned.

"I'm fine, thank you." She replied coldly.

There was few seconds of silence between them. When Vicky still didn't say anything, geet was about to go away coldly when she heard him say "Geet!" and she looks back at him.

He says looking on the ground "Geet, I heard that you and Maan are getting..." he paused for a moment and continues "getting married." He looks up at her "But Geet, you are my friend and it is my responsibility to apprise you that Maan is not a right choice for you! You are making a mistake Geet!! Please don't marry him!!!" he almost begged her.

Geet looks at him and her heart starts melting. But she snaps at herself mentally. She thinks 'Geet, don't fall into his trap again! You have already made a mistake once of falling for those innocent eyes of his. He has no right to tell you what is wrong and what is right. You cant let him play with you again!!'

And she said coldly "Thank you for your advise! Anything else?"

Vicky looks at her cold expressions and nods a 'no'

And geet walks away without saying anything else.

She goes to Maan's cabin and see Maan was about to leave. She says "Maan, I need to talk to you!"

Maan was in a hurry and he said coldly "Not now Geet! Media is here. We need to get going..." and he leaves without saying anything else.

Geet walks after him slowly.

IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE

Maan addresses the reporters "Thank you very much for coming at such a short notice. But I'm sure you guys wouldn't minded it as the only news flashing on every news channel is that of our relationship!" he looks at geet with a smirk. "The way everything came out in public, was not something that we planned. So we called all of you to answer your questions and Geet over here have a very important announcement to make!" and he says to geet with a cold fake smile "So go ahead Geet!!"

Geet closes her eyes for few moments to control the war of thoughts in her mind. And then opens her eyes determinedly and takes a deep breath and says

"We are getting married next week!!!"

Part 18

Recap:

Geet: "We are getting married next week!!!"

Geet felt Maan's eyes on her and she knew that he was shocked. But she didn't looked at him and kept on looking ahead towards the reporters.

Maan was staring at Geet when some reporter's question breaks his trance and he came back to reality and answered the reporters.

After answering few questions, Maan said to the media that he has an important meeting and has to go.

So the press reporters left leaving Geet and Maan alone.

When everybody has gone, Maan looked at Geet with his arms crossed around his chest but did not say anything.

Geet was looking on the ground but she could feel his stare on her and she knew he was waiting for an explanation.

Geet looks up at him slowly and he picks up his eyebrows on her questioningly but didn't say anything.

Geet was feeling very uncomfortable. She didn't know how to tell him but she made herself say "Maan..." and she looked down "I'm sorry I know I should have talked to you before announcing about our marriage." She looks up at him and says fastly "and believe me I did wanted to talk to you. Remember I even said I need to talk to you in your cabin, but you didn't listen to me!" she said in one breath.

Geet saw that Maan was looking at her with a slight smirk.

She said with a baby face "Tum mujhpe hans rahe ho?!" and then she says in baby anger "Ye sab tumhari galti hai! Agar tumne kal wo sab na kiya hota, to aaj hum is situation mein nahin hote!! Lekin nahin! Mr. Maan Singh Khurana kisi ki baat sunte hain, jo aaj sunege?! Main..." [its all ur fault! If u haven't done all that yday, then v wouldn't hav been in this situation! But no! has Mr. Msk ever listened to anybody that he would listen today?! I...]

Maan didn't let her finish and put a hand on her mouth making her quiet.

Geet looks into his eyes surprised at his actions.

Maan says with a husky voice "Geet, don't you get tired of talking so much?"

He takes off his hand from her mouth and continues "Aur waise bhi, did I ask for any explanations?" and he takes a step back and says "Geet, I don't know what are your reasons for agreeing to this marriage and believe me, I don't want to know either! I'm just happy ke tumne mujhe apni zindagi mein shamil karne ka faisla liya hai!"

Geet looks at him with serious expressions "But I want to tell you the reason for my this decision!!"

She looked on the ground and paused for few moments and continues "Maan, if we don't get married now, those pictures in the press are gonna ruin everything for me. Maybe you don't know this, my dad is a man of old values. He values his family honour more than his own life. If he sees these pictures, he's gonna kill me and then himself. And the media is not gonna stop publishing them until we get married. And if we don't get married, this process is gonna go on and on until everything is finished. Once we'll get married, media hype will slowly die. Maan I love my parents very much and I can never let them down. Maan you are a very good friend of mine. I have never loved you the way you love me and I'm not even sure if I'll ever be able to love you like that or not. But don't worry, I have a lot of respect for the institution of marriage. I will try my best to be a good wife!! So the decision is yours now. If you think you can accept me as a friend to be your wife, I'm ready for this marriage. But even if you cant, I totally understand." Geet looks at him in the end and had unshed tears in her eyes.

Maan takes a step towards geet and cups her face in his hands and says "Geet, I love you so much that my love is enough for both of us. It doesn't bother me if you love me like that or not. It is enough for me that you consider me as your friend and love me as your friend." And then he changes his tone to lightness and says "Aur phir kya pata, Maan Singh Khurana ka jadoo kab tum pe chal jaaye!! After all, I'm too irresistible!!!"

Geet smiles at his little remark with tears still in her eyes and says playfully "Don't you think you have a lot of misconceptions about yourself? You are not that handsome that Geet Handa can fall for you!!"

"Geet Handa nahin, Geet Maan Singh Khurana!!!" he said with a smirk.

Geet smiles and hugs him friendlily. She felt weird kind of satisfaction in his embrace. How much she was craving for a friendly hug like this in the middle of all this mess of her life!

She thought how her life has turned upside down in the last few weeks. She has fallen in love, she has fallen out of love, she had her first heart break, she lost her virginity, and now... she's getting married to someone that she doesn't love! WOW... What a life!!!

She hides her face in his chest and hugged him more tighter. She just wished that the million thoughts in her mind that hasn't let her sleep peacefully in the last few days to just stop for once!! She did not want to think anything... She wished there was some way that she can stop her mind from working.

She looked up at Maan and whispered "Kiss me!"

Maan was surprised at her sudden demand. It wasn't usual for geet to ask him to kiss her. Every time that they came close, it was always Maan who took the first step. Not that he minds it.

Maan gently brushed his lips on hers and then taking her lips into his. He kissed her gently while nibbling.

And Geet was right. The moment they started kissing, her mind becomes blank. It was a total bliss not to think anything for a change. She let herself loose into his kiss and kissed him back while her hands still hugging him towards her.

And suddenly they heard a noise and they broke apart with the realisation of someone's presence.

When geet looked around, she saw Vicky standing at the door with the utmost horror and shock on his face.

The first emotion that passed through Geet was of shame and embarrassment which changed to anger pretty soon.

She smiled coldly and said "What are you still doing here Vicky?"

Geet didn't know why she was behaving like this. But the anger of being played with was making her to show that she was happy. She knew this was childish but her ego was too big to let Vicky know that she was still hurting inside by mere seeing him.

Vicky did not reply but just kept on looking at the couple in shock. He was numb with shock.

Maan says with a cold smile "Vicky, good that you are here! As you would have heard" Maan takes geet into a side hug and says while looking at her "we are getting married next week." And he looks back at Vicky and says "So Vicky, I want you to personally look after all the preparations. Main shadi mein koi bhi kami nahin chahta!!"

And he says to Geet "Chalein sweetheart! Hamein ye khush-khabri Dadima ko bhi to sunaani hai!!"

Geet just smiles at him and leaves with her chin up while passing Vicky.

GEET AND MAAN IN THE CAR

Maan stops the car in front of dadima's bungalow.

Geet has been silent all the way in the car. She has been lost in her thoughts.

She didn't even realise that Maan has stopped the car.

Maan looks at Geet and found her lost in thoughts.

He said "Geet!"

No reply.

He said again but a bit louder "Geet?"

"Huh?!" Geet comes out of her thoughts.

"Chalein?"

He is about to get out of the car when geet says "Maan, I need to talk to you!"

Maan looks at her and says "Bolo Geet"

Geet says "I want to keep this marriage at a very low profile!"

Maan: Geet you know its not possible! Khuranas have a very high profile in society, and being the eldest son, its my responsibility to see that every big decision is taken according to desired expectations. And moreover, Dadima has a lot of dreams regarding my marriage. Even if I agree to it, she is never gonna get ready for a simple wedding. I love Dadima very much and I cant break her dreams Geet.

Geet: Maan, meri poori baat to sun lo pehle!! I'm just saying that because of this media hype, I cant tell my parents about this marriage right now. They'll kill me if they come to know anything about this. So that's why I want to keep it a small affair. Once we will be married, the media hype will die slowly; and then we'll tell my parents. And then in their presence, we can get married again on a large scale." She finished expectantly.

Maan gave it a thought for a second and then said at last "Okay!"

Geet gets relieved.

And then Maan says "Ab chalein?"

Geet nods and goes inside.

Dadima welcomed geet very warmly. Dadima was very happy that Maan was getting married at last. She was a bit upset about the media hype, but after meeting Geet, all her worried vanished.

Dadima says "Geet beta, I'm very happy that Maan has at last decided to settle down. I'm very happy for both of you!"

Geet was feeling a bit uncomfortable in the beginning as she remembered that day in the mall when she has lied to Dadima about their marriage. So she said "Dadima, wo... mall wali harkat ke liye I'm very sorry. It was just a joke!!"

Dadima smiles sweetly and says "Beta, bhool jaayiye us baat ko. Hum to kab ke us baat ko bhool bhi chuke hain. Aur waise bhi, Maan ne hamein sab kuch bata diya tha. Ghabrayiye mat, humne bhi jawani mein aise bohat se mazak kiye the."

Geet smiles and hugs Dadima.

Geet has instantly started liking Dadima. Geet felt like she was the grandma that geet always wished she had and Dadima also felt the same for geet.

Geet and Dadima clicked instantly.

Geet was sure that after marriage Dadima was always gonna side her instead of Maan.

The whole week passed swiftly with the preparations of wedding. At first, Dadima was not happy about simple marriage, but on geet's insistence, she agreed.

In all of this, the one thing that was itching Geet a lot was that Vicky has vanished all of a sudden. Maan had told her that Vicky had to go to US due to some major legal problems in business, and that he will be back by their wedding day.

Geet didn't know whether she was happy or sad about this news. Something in her heart was telling her that something is definitely not right...

Why would Vicky leave all of a sudden? If he was going on business trip, how hard was it to inform her that he was going? After all they are still friends! And now there's gonna be another relation between them... devar and bhabi!! Geet didn't thought that it would hurt her so much to think about their new relationship let alone live it. But they have to live it. Vicky is just her past but Maan... Maan is her present and future. She will not ruin this new relationship for her past. Vicky and she started their journey as friends and now they will stay as friends for ever.

She was happy that Vicky still doesn't know about her feelings for him. So it would be a little easy for her to keep that friendship alive. But why didn't he tell her? What if he also---??? No! He is married!! That's a fact which cant be changed!!! So why did he leave without telling her?

Geet had no answer to that. So she decided to block all those thoughts away and got busy in the wedding preparations.

For the whole week, geet had tried desperately to put her mind in the preparations. But she couldn't get rid of the strange nagging feeling of restlessness. There was a constant war inside her regarding her decision. No matter how hard she tried to reason with herself that this is the right decision, but somewhere inside her she was not satisfied with her decision. She was feeling something was not right.

She tried talking to pinky about it, but pinky advised that its normal for a girl to feel restless before marriage. So she tried to divert her mind towards the preparations.

WEDDING

They had decided that they'll do court marriage now and when the media hype will die, they'll marry with all the rituals in presence of Geet's parents.

Geet and Maan went to the court and in the presence of Pinky, Dadima, and some close family friends of Maan, they signed the marriage certificate. Hence declared man and wife by the marriage registrar.

