Akira looked at his face after hearing her humble request.

She wanted to ask a million questions. She wanted to find out what was going inside his head. She wanted to know what was wrecking his heart. But that look on his face stopped her from asking anything.

"Jaby !!! Are you ok?"

"Will you just promise me that much Akira?"

He asked her again and this time he didn't hold back his eyes. He was looking straight into her eyes. This time he was tapping to find out an answer.

She could see that he was in pain and she just couldn't let him endure it anymore.

"I promise Jaby. I promise you that..."

But before she could even finish her sentence, he pulled her close and hugged her tight as if his life depended on her.

She found a strange confirm in the warmth of his chest. If felt like home. It felt like she could rest there forever. But before she could get more comfortable, he got up and kissed her on her forehead exactly where Vikram had kissed before and said,

"I will not let any pain touch you Akira. I will guard you with all my heart. I will remove any mark that hounds you."

Saying that he rubbed his thumb over her forehead where he had kissed and said,

"You are all that I got in this life and no one else can dare to touch you if you do not consent. It's my promise to you. Now if you will excuse me, let me find Raymond. I need to make sure that he stays safe as well."

Even though he didn't want to leave her, he decided to go because he could see that Vikram was coming downstairs along with a man who clearly looked like his family doctor.

Unable to understand what happened in the last few seconds, Akira sat there all stupefied. She knew that Jaby was always concerned for her, but today she could actually feel every ounce of it. But apart from concern, she could feel the depth of pain that was present in his heart.

Taking a deep breath she turned around and saw Vikram almost approaching her and she just couldn't stop cursing her fate.

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"Hello"

"Hello, Raymond. Where are you right now?"

"I am almost reaching my dad's place. Why? What happened doctor?"

"Nothing much, but I guess it's time that you should come back else your dad might suspect."

Dr. Nelson replied while wiping away the sweat from his temple.

"Don't worry about that, I have handled it well."

"I hope so too."

"I got one waiter to spill some champagne all over me. And my dad being my dad, wanted to present me to the world, in nothing less than perfection. So for him, I have headed back to my place to change my suit."

"But then will you have enough time to get the suit?"

"David has already taken care of. Ok, I will disconnect the call now. Have to go inside."

As Raymond disconnected the call Dr. Nelson took a deep breath and looked around. He saw Dr. Oshana talking with Sebastian across the main hall in a corner and suddenly he could feel a lump in his throat.

"Is this girl really on our side?"

He still hadn't forgotten the cut that she had given him. That day he had realized how devilish she had become. Even though she had opened her heart in front of them, somehow he still couldn't bring himself to trust her.

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Raymond entered his father's house from the out-house side so that the guards wouldn't know. When David had visited the house before, he had already employed the security camera jammers so that Raymond could enter safely sharp at 8:15 pm. He slowly tip-toed and reached the target room again.

First, he tried to slowly pull the third-drawer out, but it was as usual locked. So, taking a deep breath, he searched the top drawers again.

His frantic search ended in nothing. All disappointed he got up and started searching all around and suddenly he noticed that the picture of her mom which was earlier kept on the top desk was there no more. So instead of the key, he started searching for that picture. But that search was also not successful. So getting all irritated, he banged his hands hard on that table.

The impact was hard.

And that caused the small flower vase on top of the table to topple over, revealing the key underneath.

"Finally !!!"

He exclaimed and grabbed the keys and rushed to open the drawer.

The moment the key got aligned with the keyhole, he gave the knob a firm twist and opened the drawer.

The very first thing that he saw was the same picture of her mother which he was searching for. He wanted to hold that picture tight to his chest but now was not the time. He had to act fast and get hold of the secret that his father had been hiding.

After their last encounter, somehow he felt that no matter how much his parents hated each other, there was something that was hidden to him, something that he wasn't aware of. Seeing those drops of tears earlier, somehow his anger had melted and deep down he was searching for a reason to find out that his dad was not as bad as he had assumed him to be.

But to his disappointment, there was nothing inside the drawer except a photo album and a folder.

He immediately opened the folder and saw the will papers of his father and he started reading page after page.

With every page that he read, his fists started tightening. His heart started turning all heavy and when he reached the last page, he just lost it.

"This can't be happening."

"This can't be happening."

His hands reached for his phone and he immediately dialed a number.

"Hey, It's me."