Chapter 3

On the poolside, he appeared on the surface of the water with a drenched muscular body, water spilt from his hairs, caressing his every inch of hard muscles, every drop of water shining when it comes in contact with the rays. He moves up from the pool with a ladder and in a swift movement, sits on the edge of the pool. His blue orbs fall on the wine, that was placed beside him, glancing at the wine bottle with glasses his lips raised in a smirk, and immediately he picked up the glass of wine and attached it to his lips,  his eyes closed, neck arch,  and head slightly backside, he sips wine slowly like he wants to feel the taste of every drop of wine, “AAHHAH!… Nothing is more addictive and tasty than you, Baby…”, elevating his angular eyebrows, he whispered in his deep voice and licked his lips with his tongue.

Ryan lived his life on his terms and doesn’t care about anything but one thing he appreciates most is Music. Singing is his passion and Music is his life and he was self-righteous of himself as he is a Rockstar and Why not he..!!! Whatever he has achieved in his life, he has done on his own with his passion and hard work, and he is not just proud of his success and accomplishment but has arrogance, egotism, and self-worth of it. Several Music Directors and Producers do not like him, because of his egotism, and rough and rude behaviour but Who cares..!!! Ryan knew How to obeisance to everyone on the strength of his talent and he always does it…!!!

“Hey, Ryan…”, a voice arrived at his ear from his left side and he whirls his head to gaze at that track.

“What happened???...  Jim…What are you doing here in the morning???...”, Ryan asked Jim serenely with a blank expression, in his profound voice.

Jim is Ryan's friend, advisor, and assistant in his business, moreover to say that Jim is his right hand of Ryan. It’s absolutely difficult to gain Ryan's trust and be enclosed with him as Ryan never easily allowed anyone to come into his life, there were only a few people whom he had faith in and permitted them to say or advised him otherwise he was odium when someone tried to control him.

Jim walked toward Ryan with a plummeted jaw, trivial distress and fury emerged on his temple, he yelled in a temper, “Ryan…!!! What is this..!!!...  Why did you cancel the deal with Simil Company..???... you know we could have earned a lot of profit..!!!...”.

But Jim's rage frequently transforms into fright when Ryan frowns at him. Ryan’s calm menace gaze, which has dominance and peril was enough to quiet anyone and escort shivers down the spine, he doesn’t endure when someone insoles him in any way because it unswervingly impaired his conceit.

Jim wheezed and lowering his voice, he whispered, “Actually, Ryan….I…I want to ask you… Why you cancel the deal…???...”, Jim still felt the quivering inside his body, cold sweats emerged on his face as this is an impact of Ryan’s intimidating blue orbs.

Ryan smirked seeing Jim's scared facial appearance, “Jim!!!... Thanks to your luck… as you’re my friend…otherwise, you very well know…What I did to them…Who disrespect me..!!!...”, listening to Ryan’s words, Jim’s features turning ashen, he became aware that What is Ryan up to…!!! When someone challenges or hurts his ego…!!!

Ryan took one more sip of wine and stared at Jim, “And about that deal…!!!.. I didn’t like it…they were trying to control me and my music through the deal…Which I hate most…I hope you understand, Jim...!!!..”, to which Jim nodded his head as he still dreads.

“Words…!!!... Jim…Words… you know I don’t like when I ask something and I don’t get the answer…”, Ryan added croakily and took another sip of wine, through his orbs he signifies Jim to relax slightly tilting his head forward.

Jim catches a sign of breath and sweeps his hand across the forehead, “Ryan!... a  Rockstar…a talented singer like you…Who knows that you are even a dangerous person can be…!!!...”.

Ryan smirked at Jim’s words as he swelled with pride in himself, he likes it to maintain his capacity and dominance as his ego tells him the world bow to one who has success, fame, and power.

“Hey!!!.. Guys…you both are here.!!..”, a modulated voice called them, both Ryan and Jim looked in the direction, a handsome man in his mid-twenty with tall height, strong build muscles, perfect cheekbones, and clean-shaved chin comes running to them with a heart stolen smile.

“ Finn!...”, Ryan muttered.

Finn is a childhood friend of Ryan, a handsome man with brown eyes, his features are not less attractive than Ryan's, but he has the opposite personality of Ryan. Finn is friendly with everyone and he is among those with whom Ryan trusts and is enclosed.

“How… long I ….have been looking… for both of you…???...”,  Finn shattered while panting heavily.

“What happened??? Finn…Why are you running so much???...”, Jim asked him.

Finn relaxes and says breathily, “Ryan!!!... My Bro… You won it…. You win the Billboard Music Award…Congratulations… Dude!...”, saying this Finn enfolded Ryan as he was so glad about his achievement. Jim also smiles blissfully and applauds Ryan, “Congratulations! Ryan… you can not think… How beneficial it is for your career and our music business…!!!”.

But Ryan stands with a blank expression like this achievement is nothing to him with slow steps he walked toward the wine bottle and poured it into the glass. Finn and Jim stare at each other in perplexity, sometimes they can’t understand their Rockstar behaviour.

