In the morning

At Menon's house

Sonia was getting ready to go to office. She grabbed her bag and phone from the bed.

She bid her mom bye and walked to the road to catch an auto towards her office.

She was thinking over the events that had occurred in the past week.

Ever since she returned home, she was realising the changes that were happening to her.

She was getting confused with the emotions that were running through her whole body.

Just then she realised that Ronny had not contacted her since her return.

She took out her phone to check for any calls or messages from him, but was disappointed.

Sonia understood that maybe he did mean to give her a little space to gather his thoughts.

At Sonia's office.

She was blindly looking at her PC screen and sitting still. Her intercom ranged and she was called in the director's cabin.

"Sonia, please come in. Have a seat." The director spoke.

"Thank you, Sir." Sonia gave a weak smile to him.

The director asked her "Sonia, as you know we have the quarterly audit wherein we would require all the major staff members to concentrate on their contribution to the documentation, reporting and overall checking of the books." Sonia nodded in understanding his point.

"Since you are one of the analysts in our team. It is pivotal for you to take incharge of the team assigned to you. I would require you to train them and educate them on the legal requirements and proceeding of the audit for bettering the process." The director explained further.

"Yes, Sir, I will definitely support the company in the training program. When do I need to start, Sir?" Sonia expressed her willingness for the same.

"Starting from tomorrow, a team of 7 members will be assigned to you to assist you on the documentation and paperwork of the files which you are quite familiar with. I know about that. So, you just have to make it mandatory for all your team members to understand the process in a thorough manner. Ok." The director instructed her.

Sonia was noting down all the dos and don'ts that were explained by the director to her.

After the discussion, she came out of his cabin.

She got back in her seat, when she received a call on her phone.

She was shocked to see the name of the person reflecting on her phone.

She picked the call getting tensed.

"Hello, is this Sonia?" an unknown person spoke on the other side of the call.

"Yes" Sonia was getting confused.

"Please come to the City Hospital. There is a person here who is badly injured and he is calling out your name!" the person informed.

Sonia's eyes widened in shock. She froze and then jerked at the caller raised voice from the phone.

"H-Hello, who, what is his name?" She asked in fear.

"Please hurry! He is not able to speak properly. He is half conscious. Do come fast! He is calling out your name continuously. Please!" hearing the desperation in the person voice. She rushed out of the office informing her director about the emergency call.

She reached City Hospital and dialled Ronny's number. The person from earlier picked her call and asked her to come to the emergency ward.

Hearing that she rushed to the emergency ward. She saw a figure standing near the operation theatre. She panicked and went hurriedly towards the person.

He saw her and spoke.

"Sonia?"

Sonia nodded her head and looked at the operation theatre as in asking him the reason.

The person said that a person has been found heavily injured in his own apartment. He had multiple cuts in his body and was also intoxicated.

She shivered and ran to the window of the operation theatre.

Since everyone was hurrying inside the operation theatre, she was not able to recognise the person sleeping on the bed.

When her line of vision cleared, she almost went in a shock.

Ronny was lying on the operation theatre bed with multiple cuts in his body.

She closed her mouth with her hand and moved back and sat on the bench opposite to the operation theatre. The person came rushing to her and grabbed her before she could fall.

She looked at the person and gathered her courage and enquired about what she was seeing.

"I am his neighbour. I saw that for a couple of days, he used to not open his apartment door. He used always cry in loud noises calling out your name. Most of the time, he used to be intoxicated when he used to cry."

Sonia was listening to the person.

"This was going on for around 3 – 4 days. Today, when I went to get the milk from the store, I found that he was not making any sounds from yesterday. So, I thought he must have slept late." The person continued.

"Around 10 o'clock, I rang his apartment bell to give him some tea and snacks. Since he was also looking little weak and fragile."

"After several bell rings, when he didn't open the door. I panicked. I called our apartment watchman to help me open his apartment door. We were able to jolt it open with some tools."

Sonia was getting panicked by the minute.

"When I went inside the apartment, I was shocked to see the state of his room. Beer bottle were all over the place. The whole place was ransacked. I went to his bedroom, to find him intoxicated on the bed. I went near him to wake him up but he didn't respond. Then when I went to take some water to sprinkle on him, I saw this bottle lying on the floor half emptied." The person gave the bottle to Sonia which even shocked her more.

