The small slit between the drawned curtains wasn't allowing her to sleep. Despite of her thousands of attempt to not look at that direction, her eyes, as if they had their own accord, were continuously wandering towards it. The whole room was drowned in darkness except a thin beam of light, which was peeping inside the room through that gap. How many times did she try to gather some courage and get up from the bed to draw the curtains fully but the fear wasn't allowing her.

She kept on tossing and turning on the bed, trying hard to get some sleep but failed miserably. Every time she closed her eyes, she felt like someone was watching her through the glass window and her closed eyes would open immediately, moving towards the slit automatically. Her heart was beating like crazy with fear. All kinds of scary and cadaverous possibilities were bugging her, shooing her beauty sleep away.

After hell lot of efforts, Khushi finally gave up on her tries and sat up on the bed with a loud groan. She glanced at the right side of the bed only to find her husband sleeping like a log, with his usual hand-under-head pose. Few strand of hairs were falling on his forehead, making him look even more cuter.

"Ughg, look at him! Sleeping so comfortably after selling all his horses and donkeys. And here it's poor me, who can't even get a wink of sleep yet." Khushi muttered irritatingly looking at her husband.

"Hey Devi Maiya! What should I do? I can't sleep at all. And on top of that, these weird feelings are also eating me up. I am feeling so afraid. It feels like as if someone is continuously staring at me. What should I do? This place is also so strange and aghast. I shouldn't have accompany Arnav-ji here. Had I listen to him and stayed back at Shantivan, I would have been sleeping soundly by now instead of getting afraid here." She pouted, twisting her mouth and peeked at the void between the curtains, from the corner of her eyes.

So, what actually happened was, Arnav was coming to Mumbai to finalize a deal and attend a workshop. Although Khushi would accompany him in his every tour but this time, he was a little reluctant to take her with him. Reason? Because AR's pent house was under renovation and Arnav didn't like to stay in hotels or guests houses due to reasons which were only known to him. Aman had already informed him about renting a flat for him where he would stay.

Now, Arnav knew that Khushi won't be comfortable at a different place and she would be facing problems. Moreover, this trip was really a hectic one and he didn't have much spare time to spend with her. Although, he knew that Khushi is not a child and could take care of herself but even than, his protective instincts were a little anxious about leaving her all alone at the flat and going for work.

So Arnav tried his best to make his wife understand but the stubborn soul that she was, she wasn't ready to let him go alone. Reason? Because Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada didn't want her handsome hubby to be surrounded by those slim, sleek, gorgeous but clingy models who used to wear clothes that left nothing to hide and were always ready to throw themselves on him. No! It wasn't like Khushi didn't trust her husband. She did and that too, with all her heart but she didn't trust the chudails, who were always around him. That's why, she was adamant on accompanying him and at last, Arnav had to surrender in front of her.

And now, the couple was there at Mumbai, staying in a small yet cozy, three bedroom apartment which didn't appear cozy to Khushi at all. As soon as she stepped inside the flat, she instantly termed it as a weird and stupid place, making Arnav roll his eyes at her. She didn't even stay back there and accompany him to his office, refusing to live there alone without him. And the poor, love-sick hubby didn't have any other choice than complying her wish.

A small 'thud' sound brought Khushi put of her thoughts. She squeaked and jumped in fear, putting a hand on her fast beating heart and looked towards the glass window with fear written all over her face. Her eyes were wide with shock and throat had went dry.

The room in which they were staying had a stupid window which was opening in a terrace, which was further leading to the road. At first, Khushi didn't want to sleep in this room but much to her bad luck, that was the only room with a double bed. Having no other choice, she had to gave in. Although Arnav, with his devilish smirk plastered on his face, did offer her that they could stay in the other room too which had a single bed and despite of all his jadedness, he would do his best to make her feel comfortable.

