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Sanskaar slowly moved his body on top of Swara's, who fainted as soon as they fell on the cold pavement. He looked at her angelic face with admiring features, growing strange desires in his body. He took a minute to compose his growing pulse rate, the heart that was almost in his throat, his throbbing head and the swirling pain due to the injuries while falling on the cement ground.

He lifted his chin in the direction of the smoke coming from the previously burning car.

"Find out who messed with my car and I need all the details of everybody who came into the mansion in the last 48 hours. Understand," he brutally snapped at his bodyguards who were all giving him vigour nods. 

He carefully picked Swara off the ground, his arms filling with the heat and warmth from her body. Who knew his beautiful angel could change into a devil with her sharp words, he thought sighing heavily as he sat in the Lucky's car, morning over the death of his car. (How sad!)

Within 20 minutes, they had arrived at the mansion. Sanskaar rushed Swara to the room where the doctor had already arrived, he had called her in the car just to make sure she was okay.

"Put her down and let me check," the doctor, Ria sternly said to him. She was in her mid thirties, formal attire and messy hair all over. She was their family doctor almost everywhere they go, she was extremely strict and annoying with her stupid rules and regulations.

Sanskaar blindly nodded and placed Swara on the bed, making sure not to press on her injuries on her arms.

"So, tell me what happened?" Ria curtly asked him, jotting down the information he narrated her about the whole incident.

"So, that's about it," he concluded after giving her all the details she needed to know.

"Well then, she is just unconscious because of the panic and stress she went through. Everything should be fine when she wakes up with a fresh mind," she rattled on and left the place quietly after Sansaar muttered a thank you.

He covered with the blankets, hoping she would wake up by the end of the day. The dusk was just about to set, making way for the blackness of the night.

He silently left the room and walked to his garage, the mystery still swirling in his mind. Who did it and why? He never maintained such a bad enmity with someone that they would come for his life. Lucky was a people's person is general, so it couldn't be because of him either. Their father had a few business competitors, but not to such an extent they would kill the heir of the business.

He flung open the light in the garage, walking through the spacious place, to find any sort of clues to have the police check or something. He wanted to know who did this, his life was not the question here, it was Swara's. He didn't want to risk hers just because of him. Wait a min...what if they intended to do it to Swara? Who the hell came to know they were here? Did she have any bad connections?

As he was leaving the place to order his men to track down his details he saw a paper in the corner of the tools stand, barely popping out.

"What on earth is this?" he said pulling the paper and reading what it said.

Tick Tock Tick Tock, the time has already started for you.

You escaped, she escaped but what if my next target doesn't?

No name, hell to the person. Sanskaar's brain went wild, scanning through all the people he met in his life to find out who this person is. Next target....who is his next target?

Crap, who was this mysterious person, he thought as he noticed Lucky's car in front of him.

"Lucky," he whispered in shock to himself, freezing to the core.

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FRANCE

Ragini walked inside with the fear and the shock from what happened an hour ago still pressed hard into her. Her stomach was taut due to fear, her nerves were shivering and her body was jammed at one place, unable to get the incident from the morning out of her head.

What if.. her brain started to think which she immediately brushed off, no no no, she should not say things like that. She looked over at Laksh who was seated on the couch, staring at the enormous caste on his left hand. Both of their eyes locked, reviving her the memory of the morning.

Flashback-

"OMG! You are making breakfast for me!," Ragini exclaimed as she bugged Laksh who was busy cooking in the kitchen.

He was making pancakes which endured her nostrils into a sweet aroma.

He locked her eyes into hers, showing hurt and pain, then continued to flip the pancake to the other side. So he still hadn't forgiven her yet. No problem forgiveness mission was executed.

"How sweet, you probably figured I can't cook so you are making me something too," she cheered as she gently pulled his cheek to add the effect of her being nice.

Sometimes being too nice can suffocate people, that is exactly what Ragini wanted, to be sooo nice he either can't ignore her or forgive her to stop her.

"Get your hand off me, and NO, I am not making breakfast for you. This is for me," he replied arrogantly with a hint of frustration, probably at her change of moods.

"All of these," Ragini asked back with her eyebrows raised,  pointing to the plate which had 10 pancakes in it.

Laksh's face turned a little piquet, while he frowned at her question. A smirk blew on Ragini's face to see his speechless mouth.

"Yeah..I..I eat 10 pancakes everyday," he covered it up, tossing the 11th one on the plate.

"Un huh. But you still made some for me right? How nice," she chirped in  a high pitched voice with dreamy eyes to show him she was flattered.

"No, I did NOT," he shortly declared, pouring some syrup into a bowl and sat on the little dining table near in front of the kitchen.

