To say that I was scared, would be an understatement, I was terrorised by the behaviour of this man whom I once called my friend. He was staring at me with anger and his eyes were not allowing me to look away. I was standing there trembling, looking in his fiery eyes, thinking about escaping from here. I should have never come here at the first place. I am stuck here, and even if I manage to run away from here, Ayan will not leave my family. I'll have to do something, I'll have to get out from here, and soon, else nothing will be left. So I gathered the small amount of courage left in me and spoke up

Me: "Manav, it's quite late today. We will discuss the plan tomorrow. I should leave now. We will meet again, tomorrow. I have a whole week of stay left here; we will plan things out and work accordingly. But for that, I'll have to leave now as we don't want anyone to doubt, right?" I tried reasoning out while being manipulative.

Manav: "But what if I won't let you go at all? Why should I wait for tomorrow? I have already waited so long for you, I won't wait anymore. Now come here like a good girl, I want to talk to you, I want to touch you, I want to feel you, and I want to eliminate all the distances created between us by that bastard. I want to feel your love again, come in my arms, the place where you belong to."

I was trembling by his words, I again turned towards the door, and started shouting for help, and I just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. His presence was making me uncomfortable. I was shouting for help badly. My tears were flowing with my voice, I was stuck here, not able to decipher if Manav was my friend or mere a foe. Suddenly, I felt him near me and he spoke in a low voice in my ear

Manav: "Shout as much as you can. No one will help you here, this place is mine and everyone here knows that you are mine too, your voices will go unheard. I'll make you mine today."

He hugged me from behind in a tight hold. I was wearing the uniform of that hotel staff which was too short for my comfort, and Manav was taking full advantage of that, his hold grew stronger as he spoke again

Manav: "Ohh baby I missed you too much, you smell so good. I love you."

Me: "Mm..manav, please leave me, you are scaring me. I just want to go from here. I promise I'll not tell anyone about our meeting. Please let me go. I am sorry for what happened to you because of me, I'll never cross my ways with you again in my life. Just let me leave, please manav, I beg you."

Manav: "Hey Hey sweetheart, why are you talking like this, I love you and I will never leave you. Whatever happened in the past was because of that bastard, not because of you. You have done nothing wrong. Don't worry, just now, I'll take you away from all of this and we will start our new life, we will always live happily together."

Listening to this, I removed his hands from my waist and turned to face him,

Me: "No, I don't want to go anywhere with you. You are same as Ayan. I'll not go with you, I'll go straight to my hotel room, and I'll fly back to India tomorrow. I don't love you anymore. You are not the Manav I loved. You have turned bad. You are not my friend anymore. JUST LET ME GO."

His anger intensified listening to me and he held my shoulders in an extremely tight grip.

Manav: "What has happened to you? Have you started loving him more than me? Don't worry, I'll kill him. Just come with me. I love you so much, I can't live without you as you make me sane, Please stay with me. I'll become mad without you."

I started sobbing badly. I was scared to death. I didn't know what was happening. His hold was hurting me, but his words were hurting me more. Hearing me cry, he spoke up with concern.

Manav: "Hey why are you crying, I am sorry if I screamed at you. I love you and I want to make you happy. I don't like your tears. Babyy, please stop crying."

Me: "Manav, you are hurting me"

He immediately loosened his grip and said

Manav: "Hey baby, I didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry. I love you so much, please don't cry. Let's go sweetheart. I promise you this will be the last time you will cry."

Hearing him was doing no good to my already feared condition. His voice was dangerous, his whole figure was dangerous. I was scared as hell

Me: "What do you want now, Manav? Please leave me. I have had enough of this. I just want to go. Don't do this to me. If you really love me, then let me go. I promise our meet will be a complete secret. Please try to understand that I do not want to go with you."

But my pleading fell on deaf ears as I felt a strong smell under my nose and I began feeling dizzy. Before blacking out I cried "no", to which the last thing I heard was, "I need you more than you need me to leave you..."

I opened my eyes in a dark room. Already feared from darkness, I immediately panicked and remembered what happened before my fading out. I began panicking again and tried getting up but a sharp pain in my wrists stopped me from doing that. I realised that both of my hands and legs were tied up to the bed post making me posture as letter X. Tears streamed down from my eyes. I was too scared to call for help and too feared to be lying there, in a dark unknown place. After sometime of lying there, I heard some footsteps outside and that's when I heard someone talking. One voice was of Manav and other voice was strange. I didn't recognise the voice but I was able to hear them easily

Manav: "Look I have my girl in there. We had a deal that I will get her and we will kill Ayan. Now she is with me and I will not leave her at any cost."

Stranger: "But you said that she will support us and we will send her to Ayan as our spy. She will help us in leaking information about his security and whereabouts and then we will easily kill him. And now you say that she is in there, and she will not be helping us. How will we execute our plan?"

Manav: "Siddique, she is the girl I love. I can sacrifice whole world for her. I'll not allow her to go to that bastard again. She will be only mine. She will not be involved in this dirty game. I was never in the favour of involving her in our game. Let it between us, she has nothing to do with it."

Now I understood that the other man was Siddique, manav's crime partner.

Siddique: "You are a cheat. We had an agreement. I won't leave that girl now. And if you will come in the way, I'll kill you too. That girl is so important to both of you, and now she will lose her life. Ayan will be half dead when he will know that she is dead, and then it will be easier to kill him. Now now, I am going to kill her. It's on you if you want to support me or go dying after her."

He was coming to kill me. I was scared, tying there like that, I was not able to move an inch, leave running from there. I heard some more hustle which I was not able to decipher, then I heard a series of gunshots whose voice was deafening to the ears, the environment immediately became quiet. I was sobbing profusely on my fate. Immediately I heard the door clicking and someone entering the room, my death was coming near me, I tried seeing the person standing in front of me but it was so dark that I was not able to see him. Suddenly the lights of the room were switched on and due to the bright light, my eyes immediately felt a strong beam and closed themselves to arrange according to the bright surroundings, immediately a hand covered my eyes too, helping my eyes to adjust the surroundings. The hand removed slowly allowing me to see that the person standing in front of me was none other than...