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I lied to a monster... and now I'm praying the monster doesn't realise the lie was the only thing keeping me alive.

The second I locked the door of my room,

my knees gave out.

I slid down the wood like someone had cut every string holding me up, palms pressed to my burning eyes, trying to stop the tears before they started.

They came anyway.

Silent,

ugly,

unstoppable.

My room looked the same-fairy lights half-dead, books stacked on the table, the old photo of Ma smiling on the wall-but everything felt wrong.

The air was too thick.

The walls too close.

My own heartbeat too loud.

Maa....why did you leave me alone.....if you were here....

Then dad may have never ever be so rude and mean to me.....

I miss you ma...

My heart stopped beating and again my eyes blurred into his image.....the devil

I could still feel him.

His hands-big, rough, inescapable-gripping my waist like I weighed nothing.

His mouth on my neck, slow and deliberate, like he was tasting ownership.

His voice, that low, filthy growl that crawled under my skin and stayed there

The devil wants me

I hated how my body remembered.

How my thighs clenched at the memory.

How my pulse still raced like he was in the room, watching me fall apart.

I hugged my knees to my chest, rocking slightly, trying to make myself smaller.

Smaller than the girl who just screamed at Rajasthan's most powerful man that she loved someone else.

I lied.

There is no one.

No soft boy who sends good-morning texts.

No secret crush.

No safe pair of arms waiting for me

Just me.

And a monster who now thinks another man has what's his.

My phone buzzed on the bed like it was screaming for me.

Riyu calling...

I crawled across the floor, grabbed it with trembling fingers, and answered before I could think.

"Noor?"

Riya's voice was frantic, breathless.

"Baby, talk to me. What happened inside the car....did he hurt you??"

A broken laugh escaped me, wet and pathetic.

Hurt

I think he never will

But those who hurt me....they should fear

But wait.....why the hell i am believing him

"no...."

She exhaled like she'd been holding her breath for hours.

"Thank God. I have told everything to your brother......don't worry noor...he has a solution... he said he will tell you the plan of escaping all these ones he reached home....he is in the company"

Ya ....after all those fake allocations on my dad....

My dad was offering me to a devil...

So that in return he can make his company clean from all the aspects

My brother has to do overtime to cope up the lose....

It's him who really care about his family and my dad's company....

Otherwise it's my dad who is ready to do anything ....even sell his daughter to get what he wants

But why me dad....

Do you really hates me that much

I pressed the phone harder to my ear, like her voice was the only thing keeping me from drowning.

"Riya..." My voice cracked. "I lied."

Silence.

Then-

"About what?"

"Everything."

The word came out like a sob.

"The boy. I said I love someone There is no one.

I made it up.

I just... I panicked. In that situation-"

I choked, unable to finish.

"I thought if I said I loved someone else, he'd get angry and leave me. Like normal people do. But he's not normal, Riya. He's-"

"A psychopath in a three-piece suit," she finished, voice shaking.

"Noor, tu samajh rahi hai kya kiya hai? He's going to hunt that imaginary boy down. And when he realises there is no boy-"

( You aren't understanding noor)

He'll punish me

No he will punish any boy who he saw coming close With

Nor did a hand shake no... nothing

Tears rolled hot down my cheeks.

"When I said it... he smiled. He smiled like I just handed him a reason to destroy everything."

I could still see it.

That slow, dark curve of his lips.

Like I'd just signed someone's death warrant.

Riya started laughing......

Ok it was not that funny as she thinks

I know the real him

"Noor... he's going to tear the city apart looking for a ghost."

My chest caved in.

"I imagined it-his men dragging random boys from tuition classes, from cafés, from their homes.

Breaking fingers." She chuckled and continued,

" ohh comeon noor do you really think he is mad....i mean you don't love anyone..... don't do you even have a crush in your whole life....just your Prince charming in your dreams.....and yes nothing will happen "

"how are you so shure riya" I sobbed,

Wipping my years away

Maybe she is right I am overthinking

"Ohh noor....its Very simple .....see, he will try to find the man...he will not get a single one.....then he will again search....but still nothing, then whom could he harm when he found no one...he is the chief minister noor......am shure he will not want to make his image bad "

She has a point

I agree with her

Ohh riya.....you are so intelligent

My nails dug into my palms, leaving crescents.

"I can still feel him," I whispered, voice breaking.

I hated myself for saying it.

Hated the heat that pooled low in my belly even now, remembering.

Riya was quiet for too long.

Then softly,

"Noor... you are scare of him...but i know deep inside there is a light in your heart that still struggled to your brain....that he is not that bad for you....as you think And that's what's killing you."

I wanted to scream no.

But the word wouldn't come.

Because she was right.