It was half empty bottle of sleeping pills, which seems Ronny had gulped almost 6-7 of them at a shot.

She couldn't control her tears and started panicking more.

Just then the operation theatre door opened, the doctor made his way to them. he asked for the family member, to which Sonia went towards him. He spoke

"His vital signs seem to be stable now. But he needs rest. Any kind of trauma or unrest would endanger his life. So be careful. Let him stay here for 2 days just for observation. Ok."

Sonia weakly nodded and went near the operation theatre window.

She blamed herself for Ronny's current state.

She must not have forced him to break up. It was all because of her.

She was finding it difficult to digest all that was happening to her life.

After few hours, Ronny gained his consciousness. He opened his eyes to find Sonia beside his bed with her head laying on the edge of the bed.

He called her and tried to touch her but couldn't as the IV was attached to him.

Sonia got up on her name being called and hurried towards Ronny catching hold of his hand.

"Please, don't get up. You are still very weak." She said with concern and sadness.

"I have you here. All my weakness will vanish away thanks to you." Ronny tried to smile.

Sonia burst out crying at his words clutching his hands in an apologetic manner. Ronny just patted her head assuring her that he was fine.

Sonia looked at him and spoke, "Ronny, I am sorry. It is all because of me. It's because of me that you are in such a state. I should have not told you to break up with me. I am so so sorry, Ronny. Please forgive me! Please...."

Ronny just tsked and said, "It's okay, Sonia. You were just tired and confused at that time. But I hope now you know that how much I love you and can't live without you. Sonia, I have been dying every day. Not one day has passed with me not trying to call you or message you. I am dying here, baby. Please forgive me. I promise you I will not be possessive anymore. But please, don't hate me. Please, baby...please..." saying Ronny started to cry badly.

Sonia looked at him with teary eyes remembering on how she had brutally broken up with him. She thought that he didn't deserve such cruelty from her side. He just loved her and wanted to be with her for the rest of his life.

What is wrong with that?

Isn't that what she wanted, to spend her life with her loved ones?

Make her life content and hopeful?

Have a future with her boyfriend, have a family with him?

As she was thinking, Ronny said, "I am going back to my family. They have been calling me and asking me to get married."

Sonia looked at him with shock.

Ronny looked down and said, "I will have to agree with whomsoever they tell me to marry, since we are not going to get married to each other. It's better that we go our own separate ways, Sonia."

Sonia shaked her head in denial and wanted to stop him from stating such things.

"I think I will leave after two days, since I have to take care of my rental apartment, job. I will be shifting back to my family house in Delhi. Papa wants me to join his business and mom was also missing me, so I was thinki...." Ronny continued with his plan, when...

"Let's get married!" Sonia suddenly suggested making him shocked.

Ronny searched her face for any sign of regrets, but it only showed desperation. Something that he wanted badly from her. But he didn't show it in his face and asked in a concerned manner.

"What are you saying, Sonia? How can we? You said that you wanted a timeout. And there is your parent's permission. Do you think they would agree with your decision to marry me? Tell me, Sonia?"

"I don't care. We are going to get married. I have made my decision. We are going to go to my parents and tell them our wish to marry each other." Sonia sounded adamant.

"Are you sure they will agree? Because you said the last time that they were planning an arranged marriage for you like your brother. Do you think they will agree for a love marriage?" Ronny pretended to be concerned to make her say the obvious from her own mouth.

"I will convince them. And moreover, you are from a sophisticated family. Your family are well known in your hometown in Delhi. They will not say no to that and especially to me." Ronny saw determination in her eyes when she spoke those words.

He internally screamed with satisfaction at his little trick that was able to trap her right where he wanted.

He smiled at her and hugged her, kissing her forehead.

His phase I of the plan was successful.

For long he wanted her to fight with her own family for him.

For his true love and he succeeded.

Now the second phase was to see her destroy her family's belief, trust and love towards her.

How she would fight for him and how they would throw her out just to save their so-called dignity.

Then he would move successfully towards his ultimate goal – destroy the Menon family completely.

Thinking about his next plan of action, he hugged her tighter and relaxed. 

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