"Let GO of me! " Anika screamed. Rough hands, with grips like steel crushed her arms as she was shoved roughly inside a building.

Behind her she could hear Prinku's quiet but constant struggle to free herself.

A dozen men followed them and once they were inside the door creaked shut, Anika watched, for a fleeting second before they shut close, trapping them in a deathly gloom.

Terror seized her chest as she realized what was really happening what had she gotten them into?

They struggled to a desk sitting right in middle of the gloomy interiors of the building they had planned to sneak into.

Her eyes darted everywhere, trying to adjust to the sudden darkness. Nothing but bare walls stared back at her. No windows. Just doors leading to another room which lead to another, all crumpled together in a maze.

" Well well well"  A voice spoke suddenly. Anika's head snapped in the direction of it, a chill racing down her spine. " Do we have visitors again? "

The men behind her hooted loudly.
She felt for a second, what an animal felt before being sacrificed to the gods.

" I should warn you ladies." The voice continued " We have a record of not letting anything that enters our gates leave. But sometimes...." The man moved into the light. And his eyes met Anika's, and his words died.

Anika's blood ran cold, gleamy eyes stared back at her, through an all tooo familiar scar running from his eyes to his cheeks.

For a moment Yousif's face went white as a paper as if he were seeing a ghost, then he smiled.

"Get you're hands off them" He said, barely audible.

All the hands that were digging into her back, neck and arms, suddenly lifted, Anika sighed, standing straighter.

"I feel like the luckiest man Mrs. Malhotra" He walked slowly around the desk, like a hyena circling in on it's kill.
She felt Priyanka shuffle close to her, squeezing her arm in a death hold.

" I've never been made a fool, you see. In my line of business you can't afford to be a fool. He hovered a few feet away from her " Cause there's always someone waiting to chop your head off at the mere sign of weakness "

" When my brother died... Shoaib... " He drew a deep breath " You do remember my brother that you're husband killed don't you Mrs. Malhotra? "

She nodded, goosebumps erupting on the back of her neck.

" There's not been a night I've haven't fascinated the ways I'd kill your husband. He is a smart one tho" He chuckled " Made us believe that you were dead, throwing us off your trail"

" You were in that hotel weren't you? "
She ground her teeth, not saying a word.

" My heart was comforted when I put a bullet in you" He moved closer, his eyes burning into her's.

" But it was him I wanted to kill. So I bought down hell in that hotel he was staying, but he is a hell of an ass hole "

" He escaped, unscathed and stayed hidden in my city for two months conducting operations where my men in various places were taken down. One after the other my outlets shut down and I was trapped. Gathering the remaining of my troops I fled to my origin, when here I am staring at the biggest lie of my life"

"He'll know " She whispered " He's going to find out, and he's going to find you"

"That's what am counting on "
His eyes dragged along the length of her body "this is why I like you so much, hundreds of my men yet you still have the audacity to look me in the eye and threaten me"

"And who's this tiny thing hiding behind you" He bent foward and Prinku coward back " My friend," Anika butted in " She has nothing to do with any of this so might as well let her go"

" Let her go? " Yousif asked confused 

   " Oh nonononnononono this will probably be the last time either of you see the sunlight, cause am going to make you feel what I felt, hiding in the shadows while your husband took me apart bit by bit"

Tears stung her eyes.  He looked up suddenly "begin with this one"
A blood curdling scream tore out of Priyanka as men pounced on her, dragging her into the darkest corners of the room.