“Dude!... you win such an enormous award …are you not happy at all!!!...”, Finn asked Ryan.

“Happy…!!!.. Finn, What a big deal in winning this award!... Everyone knew that I was going to win this… as there was not any competition or challenge for me…”, Ryan gruffed and drank the whole wine in one go.

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On the same day, In the evening

“Don’t worry Shan!... I will handle it…”, She said on the call with a soft voice, and lifted her hand to stick the loose length that plunged in front of her beautiful doe again and again as she found it difficult to make an entry of the car in the data display on the processor.

“Are you sure !!! Tara… If you need any help… just ask Mr. Phil…OK…”, a modulated voice is heard from the other side of the call.

“Yes!... Shan… and Thank you one more time….”, Tara replied blissfully.

“OH’God!....Tara … This is two thousand four hundred and eight-five times…When you thank me…Now it’s enough Tara, just stop it…”, Shan said with a slightly irritated tone and Tara understand it, “Ok…Bye Shan…”, saying this, she cut the call and again become busy with her work.

It has been a week since Tara joined this car service centre. When she arrives in Canada, she decides that she will do a part-time job to bear her further expenses. After the classes, she sits in the library for more studies but sometimes her mind is distracted thinking about the expenses and part-time job. Her biggest problem is that she is in a foreign land, doesn’t know anyone here, and it is quite difficult for her to find a part-time job. But to her luck, a boy of her age observing her and noticed her worried face in the library. Sometimes, he really wants to know her problem but he hesitates to ask her, he feels maybe she can't feel comfortable with it as he is also a stranger to her.

But one day, he guts and sits beside Tara in the library and introduces himself, “Hi... I am Shan Ray…. Studying with you in the same class… Professor Liem was praising you so much that you are the topper of the Scholarship exam and also a very capable and intelligent student… Congratulations!!!...”, by offering his hand, Shan tried to befriend Tara.

Tara first falters as Shan was a stranger to her and it was very funny and odd also that a stranger handsome boy sits beside her and praises her, but after a movement, she shakes his hand with Shan with a baffle, “Thank you!!! Shan…”.

In fifteen minutes, Shan describes his whole life with jet speed, Tara giggled as he was humorous, and the way he describes his life was also quite comical, Tara suppresses her laugh as she thinks maybe he will feel bad..!!!

Shan belonged to a working-class family and he was also admitted to this university by scholarship. He was a funny, capable and brilliant person from the heart . After finishing the class, he spends some time in the library and then goes to his part-time job. When Shan shares this with Tara, her eyes suddenly become wide, and her mouth opens in a circle as she also wants to do some jobs to earn money.

Shan informed her about a data entry worker vacancy in the car service centre where he works for the last two years, Tara swiftly admits it for the job as she is in urge for it. The next day, after class, Shan met with Mr. Phil who was the owner of the Car Service Center and a generous person but his only problem is that he was very sensitive about Lucy--- his pet cat. Shan introduced Tara to Mr. Phil and they hired her for the data entry work.

Tara was delighted, as all the things in her life went smoothly and according to her plan but she was unaware of What immense tornado was waiting for her in the upcoming…!!!

“Tara!!!...”, Mr. Phil called her, to which Tara shook her head and replied softly, “Yes!... Mr. Phil… Is there any work…???...”.

“Yes! Tara…Actually, I want to ask you…. Do you know about driving a car???...”, Mr. Phil asked to which Tara mumbled with a confused expression, “Yes..!!! Mr. Phil… But..!…”, she tried to say something more but Mr. Phil stop her and handled the key of a car.

“OK…take this car to the outside of the service centre and park it out… as his owner will come in fifteen minutes… I could do it myself but…I have been searching for Lucy for a long… don’t know where she hides???...”, saying this Mr. Phil swiftly went out in search of Lucy.

Tara was well aware of Mr. Phil's love for Lucy, she didn't think more and went near the car. When her gaze fell on the car, her eyes widened with surprise as it was not any normal car but a Black SUV, its appearance said that it belonged to someone Richy rich and stylish.

Tara opens the front door and sits on the driver's seat, puts the key on the hold, and runs the engine a distressed surface on her face as she knows to drive the car but it was so long since she drove the car previously, “Ok!.. Tara ..It's not a big deal…you can do it…”, cheering herself, she accelerates the car nervously and drives it outside.

When Tara crossed the gate of the Service Center, she accelerates the car with more speed but suddenly she flinched when Lucy appeared in front of the car, her focus distracts and unintentionally in a panic to save Lucy, she turns the car to full speed, loses control and  BANG…!!!!

Tara bangs the car which leads to huge damage to the car, her breath becomes heavy, eyes enlarged in anxiety, fretfulness spreads over her face, “O, God!!!... What did I do...!!!...”, her back does become drenched with tears, her hands get clammy and face pale, thinking that now she has to pay for the car damage or moreover she has to lose her job.

But Tara doesn’t know that now she has to face that tornado who is waiting to destroy her life…!!!.

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