Ragini was about to go and shove him off the chair for his rude behaviour, how dare he behave like that to Ragini Gadodia. But she calmed down a little bit when he observed her from the corner of his eyes.

She plastered a fake smile on her lips and said, "You said you'll 10, you made 11. So I get one."

Laksh grabbed the plate from her hands and protected it from her view by placing it on his lap, "Sorry! All taken, you said something about women can do everything, blah blah bla, so go make your own."

"Past is past. Anyways, I bet I can't make them as good as you did," she politely said to him, trying to resist her cravings for the food before her.

"Are you okay?" he asked back in confusion with her watery mouth.

"Perfectly alright. Do you need me to get you some orange juice to go with that?" she gently consulted him in the sweetest voice ever. Why wouldn't he just forgive her? She wouldn't have to act this play.

"What?" he blurted out choking on his piece of pancake.  The plan was working after all. He was understanding she was being awfully sweet to him.

"Oh it's just orange juice goe-" Ragini started to narrate him, but she was immediately cut off.

"I KNOW THAT," he roared at her.

"Then what what?" Ragini innocently asked like she understood nothing.

"Nothing," he mumbled, going back his food.

"Umm..I thought we could be friends. What say?" she bluntly asked him with her hand forward for friendship.

"No thanks. I am fine on my own," he rudely shut her off.

Ragini's eyes widened. Was he nuts? People die for her friendship and here he is ignoring her. She felt like he virtually slapped her with his words,  "Jerk,"

"Sorry?" he asked back in confusion at her mutterings.

"Nothing. Do you need anything though?" she replied with a fake smile. Her cheekbones were hurting due to the wide grins on her face.

"No, I am FINE," he told her, emphasizing the word 'fine' too much to make her understand. She knew that he was fine, which is what she didn't want him to be.

"Cool! I was thinking we should go watch a movie or something," Ragini insisted as he stood up and moved forward to the door after finishing his meal. Lucky dude for actually getting something to eat, look at her, she was starving to death and nobody bothered about her.

"And why would we do that?" he asked back with irritation at her constant weird thoughts.

"So that we could get to know each other and understand each other better and forgive me," Ragini said back in delight.

"I am going out on my new bike ALONE," Laksh said with extreme frustration at her attitude. This is exactly what she wanted.

"Okay!!" she mumbled happily, leaving his face a little shocked as she accepted a little quickly.

He didn't show that much and left the door with a BANG. She smiled to herself as she walked over to the sofa and took out some screws from beneath, "Lucky, your luck will only work when Ragini is here. I am way smarter than you can ever imagine."

She swirled around the living room with her long hair flying all around and excitedly screamed "You will have to wait for me, even if you don't want to."

Ragini smirked as she walked out of the hotel lobby, making her way to the parking lot. He should be there, still fixing it, she thought as she plastered an unknown expression on her face and acted as if she didn't know he was there.

He was working his way, trying to fix the parts of the tire not to fall off. Idiot, didn't he know that they need screws.

"Why are you still here?" she asked innocently with a pleasant smile on her lips. He glanced up with furrowed eyebrows and bored eyes, staring at her in disbelief.

He shook his head and continued to do something with the tire.

"Do you need any help?" she said, rubbing his failure on to him, as the tire kept on falling onto the ground.

"No," he curtly brushed her off with arrogant and rude eyes throwing daggers at her.

"Come on! I know how to fix it," she told him with extreme assurity.

"Yeah, sure," he said with sarcasm dropping dead in his words

"No really....I am a magician. I can do anything," she exaggerated her pride, "Let's make another deal then."

"Un huh?" he said as his head lifted with interest and his hands crossed tightly on his torso.

"If I fix it, then you need to forgive me and let me ride the bike,"

His face turned a little pale hearing the word of forgiveness, but he did accept the deal by nodding and signalling her to work on the bike.

"Awesome!" she chirped excitedly, placing her sling bag on the bike which was slantly rested. She kneeled down to come in a level to the bike and felt his heated stare on her while she was examining the bike.

If he stopped staring at her, like he was watching a movie, maybe she could actually pull the screws from her pocket and fix the mess.

"Oh hello, turn around plus magicians don't reveal their tricks," she stated with a wink while he sighed and turned around.

She quickly removed the screws from her pocket and tightened them with the screw diver. Within the next 2 minutes, she finished assembling them and stood them with immense satisfaction.

"All done," she declared shortly declared to his amused face.

"What..how...when?" he asked with shock while her master smirk made it's way to her mouth.

"So you forgive me?"

"Why not. You don't necessary need to know what I truly believe anyways," he replied with the same arrogant voice.