I was terrified of him.

Repulsed by him.

And still-God forgive me-aching in places I didn't know could ache.

Another tear slipped free.

"I just want to be normal," I whispered. "I want to go to college without looking over my shoulder. I want to laugh without wondering if he's watching. I want to breathe without feeling his name carved into my lungs."

Riya's voice cracked.

"We'll find a way, Noor. We'll-"

A roar from downstairs cut her off.

"NOOR! NEECHE AAO! ABHI KE ABHI!"

(Noor come down stairs now!!)

My father.

The sound of his voice was a bucket of ice water over my skin.

Riya heard it too.

"Noor...?"

"I have to go," I breathed, already standing on numb legs.

"Call you later."

"Noor, wait-"

I hung up.

....

And the real nightmare begin...

My heartbeat hadn't settled.

Not after the call.

Not after admitting the truth out loud - that there was no lover, no man, no one he could kill even if he wanted to.

Ohh god...what did my dad get to know about me now?.....what did I do to piss him off

Pls god tell me ...i will do it again

His anger wasn't new to me...

but the reason for it this time was.

I stood up slowly, palms damp, throat tight.

He never called me with concern.

Only fury.

Only blame.

And now, he was furious enough to break the entire house.

I walked down the stairs, each step heavy, my  stomach sinking lower and lower.

He was waiting for me in the living room - jaw clenched, nostrils flaring, shoulders stiff.

His eyes... God, those eyes.

The same eyes that once looked at my mother with softness,

now only held bitterness when they landed on me.

Because I was the girl who "killed" her mother the day she was born.

He never loved me.

Never even tried.

And today, his hate burned brighter.

I know it was my fault...that my mum died....

I shouldn't have born at the first place....

Why ma...why did you chose me over yourself...

Why did you though i will ever survive this world of wolves

Who are ready to eat me...

I never got mum's love....and my father

Unhone toh hume sirf apni nafrat di hai

Sirf humari dai ma or humare bhaiya hi hai jinke wajah se hum jinda hai....

(He have given me nothing but his hatred.

It’s only because of my nanny and my brother… that I’m still alive.)

I can still remember my dai ma's words ringing in my ear...

Don't worry noor ....a handsome prince will come to you on a white horse and will make you ...his princess....

He will not only call you princess ....

But treat you like one...

Like you were always meant to...

He will buy everything you will look at once....

He will do anything you wanted to

He will never hurt you....

But hurt the one who tries to hurt you

Ohh god!! Where is the prince charming of mine...

Please ...prince come and save me from my father

"What were you doing in front of the college with a boy in that car?" he snapped, not even giving me time to stand properly.

"Where were you? With whom?"

I swallowed hard.

It was that devil

Ok....he was the one who made that deal signing that contract

And now he is asking me what he was doing with him

Is he mad??

"papa... he was-"

"Don't lie to me!" he shouted, stepping closer.

"Do you understand what you've done? Rudraksh is not a man you can play games with!"

My breath hitched.

Ohh god can't he listen to me....

I was with him....not with another man

he believed I had been with another man.

he thought Rudra would find out

he thought I put his precious "deal" at risk.

Because my being "impure" in Rudra's eyes... could destroy everything.

So that's why.

That's why he was losing his mind.

What if he thinks i will mess it all ..and will make a new deal with that devil .....a deal that doesn't involves me

No noor....he is your dad

I should tell him he was him only

But...he looks great when he is pissed off

His voice trembled - not with concern for me...

but with fear for himself.

"If Rudra comes to know you were with someone else," Baba gritted out, "he will ruin us, Noor. Ruin us all."

I bit the inside of my cheek, fighting the urge to laugh at the absurdity.

If only he knew.

If only he knew that the "man" he was panicking about...

the one he thought I was with...

the one he feared would enrage Rudra...

was Rudra himself.

But telling him meant telling the truth.

And telling the truth meant dragging myself deeper into a fire that was already burning my lungs.

So I stayed silent.

His anger only grew.

"You will not step out of this house till the engagement," he barked.

"You will behave. You will obey. And you will never, ever put us in danger again."

I felt something collapse inside me.

Engagement..

Whose engagement....

Mine??

No ways.....

"And why do your think i will obey you....i will go out....meet with the person i want to.....do whatever I want....and pls dad...I am not scared of someone's wrath...it's your deal not mine......and you should know I will never agree with it",

I yelled at him

Ohh god... i yelled at my father for the first time in my life

Was i that brave

Obey.

Behave.

Submit.

Arey....meri jutti bhi na kare

(Arey....not even my shoes will do it)

I was always silent because I respect my dad

Because I thought he will get angry with him...but never sell me off like that

But he already made a deal of my life...