Geet and Maan came back home (Maan's home and now by default Geet's home too) and Dadima does all post-marriage rituals of Khurana family.

After some time, Maan's phone rang and as he saw the phone screen, his facial expressions changed. Geet could clearly see anger and stress visible on his face. He excused himself and went outside to attend the call.

When Maan didn't return for some time, Dadima and other ladies took Geet into Maan's room and left after geet entered the room. Correction, 'their' room now.

As geet entered the room, her heart skipped a beat at the sight. The whole room was decorated with flowers, especially the bed, which looked like the bed made of red roses. And geet remembered that its their SR!

She looked down not really knowing how to react. To be honest, she hasn't thought about this till now. She felt her cheeks flushing and she could feel the heat radiating from her face.

It is true that they have already slept with each other, but the decorated bed was giving her goose bumps. Her hands were shaking and her heartbeats have increased at an abnormal speed.

She was having million feelings in her. She was happy, sad, excited, nervous, restless, shy, scared all at the same time. She seriously didn't know what's the name of this feeling or why she was feeling like this. The feeling was totally alien for her.

She wondered if every girl feels like this on her first night, or is it just her.

She was relieved that Maan wasn't here yet and maybe by the time he will be here, she'll probably be able to control herself.

She closed her eyes trying to relax herself but her heart beats weren't ready to slow down.

She looked at the time and it was 10:30 pm.

She thought of changing into her night suit to divert her attention to something else..anything actually, from the x-rated images that were popping into her mind about her soon-to-be SR!!

She opens her suitcase and takes out her night suit and turned to go into the washroom.

Suddenly a noise of something falling with a thud made her jump.

She looked back towards the source of the noise and her eyes popped open in shock...

Part 19

Geet was about to go in the washroom when she heard a noise in the balcony.

She looks back and her eyes widened in shock. She couldn't believe what she was seeing!

Vicky was standing there bending to get the support of the railing. His shirt was drenched in blood. His forehead and his lips were bleeding. He was panting heavily as if ran a marathon. All in all, he was in a total mess!!

Geet shrieked in fear "Vicky!!" and ran towards him.

Vicky leaves the railing of the balcony and tries to move towards Geet. But as he tried to take the first step, he was gonna collapse but Geet catches him balancing his weight on her.

She didn't know what was happening? Her mind was numb with shock.

She was just looking at him with eyes widened.

Vicky's voice croaked in her ears "Geet!!"

She came back to her senses. She makes him sit on the sofa. As he sits, Vicky shuts his eyes tightly in pain and Geet realized that he has a wound towards the right side of his stomach which he was holding with his hand.

"Vicky are you ok? What is all this? How did this happened??" she didn't realize that she was crying.

And she yells towards the door "Somebody HELP!!"

And she says to herself trying to control herself "I should call an ambulance!" and she picks up her mobile to dial the no. when Vicky's voice again croaked "Geet! Please don't leave me!"

She immediately goes towards him and says "Vicky, I'm right here with you! I'm not going anywhere!! How did this happened? Who did this to you?? And... how did you came here???" she looks towards the balcony and wondered how did he managed to climb one floor up in such a condition!! Why didn't he came from the door??!!

Vicky opens his eyes and said "Maan!!" and he couldn't say anything more and closed his eyes again in pain.

She was shocked to hear Maan's name. She was silent for few moments and then repeated unbelievably "Maan?"

What does he mean by 'Maan'? Does he mean he wants Maan to be here with him or does he mean that Maan did this to him!!!?? The second conclusion made her heart skip a beat in fear. She was surprised that she wasn't shocked with the conclusion!! Somewhere deep inside her, she knew something was wrong!!! She felt her heart sinking at the mere thought...

Right at that moment the door opened and as she looked towards the door, she saw Maan standing at the door with an evil smirk on his face.

Maan said casually "I knew ke tum yaheen aaye hoge!" he went close to Vicky and said "Why Vicky? Why are you making me do this?? You know how much it hurts me to hurt you!" he said in faking hurt.

Geet heard him say this and her suspicions started to get real!! But she didn't say anything. She couldn't find her tongue to say anything...

He said while trying to sit near Vicky "I'm so sorry little broth--" he stops in between as Vicky tries to move away from Maan in fear.

Maan sighs and says with a changed evil tone "What did you thought Vicky? Ke tum Maan Singh Khurana se bhaag sakte ho?" he smirks and added "Bevakoof ho!!"

Geet who was still standing there in a shock as a silent spectator came back to her senses. She says unbelievably with unshed tears in her eyes "Maan, you did this?? But why???"

Maan walks towards the room bar casually and said pouring a drink for himself "Because your lover boy wanted to tell you the truth before wedding!"

Geet frowns in confusion "Truth?"

Maan sits on the bar stool and sips a drink before saying with a smirk "Itni bhi kya jaldi hai sweetheart sach jaan-ne ki?? Don't worry, we have the whole night for each other's truths. But for now" and he says loudly "Guards!!"

And 6 men enters their room. Maan signals towards Vicky and says "Take him away!!"

Vicky was already unconscious as guards tries to pick him up.

Geet tries to protest them from taking him away when she heard Maan saying

"Don't worry sweetheart! They are taking him to the hospital!!"

So Geet leaves him. As the guards were about to take Vicky out, Geet was gonna go after them when she felt hold on her arm which twirls her back with a jerk.

She saw Maan's face mere inches away from hers. She didn't realised when he came towards her from the bar.

Maan said curiously "Where are you going Geet?"

Geet looks into his eyes angrily and snaps back "Tumse matlab?"

Geet felt his hold on her arms getting harsh and he said angrily "Don't force me to get on my bad side Geet! Trust me, you won't be able to handle it!!"

Geet looks into his eyes and her heart skipped a beat! And the dangerous threat in his voice sent chills to her spine.

But she shakes off the feeling and tries to free her arm from his grip but instead of loosening his grip, he tightens it while digging his nails in her arms angrily.

And he continued "Aaj ke baad tumhara har 'matlab' mujhse shuru ho ke, mujhi pe khatam hoga! Samjhi tum??" and he pushed her rudely on the bed.

She gets up from the bed angrily and asks "Why are you doing this?"

He cools down and said with a smirk "What am I doing?"

"You hurted Vicky? But why?? He's your brother!!!" she said unbelievably. She still couldn't understand that how can he be so brutal to hurt his own brother???

"He's not my brother!" he said casually.

"Whattt?????" Now that was a shocker!!!

"He was our servant's son. My parents adopted him after his parents death. We gave him everything!" Geet could feel anger building up in his voice "Khurana surname! Unlimited money!! Unconditional love!!! My own dadima loved him more than me! I never let him realise that he's not my real brother. But what did he give in return? He tried to back stab me!! Knowing that Maan Singh Khurana never forgives, he still tries to double-cross me!! Jab galti ki hai, to uski sazaa to usse milni hi thi na Geet?!" he finished with an evil homourless laugh!

This was all too much for Geet. Vicky wasn't Maan's real brother! Maan has hurted Vicky! He doesn't even regrets it!! And he's behaving so differently. Is he the same Maan that she knows!!?? She wasn't understanding what is he all talking about!!

She asks confusedly "Backstab? Sazaa? What are you talking about??"

He said "He tried to snatch you away from me!"

Geet still didn't understand. She frowns in confusion.

Maan continued seeing her confused expression "Nahin samjhi?" He chuckles tauntingly and says "Seriously Geet, I have never seen any girl more stupid than you! You are honestly a unique piece!! Sab kuch tumhare saamne sheeshe ki tarah saaf hote huye bhi, kitna aasan hai tumhe bevakoof banana!!"

Anger started building up in her at her insult.

Before she could say anything, or more precisely hit him with something, he said "Remember that day in the mall?" he smirks and said "What did you said? That you would pity the girl who would be my wife! Yehi kaha tha na?" he asks casually.

Geet was in shock but she somewhat knew where this all was going...

He continued "Well Mrs. Maan Singh Khurana, pity yourself as you are my wife now!! I promised you Geet, that in one month you will be my wife!!! See I won today!!!"

Geet felt nauseated by his revelation...

She frowns and says disgustingly "You married me for a challenge??What kind of a man are you??!!"

He says in a husky voice "Jaisa bhi hoon, ab main hi tumhara pati hoon sweetheart!" he smiles and says "Tumhein kya lagaa tha Geet, main tumhare nakhre kiyun seh raha tha? Kiyunki main tumse bohat pyaar karta tha??" he laughs evilly. "As I just told you! Never seen a stupid girl like you!!"

He stops laughing and says "Maine jo bhi jaal bichhaya, tum chup-chaap khud-b-khud uss mein fasti chali gayi!!"

He again goes to the bar and pours another drink for himself and said while sitting on the bar stool "Remember your birthday party? Wo tha mera pehla jaal! Aur tumne khud saamne se aa kar meri taraf dosti ka haath badhaya!!" he takes a sip and smiles at her.

Geet was in shock. She couldn't believe that she has been so stupid to fall for his traps.

"Hamaari shadi to bohat pehle hi ho gayi hoti, agar Vicky beech mein naa aata to!!" Anger started building up in him. "Yes! I know that you liked him. But something that you don't know is that he also liked you!!"

Geet felt millions of emotions passed through her. This was the only thing that she has heard in the last few weeks that gave her so much happiness. Just the knowledge of Vicky liking her too was a heavenly feeling.

Maan saw Geet's changed expressions and said "You heard me right Geet! He dared to like Maan Singh Khurana's girl!! Ussi ki sazaa bhugat raha hai aaj woh!! He dared to like you when he knew that you were just mine!! When he knew that he was married!!" He stressed the word married bringing Geet back to reality and she realised that it doesn't matter if he likes her or not. The fact that he is married is bigger than any other truth.

Maan again saw her changing expressions and he felt satisfied. He continued in a husky voice "Remember that night in the forest when you and me..." he paused to let his words sink into Geet.

Geet closed her eyes to shake off the images the erupted in her mind with his words. Maan smiled enjoying to see the effect on Geet as he wanted it to be.

Geet opens her eyes and said angrily "Oh! So I was right!! You took me there to sleep with me right??"

As his drink got finished, he gets up and smiles crookedly "Wrong! I told you darling you don't have a brain! So why are you exerting yourself!!" he said teasingly. "I took you just for work." and he starts walking towards her "If I wanted to sleep with you, I could've done it a long time back! I don't have to do all this to take a girl to my bed. Main jab chahta, jahaan chahta, tumhe apne bed pe leke aa sakta tha, IF I wanted to!! It's true that I took you there just for the meeting. That night wasn't a part of my plan" and he said huskily "but that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoyed it!!" he winked at her.

"You digust me Maan!!" she said me angrily.

"You know what Geet? I don't care!!" he said in unbothered tone.

"Anyways, back to the truth! After that night, things got a bit complicated. So it was time for Plan B!!"

He asks curiously "Ek baat batao Geet, did you seriously thought that you could've left KA so easily?" he chuckles. "Did you thought that I could've let you go that easily??" And he says dramatically "So here comes the 'Proposal'!!"

He said while mimicking a typical girl "Aaawww poor Maan!! Begging for his love at your feet. Oh Geet, how can you be so heartless?! Please accept him!!" and he laughs.

His laugh gave goose bumps to Geet. She frowns at him but didn't say anything..

He stops laughing all of a sudden and asks himself seriously "But how can she accept him, when she loves Vicky?" he smiles and says to Geet "Did you ever thought Geet, that why did Vicky chose that particular day to tell you about his marriage?" he smiles crookedly and says "Because I made him! I purposely sent you home early because I knew that you will go straight to Vicky to confess your feelings for him!"

