Sitting on the bed, shehnaaz was waiting for sidharth to come. It was around 11 at night.

Since the moment sidharth had told her about marriage, she didn't see him nor she went out of the room. But she knew he was near around.

Whatever had happened was playing in her mind taking away her peace.

They were getting married in two days. It came as a shock and surprise to her. She wasn't expecting this anyway near.

It was a special moment of their life and she didn't want it to happen in such situation.
Nothing was going right in their life and how could they get married in such condition.

Neither she was happy nor was he!! She was hurting him and he was getting hurt!!

She was guilty of hiding things from him and he was angry on her for her not telling the truth to him!!

They both were fighting with themselves and with each other. Everything seemed wrong to get married in two days.

There was no doubt her marrying sidharth but the time wasn't correct according to her.

The most critical part was that someone was blackmailing her with the threat to send sidharth in the jail. She was in a dilemma. She was worried. She was scared. She was restless.

Her mind wasn't working properly. She couldn't think properly to deal with the situation.

Her not telling sidharth was her biggest mistake which she wasn't realising in the fear of her sidharth going to jail.

Her hiding the truth from sidharth was because of  her own way of thinking. She was not completely aware about her sidharth.

She didn't know to which extent her sidharth was dangerous. She didn't know what do he exactly do. Surely she had seen him killing but still there was so much she wasn't aware about. Her mind was thinking according to her knowledge, to which extent she knew about sidharth.

She didn't know that her sidharth was the one whom the whole mafia feared!!

Sidharth never let her get into his dark life to let her know what he exactly was!!

She was thinking that he will actually get into jail according to her knowledge and that she didn't want to happen. She wanted to get him out of it even when she herself was scared. Her love for him was making her do this.

Killing someone was wrong. She never liked his work but her love for him didn't let her question him. She couldn't let him go to jail even if he did something wrong.

Her head was throbbing with pain. All these thoughts going in her mind were making her frustrated which was causing her headache.

The room door opened breaking her thoughts. Her eyes moved towards the door and there her sidharth was. Entering inside the room sidharth closed the door behind. Ignoring her presence totally he moved towards washroom.

It killed her insides seeing him ignoring her but she knew she herself was responsible for this. The tears which brimmed in her eyes, she didn't let them fall down and wiped them quickly.

Coming out of washroom in his t shit and shorts sidharth moved towards bed and taking a pillow he went towards the couch placed in the room.

Lying on the couch he closed his eyes keeping his arm on his eyes.

Her already aching heart pained to the extreme. She somehow convinced herself to tolerate his ignorance but she couldn't tolerate him sleeping on couch away from her. This was not possible.

Getting down the bed, she walked towards him. Standing close to him she pulled his arm up trying to make him get up.

He didn't say anything and just pulled his hand back. She again did the same.

"Shehnaaz don't disturb me, so jao jaa k" pulling his hand back sidharth said irritatedly.

He knew that they both couldn't sleep without each other but what could he do,he was hurt. Being away from her was affecting him more than her.

His heartless self started to feel the emotions because of her only. She was the only one who developed feelings in his heart and she was the only one who could ever affect him.

"Tumhare bina neend ni aayegi, please bed p chlo sidharth" she pleaded him keeping her hand on his arm. Her voice sounded so tired.

Sidharth didn't say anything and kept lying there with his eyes closed. He couldn't see her like this but he wanted her to speak to him, to tell him everything.

Shehnaaz waited for few seconds for him to get up but he did not.

She set on the floor close to him and kept her head on his arm holding his hand tightly. His insides was paining to give her even a little pain.

Taking a deep breath he got up and holding her hand he pulled her up. Dragging her towards the bed, he made her climb on it and himself too got on the bed.

The moment he laid there on the bed, she quickly moved towards him and keeping her hand on his chest she wrapped her arm around him.

Neither he reciprocated her nor he protested. She was happy that atleast he let her cuddle him even after her fault.

It's been an hour and she was still awake. Her mind was still thinking about tomorrow. She didn't know what would she do? What will happen tomorrow?

Her eyes moved to sidharth's face. Her hand moved to his jaw and she ever so softly caressed his little beard. Moving her face closer to his she kissed his forehead.

"Tum bhut achhe ho sidharth. I am sorry for hurting you" she kissed his eyes while her own eyes got moist.

