<<Am I walking towards something I should be running away from?>>

Ragini

I gulped looking at Laksh. I then looked at his brothers and gave them a puppy look. I noticed them smirking at the situation.

"I asked something. Have you all lost your voice?" he asked as he took a few steps ahead and stood besides me.

"Uhm... Ragini was telling us an incident of her college with her professor." Arjun started.

I looked at him confused.

"She said that once the professor kept her in the college till five in the evening for forgetting her assignment at home." Ryan continued.

"So we were just asking if the professor was male or female." Kabeer finished.

I'm impressed!

"So, male or female?" asked Laksh in a serious voice as he turned his gaze to me.

"Uhm... Female... She was my accounts professor." I lied.

"Oh, I see!" he said as he crossed his arms at his front and then moved his eyes to all of us, one by one.

"All of you need to get better at lying and making stories." he said shocking us to the core.

Ye Mafia bahut hi pahunchi hui cheez hai!

"Bhaaiii... We were..." Ryan started, stammering with words but Laksh cut him off.

"Don't you have to leave? You're getting late." he said looking at all four of his brothers.

"Ye... Yes... We're just leaving." said Kabeer immediately and in a blink, all of them were out of the house. They are so scared of him.

Means, I was left alone with the Mafia. God please help me!

"You had your breakfast?" he asked me.

Thank God he didn't ask about that male female thing.

For once I thought of saying or we can say lying that I had it but then I remembered what happened a few seconds ago and I dropped the idea of doing suicide by lying.

"No... I just came." I answered.

"Hmm... Even I didn't have breakfast." he said making me feel like dying.

Now I have to eat with him, only with him.

He started walking towards the kitchen but I kept standing at the same place. He stopped and turned to look at me.

"Do I need to print an invitation and then give it to you for the breakfast?" he asked frowning.

I shook my head vigorously as I also started moving towards the kitchen. We got inside. Right at that moment he got a call and got busy in talking. I took out two plates, without making any kind of noises and started filling them with the food.

He slipped his phone inside his pocket after talking and then looked at me. He took one plate from me and made his way to the dining table. I followed. I saw him sitting on the chair at the head of the table.

I took out the chair which was two chairs away from his.

"Sit here!" he said tapping on the chair at his right.

I did the same and sat on the chair he told me to. He started eating and so did I. None of us spoke anything. I was eating fast that too without making any kind of noise.

"The food isn't going to run anywhere." he said making me jerk.

I know the food isn't going to run away because it doesn't have any legs but I want to run away from you and by God's grace, I have legs too.

"Uhm... Ahm... Err..."

"Just leave it!" he said shaking his head at me.

I finished the food in my plate and stood up. I walked to the kitchen and took a deep breath.

I never knew eating will become such a difficult task for me.

I heard footsteps approaching and immediately kept my plate in the sink and moved to the refrigerator. I took out a bottle of water and started gulping it down.

He entered inside and directly started moving towards me. I started getting nervous as he kept moving closer to me. Without wasting a second, I moved the bottle away from my mouth and passed it to him. He lifted one of his eyebrows up and took the bottle from my hands.

How even he do this? Lifting only one eyebrow! Mine to both goes up and down together. Huh...

He drank the water from the bottle and then placed it on the counter and left without a word.

Yuppie! God is at my side today.

I sneaked out of the kitchen and checked if he was there but couldn't find him anywhere. I started dancing internally and moved out to the hall.

"I think he went to his room!" I said as I took a breath of relief.

"I don't think so!" I heard his voice from right behind me.

I jumped getting scared and turned around but I bumped into his hard chest.

God isn't at my side, today also.

I immediately tried to move back but I couldn't because he held me at the same position by holding me through my waist.

"Trying to run away from me?" he asked with his eyes looking directly into mine.

"No! Was... Just..."

"Shh..." he said as he placed his index finger on my lips.

My heart did a flip at that.

"I don't like liars!" he mumbled in my ear.

Don't like me then!

I gasped as I felt him nibbling on my earlobe. His other hand stayed at my waist pressing it through the fabric of my shirt.

His lips started moving from my ear to the neck and he started leaving wet kisses there.

My heart was feeling like it'll explode any moment.

I wanted to stop him but I wasn't getting any courage to go against him.

I clutched on my shirt as he started sucking a spot on my neck.

I felt him getting very attentive all of the sudden and in the next moment we were on the floor with him over me and a sound of gun shot echoed throughout the house along with the breaking of a glass.

I got panicked and that was when I noticed that I wasn't holding my shirt but his.

Shit!

I left his shirt immediately and looked up at him. He mumbled something under his breath and moved away from me but didn't get up.

I panicked more as more sounds of gun fires and breaking things kept coming from outside and inside the house. We were hiding behind the couch in the hall.

"What's going on?" I asked Laksh as he looked towards the kitchen.

"Stay here! Don't move!" he said as he got up and ran towards the kitchen.

I tried peeping from behind the couch and my heart dropped seeing a number of men walking towards the house with guns in their hands. They were firing non stop. I could see them through the glass walls of the house.

