I think I'm fainting maybe due to an empty stomach or due to what I just witnessed. I am about to fall hard on my ass as darkness consumes me but caught by hard arms wrapped around my waist and pulling me straight. Now I think the reason for my fainting is just standing before me. He is wearing only his sweatpants and his muscles bulge and now I'm dripping saliva cause he looks delicious. I part my eyes away from him as I know I am angry and betrayed. What I want to do is kick him in the ass and call off the wedding but I think It's better to talk the misunderstanding out and clear it. 

I don't know what my personality is, one side is liking him and the other is hurt but I think I'm overthinking this whole thing, this is just messed up, so messed up. I don't know what's going on with me and my brain which is just not working or maybe my body doesn't want to acknowledge my brain. 

"Are you okay?" He asked and I gave him a single nod, he released his hold from my waist making me want to wrap myself around him more. He entered the kitchen and I followed him behind like a lost puppy. 

"Did you make the breakfast?" I asked him looking at the soup and scrambled eggs and I think this combination is a bit off. 

"No, The maid did it." saying this he searched for the dishes in the cabinet and then settled them on the white countertop. I followed every movement of his body and his hands. 

He then gestured towards the dining room and I followed the suite. He set the dishes, pouring tomato soup for me and serving himself scrambled eggs. We sat in the quiet, eating breakfast when he started a conversation out of the blue. 

"Do you work?" He asked and I know this question was just so absurd but I thought of a more polite reply. 

"Yeah," I replied nodding like a kid. 

"Where?" H asked again this time looking at me and I had to look away to keep myself from blushing. 

"At Bigmart as a project planner." I replied straight to the point and started finishing my soup. I looked at him when I didn't get a reply from him, only to find him staring at me like he knew what was going on in my mind. 

"What ?" I asked nervously blinking at me when he looked away clearing his throat only to drop a little bomb. 

"It's my company but I never saw you there." He stated and this time I am looking away from him. 

"Ohh, because I work from the online platform ." Listening to my reply I noticed his eyes widening with shock and his mouth opened and closed as if he didn't know what to say. 

"Oh, okay okay..um." He spoke nervously making me suspicious at his answer so I asked him, "What is it?". 

"Oh it's nothing sunflower, I am happy that you work for me and I am looking forward to working with you in person rather than online." He stated and I zoomed my eyes at his face. 

"What sunflower? A new nickname?" I puffed out a breath looking frustrated but inside deep, my soul is doing a little victory dance. I looked at him maintaining my poker face, so that he couldn't see through me at all. 

I looked at him for a long time for an answer but received a shrug instead and a squaring of shoulders. I dug into my food as I was famished. Taking my breakfast with a steady speed, I ran towards the kitchen to put the dishes in the sink. 

"Let them be, Maid will do it." He gestured when he saw me cleaning one of the dishes. I looked at him for a complete minute before washing my hands and then I remembered something. Rolling the sleeves of the shirt, I walked up to him with steady footsteps in the living room where he was watching the news on television. 

I stood in front of him, keeping both of my hands on my hips and doing my best to glare at him. Instead of standing and walking up to me, he raises an eyebrow and movie-style expressions. And I thank God when he spoke up after looking at me for a long time. "What happened?" His question was. 

"You know and you are asking what happened?" I grit out in frustration, I want to bash his head on the coffee table but I repress my urge to kill my to-be husband before the day of the wedding of course. 

"If you are sad about that girl from the club, then I am telling you, My Sunflower, that your dearest husband has been a bachelor since eighteen." His tone is calm and quiet the opposite of what I expected it to be and now that tone is grating on my nerves. 

"That one was the question for another time but thank you for reminding me that I have to kill you and bury you properly if I saw that again." I huffed out rolling my eyes. 

"Jealous much?" He tsked and now I am plotting his murder for sure tonight. 

"Do not change the subject and tell me Why did you do it?" I pointed my index finger on my collarbone which was peeking out from this oversized shirt of his. I looked and looked at him but he cleared his throat and met my gaze which I am sure is burning with fire. I think God is always on the opposite team from mine as he opened his mouth to say something when the doorbell rang making me roll my eyes. Ignoring and huffing and rolling their eyes, he stood up and strolled towards the door which was the right side I guess. I waited for him for minutes and flopped on the couch on which he was seated before going. 

I looked at the wall where a television is placed in the middle of a wooden piece surrounded by the mind-blowing aquarium, there are three fish which I assume are goldfish. That's when I looked around briefly and the whole apartment was so massive and not like in those books where the male lead place is black and white. His whole place is bright and happy looking with colorful features around it. 

"I think this is for you." I jumped up startled when he came up showing me a red box decorated with ribbons and there was my name written in big letters and a pink heart after it. I looked at him for a brief moment and my thoughts were bad, really bad but it might not be bad right? Maybe Anvi sent it to me as a welcome gift in her friend zone. I watched the box with fear and curiosity filling up my senses and I could feel the sweat trickling down my spine. I know I am overreacting to this situation but I could not stop thinking badly because my experience with surprises is the worst like nightmares from the dark disgusting night which suffocates the person and pushes him into the river of darkness engulfing him and then the person is lost forever!. 

"Are you there, Sunflower?" A hushed voice brought me back to Raj's house. Uh-huh I mean Rajveer's house. I looked at him breathing heavily and sweating too much for a normal human. 

"Yeah." My reply came out as shaky breath but I smiled at him and he smiled back and now I want to die for it.  I didn't know that I was staring at his lips until he cleared his throat making me go from blue zone to red zone very quick. 

Control your fucking emotions Adhvika. 

I scolded myself in my head and then looked at him again. He passed me the gift box and sat beside me. I hesitated at first but ended up unwrapping the red cover and there is again a red box inside it on which it is written with dark bold letters which sent me chills and I am trembling from fear and panic. 

It says, " For my Sweet Little Adhvika. I miss you a lot and I am reminding you of my existence." 

My hands shook along my brain and body after reading what the line says, He is watching me, he knows where I am and here I thought I was breathing right but no I was wrong everything is wrong. 

Keeping my hands firm to avoid the shaking, I opened the box and there was a loud shrieking which was surely coming out from my throat. Someone shifted beside me, saying something that I couldn't decipher. 

Red roses dipped in dark red blood. 

Flashes from the past start appearing in front of my vision, my body seems like it is chained again against that bench. I am crying, thrashing, and asking for mercy but none came. There is red and red everywhere including me. The blood clings to me like a second skin and I can smell of filth, true filth. 

Drip 

Drip 

Drip 

Drip 

The only thing I listen to is the dripping of blood from the walls, from me, from the wounds, from the dead body.