Angel's Brute (Complete✅)

Chapter 33 - "Dreams and truths..."

"Nandini's words snatch the ground under my feet. I try to gauge the intensity of her abhorrence in her eyes. Those have loathing but more than that they have disbelief, uncertainty and confusion. My suspicions get ground. Nandini might have heard Billu's words and believed all. She might not be unconscious during his assertions. It is obvious that she has been shocked to know all this about her loved one and reacted in this way due to anger and perplexion. She will understand if you can make her understand. My astute mind tries to convince me. I purse my lips in determination and take a deep breath. Manik Malhotra can turn any adverse situation towards positive. I lean towards her and place my staunch eyes on her fuddled ones."

"Look, whatever you heard from that guy is not true. He was a bloody burglar. And I am sure he is a crazy man too. He mistook me as some other person. Couldn't you see how desperate he was to get money in return for your life? You relax and try to forget all these. Look, I kicked him out of our house. You just think that nothing happened in the past few hours. Erase those bad moments from your memory. Let me call Dr Nikhanj. You need rest and medicine. We will talk when you will be totally in your sense. I know right now; you are very confused and traumatised."

Manik affirms and stretches his hand to touch Nandini's cheek but she retrieves like an alert serpentine and in the next moment, gets down from the bed.

"Erase those moments just the way you tried to erase my past from my life? Mr Manik Malhotra, I remember everything. Not because that guy told every truth about you. In fact, I couldn't hear him for a long but before that, I could feel the same fear when he and his partners kidnapped me. I could feel the same suffocation and helplessness which I experienced in that dark car...Ufff...how horrific that was. I was struggling for breathing; I was struggling for life. But...but that darkness...that darkness was engulfing me...They were throttling me, beating me. I ...I was sinking...ufff....Appaaa..."

Nandini pauses while pressing her temple and staggers. Manik rushes towards her restlessly and almost yells,

"Nandita, stop thinking all. You are not well...lie down and sleep."

Nandini again steps back showing her hand to stop his eager pace.

"I have slept enough, Mr Malhotra. Now you wake up. Maybe you didn't hear me exactly. I not only remember how I was kidnapped by that goon, but I also remember my real name. I am not Nandita. I am Nandini Murthy. Daughter of Venkatesh Murthy. And you...you are that guy who tried to buy my dignity with your money."

She hisses and continues,

"Now...now I can figure it out...why I kept on dreaming about those hazy figures inside a car? That pain in my head (She touches the faded mark on her forehead). Because, because they hit me here and perhaps...perhaps I lost my memories due to that injury. And you...you tried to convince me that I lost my memory in an accident. You lied about my identity, my name, our relationship...You lied about everything because you were the one who kidnapped me. You Devil.."

She loses her control. Her eyes are spitting fires. For a moment, Manik keeps on staring at her with a bewildered expression. Gradually, his jaws get hard. The bafflement of his eyes is replaced with a sly diabolic emotion. He thrusts his hands into his pocket and walks towards Nandini with a slow yet determined gait.

"Well, you again honoured me with a new name, Mrs Nandita Malhotra....oopps..Ms Nandini Murthy...uhhhhuuu...Mrs....Ms....shit, I am confused (He fakes a puppy face). But as you called me a Devil, I should keep the worth of my name. Isn't it, Ms or Mrs? So, let me tell you the whole story. I know your sharp brain has awakened from a loooo..ng sleep but still, you are confused about many things which only I yes, this Devil can clear. So, here it is..."