Hey hummingbirds,
As promised I'm here with an early update.
Hope you enjoy it.

By the way, we completed our 6 months.
Yup, Flawlessly Flawed was published six months back, can't believe still 🙈😂

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*****

"Mom"

Nandini called out after entering her toom and not finding Shikha there.

Getting no reply from her she again called her out but this time, she heard her mother puking.

She immediately got alert and jogged towards the washroom,

"Maa, are you alright?" Nandini asked knocking the door.

Not getting any reply from her mom made her more tensed, thankfully the door was locked she pushed the door and found Shikha crouching down holding her stomach while puking in the basin bowl.

Nandini instantly moved towards her mother and caught hold of her hair, while massaging her back to calm her down, but what she saw made her face colour pale.

Shikha was puking blood.

Her face colour turned red and her temperature was elevated.

"Maa" she couldn't utter anything other than one word which also came as a mere whisper.

Nandini quickly got hold of herself, she knew now was not the time to think, she needs to act and act fast.

Shikha who stopped throwing up and was leaning to the washbasin taking long deep breaths, gound herself getting dizzy and vision going blur.

"Nandini" She whimpered

"Haa maa, your Nandini is here. I'm here, nothing will happen to you, I'll take you to the doctor don't worry."

She with great difficulty supported Shikha and brought her out in the bedroom, she slowly moved towards the bed but before she can reach her steps halted due to unbalance as Shikha wend limb in her arms. 

"Mom" Nandini tapped her cheeks but didn't get any response from her. She again tapped her cheeks in hope that she would respond but no, unfortunately, that didn't happen. 

"Shit, why isn't she waking up?" Nandini panicked and mumbled under her breath. 

Nandini struggled a little and made Shikha lye on the bed misaligned, she took some water from the nearby table and sprinkled some on Shikha's face but to her dismay, Shikha still didn't show any movement from her. 

"Oh no! Mom please mom, see your Nandu is here, your kanna, please open your eyes for your kanna. she mom you hate when I cry right, then why... why are y...ou mak..ing yo...ur dauhgt...er cry maa, please WAKE UP!" Nandini kept her hand on her wrist and shook it while crying hysterically. 

Nandini again got hold of herself, "No Nandini, wake up, you can't cry, you have to save Mumma, everything will be fine." She tapped her cheeks several times and took deep breathes exhaling from her mouth. 

She first kept backside of her palm on Shikah's forehead to check the temperature but to her shock, her body which was burning with the temperature a few minutes back was now cold, freezing cold as if she was kept in an icy room for hours. 

Nandini gulped and hesitantly put her index finger under Shikha's nose but she wasn't ready any for a bolt of the blue, Shikha's breathing was slower than a normal human being, and Nandini knew the consequence of this, if she didn't act immediately and admitted her mom to the hospital she may lose the only hope in her life. 

"Shit!" Nandini first covered Shikha with a few blankets to get some heat from them and jolted through the door towards Nishant and Neha's room.

"NISHANT" Nandini literally banged his bedroom's door.

"NISHANT, Please I beg you to come out." Nandini banged again but the didn't open.

"NISHANT...NEHA" 

"Ma'am, sir went somewhere early in the morning with luggage he said they will return after a week and Neha madam said she won't be coming home today." The only maid which was present in the whole house informed Nandini. 

"WHAT?" 

"Yes Ma'am, do you want something?" 

"Oh no! no! no!" Nandini murmured under her breath roving her hands in her hairs. 

"Mobile... do you have a cell phone?" 

"I'm sorry ma'am but as per the contract I have to submit my mobile to the security before entering the house." the maid said. 

"FUCK, NISHANT" 

"Ma'am, are you alright?" 

Ignoring her words, Nandini walked past her towards the living room where the telephone was kept, she picked it up and dial the hospital's number for an ambulance. 

"BEEP BEEP" 

"You are such an asshole Nishant!" Nandini spoke furiously as the phone was dead. 

Nandini turned towards the maid standing at the distance, looking at Nandini weirdly,

"Is there any other way to contact someone?" Nandini asked 

"No, ma'am." The maid nodded her head in no, much to Nandini's disappointment and panic.

"Can you please stay with my mom, she isn't well and I have to take her to the hospital immediately." Saying Nandini rushed out of the house to get some help, maybe if she contact anyone on the road or the neighbours they may help her. 

"Ma'am you can't go out." a dominant voice boomed in her ears. 

"Listen my mom is very ill, I need to take her to the hospital, please help me." Nandini pleaded to the security guard. 

"Ma'am as per Nishant sir's order we can't allow you to go out, even if its someone dying." the guard answered.

"Do hell with your Nishant Sir's order I'm going do whatever you want to do." Nandini pushed the guards outrageously. 

Seeing her moving out the guards blocked her way immediately, Nandini was about to utter something when they heard someone's voice. 

"What's happening here?" a man in his early twenties wearing a black suit with a white shirt and black tie and black Prada sunglasses hovering his eyes asked. his aura itself was depicting danger. 

"None of your business." one of the guards said." 

Sensing the opportunity Nandini immediately reacted 

"Can you please help me, my mom is very ill, its an emergency can you please contact any hospital. Her breathing is very slow and her whole body has turned cold" an unknowing sob escaped from Nandini, imaging her mother's condition. 

"What?" the man shouted. 

"Yes please help." 

"Shit Manik Bhai will kill me." the person muttered under his breath. 

(Any guesses, who is he?) 

