One shot I wrote out of boredom. Tell me what you guys think down below.
Love you guys.
The game
Stolkholm Syndrome, a dangerous affliction where a kidnapped victim develops romantic feelings for the person that kidnapped them
Lima Syndrome, when a kidnapper develops feelings for his victim.
ONE SHOT
Manik sat in front of Mr Murthy would his proposal out. It was a brilliant idea the man had to be insane to turn him down.
"I will give you the money, if you do me one favor" He said, Manik did not care what the man asked. He just want to get this project started.
"What is it?"
"Marry my daughter" he said.
"You are joking right?" He asked him as he looked at him incredulous.
"Marry her and I will give you Murthy industries as well as the money for your project"
"I don't know what to say why me?" He asked feeling flabbergasted.
"I want a grandson to take over the business, I have no other children if my daughter marries you then she will have someone to look after her"
"I d-don't"
"Don't decide as yet boy tonight come over for dinner meet her"
"Then decide"
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"Manik she has to be ugly why else would he suggest you marry her then" His business partner and best friend Cabir said.
"We need this project for you more than me"
Cabir grimaced slightly.
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Manik knocked on the door of the Murthy mansion and waited.
"Hello, you must be Mr Malothra?"
An angel greeted him. Pearly white skin with pretty almond shaped eyes, paired with pretty bow shaped mouth all in white.
"Yes, uhm call me Manik" He said, not wanting to be called his dads name.
"I am Nandani" She said, Manik's eyes widened she was Mr Murthy's daughter. How was it possible that for such a beautiful girl, he could not find a match for her?
He followered her into the sitting room.
"Please have a seat" She said motioning for him to sit she was utterly feminine and lady like he noticed as she sat down delicately and crossed her legs.
"My father said I should convince you about some deal or something?"
"He did? Did he say what the deal was?"
"No, I was never one that was interested in all of that, I am an artist by profession so I am unsure as to how I will be of any help. Though my father when he makes an investment, it usually works out for the best so I am sure you should accept his deal" She said.
Manik wondered how much her dress cost idly as he sat back and listened to her talk idly. He had never dated a rich women. From the poor ones he did date he knew women were expensive. Cabir was in a predicament the girl he love d's father had made a condition if he wanted to marry her he would have to have over a million rupees in his bank account.
"How old are you?" he asked her abruptly.
"20" She answered looking confused.
She was beautiful, sure he was still young but he would have to get married someday, his marriage would help Cabir out so much.
"How old are you" She asked back.
"25"
"You look younger"
"Any luck sweetheart?" Her father drawled walking into the room.
"Oh yes have you considered my father's offer?" She asked him.
"Yes"
"Oh please say yes, Mr- I mean Manik" She said a light blush settling over her skin.
"If Nandani is insisting so much why not listen to her" Manik felt sorry for her she did know that her father was using her ignorance to convince him to accept this sordid deal.
"I accept but with my own conditions" he would not become a puppet to this man.
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3 Months later
"Congratulations on your engagement" Cabir told Manik.
"There she comes Nandani Babhi, your luck man, she is so beautiful" Cabir said nudging Manik turned around and spotted Nandani walking down the steps wearing a dark blue lenga. She smiled at him.
"Anke niche rako Cabir, nazar math lagao" He told him. Nandani came to his side and hugged Cabir and stepped back next to him.
"You can hug everyone but me, when I should be given first preference" He said.
"I can't hug you here" Nandani said smiling as someone handed her some flowers and muttered a congratulations.
"Nandani how are you" Cabir's wife Navya came forward and hugged Nandani and then Manik. Cabir had wasted no time once their project began in marrying Navya.
"I am good you, how is the baby?" She asked reaching out and touching Navya's stomach.
"Hum dono teek hain" She said. Nandani put the flowers down and started talking to Navya. Manik always felt this weird need to watch when they were in a room together.
"The wedding I want it in the next month" Her father drawled next to him.
"I thought we agreed I would marry her on my own terms"
"I will pull my money out of the deal if you keep dragging this wedding"
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Nandani sipped some water as she waited on the terrace. She felt a strange hollowness in her heart.
"I am in love with him" She said to herself.
"Nandani"
"Aryaman" She said starrying up at her old school friend. She hugged him.
"Congratulations" he said, starring at the pretty ring on her finger.
When she did not smile. He frowned.
"What's wrong?" He asked her.