He sits on the sofa with his one leg on the other and said "Pata hai Geet, kabhi kabhi mujhe tum pe bohat taras aata tha. I really pitied you. I didn't wanted to do all this but you left no other option with me. Even after a broken heart, you were not ready to come to me!! So it was time for the final blow!!! I hope by now you have realised that the storeroom fiasco and those reporters were also my work! But I still have doubts on your teeny-meeny brain. So yes! It was all my plan." he smirks. "But you can't blame me for that. I gave you a fair chance to run away. Remember, I called a press conference to break up with you." He fakes fear and corrects himself "Sorry, I mean when you were gonna break up with me!" he smiles and continues

"But you declared that we are getting married!! Ab jeet saamne se chal kar mera darwaza khat-khatayegi, to main nahaane thodi na baithunga Geet!!! So that's the whole 'truth' which Vicky wanted to tell you. Because unfortunately, for him of course, he has come to know about this. And the rest is history..."

He says seriously "Tumhari kismat ka faisla to ussi din ho gaya tha Geet, jis din tumne Maan Singh Khurana ko challenge karne ki galti ki thi!!"

Geet was numb with shock. What has she thought, and what happened!! She couldn't believe that he played such a big dirty game with her. Everything, every single thing that went wrong in her life in the last few weeks was all planned by him! All this time, she thought she was in control of her life, when actually he was reining it all along. She has become just a mere puppet at his hands. She regretted the day when she met him. She regretted the day when she challenged him...

He has ruined everything for her, he has ruined her life. And that too just because of some stupid challenge. All those times that she spent with him as friends, was nothing for him. She thought they were friends, but he doesn't even know the meaning of friendship!! And she has staked her whole life, her whole future for that friendship. What will happen when her parents would come to know about this?

Because she was sure somewhere in her mind, that her plan wasn't gonna work anymore.. She has thought that after some time, she would get divorce from him. The reason why she doesn't want a big wedding!!! But she could tell that he's not gonna leave her so easily.

She has not only ruined her life, but also ruined her family's honour. She was now his 'wife'!! She was 'married' to him. Marriage that she herself has agreed to! He is right! She is a fool! How can she be so stupid that she didn't see all this? But what's the use of crying over spilled beans. She can't change the past.

But now what? He has won the challenge, so what does he want from her now??

Geet felt fear engulfing her completely. She felt her life slipping away from her hands and she couldn't even do anything. She felt very scared. She didn't know his intentions at all. But she could tell this much that this guy is bad news! He is pure evil. He can go to any extent to get whatever he wants. Her ruined life was enough example to tell her that! But what does he wants??

Geet was petrified but she faked a brave face and asked "So what do you want now?"

Maan gets up from the sofa and said while walking towards Geet "Well that's a very good question! What do I want now!! What do you think I would want on the first night of my wedding?"

He comes closer to her and whispers in her ear in a husky voice "I want to have our SR!!!"

Part 20

Recap:

He comes closer to her and whispers in her ear in a husky voice "I want to have our SR!"

Shock and fear washed through Geet. Her eyes widened and she took a step back instinctively.

Maan saw fear on Geet's face and he smirked evilly and walked away casually while talking to her.

"What happened sweetheart? Why are you so shocked? I'm not saying something out of this world! You are my wife and I'm your husband. And this is our wedding night!!"

He sits on the bed and closes his eyes while breathing in the scent of the flowers and said "And see this bed? Everything indicates towards our SR!!"

Geet felt anger building up in her.

Maan pats the bed near him signalling Geet to sit on the bed and says "Come sweetheart, lets get started!!"

Geet says angrily "Sapne dekhna chhod do Maan!! Kiyunki tumhara ye sapna kabhi poora nahin hone wala!! Tumhein kya lagta hai, ke main tumhare saath tumhari biwi ban kar is ghar mein rahoongi? No Mr. Maan Singh Khurana. Tumhein jo karna tha, tum ne kar liya! Jitne jaal bichhane the, bichha liye!! Lekin ab bas!!! Tum dhokhe se sirf shadi kar sakte ho, lekin biwi nahin paa sakte. Main is shaadi ko nahin maanti! Aur SR to door ki baat hai, agar tumne mujhe chhoone ki koshish bhi ki na, then I swear I'll kill you!!!! Samjhe tum?" she said determinedly. She was boiling in anger. She was so mad that she feared she would murder him right at this moment and never even regret it in her life.

Maan smirks and gets up from the bed and says disappointedly while walking towards her "Why you have to be so stubborn Geet?!"

He comes closer to Geet but Geet didn't moved back. She glares at him. Her pride was too big to let her move back from her position.

When he is couple of inches away from her, he says seriously "We could do this either the easy way, or the hard way! I'm giving you 5 minutes Geet." He said in a dangerous tone.

In spite of her, Geet's heart skipped a beat in fear at his dangerous tone.

He continued with the same tone "After that, I want you on the bed, without any resistance!! You get me?"

He points towards his wrist watch and says "And your time starts now! Tick-tock tick-tock..."

Geet's heartbeats fastened and her throat was getting dry. She was getting goose bumps.

She was aware that he was probably 10 times physically stronger than her. And she knew that he doesn't have any conscience. What will he do if she doesn't listen to him! What does he mean by 'hard way'?? Babaji!! Is he gonna rape me??!!

She was petrified with the thought. She was aware that she was all alone in this room with him. But she's not alone in the whole house. Dadima!!!!!!

Geet's mind was racing fast. She felt she has never been so proud of herself in her whole life to come up with any conclusion as she was with this one.

Maan was about to walk back to the bed when he heard her say casually

"Waise Maan, tumhare is plan ke baare mein, tumne Dadima ko bataya?"

He looks back at her while frowning and saw her checking her nails casually.

She looks up at him and says with a smirk "I was thinking Maan, you know just out of curiosity, that how would she react when I'll tell her about what you did to Vicky and how you trapped me into this marriage?" she smiles victoriously.

"Waise, kya lagta hai Maan, 5 minutes to more than enough honge na, Dadima ko sachai bataane ke liye?" she asks him faking curiosity but Maan just looked at her, so she answered her own question.

"I also think the same." And she smiles victoriously and turns to go out.

Maan holds her arm and turns her towards him.

Geet saw him glaring at her but she said coolly "Maan! Abhi abhi to tumne kaha ke mere paas 5 minutes hain!!" and she holds his hand that was holding her and slides it down while freeing herself.

Maan glares at her hand and then back at her eyes but let her free herself.

And she smiles and says "So I can spend these 5 minutes the way I want right?" she pauses to enjoy herself and then says

"But I can imagine, how hard these 5 minutes are gonna be for you! Right sweetheart? After all, these 5 minutes are gonna be the last 5 minutes of your life's freedom." And she continues seriously "Because after this, you are gonna spend every minute of your life behind the bars!! I'm not gonna leave you so easily Mr. Maan Singh Khurana. You are gonna pay for this!!"

And she turns to leave but stops at the door and looks back and says "Waise tumhe ye to pata hi hoga na, ke 5 minutes mein kitne seconds hote hain?? I guess itna Math to aata hi hoga!!" But Maan didn't answer.

He was still glaring at her.

So she continued "Nahin pata? Main batati hoon na! Aakhir patni hoon tumhari, itna to kar hi sakti hoon na!! 5 minutes mein 300 seconds hote hain. Isliye tum ab minutes nahin, seconds gino! Kiyunki har second tumhe tumhare anth ki taraf leke jaa raha hai!!!" And she added in the same tone like Maan's "And your time starts now! Tick-tock tick-tock..." and she smiles victoriously at him before opening the door.

She opened the door and went outside.

As soon as she stepped out of the room and her eyes fell downstairs, her heart did a 360 degrees flip.

The house that was swarming with more than 50 people just an hour ago, was totally empty. There was not a single living soul in the house whatsoever. No servants. No guests. No DADIMA!!!!

"What happened sweetheart?" A whisper near her ear made her jump in fear and she saw Maan standing behind her.

Her heart have started beating at an abnormal speed in fear as the realisation hits her that she is alone with him in the whole house!!! And she remembered how she talked to him inside few moments ago and the quantity of fear increased.

Maan says with mischief in his voice and eyes "Won't you tell Dadima? Come on go on, the time is passing!" And he smirks.

Geet was very scared now. She didn't know how she's gonna escape him now?! What if he tries to force her?? The mere thought was sinking Geet's heart...

But she faked a brave face and asked "Where is Dadima?" she was fearing that he might have done something to Dadima too!! She cant trust him anymore. If he can do that to his brother, he can do anything with anybody.

He smirks and says "Don't worry sweetheart! Tonight nobody's gonna disturb us!! Maan Singh Khurana never plays his game unprepared!! Tumne ye kaise soch liya geet, ke tum Maan Singh Khurana se itni aasaani se jeet sakti ho? Rassi jal gayi, par bal nahin gaya! What did you thought, that Dadima would be waiting here for you?" and he laughs an evil laugh.

"Wo kya hai na geet, Dadima's friend has suddenly met with an accident. So she has gone to paris for 3 weeks!!"

Geet's heart started sinking at the information of Dadima being away for 3 weeks! 3 WHOLE WEEKS!!!!

He says casually "Tumhe itna to pata hi hoga ke 3 weeks mein" and his voice turns meaningful "kitne din, kitne ghante, kitne minute aur kitne seconds hote hain!!! Aakhir Maths jo bohat achche se jaanti ho, nahin?"

Geet did not reply. Her mind was still trying to find any way out of this mess...

He says seriously "Now you have just 2 minutes left!!" and he corrects himself "Oh, I mean 120 seconds!!!" he smiles.

"Shall we sweetheart?" he signals towards the door of the bedroom to Geet.

Geet looks away from him while folding her arms on her chest, indicating that she doesn't want to go in the room with him.

Maan looks at her for few seconds and when she didn't make any movement to go into the room, he came to conclusion that she is not going in, not at least nicely...

Anger starts building in him and he rudely holds her arm and drags her inside with him.

"Chhodo mujhe!!... Leave me Maan..." she tries to free herself but he didn't leave her arm until they were inside the room.

He left her only near the bed and sat at the bed "Just 1 more minute sweetheart!" he informed her.

Geet looked at the door trying to figure out her chances of running out and escaping from here. She must admit her chances were very bad...

Suddenly her thoughts break with his words.

"Don't even think about it! I'll just drag you back here again!!" he said while guessing her plan.

She looks at him angrily but the look on his face told her that he was serious.

The time was slipping from her hands and she did not have any plan till now. She was completely blank.

At last, she starts moving.

He looks at her and asks "Where are you going?"

She looks at him angrily "Washroom! Ab kya uske liye bhi mujhe tumhari permission leni hogi?" she says sarcastically.

He smirks and says while getting up "Chalo main bhi chalta hoon!"

Geet looks at him shocked. "What???? Maan, if you don't have any shame, at least have some respect for ladies!!! I'm going to the washroom to pee, you wanna come with me??" she asks sarcastically.

Maan looks at her in seriousness and says "First of all, your 5 minutes are up! So you are not going anywhere alone. And second, do you think I'll leave you alone, so you can run away from here?"

Geet rolls her eyes frustratingly and says "Do you have some secret door in your washroom from where I can escape? Seriously Maan, I think you need medical help!!"

Maan gives it a thought and says "Fine! Just 2 minutes!!"

Geet was about to enter washroom when she heard him say "Wait!" she holds her breath in fear unintentionally and looks back at him.

Maan goes towards her and holds his hand out towards her and says "You don't need your phone in the washroom!"

'Damn!!!' Geet thinks in her mind, but didn't let it show on her face.

She gave her phone reluctantly in his hands and goes into the washroom and quickly closes the door.

She closes her eyes and breathes a sigh of relief.

She looks around the washroom but there was not even a single window from which she could escape. There was just one vent, but it was too small for geet.

She sat on the foot of the tub trying to figure out some plan.

