MALLIKA

It had been 3 days, I had been staying here in this basement. Paul had come to check on me everyday. His men were keeping eyes on my every move for what I was unable to take any kind of risk to escape from here. I was tied with some ropes tightly from my stomach to my hands that I couldn't move. My body was sore and my limbs seemed to have been paralyzed. They only opened these ropes when I was given to something to eat. Last day I put an attempt to make a quick escape from this place when they came to give me food.

Much to my disappointment, they had caught me easily and I was beaten brutally by Paul's men. They had kicked me on my stomach repeatedly until I threw up. I was begging them to stop their torture but they didn't hear. I had several bruises on my stomach for that reason. This was something which I had never expected. From my childhood, I had been always pampered by my parents, my uncle and my grandmother and they had never braught any touch on my body.

Nevertheless I had thought that I would be beaten oneday so much that I would not feel the pain anymore instead I would be longing for someone in this place.Never had I been in such place ,and to manage such situations was not my cup of tea. I missed Sumedh. I didn't know if he was searching for me or not. I didn't matter to him. The marriage was fake. Would he try to look for me? I sighed in my unfortunate life.

I myself was startled on how I could only reminiscent about him even after knowing that he would care less about me. Ironically a part of me still believed that he was the one for me who would not leave my side in my entire life. I had basically sold my sould to the devil himself. Yet I couldn't refrain myself from keeping expectations from him. I hated myself for loving. I had strongly fallen in love with him knowing that I would never get the same love in return. Today I was here only due to him. Pathetic I knew. But what could I do ?

I broke out of my thoughts when I heard the door being opened and one of Paul's men came near. Paul always sent atleast three men to give me my meal. But today, he had sent one man. It was suspicious.

"Where is Paul ?" I asked him without showing any emotion.

"You don't need to know." He snapped at me.

"I need to talk to him. Please call him." I simply said with pleading expression trying to know where Paul was. Paul hadn't come in the last night yesterday.So I was really curious to know where he was.

"He has gone out for some reason. Now take your meal." He replied with harsh tone.However, I jumped in joy inwardly hearing the news. Now I knew exactly what I should do.

I just curtly nodded at him when he began opening the ropes from my body. As soon as I was free, I marched in his direction. His eyes widened when he saw me walking towards him. So he tried to grab my hand where I dodged successfully before kicking on his leg.Palming his mouth, I instantly kneed on his place where the sun doesn't shine. Before he could manage to attack me, I slapped him hard on his face and pushed him causing him to kiss the ground. He was groaning in pain and at that time, I took the ropes. I tied him with the ropes with difficulties as he tried to push me many a times. I then tied his mouth with a rope very tightly which muffled his voice.

I was panting by then. I needed to get out of here before anyone would show up. Just as I was making up my mind to escape from there, a sound rang alerting me that someone might be here. I looked behind to find the sound coming from that man's pocket. An instant thought crossed over my mind and I took his phone out of his pocket. I still had a feeling that he would surely save me no matter if he loved me or not. Without further thoughts, I called him. He picked up immediately.

"Hello" I heard his voice. It sounded like he was uninterested to talk.

"Sumedh" I whispered his name when I didn't know why a sudden feeling of pain caught me.

"Mallika" I heard him shouting my name. I felt relief and sad at the same time.

"Sumedh, I need you. Please come and help me." I said in hushed voice trying to keep my voice as normal as possible.

"Oh Gosh! Mallika, just tell me where you are. We are going right now." He said.

"I don't know. They have probably locked me in a basement. I don't know where I am." I whispered slowly, tears forming in my eyes.

"Just keep the phone on. We are tracking your number." He said and I heaved a sigh of relief.

"Yes, come soon please."

"Don't worry. I will come and rescue you soon. I promise that I won't leave that bastard who has tried to bring harm on you. I promise you." I heard him saying sternly. Hearing him, I smiled in tears. I couldn't wait to see him.

