✿𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐓✿✓

~✿ESCAPE✿~

Author's POV

"Now, Eat it quietly or else I've to feed you forcefully!". Adhiraj said holding the plate near him as she glared with her red swollen eyes.

"Don't worry, there's no poison in it!"

"I don't believe you! I just hate you, Mr. Adhiraj Singhania!"

"I would've proven you easily but I can't eat it!"

"Oh, that means I guessed right! It has poison!"

Hearing her Adhiraj's mind was filled with anger. He grabbed the bowl of 'Kheer' and started gulping it in one go without giving her a chance to speak. Mehek was shocked seeing his psychotic behaviour.

As soon as he finished eating he grabbed her waist tightly and pulled her closer to him.

"DO YOU TRUST ME NOW OR DO YOU NEED ANY OTHER PROOFS, HUH?". He shouted loudly which scared Mehek as hell.

"SAY!". He gritted his teeth.

"I__I". She stammered badly hearing his shouts.

"SPEAK UP! DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW?". He screamed tightening his grip more around her waist. Tears rolled down from her cheeks as she tried to push him from his strong grip.

She was about to say something with her trembling lips and teary eyes but suddenly he started coughing badly. His grip from her was loosing. His eyes and face became red. Mehek stayed silent for sometime as she couldn't understand the actual mess. She looked allover but there wasn't a single drop of water. She got up hurriedly and came running to her mother-in-law.

"He__he__!". She hiccuped.

"What happened?"

"I__I don't know! He isn't well!". Saying so, she took the glass of water and ran towards him. Shikha too followed her.

"Take it!" She held the glass near his lips with her trembling hands as he drank it in one go.

"What happened, Raj?" Shikha asked cupping his cheek but he wasn't in a state to answer anything.

She roamed her eyes as her eyes fell on the bowl of 'Kheer'.

"Did he eat this?". She asked Mehek as she nodded her head slightly.

"Raj it was made with nuts and cashew then why did you eat that?". She questioned him confusingly as she knew about his allergic reactions from those.

Adhiraj glanced at Mehek who was now standing silently lowering her eyelashes feeling sorry for doubting on him.

"I just wanted to taste it that's all!". He stated in one line and went to the couch while coughing badly.

Shikha didn't ask more and left gesturing her as she knew very well about the tensions which were going on between the couple. Mehek slowly came near him as he looked at her still with his red swollen eyes.

"I__I__"

"Do. You. Trust. Me. Now?". Adhiraj cut her in mid and again asked the same question which was the most important for him to know but her silence made him again angry and frustrated. He angrily kicked on the centre table which made the flower vase fall from it's edge breaking it into pieces. She placed her palms over her ears in fear tightly to save her ears from the loud sound and made herself ready for further actions.

"Twelve hours! You've just twelve hours to decide what you'll do! Will you try to adjust with me by yourself or you need me to make yourself adjust with me and I'm sure that you won't like the way of mine. So, it's on you now what you'll choose! I'm fucking tired of this treatment of yours. Don't make me go mad at you again and again!". He threatened taking her in the cage of the bed and him. She turned her face aside with teary eyes squeezing her body not to make any contact with his skin.

Adhiraj glanced at her action and immediately got up from her.

"Don't worry, Nothing won't happen without your consent!"

"Are you asking my consent, really?" She laughed sarcastically.

"Jo khuli aankhon se dikhta hai wohi hamesha sach ho ye zaroori nehi! (The things which you're seeing normally should be always true, it isn't necessary)". Saying so, he left the room.

Mehek remained looking at his disappearing figure with confusion filled orbs. Her mind started roaming on his words.

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It was showing 10 a.m. in the clock which meant the last two hours of his given time period. After that night he didn't come to her room and converse with her.

Mehek looked at the door hugging her knees more in the bed. She couldn't decide what she'd do. It was getting impossible to stay with him in his cage. She couldn't pass her whole life like this under his dominance, his orders and his wishes. She had also some aims, some ambitions in life. She also wanted to be free and didn't want to be under his control being his puppet but until she is with him, there's no way. He would always treat her like a mere substance.

As soon as something hit in her mind Mehek got up from the bed and slowly stepped forward to check the door which was locked from outside. Mehek knew very well, if she tried to go out from her room. Then his guards who were standing exactly outside their room wouldn't allow her. So, she had to take the back process.

Taking a u-turn she went to the bathroom hurriedly. After that she opened the shower and started checking outside from the big glass window.

'None is there. It's the only way for you now!'. Her inner soul muttered.

After a long trial session she was successful to open the window. She jumped from there and started running. Her breathings went heavy as she took big steps to cover the area.

Half an hour passed as finally she came to a safe place away from him. She felt like to sit somewhere as her feet weren't processing further. Looking here and there she found a tree shelter as she sat there.

It was feeling good to her as after a long time she had came outside from that haunted mansion and that psychopath. She never knew that her perfect life would come under a threat after meeting him.

'Please save me, God! I don't want to meet him again in my damn life! Never ever! I just want peace now!'. She murmured and got up from her place when someone tapped on her shoulder. As soon as she turned, her eyeballs came out of her socket.

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