Then she kissed his cheeks showering her immense love on him. At last she kissed his chin and kept her head back on his chest closing her eyes to have some sleep.

It was just her assumption that he was sleeping. He wasn't. He heard her words and he felt her love too.

Looking down at her sleeping on his chest, he wrapped his arm around her pulling her into himself.

Whatever happened or whatever will happen, the truth was they couldn't breathe without each other.

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"Sidharth you know mai apne kaam k liye sirf tumhe trust krta hun. It's been two days m trying to reach you aur tu meri calls avoid kar raha hai" ak said as sidharth came to meet him.

He was calling rana again and again to make sidharth meet him. Sidharth had to come this time.

"Mai busy hun apne kisi kaam mai" taking the drink ak offered sidharth said uninterested.
His mind wasn't there to concentrate on ak's talk.

"Kya chl raha hai sidharth. Tum ab apne adde par bhi nhi hote. Tumhare to darshan krne hi mushkil ho gye hain" ak said chuckling while sidharth didn't even react which ak was observing very well.

"Kuchh problem hai?" ak asked getting serious this time. Sidharth had a big role play in making his name in mafia world.

He had considered sidharth like his brother always but for sidharth he just worked for ak. There was no emotion, no feeling in sidharth before shehnaaz's presence in his life. He didn't make any relations in his work.

His funda was simple. Work and money!!

"Jo bhi hai mai khud dekh lunga, tum bolo itna urgent kya aagya hai" sidharth asked totally avoiding to talk about anything about his life.

"Hmm..John ko marna hai" ak said surprising sidharth.

"Vo to tera partner hai?" john and ak had a very good relation. Sidharth was surprised as sk asked him to kill john.

"Hmm..dhokha de gya hai sala" gritting his teeth ak said in anger.

"Mai nhi kar raha" sidharth denied straight forward making ak shock.

"Kyun?" asked ak confused.

"Tujhe dhokha diya hai. Tu khud kar jo krna hai" sidharth stated simply.

"Dekh sidharth jitne paise bolega utne dunga, tu kar de ye kaam mere liye" ak looked at sidharth hopefully. He knew if sidharth denied something in first place, there was no chance he was going to agree to do that again.

"Tu kyun ni kar skta khud" sidharth looked at him raising his eye brow.

"Mai ni maar skta usse" ak looked down. He loved john as his younger brother. He couldn't tolerate cheating but he couldn't kill him with his own hands.

"Jab khud maar ni skta to usse marta hua kaise dekhega" stating calmly sidharth kept the glass on table and stood up. He had a good knowledge to understand people.

"Bhai" rana came towards him anxiously who was standing in a corner from long.

"Hmm" sidharth looked at him suspiciously as he looked tensed.

Rana passed his mobile to sidharth to show him something. Sidharth held the mobile from his hand and looked at the screen.

His eyes went red as extreme anger rushed through his veins. Throwing his mobile to him sidharth searched his mobile but didn't find.

Ak was observing him quietly. Before he could ask anything sidharth rushed out of there along with rana.

Reaching to his car, he quickly opened the door and searched his mobile. Taking the mobile which was lying under the driver seat, sidharth found 5 missed calls of arjun and other calls were of Shehnaaz's bodyguard.

He cursed himself for his mistake. How could he forget his mobile. Getting into the car, he quickly dialed arjun's number while instructing rana to go back to his work.

He was not understanding what actually was happening around him!!

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Covering her face with a mufral shehnaaz entered into a cafe close to her shooting location.

Asking the receptionist for her table, she quietly walked there and set on her seat. The thing which she didn't like was that it was a private cabin but somewhere she was relieved too as she didn't want anyone to see her there.

Removing the mufral she kept it in her hand bag and waited for the person who called her there.

It was more than 10 minutes and still there was no one. She was getting anxious as the time was passing. Her heart was beating fast out of fear.

"Hii" her eyes moved to the person as she heard a very familiar voice and she was shocked as well as confused.

"Hii" shehnaaz looked at him in confusion while he took a seat in front of her.

"Umm..tum yahan kaise?" shehnaaz asked hesitantly. There was no way she could doubt on the person sitting infront of her to be her blackmailer.

"Aur kise hona chahiye tha....Baby girl" her eyes went wide as she heard baby girl from his mouth. It was a huge shock for her. She couldn't believe her eyes nor her ears.

