50“Let me see it on my own,” He started striding toward me. I hesitated and stepped back, “It was nothing import…” he didn’t let me finish my sentence and tugged the papers from my hand. I sighed loudly, calculating his reaction. He observed it sharply, it seemed like he would get them out of this picture just by his sight. His eyes were narrow, Neither I could understand if he was getting angry or happy. His face was that neutrally flat. The silence around us was killing me, I always preferred to skip these moments of making me breathless every time I have such encounters. He gave an opposite reaction from what I was expecting, calmly hummed and stopped staring at the papers then trapped me in his eyes. The just-found air was long gone by that moment. “Where did you get it?” “Someone faxed you 5 minutes back,” I replied casually. He cocked his head and observed my features.His eyelashes were soaked with wetness and iris hinting a blaze of passion in them. I gulped at his intens

52Sunrise7:42 AMTime was ticking on the clock and flying forever while I was struggling with the wide-eyes-open fight, I wanted to shut my active mind but it had been busy imagining worst-case scenarios, and I hated it for that. It had been like that from the moment those scarlet pair of heels left the room after spreading chaos in every corner, made me question my belief over the man I loved more than my existence, I finally sat upright on the bed after battling to sleep, my mind wasn’t in my favour that moment, It was continuously on that picture I found in Armando’s office. I huffed aloud - tired by constantly thinking of the immediate future, I had nothing in my control, everything seemed against me. I scooted out of bed and opened the curtains to admire the greenery of the garden, it was pleasant to view as the sun was rising and eating out the dark, my smile grew wider and I took a deep refreshing breath, may something sooner would wipe darkness of my life just this way, I

54“So that’s why you killed my baby because you didn’t want to share me,”“What do you mean I killed your baby? How can you…” I trailed him off, “Armando showed me a video of Andrea showered in blood, accusing you promised her to help getting rid of me and she will have Armando and you’d planned my abduction for a long time, and now, you admitted you knew me from America, It’s quite alining, isn’t it.” I pushed him away and stood up taunting him, he frowned deeply at me, his face had a shade of guilty and he was continuously denying that fact, He tried to catch my hand but I backtracked swiftly, “I didn’t kill your fetus, Come on, Lana,” he stood up grumbling, “For God’s sake he was not a fetus, he was my baby,” I returned with the same potential, maybe more violent than him because my anger was burning my skin. Yes, now the accusation resembled truth, he was sounding like my baby’s culprit and as much I was hating myself for that right now, I was disappointed, shattered and frust

56“Let’s make a baby, love,” he moaned in my ear and bit it. I processed what he said, my eyes were holding his vulnerable side and I was undeniably getting a stronger pull toward him, maybe because of our marriage bond, I believed when spouses accept each other from hearts, they feel an indubitable attraction towards each other and it was happening in our case. My hands cupped his face, his eyes were lowered, “I demand your eyes up, Armando. Look at me and repeat me you won’t dishonour me anymore and take me as your true wife. Promise me you will behave human and you will protect me and your offspring, you won’t make them inhuman creatures. I’d been through a ride of hell and I don’t want to fight anymore, Armando, I need a normal life, a life every girl has a right to life. A year and half months back, I didn’t know that a mafia man would fall in love with me and I will stand here but here am I, so I want you to choose... Today, you need to choose between me or your killing obsess

58I ran out of the office, praying that I would catch him before he ran away. He was Nathan’s spy and I was sure of it. You’ve to catch him at any cost. You’ve to at any cost, Lana! That’s what I’d been hearing in my mind. I forced my legs to make it before he escaped, I flashed from the corridors and stormed to outside, reaching to the front side of the garden, my focus was on the backside of it. Lana, run faster, he will escape and we can’t lose him. Subconsciousness is reminded again and again. It was like I was running for my life, I scanned him as long as my sight went in the field, but unfortunately, I lost him from where he was. Of course, he was sharp to dodge the security. “Lana!” I heard Nancy screaming my name, I turned around to check out, she was running my way, I frowned, behind her were men following the direction, Okay, I’m not escaping again. Trust me. “What were you chasing?” She asked, panting for breath.“I…” In lost of excuses, “There was a squirrel, I came to s