She didn't know what to do?? She wasn't even sure how long she can hide in the washroom. After 2 minutes, he would want her out. And she didn't know how long the door would be able to keep him out.

She was petrified. Her mind was refusing to think in fear. No matter how much she tried to calm herself, but she couldn't.

But one thing she was sure. He is not coming anywhere close to her. No matter what she has to do, but she is NOT giving in to this monster.

He has ruined her life, but he is not getting any more satisfaction from her ruination. She thought determinedly.

Suddenly her thoughts broke with the knocking at the door.

Maan called from outside "Geet, open the door!" Her eyes widened in fear and her hands started shaking. She didn't know what to do...

When the knocking gets harder. "Geeet... I'm asking for the last time. Open the door!!!"

Geet says fumbling "Um... uh... Just few minutes more!!" she looked around desperately for any plan.

Maan smiles to himself knowing her plan. He knew she was just killing time. But in fact, she was just scared. He liked the thought of Geet being in such a condition. It made him feel more powerful. He knew the fear of death kills the prey before the real death approaches.

He liked her being scared. He was in no hurry to get her out. He knew the more time she stays inside, the more she is gonna be scared. The more she resists, the more fun it would be to be to break her.

Just like any other guy, he also liked the chase. And Geet has been the only girl in his entire life who has been so challenging. Otherwise every girl came to him so easily.

But Geet... She was always different from every other girl. He has never done so much planning for any girl before. And now he has won. No victory has ever tasted so sweet as this one. But she has made him acquaintance to the sweet taste of chase, something that he has never experienced before. It was like 'sher ke muh ko khoon lag gaya'!! And to his utmost surprise, he has loved this chase.

He said to the door with a smirk while enjoying himself "Geet, I thought you have realised by now that you don't even stand a chance against Maan Singh Khurana!! So whatever plan your pea-sized brain is thinking, is not gonna work ok! So its better for you, if you accept your defeat and come outside. Otherwise I have a spare key of the door too!" and he smiles thinking the probable effect of his words on Geet.

While geet became numb hearing that he has a key to the washroom door. So what should she do now???? She looks up and says with a baby face "Babaji! Washroom ki duplicate keys kaun banwata hai!!"

She said fumbling "Umm... its nothing like that... Actually I... I... I have an upset stomach!!" she closes her eyes in embarrassment at her excuse but she couldn't think of any other excuse. So she said the first thing that came to her mind.

Maan chuckles to himself outside. The girl seriously have some 'unique' excuses!!!

He said while trying to control his laughter "Fine Geet! Just 5 more minutes, and then I'm coming inside!!"

Geet takes a sigh of relief. At least she has 5 minutes now. But she is not gonna waste a single second on crying over her condition anymore. She has to think of some plan. She looks around desperately for something, anything, that could be useful to her.

Suddenly her eyes fell on the washroom counter and a smile came on her lips...

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It has been more than 5 minutes. Maan knocks the door for the last time and says "Geet, open the door, or I'm coming inside."

But there was no reply from inside. He shakes his head in frustration knowing that she is not gonna open the door. So he opened the door with his key.

As he opened the door, he saw Geet standing in front of the door with determined expression on her face.

He could tell that something was cooking up in her brain...

He smirks and says teasingly "How's your stomach now sweetheart?"

But Geet didn't reply neither made any movement to walk.

"Geet, invitation card chahiye?" he asks sarcastically. "Come on, I'm waiting for you!!" He signals to her to follow him.

Geet moves towards the door with determined look on her face and both hands behind her back and her heartbeats increased at abnormal speed.

As she reached out, Maan starts walking towards her. Her heartbeats fastened more, if that was possible, but she didn't make any effort to move back.

She says firmly "Maan stop right there!"

But he didn't stop.

She tried again but this time her voice trembled "Maan, I'm telling you just stop! Don't come close to me!!" but it seems her words didn't reached his ears, as he just kept on nearing her.

She felt her heart is gonna explode in fear.

When Maan was at an arm's distance, Geet knew its now or never. She brought her hand from her back in which she was holding a razor blade and moved it to hurt him on his face, but to her utmost horror, he holds her hand just before its gonna touch his face.

Geet's eyes widened and her heart sank at the failure of her last plan.

Maan looks at the razor and then at Geet and smirks evilly.

He easily snatches the razor from her hand and said "Geet, you have really disappointed me!! This is the best plan that you could come up with?? Killing me with a shaving razor??!! I had expected better than this from you!!!" he shakes his head in disappointment.

"Why are you doing this Maan?" Geet asks him while tears started making way in her eyes at the failure of her plan. She didn't know what to do now, so thought of getting him busy in talks while she think of something else.

"Aren't we through that question already sweetheart?!" He said in a husky voice "Now... the bed is waiting for us sweetheart!! Let's go!!!"

But instead of moving forward, Geet moved back. She was terrified. She doesn't have any plan anymore and she has no idea how to escape from here.

Maan started pacing towards her. The aura of predator and prey started engulfing the surrounding again.

The panic on Geet's face was giving him weird kind of satisfaction. In no time, he cornered her at the wall.

He moved his hand towards Geet and she shuts her eyes tightly.

He stroked her arm from bottom to top and said in a husky voice near her ear "So sweetheart, are you ready?"

Geet snaps her eyes open and pushed him away with all her strength, but he didn't even inched back.

"Don't touch me!!" she said disgustingly.

"Why are you being so reluctant Geet? Its not like its our first time! So why are you scared?"

Geet looks away disgustingly while tears started flowing from her eyes. She did not have any hope left anymore.

She looked at him and tried for the last time "Please don't do this Maan!! Please let me go!!!" she almost begged without any hope.

Maan smirks and gets back.

Geet looks at him surprised. The hope again started forming in her heart. She thought that he has left her after all. Maybe there is still some humanity left in him somewhere.

She thought of leaving quickly before he would change his mind.

As she walked towards the door, she felt sudden pull on her arm and before she could figure out what's happening, she found herself landed on the bed with a push.

Shock washed through her as he came on top of her. She tried to wriggle under his weight but he didn't even budge.

He holds her both hands in his hands and pinned them a little higher to her head.

"Maan leave me!" Geet said while still trying to wriggle under him.

"I gave you enough time Geet! But I guess you want it the hard way!!!"

She kept on struggling and he said "Stop fighting Geet! Because its just gonna hurt you more!!!"

As he bends his face towards Geet's, Geet looks away in disgust while her body still wriggling. Her eyes fell on the night stand and suddenly a hope started forming in her.

But she needed her hands free which were in his grip.

Suddenly Geet stopped wriggling under him. Maan looked at her surprised and Geet looked back at him with a slight smile playing around the corner of her lips.

Maan thought that Geet was giving in at last.

He bends down on her and takes her lips into his and started kissing her hungrily.

As geet responded to his kiss, his grip got loosened from her hands and started moving on to her body.

As soon as he leaves her hands, she moves her hands towards the night stand and picks up the table lamp from it. She did not break the kiss as she didn't want her last plan to flop too.

And in the next instant, she hits him hard on his head with the lamp.

Maan held his head in sudden pain and Geet moves away from under him instantly and stands up.

She saw blood flowing from his head on to his face and became numb.

The realisation of her act hits her and her eyes widened in panic. No matter how much she hates him right now, but she never wanted to kill him.

She saw him staggering up from the bed and he looked towards Geet. The fire in his eyes made Geet's heart skip a beat. There was anger, betrayal, and revenge in those eyes. Geet could tell that if he survives today, he is never gonna leave her in peace. He's gonna make her life hell. His momentarily look was enough to tell her that her one act has doomed her life forever.

And he tried moving towards her, but fell on the bed unconscious.

Geet stood there for some moments trying to control herself. The evil side of her mind told her to run away leaving him over here to die. After what he did to her, he deserves it. And if he survives today, then she's not gonna survive...

But she couldn't make herself move from there. It was true that she hated him to the core and many times she has even wished him to be dead in her anger, but she never wanted him to be dead in real!!! And specially not by her own hands...

Her parents values run way deep into her veins to let her see someone die before her eyes, even if he is a monster.

She didn't wanted the wound to be brutal but what he was doing, had left no other option with her.

We all imagine bad things for other people in 'anger', but doesn't mean we really 'want' those things to happen...

She didn't know what to do now, but she knew she cant leave him over here to die. She wasn't that evil!!

She controlled herself with determination and makes a call for an ambulance.

After some time, the ambulance comes, and they takes Maan to the hospital.

After some time, the doctors tell her that he is out of danger now, but he is still unconscious.

Geet thanks Babaji silently but now the fear starts engulfing her...

Now that he's ok, as soon as he wakes up, her bad time is gonna start... She had tried to kill him, and he's definitely gonna take revenge from her.

If he can ruin her life for a stupid challenge, what will he do with her for trying to kill him???? The mere thought made her knees weak in fear.

She made up her mind that she's gonna make a run for it before he wakes up and makes impossible for her to escape.

In determination, she starts walking towards the exit when suddenly she remembers that Vicky is also in the hospital!!

She inquires about Vicky at the reception and comes to know that he is fine now and just gained consciousness few minutes ago...

She thanked Babaji once again for saving Vicky and runs to meet him.

When she goes near his room, she saw him bandaged all over. She goes inside and Vicky sees her and tries to get up.

Geet runs towards him and make him lie back.

Geet asks concerned "How are you Vicky?"

Geet didn't realise that tears have escaped from her eyes.

Vicky wipes her tears and says "I'm fine Geet. How are you? How did you come here?"

Geet tells him everything about Maan and as she finished, she realised her tears were not ready to stop...

Vicky looks at her shocked as she tells him that she has hit Maan. He almost screams "Geet, are you out of your mind?!! Maan is never gonna leave you now Geet!!" he was seriously worried "You don't know him!!! He can go to any extent Geet!!! Anyone who comes in the bad books of Maan becomes the most unlucky ones!! I know him!!! What have you done Geet!!!!" he closes his eyes in frustration.

Geet felt fear engulfing her but she controls herself and said "I know that Vicky! But you don't worry about me!! You just take care of yourself ok?"

Vicky looks down and says "I'm sorry Geet! I wanted to tell you everything about Maan, but before I could tell you, Maan came to know that I know everything. And he kidnapped me!! Somehow I escaped him today, but it was already too late Geet. He has already been successful in his plans. I'm really sorry Geet, that my brother did this to you!!"

Geet looks at him and realises that he doesn't know the truth about his birth. So she decided that she would also not tell him. She asks him "Did Maan himself hurted you?" she looked at the bandages at his stomach. She was still feeling nauseated at the thought that how could Maan hurt someone with his own hands. Specially if that someone has been his brother for almost of his life, even if he is not his real brother still they would've shared a brotherly bond!!

She knew she could never forgive herself for hurting Maan with her own hands even when she knew what kind of a person he is and what he was trying to do. Trying to kill someone with your bare hands is not that easy... It might look easy, but its not! The act kills you inside... And she was aware of that now...

So she wanted to know that has Maan really tried to kill him with his own hands or someone else did it for him...

Vicky said "No, this was just an accident. When I was trying to escape, I bumped into a pointed rebar!!!"

Geet breathes out a sigh of relief. She doesn't know why but his answer gave her a weird satisfaction.

But she knew that even if Maan didn't hurt him with his own hands, it doesn't decrease his sins. He is still a monster.

Another question that was making Geet restless the most "Vicky, did you... um... I mean... uh... Maan told me that... uh... you... you liked me!!??" she said while looking down.

When Vicky didn't reply, she looked up at him and saw his eyes shinning with tears.

And his eyes gave her the answer instead of his words.

Geet asked "Then why didn't you ever tell me?!"

