HER ONE NIGHT STAND

THE CRASH

Ritwik was unable to sleep that night. Myra's lovely face crying appeared before him. He had never gotten along with his step mother because she was a shrewd woman who had trapped his father after his mother's death. She had been his secretary and slowly and slowly pretended to take care of him. His father had fallen in her trap and eventually married her. She had never loved Ritwik and after his father died and left his empire to twenty four year old Ritwik her hatred grew.

Even now she hated Ritwik because Ritwik had full control over the Singhania empire while Sagar was fully dependant on him.

Initially when Ritwik refused to marry happy being a bachelor she was happy believing that now after Sagar and Jiya married they would have a son or daughter who would be heir to the Singhania fortune but Myra's pregnancy spoiled all her plans. She wanted to break their marriage by poisoning his mind against Myra even casually hinting that the baby might be someone else's

Sagar however loved him and respected him as an elder brother so Ritwik was never bothered about her.

But tonight she had crossed all boundaries. The way she had humiliated Myra and questioned her integrity she would have to pay for it.

Another step he had to take was to bring Myra home. His life was empty without her. Also he wanted his baby to be born in his house. He wanted to take care of Myra. He didn't want his his son or daughter to be looked after some stranger like Gaurav.

With these thoughts in mind he fell asleep early in the morning.

Myra missed him, she loved him and the way he had defended her in front of everyone proved that he cared for her. She could not understand the Eliza connection but she wanted to trust him.

Tomorrow she had to fly to Jaipur with Gaurav to discuss some campaigns with their newly acquired US based company. They would be back in two days. After that she planned to talk to Ritwik so that they could work out their problems since there was a child involved.

Ritwik contacted Myra's office but was informed that she was in Jaipur for two days and would arrive by Wednesday afternoon.

The next two days in Jaipur were very hectic. Myra would be free by 8pm and after taking a light dinner she would go to bed. She tried to avoid any sort of social interaction with Gaurav like going out for dinner or sightseeing on the pretext that she tired easily these days.

Since this was her last visit before the baby would be born she had a packed schedule.

Instead of finishing on time she had a set of meetings left on the third day so Gaurav cancelled their flights and rescheduled for the next flight which was after five hours.

Due to back to back meetings Myra and Gaurav switched off their mobile phones.

Ritwik decided to pick her from the airport. He had the flight details. She was to arrive by eleven in the morning by flight . It was almost time when he reached the airport. There seemed to be some emergency. When he checked he was informed that the flight arriving from Jaipur had developed a technical snag in the landing gear and a crash landing had occurred. The casualties were yet undecided.

Ritwik was shocked. He tried calling Myra and then Gaurav but their phones were switched off.

When he contacted the airline he was informed by the staff at the counter that flight had hundred passengers but only only thirty five had survived. When he checked the list of survivors Myra's name was not in there. Even Gaurav's name was not there. His whole world seemed to collapse.

He prayed to God that his wife and baby were safe. He could not live without her. He loved her. It was now in this emergency he realized that he had loved her from the moment he had laid his eyes on her. He had believed it to be lust but it had been love, pure love. How could he have been so stupid? In his ego he had lost the two people he loved the most his wife and his baby.

For the first time in his life he was at a loss. He went back home closed the door to his room and cried,howled.

He remained in his room till evening without eating anything just listening to any news regarding the crash.