Prologue

Today my pride was crushed under his feet, he did what he told me a decade ago, today he made me cry and beg in front of himself.

Today he and his mafia buddy, take down me and my friends. 

12 years ago he had created a storm in my life and since then till now the storm used to squat and sometimes rise. 

There are many such days in my life which was very terrible and became a nightmare for me because of him. I wanted to throw those nightmare days out of my memories and life but they kept chasing and haunting me.

But I did not know that someday would come a day, that would be even more terrible than them, and that day was none other than today.

Looking at the condition of the living room, it was as if we were all on a battlefield facing our enemies. I and my friends were on the losing side.

My one friend Selina Swan was sitting and trembling with her shocked expression and she didn't even look at herself.

And my other friend Nick Bloomer was beaten by a mafia boss like a punching bag.

His screaming was echoing in the whole living room, as a mafia boss Samarth Gill kicked and punched him. Whenever Nick's voice slowed down, in the meantime the sound of Selina's sobs was falling in my ears, who was still sitting buried her head between her knees beside me. And I who could not even cry was just watching my friends suffering helplessly in Aaron Smith's firm clutch.

Samarth Gill grabbed Nick by his hair and started knocking his head against the bare floor. 

Blood came out from his nose and mouth already, and now his head got hurt and started bleeding too.

Nick was moving his hands and feet to escape from Samarth Gill's wrath, but it was all in vain ahead of Samarth Gill, who was a mafia boss, and Nick who was a businessman. How could they be comparable?

Nick had learned martial arts for self-defense, but it was no use in front of Samarth Gill who was a mafia boss.

After beating Nick a lot, Samarth Gill took out a gun from behind and put it on his head "Now time to insert the bullet in your head, you crazy dog!" 

He was going to be shot!... No, he couldn't do that. It was all my fault then why did he want to punish him? 

Slowly my vision became blurry, After seeing my friend in the pool of blood and at gunpoint, tears spilled out and rolled down wetting my cheeks.

If I delay a bit more, then he will kill Nick.

Now all my courage and pride were shattered and I started pleading before Aaron as he wanted, just for the sake of my friend's life.

"Leave him, let him go, let him and Selina go from here. Whatever they had done, they did it because I asked them. Both of them gave false testimony... Against you... B-because I... I-I told them. Please let them both go from here and give me whatever punishment you want, I'm your main culprit, only I'm." 

I was crying and begging "... I'm your culprit," I choked between crying "Please let them go..." I kept crying and begging, I couldn't see if his hard heart melted after my begs or not, I was still pinned down by him. I just kept crying and begging and waiting for his merciful words.

"Samarth let him go," After a while, finally, he solemnly instructed his friend. 

"Come on, I just started having fun!"Samarth Gill said with displeasure.

"Just do what I told you." Aaron coldly repeated. Then I felt his hands loosen on me, he made me sit in front of him, wiped my tears, and pressed my head on his chest. 

"Stop crying, Aanya, you know I can't see a drop of tears in your eyes because your tears melt my strong heart like wax."

I found his strong hands on my back with which he was caressing my back, he was trying to console me. 

I was stunned by his attitude. The one who made me cry and beg in front of him was himself. Then why was he talking like this? Was he psycho?

I blinked my eyelids to push back the remaining tears in my eyes and then lifted my head to see his face.

Lowering his head he was looking at me, by this moment his eyes were full of mixed emotions. Looking into his eyes I could feel his despair, suffering, and sadness.

He parted his lips and solemnly told me "Aanya, you know how much I love you," then he put his lips on my forehead and kissed it, then buried his head on my neck to whisper something in my ear.

"But Aanya, don't you think, you took too long to admit your mistake?" His warm voice faded away and he said in his cold and bone-chilling voice.

"You have taken such a long time in your confess that my hard heart has become even harder as a rock, in this period that which can never be fed by your tears." 

I felt goosebumps by his words, my body trembling in his firm arms and I knew he felt it. If his heart hadn't moved by my words and tears, then it would have been difficult for Nick to escape alive from here.

