The best thing about time is, it just runs as per his liking. It never expects anyone one to match it's pace or to understand his situation, he just moves on.

Weeks rolled by and lewd imaginations made Mira blush very often whenever she was near Aarav, a simple normal act of either passing things or small kiss on cheeks or a simple makeout will ignite all sort of hormones in her making her shiver and gasp everytime.

Aarav knew something was not right with her but chuckled knowing her innocence and cuteness. He knew there is something big happening on the backside, Nivas coming back to India, Mira revealing her past, Nitya connected to Mira and past, everything was going on in his mind making him more puzzled.

Ani who saw him standing alone in the common balcony and stargazing, came towards him and pat his shoulder," enna da inga ipdi thaniya nikre".

Sighing Aarav replied," I guess something or someone is behind all these things, and namba maraikra truth sollidulaam paakre da Veetla".

"Enna da solre, ippo sonna seriya varuma, once the things are settled aduku aprom sollikalam", Ani advised.

After some thinking he agreed and bid him bye then went to his room only to find his Baby Wife sleeping like a baby, the sudden movement from her got his full attention.

He came towards her and smiled seeing her mouth slightly opened while taking deep breaths. Out of urge he slowly pecked her once, and murmed,"  iva nammale venumne ussupeti vidra, maatuve di enikina en kaile appo irruku".

He then went towards the wardrobe and took the laptop placed on extreme end and move towards the bed, after confirming that Mira is actually in deep sleep, he opened the laptop. After many passwords and authentication he logged in the server.

The minute he logged in, a message popped in the screen, he clicked it and started the conversation.

S1: Welcome back AK, any info on Simphony case

AK: yes sir, close to that.

S1: ok, then the next case will be at your record. It's little complex with his real name still in dark but people know him as Shadow.

AK: yes sir, will look upon it

With that he closed the laptop and kept it inside  in the same place he took it out. He turned and saw her still sleeping in the same position, he came to her and gave a quick peck on forehead. He slept beside her cuddling and taking her in his embrace.

Next day all were having there own good time, Mira told them that she wanted to go to the nearby temple, all agreed to it but Aarav was little sceptical about it but accompanied to her and others.

Since Aishu was nearing her delivery, everyone left her at home with Ani and started to the temple. On reaching, Aarav took Mira hands and clutched it tightly making her raise her eyebrow at him to which he shook and mouthed later.

All went upstairs and prayed, after that on returned just as they were getting down Aishu foot got tangled and she was about to fel down but Aarav and Parth support her and she regained her posture while Ahaana slightly turned to temple side and muttered," Kadavule, ipdi ungla pathutu pogum bodu ipdi thadukudu, edo seri illa please pathukonga".

Aarav made Mira sit down and gave her some water which Rohan forwarded to him. Mira who was oblivious to everyone distrusted mind just took it and said she will be back after giving some offering to the beggers and some children out their. Aarav chuckled and passed his wallet to her which she took it and made her way to the people.

She placed some notes on each hand of the elders and took their blessings while she turned to the small icecream vendor and asked him to get all the flavours those kids ask making children smile and hug her which she reciprocated gladly.

All these was seen by a man who was in shadows of the tree, and ear piece he had on vibrated indicating the incoming call, he took it ," you know what to do, adu mattum Pannu, ava mella oru viral paatalum enna nadakum theriyum illa".

"Yes sir, will complete the work given by you", the man said and cut the call.

He took a look on the surrounding and once he saw the family totally engrossed in themselves and her with children, he made his move towards her, and once he was close enough he kept his hand on her mouth and dragged her to a certain distance. She tried to escape but him being physically stronger didn't helped, she looked to see her family happily smiling and laughing with eachother , she tried many things but nothing worked, slowly the tears made their ways in her eyes.

The man took her backside of the temple and moved closely towards her while she just disgusted with his touch and stomping and wiggling to getout of his which made him more angry,he slapped her tight," enna di romba panre, silent aa irruka maate".

She further wiggled and bite his hand making him jerk for a second but he caught her by neck and devishly said," oh romba thulre, unna enna panre paaru".

"Deiii...vidra....yenna", she said with difficulty.

