Chapter 10

She turns into stone, neither feeling any sense nor any bustle, only she hears were her heartbeats that thud vigorously and maybe tore her ribcage. She was numb, reminiscing about the movement when he trapped her in his strong arms and held her lips in a brutal kiss.

No…! It’s not a kiss…! He was punishing her…! The retribution that she hurt his ego, even though she made this mistake unintentionally.

Flashback

“This is just the beginning!!!...”, Ryan observed her peptide figure and with a sinister glare, he muttered, “I’m gonna do more than that!!!... Babita…”, his oceanic orbs had an intensity, “This is your punishment…”, he declared.

Tara’s heart sank, eyes widen, and covered with dampness, wrinkles appear on her temples specifying her baffling at his words, in n unsteady voice, she asked, “PPPunishment !!!...”, She looks at him with puzzlement and tries to catch her breath as this words create an unknown fear in her, in a lower tone, she uttered, “W…Why…?...What is my fault…?...”, bursting into sobbing she looks at him with uncertainty.

Her black doe eyes were brimming, tears made her soft’s cheeks drenched, her face flushed and her luscious lips shivering in sobs. Ryan's oceanic orbs still fixed on her lips. He yearns to hold that lips with his once more and for long…!

With a sneer, he whispered, “Because you insult me and my music…!... In front of millions…”, his orbs squinted and gnashing his teeth, he articulated in a threatening tone, “And…I will ruin you, Babita…!!!...”, pressing each word he cast his oceanic orbs deep in her fearful doe eyes, “What do you think, Tara…???...That day… Why I offered you this deal…even though…I could have easily landed you in Jail…!...”.

Tara’s mouth opens, with a flummox, she watches him without blinking her eyelashes.

“Because I want to damage you with my hands…”, he leaned his head and declared his intention, “Yes…I want to taint you… and definitely, I will ruin you, Babita…”.

Listening to his wicked intention, Tara gasped, chilled down her spin. But she doesn’t understand only for a minor mistake, He wants to destroy her…??? If he really wants to do that…! Will, he truly ruins her life…! This chain of queries forms in her mind, she even doesn’t accept the fact about his purpose, but his story of oceanic orbs clearly hints at his intention.

“Yes..! Tara…He will devastate you…!... Just get away from him…”, her consciousness replied to her suspicion.

Ryan's lip corner put up at one side in an evil smirk, he tilted his head beside, his oceanic orbs cast deeply Tara’s doe fearfully eyes, he paced to enclose her.

He wants to sniff her fragrance again, just like a famous adage, Before crushing a beautiful flower, we smell its scent gently and similarly this kind of evil desire thrives in him.

Tara notices his step up, her face becomes white and breathing becomes fast, beads of sweat formed on her forehead, her eyes enlarged in fright, “He..He coming closer to me again…!!!..”, she murmurs mentally.

Ryan closed their personal space, his oceanic orbs crammed with amorousness. He lifts his hand to touch her, his hand was just an inch away from her.

Tara with frightened moist eyes observing his hand was just about to touch her again. But these few seconds terrified her to death. She thought that today her whole world would end..! Maybe He will demolish her innocence today…!

“No...!!!...”, She screamed at the top of her lungs and pushed him with all her potency, dashing towards the door. She escaped the mansion while sobbing.

Ryan looks at her behind with a stump through the large glass window, the way she pushes his strong muscular body with her tiny hand, even she was fragile in front of him, a mystified approach on his face, while puckering his angular eyebrows, he whispered, “You have great strength, Babita…!... It’s good… for the day…when I take you…as I like tough...”, He smirked depravedly.

Flashback Over

Tara is still traumatized, learning about his evil intention. Sitting on the floor, She takes the breathing deeply as yet she feels that he choke her throat.  Her eyes welled up with tears, and her face turned ashen as fear clearly evident in her appearance. His voice or say that his warning echoed in her ears, she feels his intimidating presence around her.

“I will ruin you, Babita…!!!...”

“I will ruin you, Babita…!!!...”

“I will ruin you, Babita…!!!...”

