CH.1- Nightmare come true

Aanya's pov...

As usual, the same nightmare. I was breathing heavily and sweats were drenching my clothes, although the air conditioning was on.

I lit up the side table lamp and unlid the glass of water, then picked up and drank it in one gulp to soak my dried throat.

The water erased the dryness of my throat and blurred my nightmare. After putting back the empty glass, I took my phone and saw the time. 

It was 2 am, it was still so quiet a night, and I knew that now the sleep would not come to lullaby me. 

Even if I close my eyes, the memories of that nightmare will haunt me and if not, it will remain in front of my eyes more and will keep scaring me. 

I was awake, but I was still feeling as if that pair of emotionless blue eyes still staring at me and that cold voice threatening me.

"Don't be too happy because you can never be happy, I will never let you be, I just want to see tears in your eyes... I want to see you crying and suffering... So just a few days be happy as you want to be... Because soon I will come to you to get my revenge and after that, you will kneel before me and beg me for my mercy."

I covered my ears with my hands, but that voice kept haunting me. After a while, I wiped my sweats from my forehead. I couldn't sleep, I have to divert my attention somewhere else.

I needed good sleep to look beautiful, but due to this nightmare I was not going to sleep now I was going to get engaged in the evening, and now it seemed that in the engagement I will wear a ring on my fiance's finger with my dark circle.

I got up from my bed and went to switch on the light. In the blink of an eye, my room which was engrossed in the darkness turned bright. 

I went to my wardrobe and opened it then took out my pink gown and pieces of jewelry. I caressed it and touched it and felt it. I was very excited and happy about my engagement, I was 29 and still single while all my friends were married, whatever male or female they were married and almost all of them had kids, hardly anyone who didn't have kids but yes they all was married.

It was not that I lacked marriage proposals, I inherited great beauty from my Indian mother and beautiful hazel eyes from my American father. 

And in high society, our family was well known, so in short, I was the perfect candidate for marriage. I was the first choice of people, the parents of young men wanted me to make their daughter-in-law, while young people dreamed of making me their wife.

Since I was 18 years old, many marriage proposals used come to me, but I had never thought about it before, but at the age of 22, I decided to get married. I started thinking about it. My family and I started looking for a marriage candidate for me who is better at every level.

Me and my family, whoever chooses to be my life partner, there used to be some accident with him or his family. Either he would have an accident or his family would get bankrupt and this cycle continued for about 2 to 3 years. 

I had got marriage proposals from at least 20 to 25 families and all of them used to have some kind of accident. But gradually the marriage proposal started decreasing for me and then it stopped completely. 

People started talking that whoever wanted to marry me, the only accident happened with him, so now no one wanted to marry me. And they started calling me "Unlucky star."

The educated youngsters did not believe in this superstition, but they used to be forced in front of their families and then decided to step back, then no marriage proposal came for me, or no one accepted mine too.

Like this three to four years passed, then I met Victor Robertson who did not believe in these superstitions at all. He fell in love with me at first sight and constantly persuaded me. After knowing and understanding him well for 3 years, I agreed to marry him. But during those three years, he also faced many accidents, and then there was a fear accrued in my heart that he too would leave me like other people or that his family would not accept me.  

But I was wrong, still, he stood firm to marry me, even quite many accidents happened to him but he stood firm to marry me and his family support and respect his decision... And today we were going to be engaged, I was very happy about that.

Thinking about my past and future it was morning, I got up and went to the bathroom, after resolving my physical need and taking a bath I came out.

I looked at myself in the mirror, my silky black hair was a bit messy but still shining, but my hazel eyes got dark circles, which faded my appearance. My pink lips pouted and then they smiled happily. 

Finally, I getting engaged today, no matter what happens this time I will be engaged and no one could stop my engagement!...

I think God did not like these arrogant words of mine, that's why he punished me. I shouldn't have to say that.

.....

I felt as if I was in a very deep sleep and someone was calling me from afar and trying to wake me up.

"Aanya... Aanya..."

As I tried to open my heavy eyelids, I felt the sound coming from afar, getting closer and closer. Slowly I opened it, my vision seemed blurred and my head felt dizzy.

I held my head and was blinking my eyes many times to clear my vision, then I heard a bone-chilling voice "You wake after just a few small calls of mine?"

This voice?... I could recognize this voice in millions even though I was listening to it after so many years, but I was sure it was his voice... It was him! It was Aaron Smith.

I turned my head and saw that in front of me, h-e, he was really sitting and staring at me with his pair of emotionless blue eyes. 

This pair of eyes, I recognized it... It was the same emotionless eyes from my nightmare that haunted me often.

Seeing him in front of me, I was fully awake, I gulped. I was laying on the couch, and instantly I sat straight on it and looked at him.

As he was handsome as a decade ago, his blonde hair glittering as before, his sculptured face also glowing, except for his blue eyes.

Even though today he also looked so handsome, but he looked more dangerous than before because a decade ago he used to have a smile on his face all the time which made him more handsome and kind, but now there was no expression on his face, he was absolutely expressionless... And seeing him like this I was getting goosebumps.

My body subconsciously started trembling, then I remembered what he said to me a decade ago.

More than 10 years ago when he threatened me that he would never let me be happy and would definitely come to take revenge on me, and then he will torment me and make me cry, and also make me beg. 

His threat was not hollow, I knew that he would definitely come to take his revenge one day because he had to take revenge for what I had done to him.

And that's why since then I have strengthened myself that no matter what happens, I will not be weak in front of him. Neither will I ever cry in front of him, nor will I ever beg for mercy from him.

But my body started trembling on its own, what should I have to do with it?