Broken By Love [COMPLETED]

Chapter 20

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Anjali

"Dh..Dhr..uvv.." I pretended to call my brother's name with some difficulty, and as I had expected, he was immediately by my side.

"Yes, Anjali. I am here. And you are home now. I am sorry I wasn't able to protect you before, but I promise I will not let anything happen to you from now on."

I inwardly smirked with the cognizance that my truth is still not out. Dhruv is as oblivious to my real face as he was before.

But I needed to know what happened after Niranjan and I got injured that night.

When I had woken up from coma three weeks back, the doctors had informed me I had been in that state for almost two months.

So, I also needed to know what changed in those two months when I was out of it.

"I... I still have..." I paused for a moment, caressing my throat and rubbing my temple to show my idiot brother that I am still weak.

"Dhruv, that night's memory is still foggy to me." I paused again, clearing my throat this time. "Can you please tell me what happened that night? How did I get shot?"

I noticed Dhruv frown when he heard the question.

"Do you really not remember anything, Anjali?" He asked me. "It was only you, Niranjan, and Sikha, who were in that room on the night of the incident.

"Niranjan has been on the run ever since you got attacked that day in the hospital. It had been a sheer co-incidence that he also woke up from his coma the day you woke up. But maybe he realized that his truth has been out, which is why he ran away.

"And, Sikha, well, she refuses to say anything to me about that night. And that is understandable given the state of our relationship. That is why I had been hoping you would tell me the truth," Dhruv finished speaking.

'So, the ball is still in my court. Dhruv does not know what happened that night.'

That thought almost brought a smile to my face, but I schooled my expression, making my face that of a teary one.

"Niranjan....was saying....and Sikha...." I brought the perfect mix of desperation and sadness in my voice.

I know how to manipulate Dhruv with the façade of a poor virtuous woman. After all, I have been doing it for a long time now.

Dhruv gently kept his hand over mine and squeezed it reassuringly.

"Don't worry about Niranjan, Anjali. I promise you I will find him and punish him for his deeds. As for Sikha, she is innocent in what happened that night. I had been wrong in punishing her for that," Dhruv said, and I frowned at him.

For his first statement, well, I am not sure how he will find and punish a dead man.

But the other statement about Sikha being innocent. I can't let him think that. Because Sikha knows my truth, and if Dhruv began to believe in her innocence, he might also believe her when she tells him about the darkness within me.

That was the reason why I had hired that man and staged the whole thing about him attacking me. I had even instructed him to get caught and take Sikha's name so that Dhruv's misunderstanding and mistrust in Sikha would rise. And that man had also done his work perfectly.

'Then why is Dhruv telling me about Sikha being innocent?'

"But that night, Niranjan was saying Sikha seduced him." I needed to know what changed that Dhruv now knows about Sikha's innocence in that matter.