Chapter 35: Chapter 35

Falak's POV

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He composed himself, and in the way he took his position, I knew that he knew how to fight. I never knew that all my Karate classes were going to pay me off tonight. Ten years, I have been practicing it for the last ten years.

He wiped the blood oozing his lips before speaking, "You surely have your father's blood in you."

"I would take that as a compliment.", I responded and felt so good to know that my father, Aarvik Singh Rathore, also had kicked his ass just like me or more than me.

"Falak…Falak…", A worried voice echoed on the stair.

"I'm here.", I shouted, looking upward, and this was the worst mistake of my life because that bastard used this opportunity and pushed me from the stairs. I tried to hold something, but there was nothing to hold.

Shit!

"Aaaaaa" I cried loudly and fell down the stairs one after another, and my head hit on each stair like a bouncing ball.

I couldn't realize anything for a while. I touched my head and wasn't surprised to see blood in between my fingers. I couldn't hear anything; maybe because of the pain or something, I looked around to see that Klaus was beating the shit out of my kidnapper. His devilishly handsome face was covered with unbearable anger.

I tried to hear what he was saying, but I could hear anything as if my ears got blocked or something.

Breathe IN, Breath OUT.

Breathe IN, Breath OUT.

And then I felt my ear start working again, but I still couldn't hear the sound clearly.

"You bastard, you're going to pay for this.", He yelled, grabbing my kidnapper from his neck. He was no more a human, but he had turned into a completely walking fire dragon. The next thing I saw, Jacob and others came there and tried to pull Klaus away from my kidnapper.

It looked like a fight between iron and magnet, where magnet, aka Klaus, didn't want to leave iron, aka my kidnapper.

I was thankful that Klaus was teaching him a great lesson about hurting me, but at the same time, I didn't want Klaus to kill anyone and get into police cases or something because of me.

"Klaus, STOP.", Jacob yelled at him, finally pulling him away from Adhiraj Srivastava. "Albert, take this bastard with you and lock him up."

"Yes, sir.", Albert nodded, taking Adhiraj from there. At the same time, both Klaus and Jacob walked toward me. Wow! Finally, they remembered that even I was here. Klaus helped me to sit, but because of the pain, I wanted nothing but lay down again. He leaned toward me to lift me, but I quickly held Jacob's hand.

I didn't want someone else to lift me where my boyfriend was right near me. I was thankful to Klaus for whatever he did for me. He might look like an arrogant jerk or a heartless monster, but he was a gentleman.

He looked at my hand holding Jacob's hand, and his jaw muscles clenched, and his face got clouded.

Why did he look angry again?

Did he really hate our relationship to the extent that he didn't even want to see me touching my own boyfriend?

"I'm taking her to the penthouse.", Jacob said in a low tone, on which Klaus didn't say anything. When Jacob leaned to pick me in his arms, I allowed him instantly, but something…something in my heart was not settling right. I didn't know why but I was feeling nervous, which was quite abnormal. Jacob started toward to god knows where! I didn't give a damn about that fact because of two reasons:

I was occupied with my own thoughts. Though everything was pointing that Jacob was my mysterious lover, but my heart and my body were saying otherwise. Though the cologne smell was the same but it couldn't calm down my restless heart.

Boyfriend or Not boyfriend, Jacob was someone who could never think of taking advantage of me or any girl.

I didn't realize when did he place me in bed until he broke my chain of thoughts. "The doctor will be reaching here anytime soon!"

I nodded my head and held his hand when he was about to leave my side. "Thank you,"

"You don't have to be.", He smiled, but immediately his smile vanished when I leaned toward him to kiss him. He placed his palm on his lips before speaking. "No, Falak! I'm not the one who loves you."

'I knew it.', My heart jumped out of happiness while I ejected myself from him as my mind was not ready to accept what I had just heard.

"What?" I couldn't help the shock coming from my voice.

"I know you think that I'm the one who loved you all this year, even now, but I'm not the one.", He clarified again. I looked into his eyes to see any kind of joke or prank, but I didn't find any. In fact, he looked damn too serious while saying so.

"But…" I started speaking but paused, trying to recall everything which led me to this conclusion. Not to forget, I was feeling embarrassed. He was the one who loved me; still, I was throwing myself at him. He might be thinking what kind of shameless person I was! But those leads…those leads were indicating that he was the one.

"But..I saw you, keeping parcel on my desk." I pointed out my first confusion.

"Ah! About that…I was doing that because HE asked me to do that.", He responded.

'HE? Now, who is this HE guy?'