Vicky looks away and said "Geet, I'm married, and that's true. Geet I had decided a long time ago that I would do arranged marriage. Because I never trusted my own decisions. So I gave this right to Dadima. And Dadima chose Namrata for me. I'm not saying that she is not a nice girl or I wasn't happy with her. No Geet, meri life jo bhi thi, jaisi bhi thi, main khush tha!! Lekin kahin na kahin wo ehsaas missing tha! And then, one day you came into my life. Aur dekhte hi dekhte, tum meri sab se achhi dost ban gayi! Jo baatein main Namrata se bhi nahin kar paata tha, wo baatein main tumse karne laga!! And I don't know when, how , but I started falling for you!!!"

Geet closed her eyes to live the moment. Something that she has always wished to hear from him but also something that doesn't have any meaning anymore.

"Jo ehsaas maine kabhi kisi ke liye feel nahin kiya tha, wo main tumhare liye feel karne laga!! That time was the most wonderful time of my life. I felt that you also liked me but trust me Geet, I wished from the bottom of my heart that I would be wrong!! I was happy with you as a friend in my life." he looked down and said ashamed "I even forgot that I have a wife. But then, one day the reality hits me as Namrata came back from Canada. And I realised what I was doing! I realised how wrong I was! In my happiness, I had forgotten that I was ruining your happiness. This was one thing for which I'll always be grateful to Maan to make me realise what I was doing...I couldn't do it Geet. I just couldn't do it. I know I hurted you a lot as I told you about namrata, but trust me Geet, I have cried a lot more than you while hurting you! I can never forgive myself for being so selfish and not telling you about my marriage from the beginning. At first I thought you knew it. But by the time I realised that you don't, it has been too late already. I had started falling for you by then, and in my selfishness I didn't tell you. I'm really sorry geet. I'm really really very sorry for being so selfish." He finished while tears flowing from his eyes.

Geet said with tears in her eyes too "Why did this happen to us Vicky?"

"I'm really sorry Geet. Kaash tumhein ye kabhi pata na chalta ke main bhi tumse pyaar karta hoon." He said with desperation. "But this doesn't change anything Geet. I'm a married man and that's a truth. Nobody can change that! So its better for you if you'll forget everything."

Anger triggered in Geet with his last words. She said angrily "Who are you to tell me whether I should forget you or not? I don't know why everybody is using me like a puppet?! Don't you think that I too have feelings?" she started crying "Mujhe bhi chot lagti hai! Dard hota hai!! Tum dono bhaiyon ne mujhe samajh ke kya rakha hai? Who gave you the right to take decisions for me? This is my life Vicky! And I will decide the way I want to live it!! You just take decisions for your own self. I know you are married and nobody can change that. Par apni feelings pe to mera haq hai na?" she wipes her tears and says "So you do what you want to do, and I'll do what I want to do. Mujhe kya bhoolna hai, aur kya yaad rakhna hai, iska faisla main khud karoongi!!"

And she gets up to leave.

When Vicky said with pain "I'm not trying to control you Geet."

Geet closes her eyes in pain.

Vicky continued "I just cant see you in pain Geet. I want to see you happy!! I want to see that old Geet who was my friend!! Kya tum meri ek chhoti si baat nahin maan sakti?"

Geet looks back at him and says "Kya chahte ho Vicky?"

Vicky says "I want to see that Geet who laughed with everyone, who was the heartbeat of every heart, who lived her life to the fullest. Please Geet, I just want you to be like you were a month ago when you came to India. Don't let all these things kill that Geet!"

Geet smiles sadly and says "I'll try Vicky."

And he nods.

She turns to leave again.

"What are you gonna do now Geet?" Vicky asked her.

Geet looks back at him and understood that he is talking about Maan.

Vicky says "Maan is not gonna leave you so easily. Hell knows what he's gonna do now!!"

Geet felt her heart skipped a beat in fear at the mention of Maan's name.

"He has to pay for whatever he did. I have decided that I'm gonna file a complaint against him in police before leaving Mumbai." Geet says determinedly.

Vicky says shocked "Whattt???!!! Geet are you crazy?? Cops would be the last one who will help you!! Police is not gonna do anything against Maan. He has friendly relations with the chief minister of Maharashtra and many high post officials. He gives money to them in the time of elections so that he won't have any kind of legal problems in business. The police is never gonna take any action against him. Ulta tum yahaan pe uske saath hamesha ke liye fas jaaogi Geet! I think its a very bad idea to go to the police."

Geet gets a bit disappointed but then controls herself and decides to go with Plan B.

She somewhere already knew that it was useless to involve police. She hates to admit but she knew the fact that Maan is very powerful. Power that naturally comes when you have excessive money in your bank accounts that he himself doesn't know how much money he has!!!

So geet says "Then I guess I'll go with my Plan B. I'm gonna make a run for it before Maan wakes up. I'm gonna go back to London. I never told him that I'm from London and I just wish he doesn't know it either. Its just you and some people at KA knows where I'm from and Pinky and her relatives knows too. Pinky is gonna go with me and I'll tell her relatives to mislead Maan that I was from Delhi. Its just people at KA that I have to deal with..."

Vicky interrupts her and says "Don't worry about KA. I assure you that nobody will tell him anything."

Geet says doubtfully "Are you sure?" The recent turn of events had made her cynical and she knew she is unable to trust anybody anymore.

Vicky says confidently "Trust me! But do you think Maan is stupid to just believe our words and won't check the airports and all!"

Geet says knowingly "No. I know he will check everything, but I have a plan for that too. I don't have time to explain Vicky. I need to get going. I have to meet pinky too before Maan wakes up." And she runs towards the door realising how less time she has.

When at the door, she looks back at him and says "Goodbye Vicky!" and in her mind says 'I love you!!'

Vicky says "Goodbye Geet!" and in his mind says 'I love you!!'

Geet goes out and checks her purse to make double sure that everything was in place. She has put everything in her purse before coming to the hospital... her passport, her IDs, her return ticket (she's not gonna use it, but she cant leave it behind), her money, her credit and debit cards, and every other thing that shows her relation to London.

Geet calls Pinky as she sits in the taxi and explains everything to her.

Pinky was shocked to hear everything. Even she couldn't believe that Maan could do something like this.

Geet asks her to get ready as they have to leave right now and also tells her to inform her relatives to mislead Maan that Geet and Pinky were from Delhi.

When geet reached pinky's house, she was thankful that Pinky was all ready to leave.

Geet asks Pinky's uncle to drop them at the railway station.

Pinky's uncle drops pinky and geet at the railway station and gets 4 tickets—2 tickets for Delhi on Geet and Pinky's name on ATM card and 2 tickets on the name of Harpreet and Kiran to Puna with cash.

As her uncle gets 4 tickets, Geet tears the tickets for Delhi and gets on the train to puna while hiding their faces with dupattas.

And the train starts...

Meanwhile in the hospital, Maan wakes up.

He remembers everything and angers starts building up in him.

He said angrily to himself "Ye tumne achcha nahin kiya Geet!!"

And he gets up from the bed. A nurse tries to stop him but he gave the nurse an intimidating glare and she backs off in fear.

He knew there isn't much time. He knew that Geet is definitely gonna use this time in her benefit to escape and he is not gonna let her go. Not after what she did!! She has to pay for it heavily!!! She doesn't know what she has landed herself into...

GEET SIDE

After reaching Puna, both girls takes a bus to Goa and from Goa takes a flight to Cochin and from Cochin takes a ship to Bangladesh, and from there takes a flight to Zurich and from Zurich took a train to London...

Geet was so scared of Maan that she didn't want to take any chances.

MAAN SIDE

Maan goes to his house but found the whole house empty. He wasn't expecting otherwise but still he hoped, for Geet's well being of course, that she hasn't tried to run away from here or else the payback is gonna be 1000 folds more worse.

He runs upstairs to double check and as he reached his room, he saw Geet's suitcase open and everything messed up in it.

He frowns and runs towards his car.

He sits in his car and drives madly towards Pinky's house and as already decided they tell him that Geet has gone back to Delhi. Maan goes to the airport and checks each and every flight but Geet's name was not in any flight.

So his next destination was Railway Station. From there he comes to know that Geet and Pinky had left for Delhi. In the next hour, he reached Delhi in his private jet way before the train's time. But as he searched the whole train, he wasn't surprised not to find Geet in there. At least this much he has expected from her.

He said to himself in determination "Tum chahe duniya ke kisi bhi kone mein jaa kar chhip jaao Geet, lekin Maan Singh Khurana tumhein dhoond hi lega. Aur wo din, tum apne zinda hone par bhi pachhtaaogi. Tum marne ko tarsogi Geet, lekin main tumhein marne bhi nahin doonga!! Ye wada hai mera!!!!!!"

Part 21

PRESENT

It is very dark. There's not even a single street light around. It is like the power failure in the whole city. The only source of light is the moonlight.

Suddenly Geet turns an alley while running for her life. She is scared like hell. She looks around desperately trying to see any living person around, but she is all alone in that secluded street.

"HELPPP!!!" she yells at the top of her voice, but somewhere she already knows that there's no escape. There is no one to help her.

Her legs are giving up on her but she couldn't stop. She is still running.

She is too petrified to look back to check if she is still being followed or not. She is just running without any sense of direction.

When suddenly she bumps into someone's hard chest. She looks up at the face of the unknown person while still trying to catch her breath but his face is not visible in the dark.

But Geet could feel his touch. And she knew who he was without even looking at his face.

Geet steps back as the guy steps forward and his face gets visible in the moonlight. Maan Singh Khurana...

He was the one from whom she was running away for her life!

As she looked at him, her heart started sinking. She tries to run back but she realizes that her legs are being glued to the ground in fear. She is so scared that she couldn't even run away anymore.

Her heart is beating so fast that she fears that it's the last beats of her heart.

Maan takes a step towards her and she tries to take a step back but she looses her balance and he holds her from her waist to save her from falling while pulling her towards him.

Geet wants to scream but her voice dies in her throat due to panic. She feels chocked with her voice in her throat.

Maan moves his face closer to Geet. Geet saw him leaning towards her neck and she saw him opening his mouth and she thinks he's gonna kiss her on her neck..

But panic washes through her as she saw his fangs in the moonlight...

Geet opens her eyes with a start. She is sitting on her bed. She is drenched in sweat. She is still panting very hard as if ran a marathon. She looks around her bedroom still scared. She closes her eyes to control herself as she realizes that it was a nightmare.

It wasn't something new for geet. She has been having these nightmares from last one year since she escaped from Mumbai.

It has been one year since she had escaped him physically, but mentally he has always haunted her.

After coming back to London, Geet has tried very hard to forget everything and move on in life. She had tried to live the life of Geet Handa like she was before going to Mumbai. But she hasn't been totally successful in it. The wounds of Mumbai was still raw on her heart. Wounds of heartbreak.. Wounds of betrayal... Wounds of trust breakage...

She knew she would never be able to trust anybody ever again. She will not let anybody play with her ever again. She has closed the doors of her heart. She has decided that she will not be the one who will be played this time, because she is not gonna let anyone come even close to her. She breaks people before they could break her...

But still she was empty. Still she was scared. Every second his dangerous fire-filled eyes scared her. She was dying in every second with the thought of the consequences of him finding her...

Even when she smiled with everybody, even when she laughed with everybody, even when she parties with everybody, she was never really happy. It was like something has died inside her.

She has no idea why she feels this vacuum inside her. Sometimes she gets so frustrated at herself for not being really happy when she's trying so hard, and her poor friends had to tolerate her foul mood in those days.

Geet gets up from her bed and walks towards the window. She sits at the window and looks at the sky while being deeply in thought.

What has become of her life??!! She feels so helpless remembering that her worst fears have actually come true. Her worst nightmare has become her worst reality.

She remembers last night and closes her eyes in disgust and helplessness.