"You are the one sending me those messages?" she asked again to confirm as she still couldn't believe.

"Kyun,aur koi bhi hai jo tumhe baby girl bulata hai..kahin sidharth.." he stopped in middle smirking at her. She looked at him all shocked which soon turned into disgust.

"But why and kal.. your voice..it was different" she was totally clueless about what was happening around her.

He laughed an evil laugh listening her.

"Oh Shehnaaz you are so innocent. It can be that i made me my voice sound different" he said looking at her with his dirty evil smirk.

"How?" she couldn't believe all things.

"That you don't need to think about" he said dismissing the topic.

"Why are you doing all this Sameer?" she asked now getting on the main point.

"Good question but i don't want to answer your question" he said while ordering two coffees to the waiter.

"Mujhe ni chahiye" shehnaaz said disgustingly. She couldn't even drink water with him now.

"Tum leke aap 2 coffee" he said rudely to the waiter who quietly nodded his head and went from there.

She was already starting to hate him and now she just wanted to ran away from there.

"To kaam ki baat par aate hain" sameer said making her heart beats fast. She had no idea what was coming towards her.

"Kya chahte ho, jldi bolo" she said while her hands were already sweating in fear. She was already feeling like she was doing something wrong.

"Simple sa kaam hai, Sidharth ko chhod do" Sameer said casually while her breath hitched in her throat listening his demand.

What was he thinking? This was impossible. She couldn't never do this. His demand couldn't be fulfilled in any way.

"Ye kya bakwaas kar rhe ho. Aisa kuchh ni krungi mai" she shouted at him angerily while he set there all cool.

"Okay calm down. Mai thoda aur elaborate krta hun. Sidharth ko chhod do and come to me. I m not at all interested in you but you have to pretend in front of the world that we are together. All the proofs i have against sidharth, i will hand over those to you" he said taking his coffee while shehnaaz was all blank.

Her mind stopped working. She couldn't understand what was happening around her anymore.

"Kya sochne lag gyi" Sameer brought her back from her zone. She looked at him with extreme hatred. First time in her life she felt like killing someone.

"Mai aisa kuchh nhi kar rahi aur na hi tumhari koi baat sunungi ab..Mai sidharth ko sab kuchh bta dungi..abhi" taking out her mobile she was about to call sidharth.

"Kro kro tum sidharth ko call kro aur mai police ko krta hun. Tumhe usse ye btane ka moka mile aur sath hi police ko sidharth ko arrest krne ka moka mil jaye...badhiya hai. Iss se pehle tum ghar pohncho, tumhara sidharth jail pohnch jayega" he too took out his mobile while dialing some number making her stop in the middle.

"Tumhari sabse badi galt fehmi pta kya hai k tumhe lagta hai sidharth ko bta k tum usse bacha logi. Agar usse pta chl bhi jaye to vo khud ko bacha nhi skta isse. Usse sirf tum bacha skti ho. Aur itna overreact kyun kar rhi ho, bass usse chhodne ko hi to bola hai. Agar nhi chhodogi to vo to jail jayega hi, sath to phir bhi chhut jayega" said Sameer drinking his coffee.

She was feeling so helpless. What was she supposed to do? He was such a cruel man, she realised.

"Kyun kar rahe ho ye sab tum, kya chahte ho sameer" she asked tired of everything. She couldn't handle all this. Never in her life, she faced such situation in her life.

"Mai kya kar rha hun, kyun kar raha hun ye sab tumhe jaan ne ki zroorat nhi hai. 5 din hain tumhare paas. Agr sidharth se pyaar krti ho to usse jail mai marta hua to nhi dekhna chahogi..baaki tumhari marzi" finishing his coffee he called the waiter and cleared the bills.

"Ek baat yaad rakhna, agar sidharth ek baar jail gya na, bahr aane k chance hi nhi hain. Bhut se dushman hain uske, bahr aane nhi denge usse zindagi bhar. Think babygirl" getting up he walked out of there leaving her helpless.

Her head was throbbing with pain. This was too much for this little girl.

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Reaching infront of her shoot location she came out of her car. As she took a step out of the car, she was pulled harshly by her arm and she knew who it was. Her sidharth was there.

Dragging her with himself he opened his car door and quickly made her sit inside. It was a matter of seconds and there were out from there.

