"I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again."
Reapers from the underworld are supposed to take the souls of people away, not save them.
Shreya has violated this law and is doomed with a curse of hell.
She has been disowned from hell.
Loving is like taking a risk for Aman because his actual parents passed away while saving him in an accident and the ones who had adopted him also passed away while saving him from drowning. His luck seemed always unfortunate to those who loved him.
Boring IT work and loads of working hours in the biggest industry of the world has sparkled love between both of them which will weave them in a bond, unforgettable.
They made steamy love, their lips were in sync, no need to utter a word cause they knew what the other thought.
On her twentieth birthday, she wished to have a tour to Roopkund, Uttrakhand.
Sky tainted red and blood flowing like a waterfall with thousands of bobbing heads in it, Aman opened his eyes and sighed.
Just a dream.
While seeing the bones scattered around in a vast lake without water, popularly known as the Skeletons Lake, Shreya felt her head spinning and passed out.
The whole day she was laying in the bed, immobilized.
The bonfire was flickering off and only smouldering logs left behind, the consistent hooting of owls and howling of wolves awoke Aman from his slumber, on inspection he found that Shreya was nowhere to be found.
His mind was confused but his legs subconsciously took him near the lake.
She was standing among piles of bones, moonlight illuminating her, she took some weird steps. Before he can understand what's happening, the land beneath her feet rattled, neon purple light streaked out of it as if engulfing her.
Aman ran towards her and both of them landed in the underworld but she came in her palace while he was thrown in a place, similar to the one he saw in his dream.
She forgot everything and was now prepared for the sacrifice. A black hole stood in front of her, gaping while her parents and other hell ministers were standing in awkward silence.
She was ready to take off for final destination when a hand pulled her back, grasping forever.
All disorganized feelings came rushing in. But her dad yanked them apart and blew a punch on Aman's face. He pushed his own daughter in that darkness so that he can purify his status.
Aman lunged towards her and grabbed her hand even though her dad was breaking his bones.
Unbearable, the thought of Aman getting hurt because of her, she only said one thing;
"Let me go".
She freed her hand from his lock and went in trenches of the dark world.
Like a flash, he returned back in this human world, sitting in the middle of the lake, where everything started and ended too.
But do you think this is the ending?
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Short Story[ Exclusively for the contest] The whole story will be available in another book.