Chapter 4

Author's point of view...

Arjun Thakur...!

That name alone makes the whole country tremble in fear. He was famous for his cruelty. Ruthlessness was like a crown on his head. He was always in the headlines because of his notorious background.

Asia's number one devil, and richest businessman, but with a lot of hidden secrets. His name itself has the pride of an uncrowned king of the dark world and his demonic aura can send chilliness throughout the body who hears his name.

He has another darkest shade of him, a terrifying mafia don of Asian underworld controlling the whole mafia effortlessly with just his command, in front of whom no one ever dares to speak because he is no less than a living Lucifer, a hell lord.

Just twenty-seven years but his demeanor was frigid like an immortal, ruling this mortal world for hundreds of years.

Handsome as the Greek lord himself. His eyes were chocolaty brown. Skin fair, though coldness was evident in each of his expressions, his pink lips had a different attractiveness.

A lightly set beard on his face gave out a decent look crashing the hearts of millions.

Looks like a man of dreams but cruel as a nightmare.

Despite his cruel nature, there couldn't be a girl in the world who won't desire for him but the very next second, his ruthlessness can kill that desire a hundred times.

He has a heart as cold as an ancient glacier which no one had ever tried to invade. Rumors say that any girl who tried to get close to him had never seen the sun again.

Surprisingly a day before, he suddenly announced his marriage with the daughter of one of his business partners, Mitali Sharma.

Though so cruel, his handsome face and sexy personality were everything that a girl could dream of. And Mitali was no exception. She agreed to that proposal without even thinking twice.

It was a secret that no one knew why this Devil Lord decided to marry that human girl, but she was over the seventh sky as the dream man had proposed marriage to her.

The news of their sudden wedding has spread across the country shaking the entire world despite being kept a secret.

As he had more enemies than friends, the details of his marriage and venue were still kept a secret from the world.

Yet there was someone here to cause trouble though unexpectedly.

Sonia had scrambled upon that bit of news a day back on the internet but she never imagined, not even in her dreams that she would be here to witness the marriage herself.

Though they never met before, she had nothing to do with him, she still stared at that eye-catching picture of the handsome devil lord on her phone screen for a few seconds when she saw it in the news.

That was the reason why she was able to recognize him as soon as she saw him advancing toward her.

Her mind blocked as he lessened the distance between them. His narrowed eyes bored into that of hers and she almost forgot that she had to breathe until she felt that it was her end.

Gasping for air in a hurry her hands slipped down on her stomach to catch the pillow, ready to fall.

It was clearly her end, she could even see the Yama itself walking towards her.

All she could do was gape at that young man or run away from that place instantly to save herself.

But was that even possible?

He leaned closer staring at the girl, tilting his head a little, his gaze piercing her confidence into millions of pieces.

He was wearing a black tuxedo, looking uncontrollably dashing, that can flutter any heart. But there weren't any particular facial expressions on him to read right now.

She swallowed hard, surrounded by his men when his eyes strolled down on her baby bump.

Her soul slipped out into her mouth as he took out his hands from his trousers pocket and extended them toward her.

She was in a complete mess, eyes flung open, that tanning makeup on her face had been sliding down with the sweat accumulated, her hair was tied in a shattered bun and her whole frame was shivering as it was below zero degrees even in that hot weather. Gaining her senses back she stumbled backward.

"Take her away...!" he grunted a command that Sonia felt a jerk inside every bone in her body and his men surrounding them grabbed her with her hands and shoulder, instantly.

She wanted to resist, shout her throat out but her voice seemed to be lost somewhere inside her gutt. Her mind stopped thinking, her voice gone, and her whole body stopped functioning, what else she could do?

Those men took her away but as they were trying to make her sit in the car, she got the chance and ran away.

It was the only chance for her to live on because she was sure that Arjun was going to kill her today.

Beside that resort, there was another small resort, the Red Rose Resort, where Sonia found a place to hide.

At that time she happened to overhear Misha's voice, but before she could get out and ask for help, she heard Misha's real intentions.

"Why isn't she here yet?" Misha slammed the ground beneath her, "I prepared everything just to teach that bitch a lesson"

Misha's best friend Divya stared at Misha while setting her wedding dress, confused about Misha's intentions.

"Are you sure you want to ruin your own wedding just for...?" Divya asked concerned about Misha's unexpected plan to sabotage her own wedding. Misha turned around with a smile on her face.