Reaching to an excluded place sidharth stopped the car with a jerk. Coming out he walked towards her and opening her door, he pulled her out.

Closing the door behind, sidharth pushed her against it. Her eyes met his which were burning in rage. She could feel the heat of his anger in. his eyes.

"kya kar rhi ho tum?" holding her upper arms tightly sidharth asked her in extreme harsh voice making her flinch.

"Sidharth" she tried to calm him first. She had no idea what exactly he was asking about.

Taking out his mobile, sidharth opened something and showed it to her making her eyes go wide. How did thus happen? She didn't understand.

It was an article with her picture along with sameer with the headline:

The famous bolliwood singer turning into actor with her first web series seen at a cafe in Andheri with her co star Sameer Sharma. The two looked having a great time together.

She wasn't expecting anything such coming. She had covered her face while entering in the cafe and the picture was from incide the private cabin. How was this possible? Did sameer do this deliberately?

Her already throbbing head now felt like it would burst with pain.

"What is this naaz. Just tell me the truth damn. I know this is all bullshit. Now tell me why did you go there. You are in some problem. I know naaz. Just tell me na baby. I am here. Tell me the truth" sidharth asked her as softly as he could.

He was dying inside for not able to help her, to protect her.  This was the first time he wasn't able to recognise the danger she was in. How was this possible?

He didn't doubt on her even for a second after reading the article. He knew it was all nonsense. He just couldn't see her with any other man and that's what made him angry seeing the picture. His possessive self couldn't take that.

He knew she will never go to coffee and all with her co stars. Neither she did anything such before nor she could do now.

He knew her better than her. He couldn't even think to doubt on her.

His naaz wasn't someone to play such games. She could not play with emotions. She was too innocent to all this!!

She was looking at him in disbelief. The trust he had on her, she could never do anything wrong to him nor she could let anything happen to him.

Her eyes showed immense love for him which he could see like always. But there was guilt too which he didn't like and he knew the reason of that guilt.

"Tell me naaz" sidharth almost pleaded her making her heart ache.

"Sidharth" she called him softly..

"Hmm..sun raha hun bolo" he cupped her face in his hands softly making her eyes moist.

She wanted to kill herself for what she was doing. But what if she tell him and sameer sent the proof to police. She will not be able to handle that. Her sidharth couldn't go to jail at any condition. She had to do this for him.

"Sameer ne puchha coffee peene k liye. Hum bas casually gye the cafe. Mujhe nhi pta tha ye article ye sab..." she fumbled and he knew she was lying.

"Stop lying naaz. Tumhe mna kiya tha akele kahin bhi jaane se aur tumne arjun ko bhi bataya aur ghar se gaadi mangvai jaane k liye. Sameer to set par hi hoga na to alag alag gye coffee peene? Jab tumhe pta hai tum jhoot nhi bol skti to kyun try krti ho baar baar" sidharth was tired listening her lies again and again.

"Sidharth kuchh din ruk jao. Mai pkka tumhe sab kuchh bta dungi" she felt so tired to explain anything to him, to talk about anything.

"Problem kya hai abhi batane mai" pulling her to himself he asked shouting at her. Why she was making him angry again and again?

He had no more patience to deal with her nonsense now.

She didn't say anything and kept quiet. Her head was spinning now. Shock after shock, her energy was dropping down to even stand there more.

Shaking his head in utter disappointment, sidharth moved a little back from her and turning his back towards her he took out his mobile dialing a number.

"Haan Rana, ek kaam hai. Sameer Sharma, iski sari information nikal jitni jldi ho ske. Ek ek cheez jaan ni hai mujhe iske baare mai" ordering him sidharth disconnected the call while shehnaaz was looking at him scared.

She didn't know she should be happy with this or should be scared for sidharth.

She felt difficult to stand there anymore. Leaning on car door she tried to balance herself. She could feel things getting blur infront of her eyes.

Sidharth turned towards her to say something but got shocked seeing her loosing consciousness.

Taking a long step towards her,he held her in his arms before she could fall down.

"Shehnaaz" whispered sidharth in extreme worry as her eyes got close.

Note-

No need to bash shehnaaz's character. She has her reasons to hide the truth from sidharth.

Wait for the story to proceed further and till then enjoy their emotional phase.

I won't drag this. Don't worry about that.

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