"Come soon." I replied softly brushing away my tears and cut the call. Sumedh was tracking my number. At this moment, none was present in the house. I needed to get out of the place as soon as possible. I took the phone with me and opened the door.

There was stairs going downstairs. I instantly followed the stairs to come in a big corridor which was empty to my luck. I kept moving through the corridor until I found a big room in front of a balcony. Suddenly, footsteps were heard and it alerted my sense. I rushed in the room and went in the balcony. I hide behind the door of the balcony and peeked inside the room when I heard footsteps coming closer in the direction of the room. A man came and entered in the room. He roamed his eyes over the place suspiciously. Before his eyes could fall on me, I hide myself making sure not to make a sound. I kept praying to the God so that he couldn't hear and suspect anything. Luckily he did not check more and I heard footsteps fading away which indicated his departure. Relief washed over me and I got out of the place. But he had closed the door.

An idea popped on my brain and I thanked that person inwardly while grinning slightly for making a way for my quick escape. I took a scan of my surroundings. There was a small garden behind the house. It seemed that I could get out from here through the back door then. Unfortunately there were two men moving just infront of the gate. I assumed them to be the guards seeing their sane outfit.

No, it was not possible to move out of here easily. But I had to take the risk. The balcony had no railing on upper portion which was the best thing of this building. I climbed with the help of the railing and shortly jumped from there. I slowly tiptoed around the tree which was apparently bigger than the others. I hide behind the tree. The guards were just 3-4 feet away from the tree. I took a stone from the ground. I was bad at catching and throwing things. Hopefully, God would hear me today.

I threw the stone in the opposite direction of the guards which drew their attention successfully. They hurriedly rushed from the backdoor going in the opposite direction. Taking the opportunity, I ran from the place through the backdoor. I ran as fast as possible with all my ability. At that time, I didn't know where I was going. All I knew that I had to go from this place otherwise I wouldn't survive. I felt fear poisoning me when I heard several footsteps approaching me from back. I didn't look back or stop for any moment because at that moment I just knew that I had to get out of the place. I didn't know how I was going to cross this forest type place. I tripped several times getting my legs bruised in this process. But I bothered less about it.

A way of hope began to arise when I found the main road just some feet away from me. Sadly, my all hopes broke the moment when I tripped over something solid and directly landed on the ground hitting my hands in this way. Just as I was trying to get up, I yelped in pain when one of the men reached forward grabbing my hair in his fist. He made me stand by pulling on my elbow. I tried to elbow him on his stomach but another came forward holding me by other side.

"Do you think that it's so easy to escape from us?" One spat out harshly before gripping my cheeks. I tried to wriggle in their hold.

"Don't you think that she is really beautiful?" Another one spoke coming close to me with a smirk. He kept looking at me with lust dripping from his reaction. I averted my gaze from him utterly disgusted with his gaze.

"She is. Why not having a taste of her ?" The other guy who was holding my left hand said.

My eyes widened when I felt his hand sliding upwards my slender waist. I couldn't even move my hands as those two other men were holding me tightly from my both side.

"Please leave me." I whimpered feeling helpless at that moment. This was more than pathetic. I didn't know when my eyes started shedding tears for the mere thought of what was going to happen. My body ached a lot. I closed my eyes in disgust when the man's lips made contact with my neck. I was going to lift my leg but he noticed it unfortunately. He now pulled my leg around his waist and tightened his hold around my waist.

He ripped straps of my dress and I begged in agony trying to cover my hands. Before he could do anything further, he was suddenly ripped off me. Someone came rushing near me but I couldn't see who it was as my vision was getting blurred.Before I could understand anything, I let the blackness consume me.

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Yay, finally my exams are done. Only the practicals are left. But that is not a huge deal. I am going to focus on gym in May other than anything. I will try to update frequently too. Now I am going to be in class 12.

I have written it in hurry. So forgive me if the chapter is not up to the mark.

What do you think who it is ?

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