Divya's POV

The next day I woke up before sunrise and couldn't sleep again despite my wishes but me being the lazy me was still awake in the bed tossing and turning, I was cocooned in my blanket after an hour I gave up and got up, after brushing my teeth I tied my hair in a messy bun and went downstairs.

I was extremely bored and since it was weekend I didn't even have work today.

Surprisingly when I got down I saw Shiv cooking and Om sprawled on the sofa surrounded by chips and lots of cold drinks if only mom sees this.

I entered the kitchen and peered from his shoulder to see what he was cooking.

"Ooh lasagna, can I have some pretty please," I showed him my big puppy dog eyes, despite it not working on him usually.

"I knew you would come, but only if you get that stupid goose out of the sofa, you'll be rewarded with this lasagna," He said garnishing it without even looking at me.

"How did you know that I was awake?" I raised a brow at him to which Om answered me

"You were not roaring, sorry 'snoring'," Om yelled from the sofa.

"Oh, puh-leese I do not snore" I sassed.

"Uh-uh, your 'snoring' is louder than a lion's roar. I don't know how Shiv sleeps in his room." Om shook his head continued munching on his chips loudly.

"stronzo!" I threw a spoon at him which hit his head. ( asshole)

"OW! Dubiina" I guess I hit his pea sized brain. ( idiot)

"Durak" ( fool)

"Dura" ( fool)

"Connard" ( shithead)

"Id- we were cut off by jingling of coins.

"Please do keep fighting, I'm earning a lot of money here," Mom said jingling her swear jar.

Shiv snickered while Om muttered " cavalo!"
( holy crap!)

"Hun that also counts, now come on empty your pockets, hurry up!" Her brown eyes stared at us full of mirth.

"But I don't have any money on me" Om said innocently, a little too innocently then smiled smugly at me.

That piece of rotten poop!

"Then I guess you are not allowed to drive your Ashton Martin or Ferrari or in fact any of your cars anywhere for only about a month" She simply smiled sweetly at him.

"Mom you can't do that" Om looked at mom horrified.

"Are you challenging me, hun?" She looked at him in amusement.

He sighed in defeat but dropped his money in the jar, mumbling how women these days women are looting sweet innocent boys like him.

"And om hun if the sofa isn't cleaned in the next 10 minutes then you are cleaning all the bathrooms in this house for the next 31 days. Now come on chop chop." Mom said as she left the room.

I smirked at his open mouth and imitated mom, "chop chop."

After 9 minutes and 57 seconds the place was as clean as mom's silver vase.

Mom, dad and deepti came down and we all started eating our breakfast together after a very long.

"So I forgot to tell you all but we got an invitation from Maceo and Maria ( Aryan's parents), they have invited us to their home for dinner today," Dad announced.

"That's good I wanted to meet them, it's been days since we've met them." Mom smiled at him.

"And we also have to discuss about the rus- Darling! Do you need some butter I think you need it," Mom threw Dad a warning look efficiently cutting off whatever he was trying to say.

"Yeah Yeah I- uh wanted some butter," Dad played along and smiled sheepishly at mom.

What are they hiding?

"Will Shreya be there too?" Om smirked at Shiv and he stiffened.

"If it's her home she'd surely be there won't she hun" Mom said sarcastically to him.

"Finally I'll meet her, I've missed her soo much, I had seen her in a restaurant a few days back"- then he whispered very quietly so that it was only heard by Shiv.

In an instant, Shiv's expression changed from frowning to furious and he gripped the fork so tight, I pity the fork.

