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Maneka

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"Ummm....excuse me...." I start slowly, fearfully. The kidnapper is still tending to his friends wounds, who is laid down and hissing in pain.

"Yeah?" Is the response I get. Okay. Good enough.

"Listen, sir, please let me go. I swear I will never tell anyone about your location or anything at all-"

I am interrupted by him. "Okay. Go." He says.

"I-What?" He is letting me go so easily? There has to be a catch.

"Leave. Go. Before I change my mind." He repeats. Hackles alarm in my head. Its now or never, Maneka!

Without so much as another thought, I am throwing the door open and running out of the door. My feet are bare, my dupatta is nowhere to be found amd my hair that was in a bun back in palace is now in disarray, cascading down my back.

As my appearance registers to me, my feet continue moving. I am running up a dimly lit road. I can hear chatterings of people in random places, but no one is paying any attention to me. Its finally a sudden halt of a carriage in front of me that stops me.

"Ay!Are you blind!" The carriage driver shouts. I call back a quick sorry without stopping my run for life.

By this point I don't even know where I am running to. I don't even know where I am. All I know is I hear chattering of Saanchi's dialect, which means I am probably somewhere in Saanchi's kingdom. There is no way I can escape on foot. I need help from someone.
As soon as that thought crosses my mind I stop. I look around for anyone who looks like a decent person to ask for a favour and spot a clean shaven man with sharp looks, he is standing barely 100 meters away from me. He looks like he could help me.

I make my way toward him.
"Sir! I need your help. Please. Please help me. I need to get out of here. I need to get to Talya"

His slow persual of me ends with an eyebrow raise.
"How much for one night?" He asks.

My throat closes up. He thinks I am a prostitute really? What the hell is wrong with this guy. I shake my head.
"Did you hear anything I just said?" I question rudely. His lewd eyes continue to stare at me.

"New ways to bargain you guys are coming up with huh...."He laughs, "Okay. How about 500 for a night."

I think I am going to throw up. Oh god.
I start taking steps away from him, ofcourse my plan to ask for help was a failure. I need to think of another plan of action but I never get to do that because I am caught the next second. By a pair of arms. My breath catches in my throat.

"You continue to surprise me, rani sahiba. I didn't think you had it in you to run." Its the kindnapper. Screw. Me.

I don't even have it in me to beg him to leave me alone anymore. Because I needed a place to stay for the night anyway and I'd rather pick the devil I know than the unknown devils lurking in this street. I let him take me back to his cottage. But the moment I enter, his friend throws his head back and starts laughing.

"I have no idea what the fuck your plan is now, Arham. But I am telling you if you get killed over this girl, I am not even going to mourn you becausethat would be the dumbest death anyone's had. " His humourous demeanour changes suddenly.
"You should have atleast let her go fend for herself this time." He adds.

"She would have died out there." Kidnapper guy says, who is now distracted himself by dusting the sheets of the single bed.
"When I caught up to her, some asshole was asking her for a night's price."