"Samarth, don't kill Nick Bloomer, just break his spine and make him crippled for life, like an insect crawling on the ground."

I enlarged my eyes, his commanding words were enough to make me and Nick tremble. This would be a worse punishment than death for Nick or anyone else. 

"No! You can't do this?!" I pushed him and ran to help my best friend, but Aaron caught me, he caged me from behind and made me look at Nick, who was severely injured and lying down on the floor.

"Samarth, do it now." 

"That's my liking!" Samarth Gill exclaimed, that asshole became excitedly at the sight or word of blood and violence.

"No!!" 

Nick was lying on the ground badly injured and looking at Aaron with his bloodshot eyes. Then Selina who was not in herself, and then me who was fine, but in a strong grip.

I knew we were at a great disadvantage, now only God could save us.

"Please don't, please, I beg you..."

"Stop it Aanya, don't beg in front of this bastard for my sake!" Nick roared and got up.

I was relieved to see that he still had some strength left, he could still save himself.

Samarth Gill tucked his gun behind his pocket and looked at Nick with impressive eyes.

"Not bad young master. Even after getting so many of my kicks and punches, you are still standing on your feet. Amazing! No one has stood in front of me for so long until he was from a rival gang member." He said and punched him.

Nick groaned in pain and his moans reached my ears, it was so hurtful for me too, my hope shattered once again.

I felt as if something had stuck to my heart and was not allowing me to breathe. I felt suffocating. I was feeling very useless and helpless right now.

Samarth Gill went to the corner table on which a vase was kept, he removed the vase which fell down and got shattered and its shard was scattered far and wide. 

He took that very heavy corner table and walked toward Nick. He was probably trying to break his spine with that table. 

"No, no please, please, stop him, Nikhil's wife is pregnant, you can't do this to him,"

I turned my head to face Aaron "Don't be so cruel, think about his unborn child and his wife, what's their fault in this?!"

Aaron wiped my tears gently with his fingers, he caressed my cheek while looking into my eyes.

"Well said, I can't be cruel like you guys, I also care about his wife and unborn child, that's why I'm not killing him, only breaking his backbone. In this way, my revenge will also be completed and he will also be alive. Neither his wife would be a widow nor his child would be an orphan." 

This maniac lost his mind, he gave a gentle peck on my forehead and uttered a few lunatic phrases "Don't worry dear, he will always be with his wife and child."

The words of that lunatic had poisoned my ears, and tears flowing from my eyes were not taking their name to stop, they were slipping from my eyes and rolled down on my cheek like pearls, and dripping on his hands which were linked to my chest.

"Don't worry Aanya, I won't let him do that," Nick said slowly, he barely managed to stand himself.

Samarth Gill reached and stood near Nick holding the table in one hand. He grabbed him by his hair and pinned him facedown on the floor, then he stood up and put one foot In his head and kept staring at Nick's spine. 

Nick was struggling like a fish without water, he was also cursing him.

"You bastard! You rotten criminal! You mother fucker, let me go!!"

It was the first time I had heard Nick cursing someone like that, but that person deserved it. And also...

I didn't have enough time to help him, I tried my best to get out of Aaron's grip to help my friend but I couldn't. The more I tried to get out of his arms, the more his arms became ironic around me.

I saw that Samarth Gill lifted the corner table in mid-air so that he could hit Nick's spinal cord with the table with full force and break his spine.

He was about to hit him in just a second, I didn't have the courage to see my friends ruined. If I couldn't help him, how could I have seen him become a cripple?

A shriek came out of my mouth as I closed my eyes.

"No!!..."

After that, everything happens just in a blink of an eye. A painful groan fell in my ear, but it wasn't Nick's scream, it was... Aaron's moaned.

I opened my eyes and turned my head to see him. 

A few blood droplets slowly fell from his forehead and rolled down on his face soaking his eyebrow and eyelids.

What just happened, who hit him?

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Hello readers, this novel needs some editing, hope you understand.