Compelled by the Monster

Chapter 26

"I don't know why you guys think I won't catch on, where is manik?" I ask

"He is fine" arun says

"What the fuck happened to him?"

"Nothing, he is fine I said"

"Arun your are sweating buckets, where is he?"

"Im fine babe, calm down" his voice calms me down but as soon as I look at him, I felt like the room began to spin for a second

His white shirt was socked in blood, his arm had a cut that was stitched up

"Manik what the fuck?" I yell

"Quiet love, your voice is melodic but my head is throbbing in pain right now" he whispers inching to me

I wrap my arm around his back, his arm around my neck as he tries to walk

"Navya get riya out of here, she is sleeping on the couch" I say

She nods grabbing riya taking her upstairs while I help manik sit on the couch, he groans in pain slightly sitting down

"What is going on manik?" I ask

"It's nothing, I'm fine. Did you wanna fly out tonight or tomorrow night" he asks as if this is not a big deal at all

"I am going to smack your head, maybe that can knock som sense in you, god manik what is going on?"

"Nothing is going on, arun can you let George know we are flying out tonight?" He says

"And let him know mrs malhotra is about to fucking kill his boss. What the fuck?"

"Relax will you?"

"You relax" I yell back

"You two will wake up my child, shut up" cabir says

"We will see you later, bye" manik says

He takes a deep breath getting up, I don't say much but I quickly hug navya and cabir, I ran up to their room kissing Riya's head as well. Coming back downstairs I walk to manik who grabs my hand walking to the car

It doesn't take long before we were on the road and then on the flight, somehow all our stuff was left in the house so we were basically travelling with absolutely no luggage

"If you continue to stare at me with those eyes, I will get scared" he mumbles playfully

"Good, you should be scared. I am worried sick manik. You are bleeding everywhere and you are limping a little, why the fuck won't you just tell me what's going on?" I ask being frustrated

"Relax babe, im fine and I have good news for you and us"

"I don't care about that right now, tell me what this is. Tell me you are okay" I whisper

I was genuinely so worried for him, his shirt was soaked in blood, the cut on his forearm wasn't superficial, it was deeper than that

"Im fine love, im okay. It's a small cut, it will be fine" he says

"It's not small, let me see it please"

He sighs pulling his shirt up to reveal a huge bandaid making me gasp

"Manik what happened?" I ask caressing around the bandaid

"Its just a small cut, it's fine now. I am high on morphine and some other pain meds so don't worry" he chuckles

My frown deepens hearing him, this is so obnoxious and all of my being wants to yell at him and get to the bottom of this but he isn't even in the right state of mind.