You're The Reason I am Sane

Chapter 10

...You're The Reason I'm Sane...

Chapter 10:

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Maya rotated her cabin's chair with a push of her leg to the ground and rested her head against it, closing her eyes in a relaxed manner.

Jhanvi Mehrotra popped on her mind all of a sudden..

Her death was everything to Maya..

It was a painful memory yet a happy memory..

It was a trauma for her yet a freedom for Maya.

Maya could never forgive her yet she could not thank her enough..

Jhanvi's suicide attempt to frame Ashwin was a freedom to her, no one but a mother can do that.

Yet...

Instead of leaving Ashwin, her mom decided to take her life, making  everything complicated, leaving Maya with no one in the world at the mere age of ten.

What a tragic life she had led till now...

The initial days of orphanage were so hard. Maya never wanted any one to go through what all she had endured.

At first, it was hard to come up with terms that she can finally live out of the basement. She kept fearing whether she will be locked in there to die alone.

The chair stopped rotating and she sighed remembering how she kept on searching for her Knight whenever she could without even knowing his real name..

The tattoo on her back was the one kept on anchoring her to reality.. Its as if a physical presence of her Knight with her...

A lone tear trailed her cheek thinking about her mom and the childhood she had led.

God...!

It hurts till now..

Maya don't know how people move on because she definitely couldn't.

Suddenly, she was startled to feel a hand brushing the tear away. Maya opened her eyes to find Arjun leaning down to match the height of the chair and was wiping her cheeks.

Maya gulped when the emotions overwhelmed her at his proximity..

Maya didn't know what would've become of her if her Knight had not pulled her from the darkness during her childhood.

Maya stared at his eyes while he nervously stuttered out,

“The employees had long we-went.. The securities are waiting to close the office.. That's why I came inside to see you.."

Arjun was straightening up but quickly Maya circled his neck with her arms and buried her face in the crook of his neck and inhaled his cologne..

Maya want to plaster herself within him.

The more the days went the more it's becoming tough to hide her feelings..

She had been fooling her brain that there's nothing but gratitude towards him because if she confronted her feelings then she would go any extent to have him as hers but she didn't want to harm and hurt the only saviour and hero in her life.

Maya cannot, cannot face how she feels..

No, not now... Nor ever..

She will definitely cage him but no...

Maya repeated the mantra of gratitude and thankfulness in her head, fooling herself that this was nothing but she being overly emotional about her Knight..