(After a month)

Krsh's pov

Life has never been so perfect. I have a perfect job, perfect family and most importantly perfect wife. I have all I could ever ask for. Meera, thinking about her only can brighten my whole day and night. I still remember our first night together. After she kissed me on my jaw, I whispered to her but she fell asleep and I waited for her to go into a deep sleep, then entangling myself I went to the bathroom and turned on the shower at the coldest. Her mere touch ignites feelings deep within which I think will scare her if I showed it. I don't know how much I can control myself but for her I can until she becomes fully comfortable with me.

Right now I am in my cabin at the office looking at the file of the man who was behind the mishaps that happened at the hotel at my wedding. Everything was clear, nothing much that I can do about it. After the wedding, Raghav took him to one of our garages from the room where he was tied up. He tortured him like some mad man, didn't give him food and water, but nothing affected him. At last Raghav decided to keep him in a cell where there was no light, no air and he would die from suffocation. Of course he was making threats and saying in front of him to make him scared and open his mouth which he did after listening to what Raghav had planned.

He told me that he was given money by some random person and a text saying what he has to do. In greed of money he did it. I asked for the text and it was written, 'You have to make sure that no wedding takes place. Either harm the bride or the groom'. The number was not available, it must be that the sim was destroyed afterwards.

This is all making me crazy. There is someone out there who wants to hurt my Meera and I have still not made any progress on who that person might be.

If it wasn't for Raghav, I might have cooped myself in the cabin all night finding something that I might have missed or who that person is. I reached home to find only her lying on the sofa, book in her hand but she was asleep. I am such a cruel person for making my wife wait like this. I found ma, coming to me as I placed my coat and bag on a single sofa beside where Meera was sleeping.

"I should beat you with a belan (rolling pin) for making my daughter wait like this. Not even a day has passed since you started going to the office and back to your routine like you were before marriage." Ma said, in a low voice twisting my ears.

I was holding her hands to leave me, "Ma, sorry, sorry, but please first leave my ears." I made her sit on another sofa and myself sat in front of her on knees holding her hands, "I know I troubled your daughter a lot and I will surely make it up to her, but please don't get angry with me. I know it's my fault that I forgot to keep track of time but from now on I promise to not make such mistakes."

"Krsh, beta I am not saying because I am enjoying this, but try to understand her. Meera has come into this house leaving her house, her family, her life behind to be only with you. In starting she will not be comfortable with anyone in this family but you. You know she didn't even ate food. We all tried but we got to know today that she is more stubborn than you saying that you will eat alone which is not good. And I knew at that time that I chose a diamond for you and here you are treating her like this."

"I am once again sorry ma. I will make it up to her." I kissed her forehead and she said to wake up Meera till then she will reheat the dinner.

I went to her and kneel down till I was face to face with her. She is looking so innocent and I feel like beating myself up for making her wait like this. I wanted to know why she didn't call me or even text me. I caressed her hair, taking the strand of it which was disturbing her beautiful face to tuck it behind her ear and blow on her face. She scrunched her nose and I smiled at this.

"Wake up baby." I whispered and she opened her eyes.

"Krsh, when did you come home? Oh before that go and change I will set the food." She said, yawning, looking surprised, I held her shoulders to make her calm down, "Meera, shh. Don't get so worked up. I came just a few minutes back and also got scolded from ma for making my beautiful wife wait. About dinner then ma is setting the plate, you get up till then I will also come after changing the clothes." She nodded looking at me with those puppy eyes like she has no clue what is going on. I kissed her forehead and went away smiling thinking about my sweet, innocent and little wife.

I took about fifteen minutes to get changed and freshen up and went down to see Meera sitting at one of the chairs of the dining table. I looked around to find ma but couldn't. "Ma went to her room since she was tired." Meera said when she found me looking here and there and I nodded with her.

We both started eating. When I asked her why she didn't eat she said she wanted to wait for me and when I asked her why, she said, "It's my right and also I wanted to." and my heart just melted then and there. She has this power over me to bring me down on my knees and I will never ask why also.

Just like that, talking and teasing, we finished our dinner and went to sleep in each other's arms.

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It's been a month since our wedding and everything is going smoothly. After our dinner, the next day she went to her home for pagphera ritual for few days. Rohan was there to pick her. That one week was hell. I don't know how but I got addicted to sleeping in her arms within two nights. Those little giggles of her, me teasing her although now she also does that, talking about our future, going on dates, life was at its best phase.

I only know how much I missed those things and on top of that our kisses. Mostly I initiate them but she also responds after sometime. After she came back, one time I sneaked in the kitchen to kiss her because she is so irresistible and ma caught us. And even though she is my ma and teased us like hell, Meera got so angry and shy that she didn't even let me kiss after that the whole day. It was pure torture honestly. But then life again went on.

