Love Lies Bleeding

2. Suspicious but curious.

There was a minute of silence, and they made eye contact. When his dragon's dark brown eyes met her beautiful doe-black eyes, time stopped. They stared into each other’s soul. She stood still without moving or making any sound, so he slowly removed his hand which was on her mouth.

Ahalya loosened her hands, looked down at her state and whispered, "Wait here until I wear something underneath." He closed his eyes in pain as he was stabbed which was noticed by her. She came wearing a bra and took his hand on her shoulder, took him to her bed, laid him down, and bought a first aid kit. Cut his shirt near the wound, cleaned it and started to stitch it without any anaesthesia. He just hissed in pain but didn't make any loud sound.

As she completed treating him, she told him to take care of the stitches that might get opened and went to put in the first aid kit. When she came back, the man had already left the room.

*Few hours ago*

Adhir, with his few men, was waiting in the corner of the street near the institutions to stop the drugs entering the city. Then, a school bus was moving near the street, and Adhir felt odd because it was nearly midnight. They stopped the bus to check and they were surrounded by the suppliers. They fought with the suppliers, but they didn't use their guns as it was just a normal street with civilians living peacefully. Adhir's men seized the bus and took it with them.

Adhir was moving towards his car but a man from behind came to stab him. Adhir noticed it in the window of the car and tried to stop him, but eventually, he got stabbed in an attempt to stop him. The man was stabbed back and killed. He knew the stab wasn't that deep and thought to drive home. But men were entering the scene with guns and he didn't want to cause any inconvenience to people, he escaped from the scene. He couldn't stand but started to walk, and his attention diverted to a beautiful, huge bungalow with dim lights all over and a high level of security.

He got into the bungalow and entered Ahalya's balcony as that side had less people. He sat down there in pain, leaning against the wall, but heard silent footsteps; he got up and saw a young lady slowly taking steps. He caught her and pinned her.
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Two days later...
After the encounter, Adhir wanted information on the young lady as she might leak about the last night's incident. Siddique, Adhir's most trusted man, brother and assistant.... got the information on the lady. He showed the information, which is surprisingly very less compared to other data they had. Adhir asked him to display it on the projector screen.

Adhir's POV

Siddique started the projection... "The young lady's name is MS. Ahalya Randhawa, only sister to the business tycoon Mr. Ryan Randhawa. They both lost their parents in an accident. She is a general surgeon working currently for city hospitals. That's it, sir." He turned towards me expecting an answer. I was completely surprised. This wasn't the capacity of Siddique; this is the least of the information he got till today.

"That's it? And what about the information on her education, friends, other family members or her social media accounts?" I asked. "She had her complete education in Australia, stayed there for around 15 years and returned just two days before the incident. No other family members expect Ryan, no friends and no social media accounts." He stated. I knew something was off. Being a normal human one must have friends. She is sort of suspicious. "Let's watch her for now." I got up and came into the hall.

Even in the biggest betrayal field, I found a loyal and trustworthy friend. No friends seriously!!! Anyway, I kept her on watch. Usually, I kill people if anything is wrong, but she treated me, so I decided just to scare her to death. I hope she doesn't leak anything to anyone.

The bus we seized last night had a huge amount of cocaine. Drug business is something very common, but even the mafia has its rules. No children. But these ruthless people blinded by money and power lost their ethics. Vipers! The mafia group who are against the laws of the underworld. They are very powerful and ruthless than me and other groups but they'll never get any support from anyone or through the underworld. These drugs should never reach children but I can make a business out of it.

I have a meeting now with a teenage student who is my informer. But meeting with a child and taking a whole battalion doesn't make sense. So I headed out with Siddique and two others.

Ahalya's POV

I had a surgery, which was successful. The last night incident stuck in my mind. Not that he threatened me to kill, but he was injured, and I just did a very basic treatment; he needed actual stitches and not staples. Tonight I have a duty, so I informed Ryan about it. I did my rounds and checked on my patients. Now it's past midnight, and I'm walking towards my cabin through a dim corridor. I feel like someone is stalking me.

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