Her Mysterious Lover

Falak’s POV

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I didn’t share anything with Ashley, whatever I had found out today.

I would share this only after confirming all doubt.

“Sooooo?” Ashley asked, raising her brow.

“What?”

“What’s the report? Did you find something about HIM?”

“Shut up!”

“Okay! Okay!”, She muttered and then checked the time. “Don’t you think that we should leave now? It’s already six twenty already!”

“Just a minute.”, I muttered. I had to give the final touch to my work.

“So, what’s the development in your relationship?”, She asked, pulling a chair from a nearby desk and sitting beside me.

“We’re not in a relationship.”, I corrected her. “I mean YET. HE didn’t ask me to be his girlfriend or something.”

“Then what’s going on between you two?”

“I don’t know.”, I said truthfully. “I don’t know what to say. I mean, I haven’t said ‘YES’ to him; he didn’t expect a ‘NO’ from me. And between these two words, we are experiencing an unnamed bond, an unnamed closeness.”

“Wow! Just wow!”, She clapped her hand dramatically. “Whatever you said, it was WOW! But it bounced over my head.”, She added and earned a glare from me.

“Don’t give me that look. It makes me feel like you will eat me raw.”, Ashley commented.

“Fine.”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Don’t you find our bosses hot?”, She asked, out of nowhere!

“Asshhhh!!”

“Tell me!”

“I do. I mean, I’m a girl, of course, so I do feel the same thing that other girls of my age will feel. But then, I know that in the end, I know I like HIM even though I haven’t seen him, and I know I will like him even I find out that he is not a Greek god.”

“What’s so special about him?”, She asked. I saved the file which on which I was working and then shut out y desktop.”

“I don’t know. It’s just that there’s nothing special in my life without him.”, I responded and grabbed my bag. “Now, let’s go!”

“Really?”

“Yeah! Do you know? Without him by my side, I couldn’t sleep properly last night.”, I confessed.

“So what is he to you? A teddy bear?”, She giggled.

I slapped her for making fun of me. “By the way, he asked me to move into the apartment which he had bought for me. What do you think? What should I say to him?”

“I’m not your love guru. Because what if I will end up giving you the wrong suggestion? So better flip a coin; it works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, YOU SUDDENLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE HOPING FOR.”

“Then I think I already know my answer.”

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After coming down of the office premises! I found a familiar car. I walked toward it happily, but unlike other times Albert didn’t step out of the car to open the door for me. It was not that I was expecting that from him, but it was just it was more unusual than the rest of the day. I knocked at the window of the car, and immediately the door of the car opened, revealing Maria.

She quickly pulled out her AirPods from the ear before speaking, “Hey! I didn’t see you coming.”

“It’s all right.”

“Come on, let’s go!”, Saying this, she settled on the passenger seat. At the same time, I couldn’t see any driver in the driving seat. “Come on; you’re driving today.”

“What? Me? But I don’t have a driving license yet, and…

“Cut the crap and hop in. I know you can handle it. Besides, I’m sitting on the passenger seat to make sure that not goes wrong.”

“But…”

“Come in! You have practiced very well in the last two days. Now, it’s time to use those skills on the road.”

“God!” I raised my hand in the air for surrender. “Tell your honey how much you love him because I might end up killing both of us today!” I said and walked toward the driving seat.

“I trust you!”

“I wish I could say the same.”, I muttered and buckled the seat belt.

“Please, God, take care of your child.”, I prayed before starting the car.

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Lance’s POV

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I couldn’t help but still couldn’t forget how she helped me when I was dying on the road.

‘Can you please help me in taking him to the cab? Please!!’

‘Madam? You will ruin my seat.’

‘I will pay to triple the amount. Please.’

‘Don’t close your eyes! We will be in the hospital soon. Okay?’

‘Lance! Keep your eyes open. Can you hear me?’

‘What? Why? I can’t let you die on the road.’

Dad told me that she was the one who killed Mom and Uncle and flew away from home, and I believed him, not even thinking for a while how could she do that?

I doubted that she could even hurt a street dog.

There was definitely something that I was missing.

I remembered that Mom made her situation the worst in the morning that day; I doubt that she could even walk that day or had an ounce of energy left to kill anyone. I remembered that she was absent that day. But then, how was the possibility that someone broke into our house, killed two people, and left her alive?

‘I’m sure that whatever dad has fed me is not all true. Maybe she killed my mom but…but she definitely knows the person behind it? Yes, that can be possible.’, I thought and nodded my head.

“I will have to find her and get answers from her to my questions.”, I talked to myself.

“Hey, Lance!” Jacob entered the room where I was admitted.

“Hi, Jacob!” I greeted.

“These are for you.”, He said, showing fruits to me.

“Thank you. But you have already done enough for me. I meant you have paid all my bills.”

“Though I will like to take credit for that part, but as I said before, I found you in this hospital is pure coincidence. I came here to collect my report and got to know about you being admitted here. I guess the mysterious sister of yours paid your bill. The same who admitted you to the hospital.”

“Oh”

“By the way, do you really have any sister? I mean, I clearly remember that you didn’t have any in school.”, He asked.

“No”

“I had thought so! Because you never behaved like a protective brother for any girl.”, He said, and Falak’s crying face appeared in front of me.

‘All brothers treat their sisters like princesses and protect them from all the problems, but why are you the reason behind all my problems? If you can’t treat me like a princess, then at least consider me as human. It hurts when you hit me, but it hurts me more than you don’t do a thing to save me.’

“Lance?”

“Yeah! Yeah! You were saying something?” I asked, coming back to reality.

“Nothing. Where were you lost?”

“Nothing important.”, I responded.

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#TBC