This was one of those days when I again got late and even though I told Meera to go to sleep I am damn sure that she must be waiting for me. I was worried about her since she is alone at home. Viraj took dadi and bua to dadi's maternal home as she wanted to visit and ma and dad went to Delhi to attend her cousin sister's daughter's marriage ceremony. Since I was busy with the office I couldn't go and without me Meera also refused to go.

We also have to decide the date for our reception, as after pag phera, time went by so fast in making sure Meera adjusts to her new life well that we didn't get time to decide. Nevertheless, when everyone gets together, we will decide the date for the event.

It has been two days since everybody went and I tried my best to come home before six in the evening but today the meeting got postponed in the evening and it went on. It was important for me to attend since I couldn't take the risks.

I opened the door to find utter silence. It looked weird to me that there were no guards standing outside. I should check into this. I went inside and looked around the living room but found no sign of her. Then I went to the kitchen, the dining room, the backyard, she was nowhere. At this time I was feeling restless but I calmed myself down and told that she might be upstairs.

I went to our room and it felt like the floor beneath me slipped away. Everything was smashed up from the mirror on the dressing to the bedsheets and curtains, broken pieces of vase and other things were lying down. It felt like a rage room where you release your frustration by breaking things.

I got too numb to even process what happened here. The only thing my mind was repeating was that Meera should be safe and sound. With a heavy heart, I took steps inside the room and then I noticed what stopped my heart. I found stains of blood on the door of the bathroom and I couldn't process further. I don't know how I opened that door and went inside to find the shock of my life. On the mirror above the sink, it was clearly a sign that someone had kidnapped my Meera, my life and I broke down then and there.

It must have been 15-20 minutes sitting on my knees crying my heart out, I felt my heart breaking, myself dying and unable to breathe. I cursed myself that how can I leave Meera alone in this big house when I know the most she is afraid of is being left alone. I am so stupid to not even know my wife's likes and dislikes.

I don't know what to do, where is she, how is she, is she......I don't even want to complete further thoughts. Several negative thoughts are going in my head and I don't want to go down there. I felt someone coming inside and looked beside me in hope to find Meera but all I found was Raghav in a worried state.

He helped me stand up and told me to get my shit together, because I am Krsh Singhania, husband of Meera Krsh Singhania and I am not going to leave those bastards who tried to lay their hands on my wife. I felt anger rising within me. There I don't know in what condition Meera will be and here I am crying like a child. Taking a breath, I spoke in that dangerous and horse voice of mine to Raghav, "Check where the guards are and all the camera's. Till then I will come after checking anything in the room if I missed anything."

He nodded and went away and I went inside the bathroom. I took a shower, turning it to the coldest. Drying myself and then changing into another pair of suit and pants, I again went in front of the mirror. Staring at the letters and my helpless self in it, I took the photo of it and again read it in my mind.

It said, 'You have taken what's mine so I am taking what's yours. Have a lot of fun and torture finding her.' My mind was in chaos about who it could be. There are many rivals of mine from business and I don't know who it is.

I went outside to find Raghav who was downstairs in the controller room. He was checking the footage about the time when Meera was kidnapped. I went to him and he told me that he had spread his men all around the house to find them. We were looking at the footage outside home to find anything suspicious, when one of Raghav's men called us to say that they had found the bodyguards.

We went with him and I frowned as to why he was taking us to the storage area in the backyard. Opening the door he gave us the way and was shocked as all of them were lying unconscious. I asked one of the men to make them conscious anyhow by pouring buckets of water on them which is exactly what they did. My bodyguards were all shocked and gasping for air, looking around.

Raghav went to them and asked him where Meera is to which they said inside the house. I also wished the same but sadly it was not true. They told us that I have sent them food as my gratitude towards them for being so dedicated towards their job. My foot, I agree that I send them time and again and treat them because they deserve so but today it was not the day. If one of them used their brain and thought to call me to confirm, Meera would have been here with me.

I was angry and told them that from tomorrow there was no need to come and when they asked why I told them that because they can't save my wife, they don't need to be my bodyguards. They were pleading and requesting, but no one came before Meera. I went away towards my car, I just wanted to release my anger. Raghav came behind me to stop me but I ignored him and went away at full speed. On the way I called Ravi and told him to inform every police station about this and also every private investigator. I told them that I want Meera safe in front of me in the next 24 hours.

I went to every possible place where she could be but I was just trying to comfort my heart. I went to our favorite place to dine in, her all time favorite libraries and around it. Since it was late at night not many people were around and I was devastated. At last I went to the beach since I know how she told me out of all the places in Mumbai, she loved this beach particularly the most since that is the place where we expressed our love for each other. And there I had another breakdown, I was silently praying to god to let me meet my life and if then if he asks for my death also I will happily die. I just want to see Meera.