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RING! RING! RING!...

Hearing to the assigned ringtone, Nandini immediately came to know that it is Manik who is calling. His timing is certainly impeccable! It is like HIS NANDINI-IS-IN-TROUBLE radar is going off.

On the other hand, Madhyam reacts to the unexpectedness of the call by drawing a gun and aiming it at Nandini making her go numb with fear.

Nandini is completely on edge now 'he has a bloody gun with him... AIYAPPAA!!! Now what? ' she screamed in her mind, but her face remained expressionless.

Looking at the current situation she knew that she needs to be extremely wary and careful of her future actions and words she speaks. One single mistake and today might be her last day of her life and also their Baby on this earth.

She can't forget about him/her... This is not the time to go numb on her place or panic and loose yourself. So after giving herself a lot of pepp talks, praying to Aiyappa, she finally gathers all her remaining strength and courage and composes herself to think clearly and properly to protect themselves until Manik... her love, her husband, her child's father comes for their rescue  from this mad person's clutches and finally opens her mouth to speak.

"Manik is calling me," she explains slowly. "He'll keep on calling till I don't answer the phone. "

Madhyam thinks for few seconds and says, "NO! let it ring, I want you to talk with me and pay attention only to me and nothing else."

"But if I don't pick it up then he will call again and keep on disturbing us. So how about this let me take this one call and after talking to him, I will talk with you only alright. " Nandini said, trying to convince him to let her take this call as this is her only hope at the moment.

Madhyam puts his gun down and again starts thinking about something and here Nandini is looking for only one chance impatiently to talk to Manik... Just once, 'Aiyappa please for only once give me the opportunity to talk to mani... Please just once.' she prays with all her heart and soul.

BUT HER BAD LUCK , THE PHONE FINALLY FALLS SILENT ...

Madhyam again comes out of his thoughts and jumps in surprise when her phone stops ringing making the entire bungalow eerily dead silent, he glances at her readying himself for what is about to happen next.

"I can call him back-" Nandini starts.

When Madhyam interrupts her immediately ,"NOO!" again aiming his gun back at her, making Nandini flinch in fear of getting hurt or loosing her life completely.

"OK OK!! I won't call him back, But can we go to the living room. You wanted to talk with me right... So we can talk just like you wanted while sitting on the couch present there." Nandini said softly , while slowly gesturing him with her hands to lower his gun down.

Liking what Nandini has said Madhyam eagerly nodded his head and already started heading towards the living room but not before holding Nandini's hand in his right hand, whereas the gun still remained in his left hand pulling her forward to walk along with him.

Nandini's entire body broke out in cold goosebumps and shivered in disgust feeling his touch on her hand and just wanted to jerk off his hand from hers, but the still sane part of her mind stopped her as it knew that, that was not a safe option.

Its not a good idea to make him more mad by removing his hand or else who knows what he will do with her. So helplessly she decided to just play along with him, while inside in her heart she was praying, begging, 'MANIK please call again... Please I NEED YOU. '

They reached the living room and her eyes automatically went towards her phone, which was lying silently on the table in front of the sofa.

Nandini tried her luck one more time,
"you know! He's going to call again if I don't call him back within few minutes ... and I'm not lieing. "

"Why would he-" Madhyam was saying with frowns on his forhead but was interrupted...

Just like Nandini has said, Manik called again and her phone started ringing, and Nandini couldn't be more happier at this moment... Her prayers has been listened, 'Thank you so much Aiyappa... Thank you for listening to my prayer, request.'

Having no other choice Madhyam instructs her with stern voice, " Answer it, but no cleverness okay, No funny business. I am right here only in front of you, so no asking for any type of help. Tell him that you were in the bathroom earlier, so you couldn't pick his call." saying this he left her hand and sat in front of her on the couch ready to listen to what she says to him... Watching her each and every move like a hawk .

Not making any sudden or suspicious movement, Nandini slowly walks over to the table and picks up her phone, answering it, "HELLO, MANIK! " she says, attempting to sound as normal natural as possible and not seem stressed, scared or freaked out.

"HELLO, JAAN!!"

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Precap : Our Hero's entry...

It is a Short chapter today but anyways how did all my dear readers find it... Few words for it, excited for the next update, will Nandini be able to tell Manik about Madhyam, will he be able to save her???

Bye and stay safe,

Love you all,

Ria ❤️