Lahat ng Kabanata ng RED: The Shade of Betrayal: Kabanata 21 - Kabanata 30

Erica POV:It’s been two days since samrat had marked me and these time I was not letting it go, I was in balcony thinking about my escape plan when I saw some hustle going down near garage area, I smelled something fishy and quickly headed downstairs and straight to garage “Hey Mr. John is everything fine?” I questioned samrat car caretaker ‘I don’t even know if Car caretaker is a real term’ I thought in my mind watching him “Yes Miss everythings fine and nothing to worry” he told me and I looked at the person who was standing beside him “Who is he Mr. John?” I question him again staring at man who was in some sort of mechanic uniform “Ohh..., he is from king’s garage, he came here to drop king favourite black maserati which out for cleaning two days back” Mr john replied and abruptly I remembered two days back when he raped me in his car my blood was oozing out of my breast and that might have satined his car but mind was fixed on one word Mr.John said, “His favourite maserati?” I qu

Third Person POV:Samrat was burning with rage when headed straight inside his manion and went upstairs, he pushed his bedroom door open and shouted Erica name but recived no response,he kept calling her name but Erica was not there, he checked his balcony also he walked inside his walkin closet to find Erica but she was not there , he then headed towards his bathroom and was about to push open its door when he heard a faint sound coming from inside,he tried to push its door open but it was lock from inside , samrat banged on its door couple of time but recived no response, he then kicked it hard twice when it flinched he kicked it again and in third kick door finally flew open, samrat headed inside and saw Erica who was sitting down on floor near basin, basin was full of her puke also she was covered with sweat, samrat gently picked her up in his arms and took her outside and laid her on his bed, As soon as he laid her on his bed she fainted, samrat hastily called his doctor and asked

Third POV:Samrat was hassled about his dream, he was feeling responsible for death of Erica’s Unborn babies, which again was a ‘Bitter Truth’ however Samrat truly wasn’t sad about death of those babies but he was sad about his dream, it was more than a decade since he had seen Ananya in his dream, Samrat was very young when he lost Ananya he went in trauma after her death, he even used to have nightmares about her death, but somehow he was able to suppress his past deep down in his memory bank, however today it was weird he saw his Ananya again and not just her but he also saw himself in his younger version, Samrat was connecting these dots with Erica’s pregnancy as she was pregnant with his twins, he was somewhere blaming Erica’s for losing her babies, earlier he was frustrated even at a thought of Erica carrying her children but now he was blaming her for his loss, Ananya dream distressed him and took him back in his memory lane.Start of Flashback:29th February, a day which is uni

Third person POV:29th February (Day of Durga Pooja)Ananya started crying after Samrat left her house promising her to never speak to her again, Arnav saw his little sister sad face and quickly pulled her into a bear hug, Ananya started sobbing softly in his embrace when Kalyani saw this delicate action between her children’s her filled with warm love, she kept her ladoos preparation on hold and sat in front of them in Indian style, she then quickly pulled both of them on her lap and started saying rubbing Ananya’s back “What if he never talks to me again maa?” Ananya asked her mother, upon seeing teary eyes of her daughter Kalyani slowly took off her ring and hand it over to Ananya “You know Annu beta, when i was in college, me your father and your auntie Meenakshi and uncle Vikram went to small fair in town, where we meet a lady who was selling fake ornaments, that time your father purchased me a plastic ring from her which had a letter ‘Love’ engraved on it and same uncle Vikram d

Erica POV: Mike and i kept staring at Durga mata statue inside temple but none of us dared to step inside, we both kept looking around admiring our surrounding how time had passed yet this place was same as from our childhood, we were lost in our own daydream when one of the pujari ji (priest in temple) walk up to us and offered to come inside for blessing, but we hesitantly denied and quickly turned our step to walk back when the same pujari ji again walked up to us and offered us some Prasad (holy offering) we both declined it again but pujari ji said “You should never say no to Prasad” in very soft tone , i was about to tell him the reason but before i could speak mike interrupted me “We are sorry baba, but we are not worthy to accept it” he replied, pujari ji seemed to be little lost at mike word but he soon turned his confusion into a smile and said “Beta (My child) , every individual who enter mata mandir (Goddess temple) is worthy of her Prasad, she never discriminate her chil