"I am in love with Manik"
"Manik is your fianc you should be in love with him" Aryaman said confused.
"I don't think he loves me" She said a tear trailed down her cheek. Aryaman hugged her and patted her back.
"Why? Do you think that?"
"Manik holds himself back from me all of the time"
"He is a business man, they all are like that dove" Aryaman said wiping her eyes. Maybe Aryaman was right.
"Nandani" She turned around at the sound of her name. Manik stood at the door, his face completely emotionless.
"Manik this is Aryaman" She introduced. Manik nodded at him but reached out and pulled her hand.
"Come with me"
He snaked an arm around her waist possessively and pulled her away.
"We have to open with the first dance"
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Cabir and Manik watched Nandani speaking with a man outside the party.
"Apna banalo Manik before chidya tera haath se foor" Cabir joked, Manik's jaw ticked. He put down his drink and went outside.
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"How did you know Aryaman"
"Oh we went to school together"
Manik nodded but said nothing he remained quiet for the rest of the night.
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"Until the wedding why don't you move in with me?" He asked her as he was about to leave.
"I don't know" Nandani said confused.
"I don't want to live in that big house alone" The new house he had bought was huge. He tried to buy something that would suit the heir personality of hers.
"I got this as well for you" He handed her a Black credit card.
"Manik why did you get me this?"
"I want you to do all of the wedding spending on this card" With the money he was making for his project he had already paid the old man what he had taken from him.
"Manik, papa said he would pay for the wedding"
"No I want to pay for it" He said softly kissing her forehead. She looked momentarily dazed he took this as his chance to put the card into her bag.
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"Manik you are in love with her" Cabir said watching his bestfriend stare at her picture he kept on his desk.
"I just want this wedding over, I have this weird feeling that she is going to find out the truth somehow" He said.
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Nandani was sitting on a couch in his sitting room. He bent down and wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her neck.
"So what did you do today?" He asked her casually.
He did not like the fact that her dresses always showed her legs. He figured after they were married he would be able to control her more"
"I went to pick up our wedding invitations and then I had lunch with Aryaman"
Again she was seeing that man.
He said nothing he had to be loving, kind, gentle. Just until she married him.
He kissed her lips. She seemed rather shocked by his actions. He had to make his move now.
This was it. If he took her virginity he would be able to control her. Right now he had no rights over her their wedding at the end of the month was too far away.
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Manik woke up close to morning the next day. He could feel something underneath him trying to move away.
Nandani.
He tightened his grip onto her and she whimpered.
"Manik I have to go home" She said her voice half muffled by his shoulder.
"This is your house" He told her.
"Manik I am not joking. I have to go home" He moved of her and laid up she moved away and began putting her clothing on.
She looked so pretty all flushed from his bed.
He made sure not to use a condom. He needed her to be stuck with him.
He would make love to her until she was pregnant than he definitely she would not be able to leave him.
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Their wedding was beautiful.
"Everything is yours now" Her father drawled as he walked towards Manik. Manik looked at him arrogantly.
"Nandani is yours, plus my company" Her father said. Manik's eyes changed at the statement.
"You were the one that offered me the money"
The sound of a gasp made both of them turn around.
Nandani.
"Nandani wait" Manik said, her eyes filled with tears as she ran off without listening her wedding stole falling of her head.
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"Aryaman he married me for my father's money" She cried against his shoulder.
"Manik was always so nice it's unbelievable he could be capable of something like this"
"I thought he was different, he used to give me money all the time. Never wanting me to spend my fathers. All the money he spent on me is my fathers, he never loved me this is all a lie" she sobbed.
"What are you going to do?"
"I don't want to go back there"
"Nandani"
"I want a divorce" She said in her tears. Aryaman held her unsure of what to do.
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"Hello I would like to report a missing person" Manik said on the phone.
"Who is this person to you?"
"My wife" He said.
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"Now she is your responsibility you find her and make things right" Nandani's father said at him.
"If anything happens I will kill you, I told you this all those months ago I will marry her, I don't want anything from you, and all I want was the project to be financed by you. And you know very well that with the returns I have made from it I have paid you back your money more than double even"
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Nandani woke up on the couch at Arayaman's house. His boyfriend Harshad was out at work again.
"You love Harshad a lot" Nandani said starring at the tattoo on Aryaman's hand. It was an H with a hart around it.
"Yes just like you love Manik" He told her pouring her some tea.
"I remember you too in school" Nandani said with a smile.