Now i am not feeling fear even a little bit...

I glanced my father and angry look

And for kissing him more...

I went out of his cage ...his house

His pov-

I was already fuming.

Blood hot.

Vision tight.

Jaw locked so hard it felt like my teeth would turn to dust.

The farmhouse gates slid open and I stepped out of the car,

the gravel crunching under my boots like it was begging to be crushed harder.

My patience had been thin these days... but today? Today it was gone.

Just as I reached the door, my phone rang.

Maa.

I sucked in a slow breath and answered.

Before I could say a single word, her voice blasted into my ear.

"Where the hell are you, Rudra? It's been nearly a week! Come home right now! Dadi-sa is also coming.

What should we tell her? Why her grandson is living away from his family?!"

I stared at the empty driveway in front of me, knuckles whitening.

A week.

One week ...i came here because I have bussiness....

Because I know i couldnt have done the work there

Maa didn't stop

"Rudra, are you even listening? You cannot keep ignoring your family like this-"

"I am coming ma-"

I cut the call.

No goodbye.

No explanation.

Just a clean, ruthless end.

Shit.

The word slipped out under my breath.

Because truth was - my family was the one thing even I didn't mess with.

Not Maa.

Not Dadi-sa.

They were the only people on this planet I bowed my head for.

I dragged a hand through my hair and turned back toward the car.

"Rathore haveli lekar chalo"

(Take me to rathore haveli)

I said sitting

The moment I sat down, my phone buzzed again.

Parveen.

"Speak," I snapped.

His voice came through, steady but cautious - he knew my temper too well.

"Sir... there's no boy. No one Noor ma'am likes. We checked everyone."

My fingers curled around the steering wheel.

A cold wave of fury flooded my chest.

So that lie she fed me... the man she pretended to love... didn't exist.

I should've felt relieved.

But instead, my rage spiraled darker.

"How many proposals she got in that college...and in her school -"

Parveen continued

A little hesitant

"Do i have to tell this too....i think...you should not -"

"-tell me parveen"

I cketched my first hard

"I don't know about the school but looking at the proposal she got in her college.....she really have a large number of fan following...."

He said

I clenched my hand more tight

Why doesn't he telling me ...

"Parveen-"

"43 sir......only this much in college....and you are 44th"

He said ....and i can sense he was laughing at me

Ughhhh....what are you doing with me princess

You are making me insane for you

"Stop laughing.....and tell me how many she said yess to-"

I said......clenching my first so hard that my veins popped out...

The one she doesn't said yes to....

Those people will be safe....

For now...untill they bother her again

"Not a single one....nor yours", he said

And burst into laugh in the phone itself

I was fuming in anger

(On the other side when parveen all laughing doesn't heard any voice of rudra ...he looked at his screen to check whether he was still in call or not....

Yamraj

Ohh god he was still on call...that means ... Parveen is going to die for shure)

"Sorry sir....meri bhateeji mujhe gudgudi laga rhi thi......beta pari ap waha jakar khelo....mammu abhi call pe hai"

He pretended

(“Sorry, sir… my niece was tickling me.

Beta Pari, go and play over there… Mama is on a call right now.” )

But i know better....

He and vansh..

I will kill both of them

For shure

But i shaked my thoughts

For now i have to keep my anger for my princess....

If no one ....then she will get punish....for lying to me..

"Who is shourabh?"

"Shourabh is her only close friend. But they seem just... friends."

I exhaled through my nose, sharp, annoyed.

I already knew about that idiot.

But he touched my princess hand

I will see you shourabh

Parveen cleared his throat, then added,

"She has a neighbour too... a guy who used to bother her a lot. Always trying to talk to her."

A muscle in my jaw ticked.

That was all it took.

That tiny piece of information.

The idea of some man hovering around her door.

Around her space.

Breathing near her.

My grip tightened so much the leather creaked.

I lowered my voice - quiet, dangerous, lethal.

"Name.

Address.

Everything....."

Parveen responded instantly,

"Sending it now, sir."

I ended the call.

My pulse was a slow, murderous drum.

Noor had no lover.

No man she cared about.

No one in her life.

I smiled.

A slow, dark, humorless smile.

"Good," I muttered. "Let me handle the rest."

Because if she wasn't lying about any man...

Then she belonged to me.

And whoever thought otherwise?

Was already dead.

If you want, next scene can be:

***

..Teaser..

"Noor this is the only way....marry someone else...and leave the country.....and then he will leave you forever....."

**

Why i am feeling you are going to do something stupid princess....

Don't make me piss off again...

Because I am not a man of patience ....

***

" Rudra what are you waiting for?? When are you going to do the work....do it as fast as soon...

And leave that girl..

She is only messing with your head"

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