FLASHBACK OF LAST NIGHT

She has decided that she would not respond to him. He wants her body? Fine! But he is not getting anything more from her. He's not getting any satisfaction from mocking at her helplessness.

She thought that he probably just wants her body, and if his hunger is satiated, he'll probably leave her alone after that. But she somewhere knew that she's probably being too hopeful when she already knows that he's not gonna leave her even in hell...

He was still hovering over her body hungrily, kissing and biting all around.

It was getting too hard for geet to keep her senses in the desire and passion that he was transferring into her.

She knew she won't be able to keep herself into her control for long, her body was melting under his touch while deceiving her rational thinking.

Maan's hands reached onto her salvar, and she closed her eyes not wanting to feel anything anymore. Her body might be melting under him but her mind hated him and his disgusted touch.

'I love you Vicky' she said in her mind before giving into the heat and passion...

When suddenly, the light of her parents room turned on bringing geet back to her senses.

She pushed him away instantly and gets up while putting on her kameez and said "I think maa and dad are up!! I should go before they see me here!!!"

Maan didn't say anything and as she was about to go inside he holds her hand. Geet looks back at him scared and he said "Remember geet, tomorrow you have to tell your parents that you are ready for this marriage!!"

Geet looked at him with helplessness and just nods. He leaves her hand and she goes inside.

FLASHBACK ENDS

She thanked Babaji for saving her from that monster once again, but for how long?? How long will her luck favours her and saves her from his lustful touch???

Tears escaped from her eyes at her condition.

She looks towards the sky and said while crying "Kiyun babaji?? Why did this happened to me??? Mujhe mera pyaar nahi mila, maine bardasht kiya! Us ne mere saath itna gira hua game khela, maine wo bhi bardasht kiya!! Aur jab main itni mushkil se sab kuch bhoolne ki koshish kar rahi thi, aapko tabhi use meri zindagi mein vaapis laana tha?? Kiyun Babaji??? Aakhir kiyun??? Aisa koun sa bada paap kiya hai maine, jiski itni badi sazaa mil rahi hai mujhe???"

When Geet came back to London, she didn't realised this, but she has changed. She has been scared of Maan to such an extent, that she was even scared of getting out of her house in the initial days fearing that he would be hovering on the streets...

But slowly and gradually, as the time passed, she became a bit confident. Even when the nightmares still continued, but she was able to think of other things in her waking time. She has even been silly enough to think that she has escaped him forever. How stupid she was!!!

She said while sending a silent prayer "please babaji, please is sab se nikalne ka koi raasta dikhayiye!!! Please help me!!! Please save me babaji!!!!"

She leans back on the window while trying to think of some way out of this fresh mess...

MAAN's SIDE WHEN GEET ESCAPED

Maan had tried very hard to look for Geet. He has hired hundreds of best detective agencies all over India to find Geet.

He asked each and every employee of KA about Geet's whereabouts, but nobody tipped him anything. All answer that he got from everybody was that she was from Delhi. He knew they were all lying to him. He asked for Geet's employee file, but was told that the file is missing. Maan knew who's behind it all. Vicky...

Maan called the meeting of all the employees at the stage area.

Everybody knew what he was gonna ask and everybody was scared.

Maan comes out of his cabin swiftly like a leopard. There was pin drop silence around except for the noise of him walking.

He said in a dangerous tone "I think you all know why I called this meeting." his voice wasn't loud or angry, but there was something that sent chills to everybody's spine.

He continued in the same tone "I'm asking you for the last time. So listen carefully, because I'm not gonna repeat myself! Where. is. Geet??" he said each word distinctively with the same dangerous element in his voice.

Everybody looked at each other with fear on their faces but remained mum. At last, Vivek says "She has gone to Delhi!"

Maan says calmly "So is this your final answer?"

Maan looked around the room at each employees face but nobody replied.

At last Maan said with finality "Fine!! You all are fired!!!! And don't bother for finding another job, because I will see to it that none of you get a job anywhere else too!!" Maan waited for few seconds for his words to register with them and somebody to tell him about Geet's whereabouts but nobody opened their mouths...

All the people at KA had started working with Vicky and they were very loyal to him. Vicky knew that Maan is gonna take strict actions against them for lying to him, so he has already promised a good job to them elsewhere.

Maan goes inside his cabin angrily.

And now it was time to deal with Vicky...

Vicky was better now and had came back home.

Maan reaches his home angrily and goes straight to his room.

He opened the door and glares at Vicky angrily. Vicky gets up and sits into a half sitting position.

He says angrily "What are you doing here Maan?"

Maan comes in the room and says with controlled anger "Where is Geet?"

Vicky smirks and says "You should know this! After all, she is 'your' wife!!"

Maan narrows his eyes on Vicky's remark and says "Don't test my patience Vicky! Don't force me to do something that you will regret later on!! Just tell me where she is and I'll forgive you for everything else!!"

Vicky lost his patience and says angrily "You'll forgive me? Tum jaisa insaan kisi ko kya maaf karega, Jo sirf doosron ko chot dena jaanta hai! Do you seriously think that I'll sell my friendship to you Maan?? Never!!"

Maan sneered "Friendship, or 'love'?"

Vicky narrows his eyes and says "Yes, I loved her! But I'm not ashamed of it!! In fact I'm proud of it, that maine Geet se pyaar kiya."

"VICKY!!!" Maan screamed angrily making Vicky shut up. "Don't forget you are talking about my 'wife'!!"

Vicky smirks and says "No I haven't forgotten that Maan. How can I forget that how you trapped her into being your wife? How can I forget that you ruined her life for just a mere challenge when you didn't even loved her!!!"

Maan says with controlled anger "Vicky, I'm not here to listen to your lectures on what I did wrong! I'm asking you for the last time Vicky! Where is Geet?"

"You know Maan, if she hasn't been my friend or I haven't loved her and she would've been a complete stranger for me, even then I wouldn't have sold her whereabouts to you!!! I would not ruin her life for your fake ego! She has gone far away from your clutches, and you will never find her!!!!" he finished confidently.

Maan smirks evilly and says "Don't be too sure about that little brother!" and he says faking curiosity "What do you think Vicky? That I'm dependent on you for Geet's whereabouts?" he smirks and continued "No! I will find her regardless of your and her's all futile attempts to keep her away from me! And you know that!! Main to sirf geet ke bhale ke liye poochh raha tha!! Because the more time she's gonna stay away from me, the more severely she has to pay for it when I'll find her!!! And as for you," he throws the file at Vicky's bed and continued "you can't live here anymore!!"

Vicky picks up the file in confusion and looks at it and his expressions turned into shock.

Maan says "You have to leave this house in the next 24 hours! As this house, like every other property of Khurana's, is under my name. And I have taken over all the businesses that was under your name!!! So basically, you don't even have a penny on your name as of now!!!"

Vicky says unbelievably "You can't do that!"

Maan smiles evilly and says "I haven't done anything till yet!!! Ye to kuch bhi nahi hai Vicky, I could do worse than this!!! I'm just leaving you for the sake of Dadima, otherwise I would've told you what's the consequences of messing up with MSK!!!"

Maan is about to leave but then stops and says "Aur haan, the promise that you made to KA employees to get them a new job, well I would suggest you to forget about it and worry about your own job now!! Because it's gonna be a hell lot of work to find a job for yourself now!!" he says in a casual dangerous voice.

Vicky narrows his eyes on his threat but didn't say anything.

And Maan leaves.

He goes to Pinky's relatives' house and enquires about Geet and Pinky's whereabouts, but they also didn't tipped anything to him. They had considered Geet as their own daughter, so it was out of question to sell their daughter to a man like Maan Singh Khurana.

Maan leaves angrily from their house after promising them to ruin their little family for this compassion towards Geet.

And he does keep his promise (when does he hasn't!!!). Pinky's uncle loses his job and their house is auctioned and their daughter is rusticated from the college. But they still doesn't sell Geet's whereabouts to Maan.

Maan published Geet's pictures in newspapers, magazines and TV but everything was useless. He didn't get any information about geet.

He was so frustrated and angry from Geet's escape.. He couldn't digest the fact that a mere girl has been able to outsmart him and escaped from him. He, the great Maan Singh Khurana, wasn't even able to find her...

He didn't realised when this chase became his obsession. He wanted Geet, at any cost. He wanted to make her suffer for all sleepless nights that he spent out of frustration and anger. He knew he is gonna find her... He knew it's just a matter of some time... And when he will, she will regret her decision so bad.. He promised himself that he's gonna snatch every piece of peaceful moment from her life. She will never be able to sleep in peace after that. She will beg for mercy at his feet, but he will not show any mercy on her...

Days passed to weeks and weeks to months. Maan has checked everything, every bus, train, plane, ship records but he wasn't able to find any details about Geet (thanks to Geet's friend's cousin, who worked in ships and had took off the names of geet n pinky from the ship's records).

He had a huge reward amount for whoever knows any information about geet, but nobody contacted him.

He has fired so many detective agencies for their incompetency till today...

4 DAYS AGO

Maan had come to London for his new project in business.

After having a long tiring day of meetings and all, he went to the best disco of London to relax and have some fun when he saw Her...

His heart skipped a beat and he couldn't believe his eyes that she was actually in front of him!!

But she is with another 'guy'! His blood boiled at the mere sight of some other guy's hands touching her. The grip on his drink hardened in anger and then a sudden pain...

He looked at his blood oozing hand and the pieces of broken glass in his hand... He has gripped the glass so hard, that it broke with pressure giving him a cut.

He looked back at Geet while boiling in anger.

She was enjoying herself for all these months while he has ruined his nights' sleep for finding her!!! She has to pay for it...

He has expected of finding her in a poor frightened state while getting scared from even her shadow!!! Her enjoying herself all this time was what he has least expected to find!!!

He says angrily to himself "I thought that you have also suffered with me for all these months Geet!! But not to worry, I'm here now!!! If you haven't suffered till now, then you will as from now!!! I'll see to that!!! I'm not going to suffer alone Geet!!!" he smirks and says "You thought that you have escaped from Maan Singh Khurana?? No sweetheart! It's not that easy!! I'll promise you Geet, that starting from today, you will lose this smile of yours!!! From now onwards, you will live each moment of your life while getting scared from your own shadow!! From now onwards, you are officially in hell honey!! You have to pay for trying to kill me!!! And on top of that, you have to pay for all those months that I suffered while you enjoyed!!!!!

He smirked while an evil plan formed in his mind...

x-x-x-x-x

PRESENT-NEXT MORNING GEET SIDE

Geet couldn't sleep whole night and in the early morning she got ready.

She called Pinky and asked her to meet her at XYZ coffee shop.

When Pinky reached there, she saw Geet very tensed.

Pinky asks concerned "Geet, what happened? Aren't you gonna go to college?? You look so tensed!! Is everything okay?"

Geet says worried "Pinky, Maan is here!!!!"

It took almost more than a minute for Geet's words to register with Pinky. And when she realised what geet has said, she says worried/unbelievably "Geet, tu mazaak kar rahi hai na?" she couldn't believe how's that possible when they had taken so many precautions while escaping.

Geet says frustratingly while still tensed "Aisi baat pe main mazaak kiyu karoongi Pinky?!" she bits her lower lip in tension and repeats "He is here!!!"

"Geet, what are you saying! How is that possible???" now Pinky is tensed too.

"I don't know how he find me Pinky, but does it matter?! Truth is he found me, and now I have to face it!!" she was near to tears.

"What does he want? What are you gonna do now?? Wait-- does your parents know about him??!!" Pinky was in shock too and couldn't figure out what was everything happening.

Geet tells Pinky everything that happened between her and Maan in last 1 day... How he set her up in disco... How he wants to marry her in front of her parents... How he is blackmailing her for agreeing to marriage... How she has to pay him 50 crores dollars if she tries to finish that marriage...