"Falling in love is easy, maintaining that love and staying together is hard"
"If Harshad did something like Manik would you be able to forgive him?" She asked him.
"I don't know sweety" Aryaman said.
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"Does she have any friends that she stayed with a lot she could be with one of them" Cabir asked. Manik was still dressed in his wedding clothes. His eyes blood shot.
"Aryaman" Manik said immediately. He went through Nandani's phone looking for Aryaman's address.
"Got you" He muttered and wrote it down quickly.
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Nandani had a bath and changed into some of Aryaman's clothing.
"Word is out Manik is looking for you" Aryaman said going through his Facebook.
"I will never go back to him" Nandani said, suddenly there was aloud knocking on the door. Aryaman went to it rolling his eyes thinking it was his Harshad.
"Manik" Nandani muttered. He grabbed Aryaman and punched him in the face, he began beating Aryaman up. Nandani tried to pull him away.
"Stop" She said pulling at his hand.
He grabbed her arm and dragged her out the door.
"Let me go"
"Shut up, and come with me quietly. Or I will go back and kill him"
She had never seen Manik so angry. He always held himself together in calm detached way. Almost as if he held back.
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"Did you sleep with him" He asked as he started the car.
Nandani refused to comment and stared out the window.
When Manik stopped driving they were at a secluded house.
"Why are we here?" Nandani asked confused.
Manik grabbed her wrists and dragged her inside. He pushed her roughly on to the bed.
He began removing his shirt.
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He wanted to check is she had been with another man. He kissed her so hard that her head dug deep into the pillows. He ripped Aryaman's clothing off her.
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Nandani woke up caged in his arms. A tear ran down her cheek.
"Are you happy now?" She asked him trying to pull away but he held her strongly.
"Yes you never slept with him" Manik said sounding happy.
"Aryaman is gay Manik" Nandani said. Manik let go of her and just looked at her shocked for a second.
"You are lying"
"He is gay" Nandani repeated. She put his shirt on her and began waking up to leave.
Manik grabbed her hand so fell straight back into his arms.
"I won't let you go"
"Why?"
"Until you are pregnant and cannot leave me ever"
Nandani felt him pull oh the shirt on her and dragged back into his arms where he began to make love to her all over again.
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2 months later.
Nandani felt sick as she stared at the food he brought in front of her.
He had tied her to the bed, tired from her one too many tries at escaping.
He opened her hands for her to eat. But she turned her face away.
"It's making me sick take it away" She said.
He bent down and kissed her lips.
"I hate you, you are a greedy man you just don't want me to go back and divorce you. So you won't be able to get your precious money"
"I paid your father the money back I never took another cent from him, the only thing I took from him was his daughter"
"I don't believe you"
"Ask him yourself"
Manik untied her hands. Nandani sat up.
"You are letting me go?"
"I am tired Nandani, I want things to go back to what they were like before when you loved me"
Nandani was unsure what it was it must have been Stockholm syndrome. She thought. But she somehow did not want to leave.
She forced herself to go.
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"Father why did you do that to me" She asked.
"Nandani I feared you would marry someone who was only after your money"
"Was he not just the same?"
"No that boy from the first time I saw him, he had this look in his eye. He would stop at nothing to get what he wanted he reminded me of myself when I was young" Her father reasoned.
"So you paid him to marry me"
"He never took a cent from me Nandani I was testing him to see if was just like the others"
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Manik stared at the picture of Nandani he had in his office. He waited patiently.
"Manik" He looked up and saw her standing there. Just as he had predicted.
She had no idea he had checked to see if she was pregnant before he had let her go.
She had no idea he had planned every moment of this reunion.
He stood up.
She ran straight into his arms.
"I love you" She said.
"I love you too. Please don't leave me again" He said in her hair.
"Never"
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"You love her" Cabir muttered as Manik strolled in wearing a red tie to work the next day.
Manik had never worn any other color besides black and white. The fact that Nandani was bringing color into his wardrobe made Cabir smile. Manik had never liked colors before he found them loud and annoying.
"Meri patni hai mera haq hai iseh pyaar karneka" He shrugged. Manik would never admit it, that sneaky son of a bitch but he knew his friend well enough.
"Cabir go eat some sweets you are going to be an uncle by the way" Manik said with a smile.
Manik smiled as he saw a message from Nandani.
I Love you.
He replied me2.
Somewhere in his game he had become fond of her. He realized.
~THE END~
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