32.

Few hours before:

After Abhimanyu left to meet neel , Ishika went into her room enjoying her jalebi. Radhika and Arjun went to Arjun's friend's house for dinner , Armaan was in his room while Ananya was training with Raghav. Suddenly the lights went off which put Ishika into a panic state.

She tried to calm herself not repeating the things that happened last time she turned on her mobile flash. She knew the more she got scared the more he would scare her. She tried calling Armaan as only he was in the house at the moment but he didn't answer.

The first time Ishika did was to lock the room. Though on the surface she showed herself calm and composed internally she was dying. With her shaky hands she tried calling abhimanyu but there was no coverage at all. She kept on trying to call but there were jammers installed.

Suddenly a black figure appears wearing the same mask.. the mask that gave Ishika trauma for life, mask that snatched away her peaceful sleep at night. "Y...you" ishika couldn't utter a single word she was scared.. this man how could he enter even after tight security Abhimanyu had placed.

"Miss me bunny?" The stalker spoke, sending the chilling shiver through her spine. "I am here to take you to my paradise where you belong" Ishika shook her head "no.. I belong here with my abhimanyu" the stalker seemed like taken back but he kept his cool. "So now my bunny knows how to talk back instead of getting scared huh"

"Tum ho kon? Huh tum chahte kya ho? Kyu mere piche pade ho?" (Who are you? What do you want? Why are you disturbing my life?) Ishika finally spoke , at this point she just wanted to know why she had to go through this all. "Who am i? Huh" the stalker let out a cold chuckle. And he finally removed the mask..

"Y ..you" ishika looked at the man horrified , "remember me bunny" he walked close to her sitting on bed. "V...varun Kapoor" varun smirks "so you remember me huh.. that's right i am the one who kidnapped you.. i am one who send you message I am the one who loved you endlessly"

Ishika springs off the bed "you don't love me.. you are just a cruel person who is obsessed with me" Ishika didn't know from where she was able to speak it all. But she was just mad at the moment she wanted to confront him and punish him for his deeds. "Bunny Don't you think you are being too daring huh..did you forget how i killed that rehan? Well now it's your Abhimanyu's turn he'll die like rehan"

Hearing Varun Ishika's blood boiled in anger. He was the reason Abhimanyu got into an accident . She would not let him hurt Abhi anymore. "Well before that did you know we were in the same college before?" Varun continued ignoring Ishika glare.

"You were so kind to me , i had got cut while sharpening my pencil so you yourself tended that cut on my finger.. that was the moment when i fell in love with you" he walks close to her "and no you are gonna come with me but first I'll kill that Abhimanyu he came in between us" with that he took out his phone to call Abhimanyu.

He was giving warning to abhimanyu when he suddenly felt a shrinking pain in his head. Ishika hit him with the metal rod of a vase. Varun looked at Ishika with his wide eyes. "Y..you" the pain was too much for Varun to take in. "You can't always get away with your crimes varun.. and you dared to hurt Abhimanyu my Abhimanyu.. I won't think twice before cutting your hands before you even touch my Abhimanyu"

Varun took a step forward, with his stumbling feets Ishika gave him another hit head on "told you to stay away from me and my Abhimanyu" another hit gave Varun a fatal hit and he fell down unconscious.

Present:

Neel checked on Varun's veins checkin if he was alive or not. "Still breathing" he muttered and looked at Abhimanyu who was calming crying ishika. "Hand him to the police" abhimanyu gave neel a suggestive look, neel understood what abhimanyu meant he dragged Varun's unconscious body out of the room.

"Where is armaan?" Ishika asked in her shaky voice. "i remember only he was at home.." abhimanyu shushed her "don't worry armaan is fine too right now you need to rest okay?" ishika nodded right now she just wanted to stay close to abhimanyu feel safe in his arms. She felt a sense of pride seeing varun unconscious, he has given her a lots of trauma and nightmare. She was finally free from it all. Now she has live her life in peace with out clutches of her nightmare her stalker.

Raghav asked his men to clean the blood in the room while Abhimanyu carried Ishika to the guest room. Abhimanyu laid Ishika gently on the bed and sat down beside her. Ishika lay her head on Abhimanyu's lap. "It's okay ishi.. everything is fine now..hm"

"Are you hurt anywhere jaan?" Ishika shook her head. "No.. I hurt him. After so many years I got rid of the nightmare.. i got away from that horrifying night abhi i got rid of that fear i ..i confronted him" Abhimanyu's gaze softened "i know love and i am very proud of you"

He caressed her cheeks. "The police will take care of him but for now I'll send Ananya to you. Please get some rest, okay?" Ishika clutched Abhimanyu's hand tight and she wanted him to stay. "Right now i only want you Abhi please" Abhimanyu didn't need to be asked again he laid down beside her. Dealing with varun could be done later right now his wife needed him.

"Abhi sing for me?" Abhimanyu was playing with Ishika's locks while another hand was caressing her arms.

Muskurane ki wajah tum ho

Gungunane ki wajah tum ho

Jiya jaaye na, jaaye na, jaaye na..

O re piya re..

Jiya jaaye na, jaaye na, jaaye na..

O re piya re..

O re lamhe tu kahin mat jaa

Ho sake toh umr bhar tham jaa

Jiya jaaye na, jaaye na, jaaye naa..

O re piya re..

Jiya jaaye na, jaaye na, jaaye naa..

O re piya re.. piya re..

Dhoop aaye toh, chhav tum laana

Khwahishon ki baarishon mein

Bheeg sang jaana

Dhoop aaye toh, chhav tum laana

Khwahishon ki baarishon mein

Bheeg sang jaana

Jiya jaaye na jaaye na jaaye na

O re piya re..

Jiya jaaye na jaaye na jaaye na

O re piya re.. piya re

Ishika felt calmed and Abhimanyu's voice did that magic to her. And slowly she drifted off to sleep in his arms feeling protected and loved. Abhimanyu kissed her forehead, he hated her tears the most and today she cried all because he left her alone. He was not gonna let that varun go.. not that easily.

Abhimanyu called neel. Within a ring the call the was picked up.

On call:

Abhimanyu: how is our little guest ?

Neel: achi khatirdari hori rahi tu tension na le .

( We are taking care of it you don't worry)

Abhimanyu: im not worrying about that. I m worried that you both won leave anything for me .. i want to deal with him.. break every piece every inch of him.

Neel: don't worry let ishika get calm then varun is all yours.

Abhimanyu hung up the call looking at Ishika , she felt movement near her so she wrapped her arms around his waist not letting him go anywhere.

"Shh love just sleep you are free from all the pain all the nightmares starting today.. from tomorrow you'll start your new life new happy life. Now there will be only happy dreams our happy dreams my love"

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