"Oh, come on, who wants to ruin the wedding?" Misha retorted so calmly,

"What...! Then why did you call her?" Divya exclaimed.

"I just want to ruin that bitch...!" Misha declared. "She dared to compete with me for Rahul. I'm going to humiliate her today in front of everyone so that she'll curse her very existence."

Hearing that Sonia was shocked, her hands clasped her mouth as she hid herself further.

Misha had planned everything that she would do to that innocent girl today but destiny had something else hidden.

Misha called Sonia here to her wedding not because she didn't want this marriage but because she wanted to show Sonia that she was getting married to the hunk of their college, the most handsome and richest boy, Rahul Malhotra.

Almost every girl in their college had a crush on him but he had a crush on Sonia instead. That being the thing, Misha was always jealous of Sonia and wanted to ruin her.

As their families have some business in common, Misha and Rahul were unexpectedly engaged. And they were now getting married.

Though Rahul was reluctant to do so, he was forced by his parents to accept this relationship. His parents were always against his feelings for an impoverished bastard child like Sonia with no background.

Whereas Misha was always their priority because she belonged to a rich family.

After a great effort, Sonia finally got to know that whatever Misha planned was not something good for her.

Misha's intentions were cruel but luckily Sonia managed to escape her plan.

But the trouble she was in now was far greater than anything stupid like this.

Though she escaped from those goons and hid herself there, her heart was throbbing inside the ribcage and she was frightened to death.

As the night wore down, after a few hours, she hesitatingly made her way out, hiding behind those vehicles.

Looking here and there to confirm that she was safe, Sonia wrapped the scarf over ger head and moved out.

But her fate was written by the cruelest Devil Lord himself with not even a single chance to escape. As soon as she got out of that hideout, those goons who were still searching for her chased after her.

She ran desperately for her life but stumbled upon a stone and fell on the ground miserably.

She tried everything to at least stand or crawl hiding herself, when those people came and surrounded her from all sides. All her efforts were in vain.

"Please follow us, Miss" one of them spoke in a commanding tone, moving front, other than the scary look on his face, he also had a gun in his hand which was pointed toward that poor girl and she was literally helpless.

"Don't make it difficult for us, Miss"

Sonia hung her head hopelessly, closing her eyes and allowing the tears to cascade down her cheeks.

Kneeling there, she mumbled a curse to herself,

"Damn you Misha...! If it not for that damn job of yours, I wouldn't have ended up like this...!" she cursed the time she accepted that job, more than anything she cursed herself for being stuck in a fire pit like this.

Those men took her away to the cars parked at a distance. But this time making sure to grab her properly.

She was made to sit inside the car and the car accelerated with a screeching sound. Her heart was thumping faster and faster as the car made its way towards the forest area. She was sure that it was her end. A dead end. But still, she doesn't want to die so miserably.

Looking at the people who were sitting on either side, she mustered all her strength and said,

"Sir, please kill me, right now, right here" It was a plea, they looked at her puzzled some of them were even laughing at her.

"I am ready to die, just shoot me, kill me, sir."

A man in his forties sighed, he was one of Arjun's confident, Mahank. He was responsible for his boss's special jobs like wiping out the weeds and cleaning the mess after work.

"You should have known it coming when you dared to come all the way here in the dragon's lair, miss"

Sonia was already so frightened and those words were like adding fuel to her fear.

"Sir, please, why can't you show some mercy, just kill me? I know your boss will do it too. But I don't want to face him, just give me some poison, or just throw me in front of a hungry lion, or just dip me in a pond with crocodiles, kill me here, please" she pleaded but it wasn't going to work anyways.

Hearing those words, that man sneered,

"You have no idea what you have done, isn't it? You want to die, maybe it won't be so easy after all."

His words send chills down her spine. She gaped at that man bluntly, exactly what was she going to face?

What will he do?

"Let Sir decide what kind of death he can offer to you" that man added sneering, then bent inwards and lowered his voice, as if whispering a secret,

"Whether it is to simply shoot you or to throw you as a gift before Luka"

As he called that name Luka, his eyes sparkled and a smirk tugged on his lips.

A sudden quiver passed through her whole body.

What was he talking about?

Who is this Luka?

What the hell are they going to do to her? Her mind swirled with many puzzles and she sat gasping for air waiting for fate to be decided by the so called Sir, the Grim Reaper.

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