"But…you use the same cologue which is used, my mysterious lover." I pointed out my second confusion, on which Jacob chuckled. This was not at all funny.

"Seriously, Falak? That cologue can be used by anyone. I mean ANYONE who has money. Because that's a special edition which is too expensive for any normal people to afford."

"Ash heard you speaking in a male and female voice at the same time over the call. What was that then?" I pointed out my third confusion.

"Well, my mother had arranged a date for me that day, but I didn't go to meet her. I didn't want to disappoint her at that moment. That's why I was kind of making a fool of my mom."

Making a fool of your mom?

Heck! Right now, I was thinking that I was making a fool of myself.

"But…your birthday! Your birthday is on 8th April, just like HIM."

"I'm sure that there're a lot of people born on 8th April."

"You..you replied to my messages."

"I replied to your messages? Well, I never received your message, nor did I reply to any of your messages.", He said in confusion.

"Didn't you receive a message when you were scolding me in front of my desk today?" I reminded him.

"I did a message, but I'm sorry to break your heart; that message was not from you but from a friend, just because it's my birthday today. I was receiving so many messages today but trusted me, none of them were from you.", He explained.

God! How could I even come to such an irrational deduction? How stupid I was! Tears dwelled in my eyes when I realized that Jacob was not the person who loved me.

Hold a minute! Why was I crying over the fact that 'Jacob was not the person who loved me? It was not that I loved him. A tiny amount of feeling grew for him in my heart just because I thought he was that person who used to look after me.

"But…but how is this possible to have so many coincidences?" I asked, more like asking myself.

Jacob reached his hand toward my face to wipe my tears, but I pulled myself away from him. I was already bearing terrible pain after knowing the fact that I was throwing myself at someone else was disgusting to me!

What if…what if I would seriously have kissed him?

God! I would have killed myself doing that!

"Falak…"

"You know HIM? Don't you?" I asked him and waited to see his reaction.

"Yes!"

"Did he has any idea what I was thinking?" I asked meekly because I couldn't imagine his pain to see his love throwing herself at someone else.

'Please say NO. Please say NO. I chanted in my mind. It was not that I wanted to hide anything from him, but I wanted to share this with him on my own instead of what he figured out from somewhere else.

"Yes."

Shit!

"When you knew that I was thinking it was you, then why didn't you tell me before? What if…what if I would have…?" I couldn't gather the courage to complete that sentence.

"No!!", He quickly answered. "I had no idea about it until now. I mean, I did get a hint from you that that could be a possibility when you came close to wishing me a birthday again, but then Klaus walked in, and that incident skipped my mind. But my doubt got confirmed when you were about to kiss me again.", He confessed.

Wow! Thank you for reminding me that I tried to kiss you twice!

Could I dig a pit and bury myself in that?

"Who is he?" I asked. "And how do you know him? And how can be so many coincidences? Like same cologue and same birth date?"

"He is…" Jacob was about to tell me the name of the person when his phone rang.

Great timing!

He pulled out his phone from his pocket, and I saw Albert's name on his screen.

Perfect. Only this was remaining. One more coincidence that, along with my lover, even Jacob knew Albert.

"Put it on speaker.", I said when he narrowed his eyes. I added, "I want to hear him to confirm my doubt that you are not the one."

"Fine!", Saying this, he received the call and kept the phone on speaker.

"Yes, Albert!"

"Sir, Klaus Sir, will end up killing that man tonight.", He said in a panicked and worried tone.

"WHAT?" Jacob shouted in shock.

"Sir, I tried to stop him, but he was damn too angry, and like an angry beast, he pushed everyone away from the room where that man was locked, and after entering the room, he locked the door and poured all his anger on that man who hurt Falak Ma'am."

"But why is Klaus behaving like that?" I couldn't help myself from asking. "I need that man in one piece because only he knows about my parents."

"Ma'am… Ma'am, only you can handle his anger. I'm too nervous. I don't know…"

"Don't panic, Albert! Get the spare key to the room as soon as possible. We're reaching there in a minute.", Saying this, Jacob disconnected the call, and I looked at him in confusion, shock, surprised, taking to process what he had just said.

Without taking my permission, he lifted me from the bed and started taking me to god knows where?

"What are you doing? Where are you taking me?"

"I'm taking you near Klaus."

"But why?"

"Because you can handle his anger."

"What do you think I am? An iceberg who can handle that fireball." I asked sarcastically, recalling Klaus's anger. When his cousin couldn't handle him, then how could a timid girl like me could do anything?

