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In a dark abandoned room was filled with the stench of sweat and fear. The faint sound of water dripping echoed through the cold concrete walls. In the center of the room a metal chair bolted on the floor.

Varun woke up with stinging pain in his head. He looked around only to find himself tied on a chair. He started wiggling like a fish taken out from water. Soon he heard footsteps echoing in the abandoned room.

"Well well look who's struggling here" abhimanyu spoke in his cold voice , he crossed his arms walking to varun. "Let me go abhimanyu.. my bunny is waiting for me" varun spatted again trying to free himself.

Abhimanyu's blood boiled in anger and he gave a punch right at Varun's jaw. "don't you dare take my ishi's name from that filthy mouth of yours" varun groaned in pain , abhimanyu ordered his men to get his stuff.

"So varun you kidnapped my ishi and murdered someone in front of her giving her trauma of life" abhimanyu spoke rolling the spiked whip around his fist , and gave a hard whip on his hands. And with that Abhimanyu brutally whipped varun.

Varun cried in agony but Abhimanyu didn't show any mercy. Abhimanyu stepped on Varun's right hand digging his heel of shoe in his hand "does it hurt? Huh with these hands you tried to touch my ishi" varun yelled even more "take it off take it off" he shuttered but abhimanyu was not in mood.

He had promised to make Varun beg for death and now is just the beginning.

One of the men standing behind Abhimanyu handed him a pair of pliers, their metal gleaming under the flickering light. Abhimanyu took them, admiring their weight for a moment. Without another word, he crouched down in front of Varun, gripping the man's hand and forcing his fingers apart.

"You know what's coming next, don't you?" Abhimanyu's voice was almost gentle. He positioned the pliers over Varun's thumbnail. "You motherfucker sto-" Varun's voice cracked in terror, seizing him as he knew what was up next.

Abhimanyu gave him a cold smile "you should have thought about it when you sent those creepy texts to my ishi.." Varun's screams were heard in the whole room as nails ripped from his fingers, blood spurting out from raw wounds.

The pain was too much for him to take in. Once abhimanyu was done he tossed the pliers aside. "abhimanyu singh just stopped it already, just kill me" varun spoke in a tired voice. All this while varun just torchered people but now he himself is going through the same torcher.

Abhimanyu smirked "i told you varun you'll beg for death but you won't get it" and just like that the torcher continued varun passed , abhimanyu kicked his unconscious body and after asking his men to tie him again abhimanyu left.

He drove to his mansion , as he entered the guest room hr sae ishika still sleeping peacefully he went to shower to get rid of the blood stains. After taking a warm shower he wore his sweatpants and went to Ishika. He lay beside her pulling her close to him.

"Abhi" ishika whispered "shh jaan go to sleep" he kissed her forehead. Ishika buried her face in his chest. Abhimanyu smiled and they both drifted off to sleep.

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Torcher on varun went on for weeks , abhimanyu didn;t show any leniency, abhimanyu was brutal and cold. After a week Abhimanyu handed Varun to the police and made sure he was behind the bar for the rest of his life. Armaan who was injured by varun too was recovering when swanandi came to know about it she rushed to the hospital crying like crazy.

Swanandi was calmed down by ishika, and Swanandi stayed at the hospital taking care of armaan. Which was helping him recover more quickly ('love things right') as they spent time together their feelings became stronger with time. All that was left was confession. Armaan no matter how much he denied he couldn't shrug his beating heart when he was with swanandi and swanandi was already in love with him may be the moment she saw him she was already head over heels for him. Soom armaan was discharged and was ready to go home to spend more time with swanandi.

Ishika too got over the trauma once for all. She took a short break staying and spending time with Abhimanyu and her family.

Abhimanyu made sure she was with him , because he was scared that the incident might leave her traumatized but instead it helped her out of her nightmares. Ishika started going to her dance classes continuing her passion for dance. Everything was going well between those two.

She signed the studio for her new office 'CREATIVE HABITAT' and now it was time for her to give surprise to abhimanyu. Which would be given to him on his birthday which was the next day. Iishika was setting up her studio when she received Abhimanyu's call.

On call:

Abhimanyu: jaan where are you?

Ishika: I am out for work abhi.. Don't worry, Raghav is with me.

Abhimanyu: Okay okay I won't disturb you. I wanted to tell you that I'll be home early. We are going out tonight.

Ishika: Okay hubby, I'll be waiting for you.

Ishika hung up the call and continued her work. After she was finally done she asked Raghav to drop her home. Raghav dropped Ishika home and picked up Ananya for her training. The ride to his agency was silent , ananya had formed a soft corner for raghav in the time they spent together.

She started liking his company but she was too scared to trust anyone again. Raghav reached E.S they both got out of the car. "Today we'll shoot, are you ready?" ananya nods as a kid she was fascinated with guns, she watched movies like dhoom franchise she always wanted to be part of those movies either playing a cop or the thief.

She followed Raghav into the shooting room. He helped her wear the headphones and taught her how to load a gun. "Now aim at the target.. Your eyes should be fixed on the target where you wanna hit and once you do that just shoot" ananaya took a deep breath and walked in to the shooting area.

She looked at the target in front of her. Her hands were sweaty, hardly holding the gun. She fired the bullet, a huge sound echoed flinching to the core. She covered her ears and turned around. The only person standing behind her was Raghav. Her face landed on his chest while Raghav wrapped his hands around her protectively.

Raghav's heart was thumping in his ribcage so was ananay's both were flustered but both didn't move. "You okay?" Raghav whispered , ananya nodded and pulled back. "Y..yes sorry for that" she tucked the hair strand behind her ear and cleared her throat. "Lets um continue" ananya spoke grabbing the gun once again this time determined to shoot the aim.

She closed her eyes. The only face she wanted to shoot was Sam and his friend. She opened her eyes and started shooting all the bullets into the target as if it was sam. Ragahv understood what was happening , as ananaya kept on clicking yet empty sound came from the gun. He held her hand and took the gun from her.

Ananya didn't say anything, she just removed the headphones and went to sit on the bench. Raghav walked to her and handed her a bottle of water. She took it and started gulping down the water. "You can't lose your calm and under the influence of emotions we tend to make mistakes," Raghav said , sitting beside her.

"If you keep losing your calm you'll be at a disadvantage.. Think with your brain and make decisions" raghav continued. "I know but whenever i think of that night my blood boils i just want to break in jail and hit him till he is dead" Ananya sighed. Raghav just let out a laugh, now who will tell her that those two bastards are already dead and not in some jail.

Ananya looked at him, his eyes crinkle when he laughed a small dimple forming on his cheeks. His laugh was contagious, she just wanted to hear him laugh. A genuine smile forms on her lips. "You can laugh too?" she spoke, raising an eyebrow. "Of course miss singh i am a human too i cry and laugh i am not void to any human emotions"

"You look serious all the time. I thought you don't know how to laugh" ananya spoke and shrugged. "Maybe it's because I am with you," he whispered and got up. Leaving ananya flustered, "Come on" he spoke nonchalantly but truths as he was flustered too. And just as their training continued as usual the training was over and Raghav dropped her home.

Ananya waited till Raghav's car was out of the gate. 'This man was sure something , how could butterflies erupt in my stomach with his single sentence?' Ananya shook her head and walked in.