She immediately placed her palms on her ears, and closed her eyes tightly; she tried to become deaf to his words that reverberated in her mind. “No..!...No…!.. I won’t let you…to ruin my life, Ryan..!...”, she screeched as she wanted to reach her voice up to him.

When she realizes that she is in her room, she opens her eyes and looks at the surroundings, the voices were only her hallucinations.  Her head bent and she burst into howling, tears streaming down through her soft cheeks, her nose sniffing and her shoulders slumped down and she rubbing a fist against her ribcage, the whole occurrence that happens, is so unbearable for her.

She feels so fragile in front of him when he brutally kisses her.  There is no comparison between them as Ryan is not only strong in strength but also has a power in his hand that he can easily destroy her life. He is a Rockstar that has fame, power, and money, and Tara is just a student who came from another country to study that too based on a scholarship, despite this she is in a foreign land with strangers…Who will help her…! How will she escape from all this…!

What if Ryan succeeds in his intention…! As it’s not a hard and huge task for him.

Tara asked herself, her heart accelerating its beating, tears brimming from her eyes, she held herself as her whole body trembling vigorously just by thinking about it,

“No!... I can’t let this happen…!...”, she murmurs in a tremor voice while gulping the air, she uttered to herself, “Now…I will never go there…I will leave this job…then I will evade from him…!..”.

A trivial hope emerged in her to rescue her from this situation, But Will it work…? As she signed a deal with Ryan, She can’t leave the job midway or else she’ll have to go to Jail…! Her whole career, her dreams are devastated in a second, and also with this, her parents will also break.

She shakes her head in denial, “No..! Mom and Dad…can’t stand this shock…But … What I do now…!!!...”, curled into the fetal position on the floor, she explodes into lamentation,

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The ball was bouncing on the floor, he walked, ran and jumped on the field, and shot a ball in a hoop.  When he slams the ball on the floor with his hard palm, his strong muscular arms appear more attractive. His oceanic orbs are fixed on the hoop as this is the last probability for him to win the game and he firmly grips this chance because he hates to lose..! With a layup shot, he wins the game against Finn.

“O’God…Ryan..!... You again win it… While this time the possibilities are for me…!...”, Finn muttered in a shaky voice as he wheezed due to the game.

Ryan with a blank expression wipes his sweat with a face towel. He doesn’t seem content with his victory. He again dribbles the ball on the floor and takes two steps, shoots the layup.

“Enough…Ryan..!... How much will you play…???... as I don’t have any stamina in me…!..”, Finn whispered unsteadily.

But Ryan looks unable to hear it, he just dribbles hard and hard. There was an empty appearance on his face but a hurricane that burgeoned in him was exhibited by his orbs.

The view when he kisses Tara revolves in his mind, his eyes squinted and he lifts his hand overhead and again slams the ball so hard on the ground that it directly shoots into the hoop. There was something strange sensation in him that he couldn't understand.

Finn’s eyes widened, and with an open mouth he stared at him astoundingly, “What was that Ryan…?... You hit the right even without looking toward it…!...”.

Ryan closed his eyes for a moment, as he felt that unnecessarily he was giving too much attention to that kiss. There is nothing amorous in it… it was only the punishment for her…!

Suddenly, his wristwatch buzzed and he glanced at it, “it’s late…And why hasn’t she comes yet…!..”, he whispered coarsely but Finn who stood beside him, heard it and with a puzzle, he asked, “Who..???, Ryan…”.

“Tara…!...”, he replied with a blank face but his way of tone and oceanic orbs expressed an undefined feeling in him. There was anger, and hate but also intensity in it.

“Excuse me, Sir…your Irish coffee…!...”, a calm female voice reached the ears of both from behind. Finn quickly turns to look while Ryan’s eyes are wide and eyebrows elevate in mystification. Even though he was waiting for her, he knew that she might not want to come in front of him after yesterday’s incident.

Finn’s face lit up, and with a smile gazing at Tara, he commented, “Hermosa (Beautiful)…!..”.

Ryan’s eyes squinted at Finn’s comment and he glances at Finn with a grimace but doesn’t utter a word.