Pinky was in shock and didn't know how to react. She couldn't believe that her best friend is stuck in such a dirty mess.

At last, she says "Now what are you gonna do Geet?"

Geet looks away frustratingly while tears stinging her eyes. She has come to Pinky to seek some help, she has thought that Pinky might be able to come up with some plan because she was totally out of plans right now...

"I don't know Pinky! Mere to mind ne kaam karna band kar diya hai!! Isiliye to main tere paas aayi hoon, taa ke tum koi plan soch sako!!!" she told the truth.

Pinky thought about it for few minutes and said "Geet, I think you should tell everything to your parents!"

Fear starts flooding Geet with Pinky's words. She tries to protest but Pinky says "Geet, listen to me first!! I know uncle-aunty would be very mad at you, but they are still your parents Geet! They will forgive you!! Aur dekha jaaye, to teri itni koi galti thi bhi nahi usmein... You were being framed!! It was all Maan's fault!!! I'm sure they will be angry with you, but atleast they won't force you to marry Maan! And Maan won't be able to blackmail you if you'll tell your parents yourself! So I think you should pick up courage and tell them everything!!"

Geet was still worried "I can't do that Pinky!! Do you think I haven't thought about telling them?? But it's not gonna work Pinky!! First of all, you know how much Dad respects marriages!! For him, marriage is a sacred bond! If he comes to know that I'm already married to Maan, I know he'll force me to work this marriage up as the marriage was done with my own consent!! For him, all other things doesn't hold any significance in front of the holy bond of marriage. And in addition, I'll lose their trust forever. You remember the reason for that marriage, don't you? I won't be able to look into their eyes for the rest of my life!! I can bear anything Pinky, but I can't bear my parents getting hurt especially because of me!!! And even if some miracle happens and they agree with me for breaking this marriage, where will I get 50 crore dollars??!!! Even if we sell each and every possession of ours, we won't be able to get that much money!!! So there's no point in telling them anything because it's just gonna hurt them!!!" she finished with the unshed tears in her eyes.

Pinky thinks about it and says "Well there's another option too. I don't know if it will work or not, but what's the harm in trying?!"

Geet looks at her while hope starts forming in her heart.

Pinky continues "You can try and talk to Maan about it!"

The hope that started forming in Geet instantly vanished with Pinky's words.

Pinky saw her resigned expression and says "Look Geet, you don't love him and you know that he don't love you. He married you for a challenge, and he has already won that challenge! So what will he get in ruining your life!! You go and talk to him nicely. Try to explain to him nicely that this marriage is not gonna take both of you anywhere. Request him to free you from this marriage. Who knows he might pity you and leave you alone. I know the chances are very poor of him agreeing to you, but what's the harm in trying!!"

Geet didn't say anything but her mind was already racing too fast on her new found plan...

Part 22

Geet walks into a lavishing office. It is a very big office and as she reached the reception, she says politely "Excuse me, can I meet Mr. Maan Singh Khurana please?"

The receptionist looks at her and says sweetly "Do you have an appointment?"

Geet losts in her thoughts for a moment as she remembers the past.. Her first meeting with him... It was a day just like today... But everything was so different.. When she didn't had the appointment and she tricked the receptionist into let her see him... How she wishes now that she shouldn't have gone to meet him that day!!! Maybe her life would have been different today if she hadn't been allowed to see him that day...

She smiles bitterly at herself...

She snaps out of her thoughts with the receptionist's words "Excuse me, do you have an appointment?" she asked again sweetly.

Geet smiles and says sweetly "No, but I'm sure Mr. Khurana won't mind to see me!! If you can just call him and ask him..."

The receptionist says "What's your name?"

Geet: "Geet Handa."

The receptionist picks up her phone to ask her boss about the new visitor while Geet looked around at the construction magazines on her desk uninterestingly.

After the call, the receptionist says "Sir said he's busy right now and asked you to wait."

Geet nods and says "Thank you."

She goes towards the couch in the lobby, while picking up a magazine from the magazine holder on her way, and sat down while waiting for him.

She sighed and thought "Well that's a first!! Till today, everybody waited for Geet Handa; but today Geet Handa is waiting for someone!! Don't worry Geet! Waqt padne par to gadhe ko bhi baap banana padta hai!!"

She sighs again and looked around the office casually. Khurana Construction... Everything was so lavishing and rich!! She has to admit that the dude has a great taste!!! As soon as the thought crossed her mind, she snapped at herself mentally!! Praising him even in the remotest sense is unacceptable!!!

She knew that he has opened this office in London just recently regarding some of his new projects... She has read it in news...

She was still checking out the office when her sight fell upon a name plate on the door in the corner. She frowns unknowingly at the name...

Maan Singh Khurana
M.D.

Oh how much she hates the very name!!! How much she wished that this name didn't exist in this world...

She closes her eyes to control her anger as she remembered that she has come here with a motive and her anger is not gonna help her in any way today...

She has to control herself!!

She opens the magazine in her hands and boringly starts turning the pages...

In few minutes, she has looked at each page of the magazine and nothing interesting had caught her eye which could have utilized her more time...

She looks at her watch... 11 am

She gets up and picks up another magazine and this time tried to find interest in all those Hollywood gossips which she used to find very interesting in her teen years...

When she was done with whole magazine, she looks towards his still-closed door irritatingly and then looked at the time... 11:20 am

It has been 20 minutes since she's been waiting for him!! Her patience loosing with every passing minute...

She gets up and again goes to the receptionist. She says with controlled irritation "Excuse me, could you please check with Mr. Maan if he's free now?? Actually I have to go somewhere else too..."

The receptionist again calls and then tells Geet that he is still busy...

Geet curses him under her breath but goes back to the couch grudgingly.

It was getting harder and harder for her to keep her temper under control with every passing second. She has never waited for anybody in her whole life and he is making her wait for him from the last half an hour!!!

Her anger has started to cloud her better thinking. She forgot that she has decided to keep a check on her anger and rage...

She was already regretting that she didn't tricked herself in when she came here 45 minutes ago. She should have made some excuse to the receptionist and met him...

She again looks towards his door and thought of just walking into his cabin. But then thought of giving it a last shot...

She again gets up while boiling in anger and goes towards the receptionist. All the politeness forgotten in her rage "Excuse me, I've been waiting here for your boss from the last one hour!!! What does he think of himself?? He is not some Prince Charles that everybody would wait for him!!! I have way better things to do than to wait for him for the whole day!!! So just call him and tell him that I want to see him right now!!!!" she ordered her.

The receptionist tried to reason with her "Look Ma'am first of all you don't have an appointment..."

Geet cuts her in between and says in a threatening voice while slamming her hand on her desk "Just call him!!!"

Poor receptionist again calls but Maan again refuses to meet her.

Receptionist says with a resigned expression "I'm sorry but sir is busy!! He said he don't have time for any Tom, Dick and Harry!!"

Ok that's it!! He literally crossed his line!! Geet felt so angry that she feared what she will do in anger.

She narrowed her eyes on his choice of words and without saying another word, she walks swiftly towards his cabin.

The receptionist tried to stop her but she didn't listen. Anger had possessed her completely.

She bangs into his cabin without any knocking and walked in. But the sight inside just added the fuel to her anger.

Maan was leaning on his chair comfortably and was about to hit the dart board with the dart in his hand.

He was just about to threw the dart when the door opened and he looked towards the door.

Geet was in a momentary shock as she looked at him and then at the dart in his hand and then at the dart board that has few darts already targeted in the middle of the board.

So this was what that was making him busy???!!!! The shock turned into anger in no time.

She was about to say something, when he shakes his head disappointedly and said in a casual tone while leaning back on his chair more comfortably "When will you learn to knock Geet??!!" and he chuckles mischievously.

His chuckle and his tone just acted like a fuel to her rage.

She said angrily "So this is what was keeping you busy!!! I've been waiting for you from last one hour and you are playing dart game over here??!! What do you think of yourself?? Do you think that other people don't have anything better to do that they will wait for you for whole day??!!" she didn't realize that she was screaming.

He smirks evilly at her and stood up ominously to the fullest "If you didn't wanted to wait Geet, then you should've taken the appointment first!!"

Geet narrows her eyes and was gonna say something but he said before she could say anything "And maybe you have forgotten, that I don't meet anybody without an appointment!!" He says in a casual voice "I'm a very busy man you see!!"

Geet narrows her eyes and looks at the dartboard and says sarcastically "Yeah I can see that!!!! How busy you are!!!"

He stands in a position with dart in his hand and targets the board and says with indifference "Geet, mere paas faltu logo ke liye time nahi hai! Door wahan hai... Feel free to use it!!" and he throws the dart at his target and it hits the middle of the board as he wanted it to be.

Geet narrows her eyes and says angrily "Agar main itni hi faltu hoon, to kiyu mera peechha chhod nahin dete?? Why don't you free me from this marriage???" she crosses her arms around her chest protectively.

He said mischievously "Geet, when did I stopped you?? You are free from this marriage!!"

Geet looks at him suspiciously. So what's the catch??

He takes out a file from the drawer on his desk and throws it towards her. He signals towards the file and says while smiling crookedly "There you go Sweetheart! You are free!!!"

Geet didn't have to look into the file to know what's in it. The ominous exterior of the file was enough to tell her that it's the same file from last night which has her life sentence in it.

She tightens her jaw frustratingly but didn't say anything.

He looks at her and says tauntingly "Geet, I had thought that after so many months you have become smart enough to realise that it's useless to dream about something that's never gonna happen!!?? But guess I was wrong!! Your teeny meeny brain is still under-developed!!"

Geet narrows her eyes at her insult. Maan saw the desired effect of his words on her and felt satisfied. "You are my wife Geet and you have to live your life while being my wife!!! Whether you like it, or you don't!!" he finished with finality.

"Wife? Really Maan?? Are you kidding me?! That's why you have made your wife wait for you for an hour!! That's why you just called your wife faltu!!" she spat the words out.

"That was just a little lesson for you sweetheart!! So that next time you remember your name before telling anybody! You see I have ample time for Geet Maan Singh Khurana, but I don't have a single minute for Geet Handa!!!" he said with a smile.

Geet looked at him blankly and after 2 seconds his words registered with her and she realised what this was all about!! She has told her name Geet Handa at the reception!!!

She felt a huge urge to punch him right on his face. She didn't know how she stopped herself but she did! And she was pretty proud of herself for that too.

But now she remembered her reason for her visit and she tried to cool herself down. She knew she probably have done enough damage already with her temper but she will still try before giving up.

Her thoughts broke with his next question "So sweetheart what give me the pleasure of seeing my wife today?? Were you missing me???" he said mischievously.

Geet's hand twitched a little to ball into a fist. It took a lot of control to abstain from hitting him on his face.

She ignored his question and said "Why do you want to marry me?" She wanted to be to the point. She wanted her answer so that she can get out of here and didn't have to see his face.

He walks towards the couch and sits on it comfortably with his one leg on the other and said faking innocence "I thought you already knew it sweetheart!!" he smiled mockingly and said "Because I love you!!"

Geet glares at him and says "Oh cut the crap! Let's just skip the part where you pretend that you love me because we both know that you don't!!"

He stands up and says in a husky voice "Oh how can you be so sure about that sweetheart?" he faked artificial innocence and said "I really love you Geet!!" and he broke into laughter.

His laugh sent chills to her spine but she controls herself before the shreds of fear got visible on her face. She will be damned if she gives him the satisfaction of knowing that she is scared of him!

Geet looks away faking bored and said "Ho gaya?? Are you done with your jokes or are there more?? Because I'm not in a mood for jokes!!"

Suddenly he pulls her with a jerk and pins her against the wall. Geet's heart skips several beats at the sudden movement. The brave facade skipped from her face and her eyes widened in fear.