A loud crashing sound was heard outside the window making Khushi let out a hushed 'Ahhh'. Gulping hard, she tried to get her parched throat and looked at the window with teary eyes. Her one hand was clutching the side of her dress tightly and the other was put on her mouth to avoid her screams.

"H--Hey Devi Maiya!! Why are you doing this to me? What is this happening? Who..who is there outside our room? Do-dont make me afraid like this. I....I don't want to die so early. Arnav-ji won't be able to live without me. You know na, how much he loves me. I don't want to leave him. If I die than my Arnav-ji would break apart. Devi Maiya, please don't do this to him. Pl-please save me from whoever is present outside our room." Khushi blabbered, still staring at the window with narrowed eyes.

For next few moments, there was complete silence outside the window. No more movement or sound were heard but, just when Khushi started became happy, thinking that her DM had shooed away the monster outside the window, she saw two small red spots like light, looking inside the room through the glass.

With eyes wide with fear, Khushi opened her mouth to scream loudly but no voice cane out. She opened and closed her mouth like a fish, trying to form some words but to no avail. Fresh tears rolled down her eyes thinking that her time has come.

"That's it! Everything is about to finish. Get ready Khushi, you have to leave your Arnav-ji and this world now. No one can save from getting murdered from the serial killer standing outside. He is using laser light to look inside the room. Hey Bhagwan, he must be a rival of Arnav-ji and is here to separate my head from my body to avenge him. Or maybe, he would cut my body in different pieces. I know this is it. He would than wrap my head in a gift box and send it to Arnav-ji like it happens in CID drama. Hayee, why this is happening to me only? I am still so young. I haven't even watch this whole world fully. I don't want to get killed so brutally." She cried even more.

Still whimpering and imagining all the horrible ways through which the serial killer would murder her, Khushi crawled back in the bed, shivering with fear. Her hand collided with Arnav's and that's when the realization dawned upon her that she wasn't alone in the room.

"Hayee, how can I forget this? I am not alone here. Arnav-ji is with me. Why was I getting afraid? My Arnav-ji would protect me from this killer and beat the hell outta him like he did to those goons who kidnapped us. Hayee, what a scene it was!! Arnav-ji was all alone fight with six gundas at a time. Oh my God! How hot he was looking beating them! Even more than Salman Khan-ji. I can't forget how his ripped muscles were flexing each time he punched one of those goons. Hayee!! So sexy!" Khushi squealed, with a dreamy look on her face.

A small knock on the glass pulled her back to reality. Snapping out of her dream la--umm--Arnav land, she glared at the window, where the laser light beam was looking more close and the killer was even knocking to get inside the room.

"Hey Bhagwan! Why is he knocking on the window? Can't he come inside himself? Ohh, is it possible that he heard me praising my hubby and is now coming inside to kill me and Arnav-ji both? Devi Maiya! Please don't let him do this!! Please don't let him come inside this room. Once he gets inside, he would kill both of us and bury our bodies here only. Or worst possibility, he would burn and turn us into ashes. Me and Arnav-ji will vanish from the face of Earth. No one will ever get to know about us. Even our families won't be able to locate us." She bit her nails anxiously as the knocking increased.

"This is all Aman-ji's fault. He got this flat for us in such a scary place. Devi Maiya will punish him for putting me and Arnav-ji through this. If we escape from this killer, than I will make sure that Arnav-ji would fire him or if we get killed, than I and Arnav-ji will become ghosts and scare the hell out of him for doing this to us." Khushi planned a revenge against Aman, thinking furiously.

The knocking had now increased even more and two red lazer light beams were glued to the glass. Khushi felt like it was glaring at her angrily for not opening the window herself. Not left with any other option, she finally jumped on Arnav, shaking him hardly.

"Arnav get up! We are in danger. Arnav....get up....we are going to be killed in next few minutes. Arnav...get up laad-governor....there is a serial killer standing outside our window." Khushi shook him with all her might.