Finn marched toward Tara, “Hi…Beautiful…! My name is Finn… and You!!!...”, his eyebrows wriggle and a playful smile plastered on his face as he tried to flirt with her.

Tara’s eyes narrowed with perplexity as she stared at Finn, “Tara Sharma..!”, She replied gently despite feeling slightly prickly by it but she avoids it as her eyes peek at Ryan, who stood turning his back on her.

“So, you are Ryan’s PA…!..HMMMM…”, Finn muttered and revolved around her slowly, as he examined her peptide figure. His eyes observed every minute detail of her frame.

But Tara didn't hear Finn’s words. She gasped and tried to be normal from the outside, however inside her, every vein shivered, clamminess formed on her hands, and her heart pumping on the wall of her ribcage. As fear runs into her nerves recalling yesterday's incident. But fisting her knuckles firmly as she endeavours to control her fright, “No…! Tara…You have to fight..! …Be Strong…!...”, she said mentally.

In coming front of her, Finn added, “Anyway…I am Ryan’s best friend…and also a partner in his music company… If you need any help with anything …you can tell me…!..”, by offering his hand for a handshake, he gawks at Tara profoundly.

Ryan and his dominant aura made her mind blocked, combating inside with her fear. Tara unknowingly gives her hand in a handshake with Finn. When their hand was about to touch, a deep voice yelled, “Finn!...”.

Finn and Tara gazed at Ryan, he turns behind and staring them, his stormy oceanic orbs glowering at their hands. Tara swiftly takes back her hand, as she knows Why he glaring at them..!

Looking at Finn, Ryan squinted his eyes and he declared in a foreign language, “Ella es mi Juguete ! (She is my toy!)... Solo yo puedo jugar con ella! (only I can play with her!)...”, on which Tara confusingly looking at him.

Finn stares at Ryan for a while with wide eyes, and wrinkles forming on his forehead.  Ryan gestures for Finn to leave from here from his oceanic orbs. Finn understood it quickly, he turned toward Tara and whispered, “Ok…Tara… We will meet next time…”, saying that he left them both alone behind.

Ryan stared intently at Tara when he glanced at her black doe eyes, He smirked. In no time, he senses her fear.

“So… You tried to be strong in front of me, Babita…!..”, he smirked and paced toward her.

Tara wheezed, observing him coming toward her.  Her hands started to tremble, her heart racing a mile a minute, beads of sweat dripping down her temple, to overcome her anxiety, she chanted in her mind, “Be Strong!…Tara, Be Strong…”.

Ryan stood in front of her at a minor distance, he lifts his hand purposely bit by bit towards her as he likes to riddle her, to raise her fear that at any time he can enfold her soft peptide figure in his strong muscular arms.

Tara's breath stuck in her throat, “What he wants to do now…?..”, she murmurs subconsciously with a whitish face.

But Ryan takes a coffee mug from her hands in a swift moment, and with a leer gazes at her pale features. Tara releases her breath which is trapped in her gorge.

“So, You have come here!... Good!...otherwise you know What will be the consequences if you break the deal!!!...”, He warned her while taking a sip of the Irish coffee, “May you have to go to Jail!…But!!!..”, He got closer to her and whispered near her ear, “Now, you know very well my intention…. What can I do with you!!!... If you remain in this job…!..”, his hot breath caresses her skin, making the chills run down to her core.

Tara gulped her breath, with a tremulous voice. She said, “I...I do my job!... Will mmmake up for that loss… And..aalso…”, she paused for a second, fisting her knuckles tightly to control her quiver, she stated in a low tone, “And… I will fight with you…!... I can’t let you ruin my life...!..”, with drenched eyes, she glances directly into his oceanic orbs, “I will fulfill the Deal!...”. Her damp eyes have the self-belief that she will brawl to protect her dignity.

Ryan pulled himself back, he puckered his angular eyebrows at her words, his lips corners raised in an evil smirk, He said, “It’s not just a deal, Tara!... It’s a Bond !…that you will hate all your life… It’s a Bond between us…An Abhorred Bond..!... with this Ruthless Rockstar…!”.

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