He got up excusing himself while om leaned back on the chair smiling smugly and texted someone, Am I the only one who saw this whole ordeal, I glanced around sure enough mom and dad were too busy in themselves to notice them while Deepti was in deep thought.

~~~

"Help me I'm dying!" I was sprawled dramatically on my bed.

Kyla, Nina and Layla were hovering above me shaking their heads muttering something about how I'm being overdramatic over a dinner.

Soo you might be wondering what is happening let me tell ya, long story short:
I have a dinner to attend in half an hour and and I can't find a dress!

"Divya just chills girl, why are you hyperventilating on a dinner," Layla said from the bed.

"How can I not panic I only have half an hour and mom will kill me if I don't find a dress!" I said exasperated.

"Is it just me or she can't see a huge closet with clothes enough for three years." Nina spared a glanced at us but then returned back to doing whatever she was doing on her phone.

"She probably wants to impress someone." Kyla said distractedly rummaging through my closet.

"Ooh! I think I got one!" Kyla exclaimed raising a black dress.

"Isn't it a bit um short?" Nina eyed my dress as I thought the same thing.

"Shut it, Divya. Wear it. Now." Kyla shoved the dress into my face and pushed me into my closet.

I took it and wore it, it did look good on me, it was an off shoulder full sleeved black dress which ended just above my knee. The upper part sticked to my body while it had a flowy material from my waist to the end.
But it still looked short.

"Hey Kyla it looks a bit short." I yelled from the closet as I assessed myself in front of the mirror.

". . and I don't think it's appropriate for dinner. . his parents will be there. . he will be there too ugghh- DIVYA!" I kept on rambling when Kyla snapped at me.

"Yeah. . . "

"Get your butt over here. Right now," She growled at me.

"Yeah, just coming." I huffed and stepped out,
I stared at them waiting for any comments on how huge my butt looked or it sticked too much to my body or maybe this wasn't the dress. But instead,

"It's beautiful. . you look beautiful." Nina and Kyla smiled at me genuinely.

"I'm gonna get you dolled up." Layla chirped.

After 15 minutes I was ready to go.

Kyla and Nina got a call from someone so they left and Layla had to finish some work so even she left early.

Before leaving the room I slipped my dagger into the garter belt on my thigh. Sometimes bad times in your life leave a scar.

And I slipped the necklace he gave me, it had a gemstone pendant which had gold and green flecks on it like fairy dust, it is meant to bring positivity  and miracles in life.
This is one of the last things he gave me which I have cherished till now.

"Di, are you done?" Deepti banged on the door impatiently.

"Yeah, let's go." I opened the door and stepped out.

Deepti, Shiv, Om and I were in a car and mom and dad left in the other one.
Shiv was driving, om sat next to him while me and Deepti sat in the back seat, we talked and made jokes during the time.

Leaning back I looked out of the window and got lost in my past memories.

I was blindfolded and strapped on a chair, I felt dizzy and opened my mouth to call someone, my back pained a lot god knows for how long I've been sitting like this.

My throat felt dry and parched, I need water.

It was then that I heard clicking of metal and stilled for a moment.
I felt someone breathing on me and suddenly the blindfold was pulled off me.

The first thing I saw was the bright light which nearly blinded me, after blinking multiple times I looked around, sure enough I was strapped on a chair the room was very bright with windows and just two doors.

I think one of them is a bathroom, it was then I noticed the 6 feet giant, his piercing green eyes could capture anyone's attention.
He was staring at me intensely, watching my every move. He had tanned skin and his red hair were ruffled, he looked about my age or a year older.

I might have been ogling at him for too long because his thoughtful expression turned into a mischievous grin, his smile made my 17 year old squirm back in my chair.

"w-who are you and w-where am I?" I questioned finally but my voice came out raspy and hoarse.

He ignored me and took a glass of water from the table and pushed it to my lips.
I hesitantly drank the water still holding his gaze.

"Mikhailov. Callum Mikhailov"." He said after some time.

"My name is Callum Mikhailov." He repeated when I stared at him dumbfounded.

"Where am I? Why am I here? My family must be worried oh my god what's happening..Why the hell am I strapped??" I bombarded him with questions.

He calmly replied, "You are somewhere on earth as for the second question you are here for a reason and thirdly you are strapped because I wanted it to be dramatic." He grinned at me.

"But I'll open them if you want," Leaning in he unstrapped me as soon as he did I sprang up ignoring the cramps I got after sitting on that godforsaken chair for soo long and put a good 10m distance between us.

"Are you insane? Is this a freaking prank! Nicole! Deepti! If this is some joke you better stop it, I'm done with your stupid pranks now,
Do you hear me? "I screamed.

"Hey! Keep it down woman if they hear you they'll come back"." Callum hissed, just then the doors opened and two men entered the room.

One of them looked carbon copy of Callum except he had black hair but the same piercing green eyes, the other one looked somewhat familiar, he looked about in his 40's.
He had thin black hair parted from the middle and sharp eyes. He had a scar running down from his right eyebrow to his neck. He was a bit chubby and resembled chucky.
In short he looked creepy af.

As soon as scarface saw Callum by my side his smirking face turned into a scowl.

"What are you doing here?" He questioned Callum his irritated voice had heavy Russian accent to it.

"None of your concern, old fart." Callum replied flatly.

I wanted to laugh at Scarface because his face turned red and his nose flared at the disobedience, I could practically imagine the steam coming out of his ears.

"This is not the right time for this." The man who looked like Callum snapped and then stalked towards me.

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