"Yeah yeah i love you too Khushi."Arnav responded in a groggy voice pulling her back in his arms.

"What the--!?" Khushi exclaimed as she fell back on his chest.

"Yeah baby, I said na love you too.." Arnav mumbled burying his face in her hairs.

"Oh God youu..." She struggled to get out of his hold, but her husband only tightened his hold around her. Even asleep, his grip on her was like steel.

"Laad-governor..." Khushi snarled, hitting his chest trying to wake him up.

On one side, the knocks were increasing on the window making her afraid that the murderer would be inside the room any minute and on the other, her husband was in full mood to romance even in his sleep.

Not having any other option, Khushi raised her hand and slapped his cheek hardly. The force was really too much that she felt her hand stinging but it did earn her the desired result, cause the next second, Arnav had sat up on the bed with a startle.

"What the--!? Khushi, you slap me!?" He looked at her shockingly.

Khushi gritted her teeth. "Yes!"

"But why?"

"To wake you up!"

"But why?"

She huffed loudly and flared her nose before punching his arm. "Because I wanted to have s*x with you." She snapped frustratingly.

"Really?" Arnav's eyes lit up at her answer. He had clearly missed the mock in her voice. "I am always ready baby. But you know, there wasn't a need to slap me to wake me up. There were many other ways to do so too. I would have loved it, if you had waked me up by kissing me." He husked in a romantic voice.

Khushi's jaw dropped at his desperateness and shamelessness. Anger build up inside her watching him removing his shirt, getting ready for the action while winking at her. Grinding her teeth, she slapped him again.

"Oww, why are you slapping me again Khushi? I am awake now and even ready to full fill your wish." He complained, rubbing his cheek.

"Laad-governor." Khushi hissed. "Are you deaf or what?"

Arnav looked at her surprisingly. "Deaf? Me? Umm...no!"

"Than can't you hear the knocks on our window? There is a serial killer standing outside our room to murder us." She spoke in a panicked voice.

Arnav jumped at his place. "What?"

"Yes!" Khushi bobbed her head up and down. She than hold his chin and turned his head towards the window making him look at it. "Can you see the red lazer light he is using to look inside our room? Oh God Arnav, i am feeling so afraid. He must be having a knife too. He will kill us." She cried, holding his arm tightly.

Arnav gulped. "Oh God! What should we do now Khushi? He is looking all set to jump inside any minute now. Suggest something. You must have experience of these situations."

Khushi gritted her teeth. "I must have experience? Why? Do you think I am part of a gang of serial killers? Or it's a everyday thing for me to face a murderer that I would know what to do!?" She glared at him.

"Oh...no no Khushi." He shook his head. "I meant to say that you have watched so many movies so you might know the next step. Should I call the police?"

"No!" Khushi denied instantly. "If he gets to know that we have informed the police that we would be killed the next second. We have to think of something else."

Arnav nodded his head and keep looking at her face making Khushi lose her patience. "What are you looking at me laad-governor? I have asked you to think. Had I known that you will be only staring at me than I wouldn't have awakened you in the first place." She punched his arm again.

Arnav grimaced and looked towards the window again where the knocking was still going on. His eyes fell on the vase kept on the coffee table making him grin. With a proud look on his face, he looked at Khushi who was still engrossed in her thoughts, thinking of ways to grasp the killer.

"Khushi!!" Arnav beamed. "I have got a splendid idea."

"What?"

"You see the vase on the table? I will pick it up and stand bear the window. Than you will come quietly and open the window suddenly. As you can see, he is standing glued to our window, so when you will open it suddenly, as a reflex action, he would stumble inside and that would be the moment when I will hit him with the vase and catch him. What say??" He wiggled his brows at her, smiling widely.

"Arnav!" Khushi said in a voice which was laced with admiration. "You are such a genius. I am proud of you man." She patted his shoulder.

