Her Mysterious Lover

Falak’s POV

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“Please let me go…Please!!”, I begged.

“Not this soon”, Saying this Lance pushed me and then pressed his shoes on my fingers. He started grilling his shoes on my hand while I cried in pain.

I screamed and woke up from my sleep. I looked around in fear. There was no one except me and my nightmares. I didn’t know I was crying in my sleep until I touched my face. I wiped my sweat and my tears. It was third fifteen in the morning.

After drinking water, I lay down on my bed again. It had been so many years but my fear and pain were still fresh.

‘Everyone says that time heals everything.’, I couldn’t help but wonder when that time would come when I could finally sleep peacefully at night. I tried to sleep again but I couldn’t, so I just laid there, watching the fan over my head.

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I checked myself in the mirror. My eyes were bloodshot and there were deep dark circles under my eyes giving me a horrible look. Since I didn’t have any make-up to hide those marks so I went to the office with this look.

“What happened to you?”, Ashley screamed and ran toward me to check on me.

Dramatic, isn’t it?

I knew it but she always behave like this when something was related to me!

“I couldn’t sleep peacefully yesterday.”, I lied because I didn’t want to stress her by telling her about my nightmares.

“Why?”, She asked, checking my body temperature. “Are you fine?”

“I’m all right, Ash!”, I stopped her by holding her hand. “Let’s get back to work.”

I arranged my things over my desk and turned on my desktop. “You’re not all right, Falak. If you don’t want to share then it’s fine but at least don’t lie to me.”, She answered back. “I have known you for the last five years and getting frequent dark circles because of lack of sleep is showing me that, how ALL RIGHT you are.”, She added in a sarcastic way and went back to her desk.

“I think I should take a leave for a half-day.”, I talked with myself and at the same time, I received Jacob’s call stating that he was not going to come to the office again because he was out of station for some work at least for a week.

“If you mind that any meeting can’t be rescheduled or my presence is must then inform about it to Klaus, a day before so that he would manage his time according to that.”

“Okay, sir. And what about the presentation on the report which you had asked me to prepare?”

“That’s internal work. It can wait for a while.”

“Okay, sir.”

“And Ms. Srivastava!”

“Yes, sir! Since I’m not there don’t think of any leaves because later on, I won’t be approving any.”, Saying this he disconnected the call. I wanted to curse him inwardly but then stopped myself from doing so!

As usual, I was having a rough day but that was not the only reason, I was getting negative vibes since last night as if something bad was going to happen.

‘Stop thinking so much, Falak. Focus. Focus on your work.’

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“Falak, come its time to go home.”, Ashley touched my shoulder with concern. She might have seen me frantically typing on the keyboard. She might have seen me working non-stop, infact I even skipped my lunch today. On the top, I received no parcel from HIM. It was not that I was waiting for him to buy lunch for me but just a small note from me, made me feel better.

“Yeah! Let’s go!”

“I will be dropping you at orphanage today.”, She said on which I didn’t argue.

“Okay!”, Lost in my thoughts, I absent mindely started packing my bag and after shutting down my desktop! We started walking toward the elevator.

“And you don’t need to come office tomorrow if you feel like THIS.”, She said, pointing her fingers toward my eyes. “I’m going to kick your lover’s ass one day, for not sending any notes for you.”, She hissed while I ignored her comment.

“If you want then we can go for the movie, you know?”, She offered n which I smiled aat her. That’s a completely different story that my smile didn’t reach my eyes.

“Thank you, Ashley. I’m fine.”

“Yeah! Call me Ashley instead of Ash, shows that how much FINE you are.”, She commented. “You had mentioned your mysterious lover as your god then why did that god not doing anything to bring a smile on your life.”

“Stop blaming him.”

“Well, I kind of not blaming him but angry at him.”, She responded. “I actually thought that he would brighten your mood with his charm just like he did in the last three days but he didn’t.”, She added. “I was kind of happy for you that you have him in life but…he finished all my feelings in just one day.”

“Can you please change the topic?”

“Okay! Fine. Tomorrow is friday and tomorrow our salary will get credited as well. So, how about we plan for enjoying fully on saturday at St Kilda Beach?”

“Aaa…”

“Please don’t be that friend who cancel all the plans. We will have fun together and I think we both need a break and celebrate that we survive the last few days of march after handling all the stresses and pressures.”

“Okay!”

“Yayyyy!! We will have lots of fun.”, She jumped and hugged my tightly like a kid.

And there I thought that she was mad at HIM a few minutes ago.

I settled on the back seat of het two wheeler and she started driving. The moment, we came out of office premises, my eyes landed on the familiar car.

I had the option to pretend like I didn’t see anything.

I had the option to not to share about it with Ash and hide about my secret meeting with him.

I had the option to not to meet him but to whom I was kidding?

Because I knew I would be lying if I would say that I didn’t want to meet HIM. Even though, I hated the way I was taken to him.

The moment, Ash’s two wheeler took a few meter ahead of the place where the car had been parked. I tapped her shoulder.

“Stop the vehicle.”

“What happened?”, She asked lowering the speed and soon pressed both of her feets on the road to stop her vehicle.

I quickly jumped out of from her backseat and preparing in my mind what should I tell her for sudden change in my mind. “You don’t have to take opposite route just to drop me. I can manage it by my own.”

“Seriously, Falak?”, She gave me ‘I’m not going to buy your lie’ look, crossing her arms around her chest.

I sighed and told her the truth. “He wants to meet me.”

She realized about whom I was talking about. “How did you know that? Because I was sure that you didn’t know about it until a minute before.”, She dropped her first question. “So, does that mean that now you will get chance to feet him face to face?”, She asked her second question.

“Can I answer all these question some other day?”, I asked, hoping her to agree with my request.

“Getting impatient, aren’t you?”, She laughed. “Fine! But I want to know each and everything in detail, okay?”

“Okay!”, I nodded.

“Text me when you reach at orphanage.”, She said and started her two wheeler. I watched her taking U turn and once her vehicle disappeared, I walked toward the familiar car.

Alber came out of the car and greeted me. “Good evening, Ma’am.”

“Good evening, Falak.”

“Thank you that you changed your plan and thought to come with me.”, He said in relief and opened the car’s door for me.

“Why are you talking like I did a big favour on you?”

“Because you did. We were not going to any sleep toingit if you wouldn’t have come with me.”

“Why is it so?”

“That’s because. Sir doesn’t sleep when he’s angry and he doesn’t let us sleep at the same time.”, He responded and at the same he tied my hand. My eyes widened in shock at his response.

“Are you trying to say that he’s not a good person?”

“No. I didn’t mean that. It’s just he got a bad temper.”, Saying this, he tied a black cloth over my eyes, forcing me to keep my eyes shut. I recalled the clashing down of the glasses that night and I nodded my head in understanding.

“Can he harm anyone when he’s mad?”, I asked softly.

“No, Ma’am but he end up hurting himself whenever he does that. Just like right now!”

“Right now? What happened to him?”

“Actually I informed him that you are leaving with your friend and because of it you won’t be able to meet him but before I can get chance to take my words back and inform him about your change in plan, the call got disconnected. And the next thing I know, his number is switched off.”

“But there’s nothing wrong in switching off the phone, right?”

He chuckled before speaking. “When his phone goes dead all of the sudden or call get diconnected all of the sudden then it mean he broke his phone first and then the other things near him.”

It took me a while to understand what he meant. “So, does he know that I’m coming over his place?”

“No”

Great! Just great! I was going to meet a raging dragon instead a calm human unlike other days.

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#TBC