CHAPTER 1:

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Ashi Singh walked out of prison before dusk fell.

She had been temporarily bailed out of jail for one day.

She held an address in her hand and got in a car at the entrance. She arrived at an old mansion halfway up the mountain when it was almost nightfall. The doorman then led Ashi into a bedroom.

The bedroom was pitch black, and it smelled of thick, pungent blood as soon as she entered. Before she had adjusted to the darkness in the room, a pair of strong arms grabbed her into his embrace.

A hot breath attacked her. “So, you are what they sent for me to enjoy before my death, the… call girl?”

‘Call... girl?’

Ashi’s tears came rolling down her eyes.

She suddenly felt frightened, and her voice trembled. “Are you… dying soon?”

“Yes! Do you regret doing my business?” The man sneered faintly.

“I don’t regret it,” Ashi said miserably.

She had no room for regret because her mother was waiting to be saved by her.

The room was pitch black. She could not see the man’s face. She only knew that the man did not seem like somebody who is dying. Finally, after two or three hours, the man fell asleep.

‘Was he dead already? ’

Ashi had no time to be in fear, and she quickly fled the mansion.

The night was filled with dense and cold rain. She ran in the rain to the Joshi Residence.

It was eleven o’clock at night and the door to the Joshi Residence was locked. However, Ashi could hear the joyful noise in the house as if there was something worth celebrating.

“Open the door! Quickly, open the door and give me the money. I need to go save my mother… Open the door! Open the door!”

The door was still locked.

As she waited for a bus in the stormy night, Ashi was dizzy and unstable, but she had to focus her energy to bang on this door until a loud bang was created. “Open the door! Open the door! Quickly give me the money, I need to go save my mother…”

‘Bang!’ The door was pushed open, and Ashi’s despaired gaze suddenly sparkled.

The person behind the door looked at Ashi with contempt and disgust.

Ashi knew that she looked worse than a beggar now.

However, she could not care for her image now. She threw herself before the person and begged with her eyes. “I have done what you asked me to do, quickly give me the money, my mother’s life cannot wait any longer, please…”

“Your mother is dead, so you no longer need the money.” The person who opened the door threw a black-framed picture into the rain, then mercilessly closed the door.

“What?” Ashi was astonished and still in the rain.

Moments later, she let out a harsh cry, “Mother…”

“Mother…I was late, wasn’t I? I missed the timing to save you, didn’t I? My mother is dead…My mother is dead…” Ashi hugged her mother’s coffin portrait, curled up in the rain, and muttered to herself.

She then crawled up and started to bang on the door like a crazy person. “Liar! I’ve done what I’ve promised you, but you didn’t save my mother, return my mother to me! Liar! Your whole family will die horribly… Liar! Liar! Liar! I curse that your whole family will have a terrible death!”

Ashi fainted outside the door of the Joshi Residence.

When she woke up, three days had passed, and she was in prison again.

She was sent to the medical care area when she was in a coma because she had a high fever. Her fever came down after three days, and she was returned to the original imprisonment area.

A few female inmates came and surrounded her.

“I thought she was released and freed after being bailed out, but she was sent back in again just after three days?”

“I heard she was lent out to be toyed with for a night.”

The well-built female gang leader pulled on Ashi’s hair and let out a burst of sinister laughter. “What a good life this woman had! Watch me beat her to death today!”

Ashi did not even bat an eyelid.

Let them beat her to death. If she were beaten to death, it would be perfect for her to reunite with her mother.

As the women started to strip Ashi’s clothing, a stern voice came from the door. “What are you doing?”

The female gang leader instantly smiled apologetically. “Ashi was sick. We were just concern for her.”

The correctional officer did not answer but shouted Ashi’s prison code. “036, come out!”

Ashi walked out and asked indifferently, “What did I do wrong now?”

“You have been acquitted.” The correctional officer said blankly.

“What?” Ashi thought she hallucinated. It was until when she was out of the prison door that she realized it was real.

She cried tears of joy and murmured, “Mother! I couldn’t save you, but could you forgive me? I will see you now. Where are you buried…?”

“Are you Miss Singh?” a man’s voice asked coldly.

The man in a suit stood before Sabrina, and a black car was parked right behind him. Another man with shades could be seen vaguely inside the car watching her.

She nodded. “Yes, that’s me. You…”

The man did not answer but turned around and spoke politely to the man in shades seated in the car. “Young Master Siddharth, it’s her.”

“Bring her over!” The man in shades ordered.

Ashi, who was still confused, was pushed into the car and sat next to the man in shades. She immediately felt a cold murderous aura coming from him.

Ashi felt her life was in his hands.

“I am Siddharth Nigam” The man introduced himself coldly.

Ashi could not help but shivered and asked gently, “I have not been acquitted…but I am going to receive my death sentence, right?”

“I’m taking you to get a marriage certificate!” Siddharth was reluctant to even look at her once more.

Ashi suddenly thought his voice was familiar. It sounded like the man that died that night.

However, the man had died.

“What did you say?” She thought she had heard it wrong.
TO BE CONTINUED

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