Awdhesh. Radhika. Uzair.
Will forcing your love on someone you think you are in love with would make them fall in love with you in return?
Would that be okay to force someone to love you with the same intensity you love them with?
Could stubbornly adhering to a purpose you think is right will make it morally right? Will it?
Would that be morally right to crave someone's presence till they have become yours completely?
Would your obsession with someone make you cross all the moral limits to just have your urges satisfied by getting them in your clutches?
Could a person turn into an obstinacy?
Because there seemed to be a person who could.
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This is a story about a girl: Radhika, who lost her parents in an unforeseen tragic accident leaving behind a very small toddler brother upon her. Trying to keep herself sane for the sake of her brother, she intended to live for him somehow, and anyhow. A few months later, her life took a toll yet again on her, and she ended up in the arms of a mafia man: Uzair, the devil himself.
He was a twenty-five years old capo. Height: six feet two inches. An underworld boss in the world of Mafias. A high-ranked boss in many cities and states. However, it was just a facade to ensure his true identity was kept hidden from the killers and oppressors to not be vigilant about him around the world to take out the criminals from the root of the organisations. So he can eradicate the outlaws running once and for all.
When on the contrary he let her think he was the bad guy. However— he was the undercover agent of the Indian intelligent system disguised as a Capo. And a very famous entrepreneur. To eradicate the atrocities happening in the city he let himself unveil in the form of the perilous mafia that he was for the world.
In the beginning, she was afraid as she was so forcefully taken away from her dorm alongside her brother. Albeit, as time passed she came to see the different shades he had been hiding inside of himself which were lurking behind his dark obsidian eyes.
The shades were so unpredictable but somehow, while finding those shades, she fell— for him. When she did not know. Suddenly. Unexpectedly.
The question arose here: will she be able to unveil all those shades residing inside of him or something more than she could just fathom lurking inside himself?
Would she be able to unveil all those shades of him that he had been hiding since god knows when?
Or the most important part: will he let her?
Would he be able to tell her the actual truth about keeping her and Shaurya to himself?
The mysteries; twists and turns in every chapter with cliff-hanging ends would make the readers thirsty for the next chapters to be unveiled with excitement and dread, altogether. The unique love between Uzair and Radhika would make the story attractive and witty.
A unique love story mixed with a thriller and mystery would make the readers perplexed and anxious regarding the ending. With an edge and cliffhangers in every chapter.
And, trust me the story cannot be predicted until you, yourself don't read it. With an unprecedented twist, turns and dark humour amidst the story.
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BLURBHe looked at her attentively. There she was.Sitting quietly on the top step of stairs of an isolated temple, clutching something or rather someone indulgently with her small hands, perhaps a kid, he mused thoroughly. Were his eyes playing tricks on him?
He, however, then exhaled sharply when he got to see her face. An unparalleled innocence written all over her face had him enticed towards her.
"Imraan, follow her!" he ordered, nodding in her direction without gazing away from her. Perhaps if he dared to look away, she might disappear.
"Certainly sir!" Said Imraan, grinning.
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Her breath faltered and her big baby brown eyes watered at the consequences of the dreaded incident. Cupping, her small visage in his big palms, he shushed her."He's alright, little one. I wouldn't have let anything happen to Shaurya, now had I?" He spoke softly as if talking to a scared little child. There was no denying it.
She was a child to him; he vowed to protect her with his life.
She didn't say anything. She couldn't, the incident displayed in her mind like a broken recorder.
He stepped forward again, trying to ease away her pain, bending down, he touched her chin with his long callous fingers, tugging upwards. Her breath came out shallow and long at his proximity.
His touch burned her. It felt wrong yet the fire in her belly confused her into thinking otherwise.
"P-please stay back," she beseeched, not meeting his eyes at all.
"That, cannot be done, my little bambolina," his voice was a mere whisper yet with a tone of command in it.
“Why are you doing this?” Her voice broke at the end.
“Because I want to protect you, little one.”
“Y-you don't understand! We don't want any protection,” she whispered.
His hold on her face was slightly tightened. “You don't know it yet but you do.”
“If we do need protection as you say; it is from you. Nobody else,” her eyes got closed as fat tears gave her anguish away.
“If that makes you abide by my command, so be it.”
Her eyes shot open. “Please let us go,” her tone held desperation.
“Anything. Ask me anything more than that,”
“It's the only thing I want yet you cannot give it to me.”
“Little one,” he forced her eyes to look at him. “Don't make it any harder than it has to be,” bending down, softly he touched his warm lips on her forehead, lingering there for a few seconds before breaking it. “It could be the easy way,” he exhaled, capturing the sudden fear in her large brown eyes. “Or the hard way. The choice is yours. Choose it wisely.”
I had no choice but to close my eyes and let the tears fall.