I shrieked as I felt someone behind me but got relieved when I found Laksh. He was now holding a gun in his hand.

Who keeps a gun in the kitchen?

The glasses of the house kept breaking and the bullets kept firing while the men kept approaching.

"F*ck these morons!" Laksh cursed looking at them.

He moved towards the table and took his phone from the couch. He picked it up and came towards me.

He opened his phone with his fingerprint and gave it to me.

"Call Yuvraaj and put it on speaker." he said as he positioned himself behind the couch and started firing in the direction of those men.

My hands were shaking very badly. The non stop sounds of firing was freaking me out. I was so scared. I jumped as I heard the sound of the breaking of the door.

I made my heart that I was going to die that day because they were around fifteen while we were just two, one more precisely because I was of no use.

"Call him dammit!" Laksh shouted at me as he looked at me.

"Damn!" he said as a bullet passed right above his head.

I screamed at that.

"You just keep quiet and call him." he said looking at me sternly.

"I'm gonna kill each of you." he roared as he got up and started firing senselessly.

I somehow found Yuvraaj's number in the contacts and called him. I put the call on speaker. He picked up the call after a few rings.

"Hello... Bhai, what's going on there?" he asked hearing the sounds.

"Here, as soon as possible and don't come alone, bring our men with you." Laksh shouted without stopping the firing.

"Arjun, turn the car back to the house. Ryan, call Bruno and tell him to reach house with all of our men who are with him." we heard Yuvraaj saying.

"Bhai we'll be there soon. How many are they? Arjun drive fast."

"I'm taking care of the ones who are here but I'm sure more must be coming because they'll not come to my house just with fifteen men." Laksh answered with gritted teeth.

"Okay... Bhai, listen to me please... Please don't act in your anger. Please find a safe place and go there." Yuvraaj said from the other side.

"Are you f*cking kidding me? Laksh Maheshwari never runs away!"

God, this stupid Mafia!

"I know... I know... And I'm not telling you to run away. Hide in the house only. In the basement, until we reach there. Please... Please bhai..."

"No ways!" the Mafia said stubbornly.

"Bhai... Ok, don't think about yourself but atleast think about Ragini. She'll get harmed. Please..." said Yuvraaj more like begging.

Laksh looked at me at that and glared me.

What did I do?

"Fine!" said Laksh as he pulled me up and started walking towards the door of the basement, pulling me with him.

I was shocked beyond infinity, seeing all the men lying dead on the floor. A few were inside the house while most of them were outside the house. The door was broken and most of the glass walls were also broken.

He killed all of them, alone!

"Laksh!" I screamed as I saw double number of men running towards the house.

"What?" he asked angrily and then followed my gaze.

"Here they are!" he said as he held his gun more tightly in his hand and started moving towards the men only.

I got shocked at that. I held his hand and stopped him from going ahead.

"No... Please don't." I said and I felt tears running down my cheeks.

The scene was so scary. There were so many dead bodies lying everywhere and so many men with guns were approaching us to kill us. There was blood all over.

"Y..." he stopped as a gun shot was heard and I felt blood on my face.

I widened my eyes and looked down. Blood was flowing from his abdomen as a bullet hit him there.

"Laaakshhhh!!!" I screamed horrified.

His eyes turned blood red as he looked in the direction of the door and shot the man who shot him. He was still moving towards the main door.

"Laksh please don't go there please... You're shot... Blood is flowing from you stomach Laksh... Please..." but he didn't listen to me and kept moving towards the door while firing non stop.

He was shot and was in pain. That was a different thing that he wasn't showing a single line of pain on his face.

How can he be so tough?

I would have passed out till now.

"I'm feeling scared Laksh. Please don't go. What will they do to me if something happened to you?" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

He stopped at that and turned back to me with gritted teeth. He walked back towards me, held my hand and pulled me towards the basement.

He opened the door. We got inside and then he closed the door.

"Only a bomb blast can open this door." he said as he started pulling me down the stairs.

We stopped in the same room where I saw him killing that man that day. I was feeling like I'll pass out the very next second. It was too much for me to handle.

Laksh stood leaning to the wall and then slipped down and closed his eyes tightly. I was looking at him but wasn't getting what to do.

"There's a knife in that drawer. Bring that to me." he said pointing to the table in the corner.

I nodded as I ran towards the table. I took out the knife and brought it to him. I sat besides him, on my knees. He took the knife from me and sat properly. I closed my eyes as he put the tip of the knife inside the wound in his abdomen.

I opened my eyes when I heard the sound of falling of the knife. I saw the knife lying on the floor along with the bullet smeared in blood. He didn't even flinch while taking out the bullet.

He don't feel pain?

The blood now started flowing more from his wound. I got panicked seeing the amount of blood he was losing.

I ran all around the room to find any cloth or something which I could tie around his stomach to stop the bleeding but didn't get anything.

"What are you doing?" he asked as he slipped more and was now half laying.

If he continues to bleed like this then he'll die and I can't let him die!

God please show me a way. Please...

But why am I thinking of helping him, saving him? I should be happy to see him in pain and see him dying for what he made of my normal life.

Isn't it?

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