Broken By Love [COMPLETED]

Chapter 36

Sensitive content ahead. Reader's discretion is advised.

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Anjali

"Will you do it again? Tell me. Will you?" Mahindra asked, bringing the stick down on my battered leg again.

"No, I won't. I am sorry. Please, I am sorry," I cried, trembling as I saw the blood pour out of many wounds on my leg.

"Manav, I think she has many things still left to learn. You need to be stricter with punishing her. Once I return, I want to see an obedient girl who bows her head and does everything we ask her to. Understood?" He asked his friend, who nodded eagerly with an evil smirk on his face.

"No, please. Please don't punish me. I am sorry for stealing food from the refrigerator. I was starving and could not control myself. But I won't do it again. Please, please," I cried, but both men only laughed at my pitiful state.

Once Mahindra went out of the room, Manav walked closer to me. "You heard what he said. You need to learn to be obedient. I guess it is my fault that you are still disobedient to us. I have been far too lenient on you."

I backed to the corner, fearful of the man approaching me. "I am sorry. I won't disappoint anyone again. Please have some mercy on me."

"I will think about it if you make me happy tonight. I will even lie to my partner that I punished you properly. So, tell me, will you make me happy?" Manav asked, and I nodded, my whole body shivering as he pulled me toward him.

"Go on, then. You know what I want," he said, and I bit my lips to stop myself from sobbing because, per his rules, crying would earn me fifty spanks on my bare bottom.

I unzipped my dress, letting it fall to the floor. Hissing due to the pain in my injured leg, I limped closer to Manav and kneeled before him to unzip his pants.

Opening my eyes, I sit on the bed. My breaths come in spurts as I try to calm myself.

After a few minutes, when my body finally stops shaking from the nightmare, I climb down from the bed and limp to the window.

It has been almost fifteen years, but the nightmare still haunts me.

I sigh deeply and start to walk to the bathroom to freshen up for the day. Although it's an hour earlier than I usually wake up, I know I cannot go back to sleep now after reliving that one memory of my nightmarish past.

As I am taking out the clothes to wear for the day from the cupboard, I hear my phone vibrate.

Frowning at who messaged me this early morning, I pick up my phone from the bedside table and see Ridvansh's name flashing on the screen.

Ridvansh: "I miss you, Darling. Let's meet today?"

I smile as I read his text. Meeting him will be perfect for distracting me from my adverse mood today.

So, I text him back, telling him to come to our Moon House at 1 pm today. I know he wants to have sex, and I do too. But I also need to talk with him about Sikha.

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"That was amazing, Darling. It had been so long since I last buried myself inside you," Ridvansh says.

We are both lying naked on the bed, fully spent after round two of fucking.

I scoot closer to him and place my head on his chest. "I needed this today."

Hearing me, he keeps his finger below my chin and makes me look at him. "Everything fine?" He asks, and I can see concern for me marring his face.

"Nightmares again," I reply, knowing he will understand.

And he does because he sighs understandingly and pulls me closer to him. "It's ok, Sweetheart. We have left that life behind. No one will hurt you now."

I nod, feeling relaxed as I hear his heartbeat. "I sometimes wonder how we would have turned out if all those things had not happened to us. Would we be like others, normal and boring?"

Ridvansh sits up on the bed, pulling me along with him. He then sweetly kisses my lips and smiles at me. "Maybe. But we would not have been happy because all those girls' screaming and their helplessness excited us. Don't you think?"

His question makes me think about the fun we had when we tortured those girls. Their screams when we tied them up while Ridvansh had his way with them. And then the mind-blowing sex we had right after that.

Too much fun.

"You are right, Ridvansh. That feeling was euphoric. Something I am craving to experience again," I say, placing soft kisses on his neck.

Just thinking about it has made excitement course through me. "When do you think we can start searching for another prey?" I ask him.

"We must stay low for a month or two because I talked with my informers. The investigation for the last two girls is still ongoing. The police think those girls ran away with their boyfriends because they have the letters we had forcefully made those girls write, but their parents are pushing them to at least find where their daughters are," Ridvansh says, and I feel irritation rise within me.

"How long will the investigation continue then?"

"I think one more month. If the police do not find anything by then, there is a high chance they will close the case and tell the parents they cannot find the girls because they do not want to be found," Ridvansh tells me, and I smirk.

"That's great," I say, kissing his jaw. "But don't you think we can at least start to lure another prey? It usually takes us about two months to properly plan and make a move. So, I think it will be perfect. And I am thinking of keeping the girl alive for at least six months this time. We always do three months, but for me, that is too short a time to torture them properly," I say, and Ridvansh sighs.

"That might be dangerous. What if they succeed in escaping, or what if someone found our place? Last time we had to move Anusha to the mansion's basement because a few people came here and asked about the screams. That was how Sikha found Anusha there in the first place. If not for that, she would have never known," Ridvansh says, and I nod, agreeing with him.

"We will be more careful this time. What about we gag the girl? Then she won't be able to scream," I suggest.

"Also, we need to do something about Sikha, Ridvansh. I can't let that girl play us."

"What do you mean? You think she will try to double-cross us?" Ridvansh asks.

"Of course, I think that. Do you really think she made a deal with us because she only wants to destroy Dhruv? No, Ridvansh. I can feel she is trying to destroy us too, and my intuition is rarely wrong," I reply, wrapping my naked body with the bedsheet and climbing down the bed.

Reaching the center table, I light up my cigarette and take a puff.

Ridvansh, too climbs down from the bed and wears his pants. Then, walking up to me, he sits beside me on the couch and takes a puff from my cigarette.

"Find out where her parents were taken. We do not know who is the person helping her right now. But if we find where her parents are, we will not only have something to subdue her but also blackmail her to get the evidence she has against us," I say to Ridvansh, anger rising within me as I think about that chit of a girl who dared to threaten me that night.

"As you say, Sweetheart. I will ask my informers to snoop around the hospitals discreetly and find out about her parents."

"If you find it out, I will reward you for one whole week," I say, smiling seductively at him, and he leans toward me, kissing me deeply as he pulls down my bedsheet.

"Show me a glimpse of that sinful week then, Darling," he says, standing up from the couch and carrying my naked body to the bed.