In the darkness, muffled moans pierced the silence of the room. Samar looked at the body that writhed beneath him without a trace of emotion on his taut face. He got no satisfaction from this, but he couldn't possibly avoid it too. As a bead of sweat trickled down his face, to his neck, into his undervest, he increased the pressure. The resulting scream, and a rush of uninhibited words, however, were pleasurable to his ears. Slowly he pulled off his booted foot from windpipe he was choking in the strong room under his club. The man who lay bound and bloodied on the floor lost consciousness. "Make sure he does not die," picking a small towel draped on the back of the lone wooden chair in the room he instructed his two men who were standing in the shadows before leaving. Outside, in a bare ante-room with a small table and chair, laid his shirt, cotton blazer, mobile, wallet and gun holster. Wiping the sweat off his face and blo

As Samar stopped the car in the premises of the apartment complex where Jayant lived, his neck automatically craned up. His eyes zeroed down on the illuminated window of the corner flat on the third floor in the third building. Jayant's house. Samar knew exactly which flat to look at because the flat above that one, on the fourth floor, was where he used to live with his mother. The flat was still his, thanks to Ranjan uncle, but it was locked now. He seldom opened it, unable to face the memories of his kind and loving mother. After what he has become in life, after what all he has done, after what all he plans to do, his mother wouldn't approve. He knew."Is that Kaki?" shrugging off the gloom he asked Jayant, who had rounded towards the driver's side to take his leave, pointing towards the figure pacing in the small un-lit balcony of Jayant's flat. Jayant looked up too."Is she up waiting for you?"Jayant scratched the back of his head. "Umm... yeah."S

Old habits die hard.Nothing else could explain the foolish urge that Maahi had to pull out another one of her tried and tested excuse from her arsenal, making a run from this conversation staring her in the eyes. So busy was her frantic mind in devising a strategy to get out of this situation that she gave no heed to the lavish manly room around her. Or to the owner of that room who was now standing barely a foot away from her, his hands folded on his chest."Maahi."She looked up, startled as her heart leaped up in her chest. Instinctively, she moved a few paces back, away from the heat and threat his body was emanating. God, of other things she didn't know but they should really talk about respecting personal spaces. Anyway, showtime! She smiled brightly. A stubborn fake it till you make it smile. Getting ready to deflect the upcoming chit-chat on her stupidity. She was an e

It was quite early in the morning, three days later, that Maahi again saw Samar's handsome face as she entered the breakfast lounge of Hotel Renaissance located at Powai lake. Her choice of place to meet him, close to his apartment complex. Dressed in gym slacks, a racerback tank, and a thin full-sleeved jacket over it, all black, she adjusted the strap of her gym bag on her shoulder and walked towards him. Sensing her arrival, he looked up from his glass of what looked like juice, stopped rolling his ear stud between his fingers, and narrowed his eyes at her. She felt nervousness swirl in her gut. "So, the Princess finally decides to make an appearance," he taunted. Maahi dropped her bag to the floor, gracefully slid in the chair opposite his, and smiled wid

Samar knew his relationship with Maahi was going to be absolute bliss. And it was going to be pure agony too.But it was an agony he was choosing to endure.That she was penitent enough to not look into his eyes while demanding he signs his death warrant, proved that he hasn't chosen wrong.Not that he was going to sign any such thing. And he wasn't going to lose Maahi again, either. Yes, he was crafty that way."Look at me, Maahi," he repeated once again.This time, Maahi gulped, and hesitantly brought her beautiful eyes to his face."You don't want me to harm your brother, did I get that right?"She nodded after a hea