His earpiece vibrated making him groan nevertheless he picked it up," dei enna da sonna un kita adu matttum sei, overa aa panne nee sethe"

"Yes sir, but she only agitated me", the man voiced out still holding her by neck .

"I don't care she just need to feel the fear nothing more, puriyutha and If you lay one more finger on her trust me you will be sorry for even breathing",saying the line got disconnected.

The man sighed and looked at Mira whose eyes were red due to crying and not able to get enough air to breathe.

"Just listen to me Birdy", he started only to see her starting to hyper ventilating and he chuckled seeing her like this.

"This is what I like Birdy, so you still remember everything like he said, nice thing, It's just a reminder that the game is started and he is back to claim what is his, so unnoda anda so called husband kitta sollidu that whatever he can try, but unna kapata mudiyadhu, That devil is behind you and he will not keep any mercy on anyone who block his path, so be aware and he will claim his thing this time",he said and gave a small cheek kiss.

He saw her totally trembling and satisfied with it he left her and went.

Meanwhile Aarav thought it's been a quite time so went towards the place and frowned on not finding Mira there, he saw the kids were munching icecream. He smiled at them and went towards them and kneeled down and asked them," hello, ungluku inda ice cream laa vangi kuduta Akka enga Chellakutty".

All of them looked at each other and said they don't know making him sigh, he gave a small smile and ruffled their hairs and stood up and started looking for her.

He saw his wallet near a tree and frowned, he took it and started searching for her with fear evident in his face, he sent a message Rohan about the same and asked him to search for her as well.

Aarav searched everywhere he could think of and finally he came backside of the temple only to be rooted still, he saw a petrified Mira standing by the wall while tears was continuously flowing from her eyes, while her cheeks was swollen and red and neck was red.

He came towards her and whispered," Sira".

That all took Mira to get the reality and she started wailing making his heart race like anything, he took her in embrace and asked," enna aachi Sira, inga epdi vande".

All the previous moments came to her eyes and  she started behaving hysterical tearing his soul apart.

He took her hands in his and shouted," Enough Sira, I said enough".

The dominance in his voice made something stir in her and she stopped crying and looked at him with long lost puppy look making him sigh. He further said," Just get up and we will leave to house and once we reach, I want you to directly go to our room okay".

She nodded making his sigh and took her in his embrace and came to the main side. All members were shocked to see her like this, when Ahaana opened to ask Aarav motioned her to be quiet, he took her towards the car and started it without sparing a glance at others.

Once reached he saw her sitting still, he jerked her and saw her with dark glare and said," Enna pananum nyabagam irruku le Sira". Mira just nodded and went towards her room leaving him sigh and stare back at the place from where she went towards the room.

The group came exactly at that moment, Ahaana hurriedly moved towards him and asked," enna da aachi, ava yen apdi irruka".

"Maa ippo edavum ennake teriyale, but please yaarum idha pathi ippo ava kitayum seri Aishu kitayum solladinga", Aarav gave a curt response and moved to his room.

On opening it he found Mira sitting at the corner of their bed in a shell position, he came towards her and sat beside him," Sira maa enna aachi".

Mira looked at Aarav and then suddenly started to cry, he quickly hugged her while she continued to cry hard to a point that she started hysterical, he didn't knew what to do, so only thing he did was to smash his lips with her and started kissing her. She for the first time felt the need to be fully depend on him.

Growing with people close to her also has its own disadvantages, like even though Ahaana and Aminesh was parental figure for her but they certainly can't fulfill every aspect. Mira always to be less of a burden to them and in that process somewhere she surpassed her need for being nurtured, and now being with Aarav she felt that the need had finally got a face and he is the only one to qluench it.

After the passionate kiss Aarav moved from her and cupped her face and again asked, "sollu maa, Naa irruken".

She just looked at him straight into his eyes which just held love for her, she slowly creased his cheeks and asked," Mama enna avlo love panringala"

"Aama di, unna ipdi paaka mudiyale di, romba valikudu maa, please enna aachi sollu, na promise panre ellatiyum seri panre trust me for once di ", saying he kept his forehead on hers.

Mira started shredding tears and clutched his collar and hugged him tightly making him sigh and patting her head slowly. After sometime she started narrating the incident happened in the temple.

