Embers of Desire: A Dark Triad's Affair

Chapter 14:

Guysssssssss you allllll are the besttt 🐥😭✨ we reached 2.1k+ views in less in three weeks guysssssss 😭❤️ I love you allllll ✨❤️.... Also please do vote it motivates me as I update you on very time everytime✨🐥

Don't forget to read the promo of the next chapter at the end 🐥✨

This chapter has a little of neha's Pov and more of Vikram's Pov...

______________________________________

Neha's pov :

I quietly started walking downstairs, and I could feel Vikram and Dev following me closely. Something was off. I knew they were hiding something from me—something important. They weren’t telling me the truth, and I couldn’t shake off the feeling that it was something I had the right to know.

Yes, I want to know. Why shouldn’t I? When these two forcefully kidnapped me, dragged me away from my family, and then claim they love me, don’t I deserve to know everything? They’ve even decided to marry me against my will, and the wedding is only four days away. Tomorrow is Puja path of us three together before marriage. How can they expect me to marry them, to accept them as my husbands, when I don’t even know who they truly are? These men are strangers to me, and they expect me to blindly trust them, to become their wife—not one, but two husbands! I’m not desperate to make them my husbands, but I need to know who they really are. What kind of men are they? What have they done in their lives that makes people like that horrible man, Aditya, say such disgusting things to me? And touch me like that? That gave me almost a trauma.

Aditya’s words have been echoing in my ears ever since that day:

~"I’m someone who knows the truth, Neha. I know that Vikram and Dev are not who they seem to be. They’re dangerous men, involved in things you can’t even begin to comprehend. But I can help you."
~"You’re just a pawn in their game, a pretty little thing to be used and discarded."
~"Tell them Aditya Vishwa Rathod was here. Tell them I’m coming for them. And when I do, I’ll take everything they hold dear. Starting with you."

Who are Vikram and Dev? What have they done that makes people like Aditya hate them so much? And why did he touch me in such a disgusting way? I feel so trapped between the lies and the secrets these men are keeping from me.

As I walked towards the table, Emma entered the room, ready to serve the food. She was always efficient and calm, but before she could even get started, Vikram held up his hand gently. "Emma, it's alright today. We'll serve our princess ourselves," he said, his voice calm but firm. Dev nodded in agreement, his eyes on me.

Emma gave a slight nod and smiled. "Very well, sir. Let me know if you need anything." With that, she quietly left the room, leaving me alone with the two men who meant to marry me—and yet, I felt like I barely knew anymore.

The aroma of the food should have brought comfort. Normally, I would have been excited. I’ve always been a big foodie—whether it’s the soft, warm rotis fresh off the tawa or the rich, creamy paneer butter masala. I could eat until I was stuffed, savoring every bite. Food has always been one of my greatest joys, something that could lighten even the darkest mood.

But not today.

Today, the smell of the food felt distant, like it was a reminder of another time—a time before everything became so confusing and painful. I looked at the plate in front of me, at the dal and jeera rice, the pickles that usually added a zing of flavor I loved. But all I could feel was the cold weight of dread settling in my chest.