Arnav smiled shyly and gesture her to get up. Khushi nodded her head and both of them stood up from the bed. They tip-toes towards the window, with fast beating hearts and stood at either side quietly. Arnav picked up the vase in his hands and tightened his grip on it, all set to attack the enemy. He looked at Khushi and moved his hand asking her to open the window. She nodded her head in no. Arnav closed his eyes in assurance, asking her to do so. She again shook her head in denial making her husband angry. He glared at her with eyes spitting fire and jerked his head furiously towards the window, gesturing her to open it. Khushi pouted and moved her head left to right, with puppy dog eyes which instantly melted her husband. Sighing deeply, he controlled his anger and passes her an encouraging smile. He passed her a flying kiss and mouthed an 'I love you. You can do it baby' to her.

Now this did the trick. Khushi smiled nervously and nodded her head in yes. Shutting her eyes  tightly, she forwarded her shivering hands and yanked open the window with a snap. Even before the killer could jump inside, Khushi screamed at the top of her voice making Arnav's hand shook. The vase fell from his hand in the floor with a loud crash, breaking into pieces. A loud 'What the' escaped his mouth followed by a squeaking 'MEOW' and the serial killer turned around and ran back,  jumping down from the terrace into the garden

After that, for few moments it was complete silence. Khushi, whose eyes were shut tightly and was panting hardly keeping a hand on her chest, opened her eyes slowly and looked at her husband who was looking outside the window with a bewildered expression plastered on his face.

"What...was...that?" Words rolled out of his tongue

"A...cat." Khushi informed, still in trance.

Arnav turned his head and looked at her with surprised eyes, with his jaw dropped low. He than moved towards the door and stepped inside the terrace. Khushi immediately followed him. Reaching near the railing, they both looked down. In the light of street lamps, they saw a black cat looking up towards their floor with it's red eyes. It's mouth was opened and tongue was hanging out, huffing hardly. It was clearly under the after-shocks of Khushi's loud scream. Upon meeting the couple's eyes, poor cat instantly looked away and ran away into the dark alley, probably afraid of hearing another earth shattering howl.

"It was a bloody cat. It wasn't any murderer." Arnav breathed, still looking on the street.

"It wasn't any Lazer light. It was that cat's red eyes." Khushi also spoke.

Flaring his nose, Arnav looked at Khushi with blazing eyes making her gulp timidly. She stepped back immediately, afraid of her husband's expected out burst.

"Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada. You woke me up from middle of my sleep for this stupid reason? Have you gone nuts? Arnav hissed, glaring at her and took a step towards her.

Khushi raised her hands in defense and shook her head. "Don't! Don't you dare scold me. If I acted stupidly, than you were no less too. Why did you believed me immediately and didn't think rationally yourself."

Arnav raised a brow at her audacity of blaming him for her foolishness and fold his arms on his chest. "Like really Khushi? It is my fault?"

Khushi bobbed her head up and down. "Yes! You are such a big business man. The whole world praises you for your intelligence. Why didn't you think that, how come a killer could climb on the third floor with no means at all and tight security all around? It should have been you to think of this point. You are the mature one out of us. And I am still young. I got afraid." She pouted in the end looking extremely cute.

Arnav smirked devilishly. "I am the mature one, right?"

"Yes!"

"Ok, than let me show you how mature I am, now that we are awake in the middle of night. And more over, you need a punishment too for destroying my sleep."

And before Khushi could react, Arnav lunged forward and picked her in his arms, throwing her over his shoulder like a sack. She let out a loud squeal, hitting his back with her small palms trying to wriggle out of his grip.

"Leave me. Arnav put me down Yar. I am very sleepy. Arnav!!" She whined.

Smiling like a devil, Arnav smacked her butt lightly making her gasp in shock. He entered inside the room, closing the terrace door with a kick and threw her on the bed before hovering over her.

"Shut-up! You are not going to be spared tonight."

And with that, he slammed his lips on her taking her into a mind numbing kiss.

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