khwaab | completed.

too late?

abhimaan's pov

we all have been trying to continuously call vridha as i confirmed with her maid that she's not at her penthouse , it was safe to say i was dead worried and whatever dadu said to me made me wonder what exactly happened to her that dadu is so protective of , even her family is not here rn even though ritika had informed her sisters that vridha was missing only to get "uska har time ka natak hae dw she's too scared to do something"

to do what? agar vridha ko kuch huva toh i won't be able to forgive myself , i left her numerous messages and vn and calls only for them to be left unanswered "mae usse lekar hi vapas aaunga aap chinta mat kariye"(i won't be back until i find her don't you worry) running towards my car as the thoughts of her doing something to herself occurred in my mind as a shiver ran through my spine

i don't fear anyone or anything but vridha ke mahadev ji please pehli baar kisi ke liye esa ho raha , humari vridha ko surakshit rakhna

driving around the woods as i entered a lane with no vehicles or housing nearby my heart beats started increasing , i know vridha is fully capable of keeping herself safe but what if

no no i am sure she's okay , nothing is going to happen to her , i won't let that happen even if it means i have to fucking kill the whole world so i could keep her safe i really would , with various thoughts in my head a bright car headlight near the sea made me scrunt my eyes

trying to look closely i knew it was vridha's car i finally released the breath that ive been holding since so long , even though me and vridha did not have a good start nor were we going to marry out of love or we ever wanted to make this marriage thing work , but i don't want to lose her she doesn't know but unknowingly all these years her thoughts are the only thing that kept me sane

i won't let her go away from me even though i would never love her and break her heart the way she did , vridha humesha se meri thi aur meri hi rahegi , she's the one who tormented me in my dreams so much everyday that i had officially lost count of the number of sleepless nights i have spent in my room with her red duppata wrapped around my knuckles just the way she had tied it she was only mine , my khwaab.

vridha's pov

i started losing my breaths as my head felt dizzy , i had been practically living with my head under the water all my life so this felt good knowing i will finally drown and the further the waves took me the hazy memories of the day i met abhimaan or the day dadu held my hand and proudly said he's glad he has a daughter like me

i felt a hand wrap around my waist , he looked like abhimaan the way his arms gave me comfort it felt like i was finally home , i couldn't hear anything whatever was happening felt like a dream, i just kept staring at his face with a huge smile i finally let myself say goodbye i wanted to touch his face but i knew i was just dreaming and nobody would save me , breathing my last breath in his arms i closed my eyes leaving everything and everyone behind.

author's pov

rushing towards the water as he had caught a glimpse of her drowning body under the moon light abhimaan swam towards her as fast as he could trying to catch her as if she's the only precious thing left in the world with every second his heart beats dropped

in dono ki dhadkhane bhi ek dusre se judi huvi hae , jaisi ki kisi gaanth mae bandhi ho (even their heartbeats were connected to each other as if they're tied together by a string)