Prologue. He was a strange man, indeed. Our eyes met in silent gestures. "Shall we?" Leaning slightly downwards, he held out his open palm for me to take his. "You need to change that bandage too." And, his indolent grin was back on his face. Leaving no trace of depression on his face which he was showing plainly not a long moment ago. Blinking, I found myself placing my hand in his as we started to head back into the house. At that very moment, I realised six things of my own which were surreal: 1: Uzair was a very unexpected male with a very deep inside-concealed benevolent nature. (Which he didn't like to show at all to anyone.) 2: The world we were living in was very dangerous, maybe that was what got my parents killed. (Or perhaps it was actually a planned accident of which I wasn't still aware.) 3: I still did not know; how perilous a person Uzair was! (Or maybe he exactly wasn't what he liked to show himself to be to everyone else. 4: Everyone has a monster or a demon
01— After three dreadful months. “Life is never hard under the protective shades of our parents. The struggle starts when we decide to move out from that shade.” — Saumya Tripathi “If only you were here,” staring at the clear sky with little stars twinkling almost brightly, I muttered. “There is nothing the same with you both leaving us,” the welled-up tears in my eyes felt too heavy to carry. “Life has been so hard without you both.” It happened inexplicably. One movement we were fervently emitting family: just the four of us: no worries, no stress, no pain, no grief. Nothing. Just pure elation and extreme euphoria skirting around our household. Patently, yet another plausible pronounced merry family. LIFE- it gives you chances, a lot of them of that sort, to amend your mistakes. Mistakes that you would have made in the past whether you did them purposely or unintentionally. But at some point, it did happen. Whatever, they are a part of life without them we learn nothing. We ca
02—Forcing me against my will. “Forcing someone to love you can only make them detest you more.” —Saumya Tripathi “Ssh…slowly.” There was something on my cheek that kept on touching it. My psyche invaded without halting with hazy thoughts in my mind before I could even open my eyes. The thoughts were merely hazy and twirled groggily inside— in my head which I tried to get hold of with my crumbled memories. But I could not succeed. “Shhh…you are safe, little one.” When my mind came back to its senses, I felt something rough strolling gently in a circular motion on my left cheek which was rather sore. The touch was gentle and smooth. However, my cheek seemed to be itching. I so wanted to itch and get relief, nonetheless, I stayed, unmoved and confused about almost everything. “Keep still. Otherwise, you are going to hurt yourself.” Albeit, I tried to open up my eyes but it was of no use, my upper eyelids felt too heavy for me to open them. I tried getting up as well but, it fe
03— Tears of anxiety and anguish. “Words mean nothing until and unless it is felt.” — Saumya Tripathi “Doesn't everything feel strange?” With a lump in my throat and a tight feeling in my chest which seeped into the veins, I exhaled with difficulty. He left without even sparing a single glance my way. That was the only question which was resounding in my psyche, all together as if everything was normal for him. Minutes ambled by. . . Standing there, alone in the foreign room with just my little brother and me, and no- one else: just us, I stood stunned and, most probably confused and dumbfounded. I wasn't able to proceed regarding what had happened. But the heavy questions remained in my mind, hovering over me, disturbing me with more questions to which I didn't have any answers, unsteadily revolting me to no end. Why would he want us here? What would he get while abducting us? Why was he forcing us to stay with him? Who was he, anyway? With the heart in my mouth, everythin
04— Unexpected. “No doubt the future is unexpected. But the present stays in our hands. Decide wisely because every action is reflected by what you chose.” — Saumya Tripathi The future has always been unexpected. Yes certainly. No- one knows what could happen next. Nor anyone will. What the prospect beholds, still would be surprising to all humans. If anyone had known, there never would have been anything done wrong with anyone. Never— with anyone in any situation. Wouldn't it have made life so easy if that was the case? My throat suddenly felt tight and constricted. Breathing came out small and shallow. I was scared. Who wouldn't be? My knees began to shake slightly, and I was afraid— afraid because I thought I was going to fall. I curled up my fingers into tight fists to make them cease trembling too. I was trembling, visibly. He began to walk towards me, I could perfectly hear his heavy shoes across the room, hitting the marbled base under his very weight, loud and clear in
05— Miserable. “Healing is never easy. It is the most painful and hurtful path. Yet it is essential for the growth of humans in mental, physical and psychological states. Trust the process.” — Saumya Tripathi Although sleeping, my brain was already replaying the disconcerted scenes that I'd suffered yesterday night. Everything came hiking back in a hurried rush. I was stuck somewhere in a state of sleepiness and drowsiness. I was so confused when I woke up. My thoughts were hazy and everything looked different. I wasn't even in the state of consciousness, fully. I blinked rapidly the cloudiness of sleep from my eyes to see; to make out my surroundings. Regardless of my hazy thoughts and confused slumber, I tried to remember but nothing came to mind. I felt tired and groggy but eventually, I sat up unsteadily still pondering over the situation. Promptly, my breath hitched up when I let my eyes wander around all over the enormously— huge and spacious room. Why was I here? This wa
06— A word with my Saviour. “And in the end, we all need a friend who would listen to what we have to say.” —Saumya Tripathi “Wouldn't life be simpler for once?” Ebbing away the feeling of apprehension, I chanted, and chanted repeatedly, drowning myself in my own belief that I would go. I will go, implicitly. "I'll soon be away from here. I just have to be patient and wait for the right movement to flip and escape." I contemplated inwardly. Reconciling, I enthused and sighed constantly for a few seconds before it was cut short. "Don't be so imaginative about your never happening escape plan, my little dove. It will not work nor will I let it happen since I'll be making sure of it," he piqued at me incredulously as though reading my psyche's talk. In spite of jumping at his all-so-sudden tone, the first time my temper flared and I glared up, defiantly at him. Persistence and determination were what cannot be snatched away from anyone. Not away from me. Both of them were i
07— Two days afterwards. “Sometimes we feel so little yet say so much.” —Saumya Tripathi “Life is an unexpected rollercoaster ride,” the thought invaded my mind as I stared into nothingness. Sometimes in life, we anticipate those things which are not in our hands; perhaps it is human nature that always moves but gets less. However, life is so uncanny: strange and difficult to understand or to even explain that no one could be sure of anything regardless of what they say. If one were to explain life they would have never been able to. Befuddled perhaps but things can never be predicted about what could happen next, likely in the very next movement. The truth is— the things we anticipate the most never seem to come true and the things we would have never imagined even in our own dreams— happen in reality. Such as myself; I could have never expected such a ferocious day when my parents might die in such an unpredictable car accident. It was a moment of uncertainty that struck us hard