"Oh, you're more than that! You're the only beauty who can handle this beast.", He said, and by that time, I was already in the room in which Klaus was held firmly by a few people, while Adhiraj was lying almost lifeless, a little away from the Klaus.

When Jacob put me down, I heard the sound of the glass which was under my heels and then looked back to Klaus, who was trying his best to kick everyone's ass and then would get back to his mission of KILLING Adhiraj.

'You're the only beauty who can handle this beast.', I recalled Jacob's line.

'What's that?

"Sir's anger,' I recalled the conversation between Albert and me when I had heard a loud smashing loud of glass or something made of glass for the first time.

'Actually, I informed him that you are leaving with your friend and because of it you won't be able to meet him, but before I can get a chance to take my words back and inform him about your change in plan, the call got disconnected. And the next thing I know, his number is switched off.'

'But there's nothing wrong in switching off the phone, right?'

When his phone goes dead all of a sudden or calls get disconnected all of a sudden, then it means he broke his phone first and then the other things near him.'

I was feeling dizzy, I didn't want to walk or stand, but I still did. I still did, gathering all my energy. I promised myself not to fall to the ground before reaching near him. And that's the moment his stormy grey eyes landed on me.

Immediately he stopped fighting to get out of those men's control and gave all his attention to me. Seeing Klaus calm, those men let him go. But the moment he started walking toward me, my legs froze; they felt like it was glued to the floor.

A lot of things started coming into my mind, and on top of that, this horrible headache. I closed my eyes to relax myself, and that's the moment I heard the familiar footsteps!

The footsteps which belonged to him.

And in that room, only one person was walking right now.

"Senorita!"

Forget the word RELAX. I wasn't even able to breathe in and breath out. I was confident that even my heart missed a beat after hearing that word from the most unexpected person. An arm snaked around my waist, pulling me close to my favorite smell.

'They were cousins. So might be…', My mind concluded to clear its confusion while my heart and my body already recognized the only touch which could make me feel comfortable.

"Do I look that bad that you don't want to open your eyes?", He asked in a low tone. I tried…I really tried to open my eyes, but I fainted.

I literally fainted in his arms!

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#TBC

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Falak's POV

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I panicked in my sleep and was about to open my eyes in fear, but I was soon engulfed in tight but comfortable arms. It took me a while to fall into a deep slumber again.

I hissed in pain when I accidentally touched the wound on my head. And because of this, I opened my eyes. I touched my head and found a bandage on my head. It took me a while to recall how this happened and what had happened yesterday.

Facing Adhiraj Srivastava!

Then knowing my father's name Aarvik Singh Rathore!

And then, that Jacob was not my mysterious lover.

But HE was!!

I couldn't believe what my ears heard last night, and my body felt when he touched me. Indeed he was my mysterious lover.

But how was that possible?

My mind was completely blank. Thinking about last night's incident, I felt like I was still in some kind of impossible dream from which only he could take me out.

But where was he?

Don't tell me that he left me alone on the bed again. At least, he shouldn't have done that this time. At the same time, the door of my room opened, and he walked in holding a tray full of breakfast. So, he didn't leave this time. I looked at him and found him looking at me. I quickly averted my eyes, feeling awkward. Until the moment I hadn't seen him, I wanted to know who he was, and now that I could see him, I couldn't see into his eyes.

I felt him sitting beside me, keeping the tray on the table. I looked at my fingers because I had no courage to look at his face…

God! He saw me hugging Jacob TWICE.

And not to forget, when he approached to help me, I ignored him and ran into Jacob's arms.

Shit!

"Do I look ugly?", He asked in the same familiar tone in which he used to talk with me. Both cousins were definitely perfect voice artists.

"No', I responded, shaking my head, still looking at my fingers.

"Then why are you looking at me?"

"I…I don't know.", I muttered. Maybe because I was feeling ashamed of myself, maybe because I didn't expect my mysterious lover to be YOU. Then he gently raised my face using his index finger and made me look at him. He was staring at me as if he was looking at me for the first time in his life. Unlike other times, his eyes were filled with LOVE!!

"Are you disappointed that who claimed to love you is not Jacob but Me?", He asked in concern, looking into my eyes, maybe trying to find the reason why I was not looking at him.

My mind was filled with so many emotions at that time.

Confusion!

Ashamed!

Happiness! And many more!

But I was not feeling disappointed at all.

"Falak!", There he called my name, which meant that his mood was changing. I had observed him saying me Senorita or Seno whenever he was in a jolly or romantic mood, but he called me by name only when he was pissed or serious.