All the while Aarav was so furious that he so wanted to break something and shout or kill someone on that time but controlled himself as his precious was in his embrace. He looked at her and she again got tears while narrating it, he made her look into his eyes and said," Sira, don't worry naa patukre, idha pathi edavum yosikade".

She didn't know how to react listening to this, even after his assuring words her mind cannot look beyond the incident.

Aarav saw her inner turmoil ad spoke in a strong voice, "  Sira naa sonnadhu puriyale, I said I will take care of it, now go and have a hot shower after that sleep for a while got it" , the voice in which he spoke held the authority and dominance which felt so new to her.

She subconsciously nodded and made her way towards the bathroom, while he sighed and racked his hairs and stood up moving towards the cupboard, taking her necessary clothes he kept it in the bed and came back to the hall.

Aarav in entering saw everyone along with Ani looking at him in worry, he gulped and said the incident eliminating the last part making all gulp their saliva while Aminesh took hold of Ahaana. He requested everyone not to talk about it to Mira.

Ani who observed his behaviour eyed him, which was seen by Parth and Rohan.

Aarav took Ani in his study and closed the door and explained all incident making Ani sweat.

"Aarav ippo enna Panna pore", Ani asked.

Aarav face changed from normal to a devilish and with a smirk he said," If he thinks of all this as a Game, let's teach him how it is played".

Ani who got his thinking smirked, "  so AK has a new prey".

Listening to this Aarav gave a devilish smile while saying," Ani I want you to be arrange our people to look after the Family 24/7, like past years, got it".

"Yes Ak, it will be done by evening", Ani replied and started typing something in his I-Tab.

"So Mr, whoever you are.. you have touched the wrong person's nerve, inni paaru epdi nee ratri nimadhi aa thoongre", he muttered and looked outside the window looking at the moon.

While far away a person is holding a gun point on a person who has kneeling infront of him begging for his life," ennada sonne unkita, ava mela oru kai viral paatalum naa enna panuven teriyadhu and you piece of s*** kissed her cheeks".

"Sorry sir, edo oru heat of the moment le panite, please enna vitrunga please", the man apologized which went dead to the devil standing infront of him.

He smirked and asked," you know what people here call me"

The man nodded slightly and sweats started forming in his forehead while his eyes was anything but fearful.

"Shadow, not because I am untraceable in dark but because I destroy everything which comes in my way, so its simple nee panna belaiku only one option left", saying so he pulled the trigger successfully sending a soul out of the world.

Another person with black suit came forward and said," Boss, internal report, they have got someone new on the board for you".

Shadow just smirked and said, " hmm, it's getting intresting day by day, get everything about the person in next 24 hrs".

The man nodded and signaled other men to take care of the mess their boss created a little back.

The devilish aura was ozing out of him while he looked at the moon and said," Birdy ippo daan game start aagi irruku let's see nee evlo naal strong aa irruka madri pretend panre, and how much more time you will escape from me".

Two souls ready to fight a battle without knowing their opponents, one for his love and one for his obsession.

The wound
is
the place where
light
can enter.

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A/N

Hello Makkale 😍

Epdi irrukinga ellarum, always be safe and healthy guys 🥰

Totally happy that things are falling in place, thanks so much for waiting patiently and supporting me , also this is the longest chapter so far in this story.🙈

Illa ippo daan realise panne, i was converted to an irregular crazy gurl to techie within a few month of work, iniku by default I corrected my brother's laptop ad got him the result he was searching so far in his college project, deiiii enna daa panni vechi irrukinga, na oru Artist dammit 😑😑😑 not a Techieee for as Loud as You can Hear 😭😭😭😭

Iniku CWC 3 next episode, cutest judge ever pa papseee, aiyooo enoda kanne patrum avlo cutee aa irrunda 🧿, And the jingley pair 🤣, seriously had a good laugh throughout. Ak total kanum paata inda kaanu pottu twitter la vilayadi irrukaru.... naa twitter le illa nu epdi panringala Anney 🙄..... My whole body and fingers are irking me to go there but my mind: anda side ponna unaku saavu, me like a good girl obeying it and now pouting.....😅

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