 "Okay, Nandini... I need you to calm down and lead the way towards your mother's room, we don't have time to wait for the ambulance, we can take her in my car," he explained slowly and Nandini nodded her head hysterically. 

"Sure, please follow me." Nandini said and turned around to inside the apartment

"Excuse me, you can't go in." The guard kept a hand on his (mysterious man) chest, in order to block him. 

 "You better remove your hand before I fucking chop it off." He said in cold voice, making them gulp in fear even Nandini too. 

The guards hesitantly moved back and allowed the man to enter inside. 

"Good for you" Saying the man entered inside. 

****** 

"Maa, please open your eyes, see we are here, everything will be fine now, you will be okay maa." Nandini cried along with walking hastily matching the stretcher's speed. 

As soon as the doctor saw Shikha's condition they said immediately to shift her to ICU. 

"Doctor please, please she is really important to me, the reason for my whole existence please save her, i beg you please save her." Nandini joined her hands in front of the doctor and pleaded. 

The doctor gave her a look of pity and nodded her head assuring her a little "Don't worry, young lady, we will try our best to save your mother."  

"Nandini." the man who helped her came and supported Nandini, he made her sit on one of the benches there and he himself sat on his knees. 

"Nandini" he called her to gain her attention as Nandini was just looking at the ICU door. 

"Hmmm" She just hummed, she didn't have any strength to talk to anyone, she just hoped to hear those words her heart wanted to hear. 

"Everything will be fine Nandini, don't worry, aunty will be alright." hearing him she looked at him with tear-filled eyes, which somewhere pained his heart. 

"You promise?" Nandini asked innocently. 

"I promise, little sister, i promise." hearing the word 'little sister' both were surprised and for Nandini, it broke all the dams of strength she was holding. She burst out crying, she was tired of portraying herself as a strong human, she just wanted to cry and nothing else. 

"Its okay Nandini, cry let it all out," he said caressing her back. 

After a lot of cries, sobs, hiccups and soothing words, Nandini was feeling a little better now, though she wasn't talking and still staring at the door there was an unknown believe in her which knew that her mother will be alright which gave a flicker of hope in her darkness filled heart. 

Here, sitting beside Nandini, the man who helped Nandini was thinking to call his Manik Bhai and inform everything before he gets to know from one of his spies. he got up while unlocking his mobile and  scrolling through his call history for the required number,

"Nandini please sit here, I'll just call Manik Bhai and come," he said in a flow without realizing he uttered is bhai's name which was meant to be as a secret from Nandini for the time begin. 

Listening to Manik's name, Nandini's head snapped at him immediately at thsame time his head also snapped at Nandini realising what he spoke. 

"Shit/Manik" both whispered looking at each other. 

"You said Manik... as in Manik Malhotra right?" Nandini asked with a gleam of spark in her eyes. 

The person hesitantly nodded his head fearing to the consequences. 

"Can you please call him for me?" Nandini asked shocking him, he never expected this. he expected her to shout at him or scold him anything but some positive reply from Nandini. 

"Su... ahem. Sure." 

Nandini felt relived hearing Manik's name, she wanted someone here who actually knows her, may it be only two meets, but her heart said to call Manik as soon as she heard his name. She just needed a known person sitting beside her, assuring her that her mother will be okay.

He dialed Manik's number and when it started ringing he handed the phone to Nandini. 

"Yes, Vihan" Manik responded. 

"Manik" Nandini whisper cried

"Nandini?" Manik was shocked as well as surprised hearing Nandini's voice on Vihan's number. 

"Hello... Nandini you are there?" Manik asked when no answer came from the other side

"Manik... Manik, Mumma" Nandini cried. 

"Nandini, Nandu, stop crying, please say me what happened, where are you now?" 

"Hospital... Mumma ICU" Nandini wasn't able to speak anything other than the monosyllables. 

"Okay.. okay Nandini, I'll be there soon alright. now be a good girl and don't cry for me please." Manik attempted to calm her down. 

"Nandini, baby, please give the phone to Vihan." Nandini obliged him and gave the phone to Vihan. 

"Hello," Vihan said

"Vihan, what's happening?" Manik's whole demeanor changed, long gone was the person who was talking sweetly and consoling his love interest a few seconds back.

Vihan sighed and started explaining to him what all things he witnessed, Manik heard everything carefully trying hard to control his anger for the two leeches. 

"I'm coming"  was the only thing said  

***** 

Manik entered the hospital with his best friend tagging along with him. When he heard Manik talking to Nandini on phone he was the most shocked soul on the earth at that time. 

The ever so cold Azrail was melting like an ice melting when coming in contact with flames of fire. He has never saw in all these 12 years of his friendship with him, talking ever so sweetly with anyone other than his family that too only Meher and his daughter. 

Cabir knew this girl Nandini surely hold a lot of power in her, she surely had some god gifted magic in her which changed her cold-hearted demon to jelly in a matter of seconds, but knowing she holds such a power on him made him happy and sacred too, he was going through a bittersweet feeling. 

Seeing Manik's anger after ending the call, gave him a hint that something was definitely wrong and this was grievous. 

"I'm also coming with you," Cabir said following Manik. 

Manik didn't say anything and let him follow, he knew when things will be out of his hands Cabir and Vihan will be there to solve it so that he can concentrate on his Nandini and some things which are needed to be taken care of.

Before you people kill me, the next chapter is updated already!  *Smirking while blowing air on my nails*