"It's not like that.", I responded before he started breaking all the things in the bedroom. "It's just hard to believe that someone like you…loves me."

"Someone like me? What do you mean by that?", He asked calmly and held my hand softly.

"I..I..mean you don't look like a person who can fall in love with anyone.", I whispered and found him raising his brow. "I mean, you never show any interest in girls during school days even though you were the crush of so many girls.", I explained properly. "But then, after knowing that you loved me all these years without letting me know is quite shocking. My mind is not able to accept that SOMEONE like you is looking after me from afar. Because you never protected me from getting bullied.", I pointed out. "It's not that I'm complaining about that fact. It's just that back then, I used to think whether you even know that I was your classmate." I said whatever came up in my mind without thinking about what I was speaking.

"I don't know what am I am speaking!" I muttered, loud enough so that he could hear me. "How about you clear my confusion first?"

"Okay!", He nodded his head. "From where should I start?"

"How come you and Jacob have the same birth date? Did you lie to me about your birth date that night?" I asked, one of the reasons because of why my doubt got confirmed that Jacob was my mysterious lover.

"Because we are twins.", He said, making my eyes go wide. "Well, I was born with two other brothers. My mom gave birth to the triplets on 8 April 1999. That's why Jacob and I share the same birth date. So, I didn't lie to you about my birthday that night."

"But Jacob is your cousin, isn't he?"

"In front of the world, YES, but in reality, NO. My mother gave Jacob to my uncle and aunt because my aunty was barren."

"Oh, okay!" I nodded my head in an understanding way. That's why both Jacob and Klaus looked almost similar in their figure. Anyone could rarely identify the other if they would look at them from the back.

"Then why didn't you celebrate your birthday yesterday?" I asked.

"I don't like celebrating a birthday. Moreover, I promised to celebrate my birthday with my girlfriend on another day.", He said casually, shrugging his shoulder as if his girlfriend was not sitting in front of him. I softly slapped him on his chest.

"Now, the last and the most important question.", I announced, and immediately the expression on Klaus's face changed. I think he had already guessed what I was going to ask, but still, he didn't stop me from asking. "Why were you playing all this mysterious lover thing?"

I waited for a while, but he didn't speak a thing.

"Please don't hide anything from me. I know whatever it is, the reason might be too big, but I want to know. I want to know the whole truth because I or say we… can't keep going like this."

He frowned and looked me into the eyes.

"I know whatever is the reason, it might affect our relationship, and you're afraid of that. You had said before that I will get hurt the most when the truth comes out but…but I want to listen to that truth from you instead of finding it from anywhere else."

"You will never be able to find the truth.", He restored.

"Are you sure of that?" I asked and placed my one hand on his, holding his hand with both my hand. "Secrets and lies kill relationships. No matter how careful you are, you will get caught. Because what's done in darkness always comes to light."

He shook his head. "You will leave me after knowing the truth."

"And I can't stay like this with the fear that someday…someday something might come up in front of me, taking all my happiness away from me.

Klaus suddenly grabbed me by my waist, bringing me closer to him with a really worried expression. I was almost straddling him now, but I focused my mind on the serious discussion which was going on between us instead of getting embarrassed about this situation.

"Don't you think of leaving me, Falak.", He said in a serious tone.

I kept my hands behind his head. "Then I want to know the reason why did you keep your identity hidden? Do you know I'm feeling ashamed of myself that I almost had kissed Jacob? That thought is killing me inside. I had already made a fool of myself last night; I didn't want to repeat the same mistake. So, don't deliberately hide things from me."

"What if you don't like the truth?"

"Then also, I will ask you to speak the truth even if it is bitter."

I saw him hesitating, frowning. He was thinking so hard; it was like I could hear his inner turmoil from here. He closed his eyes and rested his head on my shoulder. I instinctively started caressing his hair with my fingertips. His arms slid around my waist, hugging me close.

"....I know what kind of person you're. And I know you will leave me."

"I know I am the kind of person who used to get panic when any male came close to me. But right now, I'm holding a male in my arms and letting him hold me in his arms. So, unless I will find your intention wrong, I promise to stay by your side and will try my best to understand your situation."

He chuckled, and I slapped his shoulder, annoyed.

It was not funny.

A serious discussion was going on right now!

I felt him sigh against my neck. "I'm…m..married."

Okay!

Just like I didn't expect my mysterious lover to be Klaus. I was literally not expecting to hear that REASON for hiding all the things.

What was I to him? A dirty secret?

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#TBC