Her breath hitched in her throat, he didn't forgive her yet? That was not part of the deal AT ALL.

"What do yyyou mean?" she stuttered.

"Forgiveness needs to be achieved and is given from the heart. I can say that I forgive you with my mouth, but do I think I actually mean it?" he asked with a sarcastic laugh.

"Evil much," she mumbled at him, seeing her plan fail.

"Serves you right for taking my screws out,"  he bluntly stated.

"Wait what? How did you know that?" she asked back appalled

"You think I am an idiot to try to fix when you can clearly see that the screws are missing?" he mocked at her. Wait, so he knew?

"You were doing that, though," she defended herself.

"No, I was doing that when you came. I was sitting here playing on my phone. Why bother to do the work when you will come to fix it," he concluded with his signature smile and raised eyebrow.

Ragini felt her face turn pale, with no blood running through her veins anymore. How could he turn the table in her game? She mentally face palmed herself for doing such things. He was way smarter than he ever expected to be. She stood there with a stiffened body and widened eyes.

"Beat you at your game eh?"

"Nothing like that. I still get to ride the bike before you," she said persuading, more herself than him.

"Not much of a success," he taunted her as she removed the stand from below and hopped on the bike.

"Actually, it is. Ever sat behind a girl?" she mocked back at him with a pleasant smile, salting his ego a little bit. Always worked on guys.

"From when did you start becoming a girl," he mocked back at her as he sat on the bike behind her.

She sighed and turned the keys to start the bike, "That was the worst comeback ever."

"Keep defending yourself," he whispered near her ear. His lips slightly brushed her earlobe as he said, causing weird tingles all over her body. Why was this happening every time she is near him? She stared back at him through the mirror and dashed the bike in rapid speed to cool her exploding mind up.

He sat back, watching at her uneasiness and smiled. Ragini decided to ignore his taunts and concentrated on the road instead, she didn't want to lose her cool just yet.

Laksh slyly moved his hands, sliding across her waist, stiffening her to the core, her heart beat  limping in her throat, while her breathing turned hacked.

"What the hell are you doing? The driving is on me, I can just make you fall," she yelled at him with the wind gusting across her face due to her high speed. This lead her into a place with tress all surrounding them. They were all pitch green, tall trees, calming the atmosphere a little bit. The peace of the woods was finally back! She doesn't feel homesick anymore...sighs.

"Just checking if I have any effect on you," he mumbled as he removed his hands off her waist and turned her head so that she would concentrate on the driving.

"What?" she asked him irritated with his meaningless words.

"You'll get to know later," he told her.

"Have you by any chance ran away from the asylum?"

"Why? Have you?"

"Of course not. I am not the people who do crazy things and then say meaningless stuff,"

"Dude, watch out. I don't want to die," Laksh yelled in her ear as they almost collided into another bike before them.

"You are making me. Shut up for a while, will you." she said, slowing down the speed a little bit. When people make her angry, she looses her concentration and drives with extreme speed.

"Laksh, why is the biker coming near us?" Ragini asked tensely as she noticed the black bike to jerk with them any minute now.

"LAKSH" Ragini screamed on top of her lungs as she drove to the left, keeping away from them. They were driving to get some food, there were no one in the lane except them and the black bike.

"You were the one who told me to shut up," Laksh whinned at her.

"This is not the time for jokes. Tell him to move," she ordered him, trying to avoid the biker who was determined to crash into them. She couldn't even pull up anywhere or stop in the middle of the road. She is already driving without a proper license, what will she do if she gets caught?

"Dude, she is a crazy and mental girl. She seems beautiful and heart throbbing but when you get to know her, you will realize she is just a patient who needs immediate treatment." he mocked at the driver.

Ragini elbowed him in the stomach and hissed "I am serious, this is not a joke. He is going to crash into us."

"Like that's possible," Laksh sarcastically said. Right at that minute, the biker speeded up his bike and dashed through the road.

The speed and wind resulted in Ragini losing control of the bike and falling off. Laksh embraced her body against his when her chest slammed into his, keeping his hands over her shoulders when they fell sideways onto the bed of grass. LUCKILY!

The bike felt on top of Laksh's hand, injuring his palm and wrist. The blood streaming onto his body as Ragini lifted the bike off them.

Ragini jerked out of the flashback when she heard Laksh's voice, "I will talk to bhai and see if we can go wherever they are."

He avoided eye contact with her while she stood there with cold blood running through her stream. Guilt for not listening to her and risking both of their lives were clearly seen in his eyes. What if anything happened to them?

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Hello!!

That was a looong update for the weekend!! I hope you enjoyed it!! Sorry for the mistakes, will come back later to re-edit it....don't have time at the moment.

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