He looks at her with a smile and leans towards her.

He said in a husky voice in her ear "So what mood are you in sweetheart??" he smelled her hair while brushing his lips on her neck.

Geet's heartbeats fastened and her throat gets dry. Her voice choked in her throat, but she didn't moved. She was numb. She is not in a condition to differentiate that is it due to the close proximity or out of fear. But then she decided that its just fear! He is not affecting her in any other way!!

He chuckles and whispers in her ear "You know Geet, I know that my closeness still affects you! So why are you stopping yourself??!!" he closes his eyes while brushing his lips on the crook of her neck while Geet's eyes were starting to get closed. He whispers huskily "I know you want to loose yourself in me!! Don't stop yourself sweetheart!!! Just flow with the passion!!"

Geet snaps her senses back and says sarcastically "Passion??!! You know you have a lot of misconceptions Maan! When you touch me, I feel like a parasitic monster is touching me!! So the only emotion I feel is disgust, not passion!! I would feel more passion than this with a dead body!!!"

Maan picks up his face and looks at her with fire-filled eyes.

Suddenly his hold on her waist becomes harsh while digging his nails in her skin.

Geet winces slightly in pain but didn't moved.

And in a sudden movement he pulled her more closer towards him and Geet's eyes widened in fear at the sudden movement.

His facial expressions changed and he smirks evilly but his eyes still emitting fire. He looked real dangerous!!!!

In spite of her, Geet felt scared from him right now!!

His smirk made her heartbeats flutter in fear which wasn't missed by him... How could it? When they were so close!!! He said looking in her eyes "No passion?" and he again leans towards her and says on her lips "Then fear?"

Geet didn't replied and he moved towards her cheeks and whispered in her ear "You know something Geet? I just love when you are scared like this!!" and gets back into brushing his lips on her exposed skin while teasing her senses.

His words brought her back to her senses and she was successful in putting the brave face back. She said "I'm not scared of you!!"

He looks back at her face and said with a chuckle "Let's just skip the part where you pretend that you are not scared of me because we both know that you are!!"

He smirks and puts his one hand on her heart "Just look at your heartbeats! It's fluttering like a butterfly!!"

And he strokes his finger of the other hand on her arm moving upwards and stopped near the strap of her tank top while looking at her face all the time with a smirk.

Geet was trying very hard to hold onto her anger but with every second fear was empowering her anger.

She looked away not wanting to look at him and said "I'm not scared of you!! I'm just disgusted by you!!!" she tried to sound firm but she doesn't know how much she was able to fool him.

It was true that she was disgusted by his touch, but more than that she was scared. Their last night's encounter was still fresh in her mind. She can't stop him from touching her, because that would mean ruining everything for her. But she can't even let him touch her, because that will mean accepting her defeat. And she is not gonna give up until her last breath. No matter how broken she is right now, no matter how scared she is right now, no matter how trapped she is right now, but she won't give up!! Not without a good fight!!!!

Geet's thoughts broke as Maan's finger reached under her strap, and she holds her breath in fear and closed her eyes and waited for the worse.

Maan was still looking at her face. Oh she has no idea how much he was enjoying himself right now!!! The fear on her face was giving him so much satisfaction. The panic radiating from her was like a soothing balm to all his sleepless and frustrated nights. God, life is beautiful!!

He smirks and says "Think about it again Geet! Generally Maan Singh Khurana doesn't give anybody a second chance to think!!! But I'm giving you chance to rethink about it!!"

Geet opens her eyes and looks at him in confusion. She didn't know what he is asking her to rethink.

He leans towards her again and whispers in her ear "Are you sure sweetheart, that you are not scared of me??"

Part 23

He leans towards her again and whispers in her ear "Are you sure sweetheart, that you are not scared of me??"

And he gets back to enjoy the fear on her face...

Geet didn't know what to say or what to do!!! She was too scared to react!!! She didn't even know what her face was revealing to him!!! She don't know and honestly, she don't care!!!

The only thing that was running in her mind was that what is he gonna do with her now!!! Her heartbeats were still fluttering like a butterfly and his hand was still on her heart which was now making pattern on her heart gently...

She closed her eyes to control herself... She was fearing that her heart would explode any moment in fear...

Maan smirked seeing her so scared...

When Geet didn't say anything he said huskily "Open your eyes Geet!" and his hand travels from her heart to her neck to her lips...he lingered his hand on her lips while gently stroking her lips with his thumb...and then it went to her cheeks and then to her hair and he holds the back of her hair tightly making Geet wimps in pain...

But she still didn't open her eyes...

'I'm not scared of him!! I'm not scared of him!!' She keeps on chanting in her mind

He said again with an ordering voice "Open your eyes Geet! I want to see the fear in your eyes!!"

Geet did not opened her eyes. She was not giving him the pleasure of seeing her scared.

Her breathing fastened as she felt his warm breaths on her face and she knew he is very close to her now...

He brushed his lips on hers but didn't kissed her and said in a husky voice "I'm asking you for the last time Geet! Open your eyes if you don't want me to undress you in my office and make hot love to you!!"

Geet snapped her eyes open at his words!!

He smirks at her mouth and said "That's like my girl!!" and took her lips gently in his...

He kissed her gently nibbling her lips...no eagerness...no harshness...just sweetly nibbling her lips...

While Geet stood there like a statue without responding to him...not that he wanted her response...

He didn't kissed her because he wanted her body or he craved for her response! No!! He kissed her to prove his right on her!! To prove that everything happens his way!! That he could do anything with her whenever he wants!!!

As far as it was question of his bodily desires, he wasn't some cheap low-life who doesn't have a control on his sexual needs...he feeds on his sexual hunger every night pretty well...

But with Geet, it wasn't about the sexual satisfaction... It was about his ego satisfaction!! Which was much more important for him...

He was still nibbling her lips in a kiss while eyes open and making sure that her eyes are open too...

Geet could not take it anymore and closed her eyes in disgust!!

As soon as she closed her eyes, he took off the strap of her tank top down from her shoulder with his hand that was still under the strap. Geet instantly opens her eyes and looks at him with horror while his eyes were smiling with a glint of mischief in them.

After few seconds, he stopped kissing her and gets back and said curiously "Geet, are you gonna respond to me or not? Or do you want me to change my own rules and make love to you in my office to get response from you??"

Geet snaps back at him and says "Why do you need my response?? Aren't you satisfied by seeing fear in my eyes??" she said sarcastically.

"Hmm. So you do admit that you are scared of me! Huh Geet?" he asks enjoying himself...

Geet says angrily while glaring at him "Will that satisfy your fake ego?? Will you let me go then?? Then yes! I'm scared of you!!! But more than that I'm disgusted by you!! Wouldn't everybody be scared seeing what kind of monster you are??!! You are pure evil awaken from the pits of hell!!! So how wouldn't I be scared of you??" and she said sarcastically "Happy? Now let me go!!!"

Maan smirks and gets back giving space to Geet.

Geet looks at him surprised. She couldn't believe he was letting her go just like that!! Without even doing anything!!! As far as she know him, this is not what he is!! There must be some wicked plan of his for letting her go just like that!!!

Geet picks up her purse and was about to leave hurriedly when she heard him say "You still didn't tell me why you came here Geet!! Obviously it didn't looked like you were missing this monster!! So why are you here?"

Geet looks back at him and remembers what she had come here for??

For a second she thought about saying something sarcastic to him and walk away but then she decided otherwise...

When she has come this far, then she should also do what she came here for!! She could endure his disgusting face for some more time if that leads to the hope of being free!!!

She said folding her arms around her chest "What do you want from me?"

Maan smirks and said "I thought you already know that sweetheart!! I want you as my wife!!"

"Oh come on Maan!! You don't love me and I don't love you!! So what will you get from this marriage?" she said frustratingly.

He sits on his chair comfortably and said "What will I get from this?? Hmm!! Let me think!!" and he said with changed evil voice "I'll get pleasure!!"

Geet narrows her eyes angrily and says "You make me sick!!"

He smirks but instead of replying to her remark he continued "And as for about loving each other? Then explain something to me Sweetheart! What is love??" he asked curiously. "Walking on the beach with hand in hand is that love? Comparing your beauty with moon and stars is that love? Lying under the sky at night in summer is that love?" He smirks and says in mischievous tone "Or f**king you hard and wild in a deserted place in the middle of the storm is that love??"

Geet narrows her eyes in anger at his last description and says "I hate you!!! Tum jaisa insaan pyaar ka matlab kya samjhega Maan!! Jisne naa to kabhi kisi se pyaar kiya hai, aur na hi kabhi kar paaoge!! Jis ke liye doosro ki life ek game hai!!"

Maan glares at her and stands up and says casually "There you go!! You yourself answered your own question!! So are we clear now??!!" he smiles wickedly at her.

Geet says angrily "I have never seen a disgusting man like you!!"

Maan pulls her with a sudden jerk towards him and again pins her to the wall.

Geet's heart again filled with panic... Didn't he just left her some minutes ago!!! Did he changed his mind??? She gulps down her saliva in fear at the thought...

He said glaring at her "Geet, don't push your luck!!!"

She tries to wriggle in his hold but he just tightens his grip on her hands while digging his nails in her arms and jerks her to stop moving.

He said angrily "Stop wriggling!!" the anger in his voice gave goose bumps to her and she stopped wriggling in his grip.

He said when she stopped moving "Now listen to me very carefully Geet! Just because I left you few minutes ago, doesn't mean that I'm weak or I'm scared of you and you can say anything you want!!! Just because I'm being lenient to you, don't push it Geet!!! Because you will regret it!!! You think I'm a monster? then yes I'm a monster!! Any bad epithet that you can think of, that's all me!! But doesn't matter who I am or what I am, it doesn't affect our relationship!! It's true that I'm your husband, whether you like it or not!!! And I don't take cheek from anybody, not even you Geet!! So from now onwards, you will talk to me with respect!!"

Geet narrows her eyes angrily and said "Respect??!! I pity your thinking Maan! You think you can make me respect you by force? No Mr. Maan Singh Khurana!! You can't force someone to respect you!! Just like you can't force someone to love you!!! Respect is earned, not forced!!!! I don't respect you and I will never respect you!!!" she said with her chin up..

"Geet don't force me to get on my bad side!!! Trust me Geet! You haven't even seen a pinch of my bad side!!! If you think that I'm a monster now, think what will happen to you if the real monster came out in me!!! Don't unleash that monster Geet!! Believe me you won't be able to handle it!!!"

Geet gulps down her saliva in fear while his dangerous voice sents chills to her spine.

He continued "And I'm not asking for your permission Geet!!! Mujhe laga ke tumhein ab tak to ye samajh mein aa gaya hoga, ke Maan Singh Khurana jo chahta hai, wo haasil karta hai!!! By hook or by crook!!"

Geet's heart did a flip at his words. He was right! How could she forget that he gets what he wants by hook or by crook!!! Who would know this better than her!!! She didn't need another example!! Her ruined life was enough for her!!!

He continued "You don't want to respect me out of will, fine! Don't do it!! But you will do it out of fear then!! Otherwise--" he left it at that to let his words sink in her.

Geet was looking at him with horrified eyes. She didn't know what has made him so angry!!!

He continued "Maybe nobody ever taught you how to respect your husband!"

A tear rolled down from her eye without her knowledge. He looks at her tear with a frown and harshly wipes it from her cheeks and continued with evil voice "Don't worry sweetheart... Main hoon na!! I'll teach you!!! So your first lesson is apology!!"

He leaves her hands and slides his arm in her waist and pulls her closer to him...

His facial expressions changes and he says with an evil smirk "Now apologize Geet!!"

Haila r u updating i cant believe , my eyes willyou continue the story or just stop this oneee please dont do it again i loveur story... plzzz continue.