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The warm glow of the bedside lamp bathed the room in a golden hue as Myra sat cross-legged on the bed, a book resting on her lap. The faint sound of the city beyond their window provided a s...
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M Y R A
I didn’t know what to say.
My mind felt fractured, pieces of me scattered like shards of glass, each one reflecting a different truth, a different version of Ruhaan and the world I thought I knew. The room around me seemed to blur, the harsh light of reality cutting through the haze of emotions I had been trying so hard to suppress. I looked at him, standing there in front of me—hands clenched at his sides, jaw tight, eyes full of that desperation I had once seen in him. The man who would have moved heaven and earth for me, or so I thought.
But now… now I didn’t know who he was anymore.
“Ruhaan…” My voice faltered, and I caught myself. I didn’t want to be weak. I didn’t want to show him how badly I was falling apart inside. “You’ve dragged me into this world—your world—and now you expect me to just... what? Help you clean up the mess you’ve made? What do you want from me?”
He took a step forward, and I instinctively took one back. The distance between us was growing, but it felt like we were still connected by the invisible thread of everything we had shared—the love, the lies, the betrayals.
“I’m not asking for forgiveness, Myra,” he said, his voice low, rough with emotion. “I’m not asking for you to take my side or to jump into this mess with me. But I need you. I need your help to end it. The Syndicate… they’re bigger than I ever realized. And if we don’t stop them now, they’ll destroy everything we care about. Everything.”
I shook my head, my heart racing. “How can you say that? How can you expect me to believe you? You walked away from me without a word, without an explanation, and now you come back and expect me to just forget everything? What if I don’t want to be a part of your world anymore? What if I don’t want to be tangled up in your lies and your pain?”
His face hardened, but there was something raw in his eyes—something I hadn’t seen before. “I didn’t want you to be a part of it. I didn’t want to drag you into this, Myra. But now… now it’s bigger than both of us. There’s no running away from this. I should’ve told you sooner. I should’ve trusted you. But I thought I was protecting you. I thought I was keeping you safe.”
I met his gaze, trying to hold on to the anger, trying to hold on to the hurt. But something in the way he said those words—the way his voice cracked—made me falter.
“I was trying to keep you safe, Myra,” he repeated, his voice quieter this time, almost pleading. “I never wanted to hurt you. I never wanted you to be a part of this world, but I need you. I need you to help me take down the Syndicate. And I need you to trust me again.”
The weight of his words hit me like a truck. I could feel the walls I had built around myself beginning to crumble. I had fought so hard to keep him out, to protect my heart, but Ruhaan had always had a way of breaking through every defense I put up. Every time.
“I don’t know if I can trust you anymore,” I whispered, the words tasting bitter on my tongue. “I don’t know if I can forget what you did.”
He stepped closer, his hand outstretched as though reaching for something he knew was just beyond his grasp. “I know I don’t deserve your trust, Myra. But I’m asking for it anyway. I can’t fight this alone. And I can’t lose you. Not again.”
The desperation in his voice hit me harder than anything else. For a moment, I felt that old connection—deep, powerful, and undeniable—surged through me. The Ruhaan I had known was still there, buried beneath the layers of lies and darkness. But was that enough? Was that enough for me to forgive him? To believe that he was worth trusting again?
“I’m not asking you to forgive me right now,” he said, his voice softening. “But if you help me—if you stand by me, we can end this. Together. No more lies. No more running. We’ll bring them down, Myra. I promise.”
My heart was a battlefield, torn between the love I once felt for him and the betrayal that still stung. How could I trust him? How could I risk everything again?
But as I looked at him—I really looked at him—I saw something more than just the hardened mafia leader, the cold, calculating man who had walked away from me without a second thought. I saw a man who was broken, who had made mistakes, who was trying to fix them. I saw the Ruhaan I had once loved. The man I had thought would always protect me.
The question burned in my mind. Could I trust him again? Could I risk it all once more?
“I can’t make that decision right now,” I said finally, my voice barely above a whisper. “I need time. Time to think. Time to figure out if I can trust you. If I can believe in us again.”
He nodded slowly, his face a mix of relief and something else—something I couldn’t quite read.
“I’ll give you all the time you need,” he said. “But Myra… please know that I’m doing this for you. For us. I never wanted to hurt you. I just didn’t know how to protect you from this. But I’m not running anymore. I’m not leaving you behind.”
And with that, he turned away, leaving me standing in the center of the room, my heart torn between the man I had once loved and the man who had become something unrecognizable.
I watched him walk to the door, his footsteps heavy with the weight of his decision.
When he reached the door, he stopped and turned to face me one last time.
“I’ll be waiting, Myra,” he said, his voice low but steady. “When you’re ready. I’ll be here.”
And with that, he was gone.
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