Meera's pov

Everything was dark, I was feeling like I had died but the noise of my heavy breathing was proof that I am still alive. I opened my eyes and then felt a strong pain in my head. The surroundings were not so clear so I again blinked my eyes to make my vision clear since my hands were tied at the back.

I soon realized I was tied to a chair with my hands tied at the back and my legs tied with the arms of the chair. I was also unable to speak since a tape was also put on my mouth and I panicked, struggling to breathe. I looked around and found myself in a type of basement filled with types of tools and guns I never want to come across. The foul smell was making me feel disgusted. I don't know who brought me to this place. And then I remember how I had prepared Krsh's favorite for dinner and then went to get ready because I was going to surprise him and treat it like a date at home.

I didn't lock the door of the room since I was changing in the closet where I locked and nobody was at home. When I came out I was scared to see Abhay with two other men and screamed so that the bodyguards could hear me. My phone was on the bed and I tried to grab it but they were quick. I protested to them when Abhay told them to take me with them. I didn't want to, just go to Krsh or even call him or text him.

I threw the vase kept on the table but they bent down and it hit the mirror breaking it to pieces. I thought of running back to the closet or the bathroom and hid from them when I felt someone holding my hair from the back, maybe it's Abhay and I screamed as I felt that my hair will be ripped off from the scalp and he hit me on the door of the bathroom until I fell unconscious. I felt that it was more than two or three hits.

I came back to reality when I heard the door being opened and I was shocked to see Tara coming, clicking her heels on the ground, "How are you bitch, oh don't tell me. Leaching of billionaires like usual. Nothing changed I see." I just couldn't hear her words, they are like poison which dissolves you. I don't know how but if given a chance I would kill her for the things I had to go through because of her.

I am not the same Meera anymore but now I realize how protective and brave I feel in the presence of Krsh. I just hope he finds me soon. Until then I have to also find some way and make sure that they don't make me unconscious again.

I didn't realize that she was here until I felt a stinging pain in my arm to see that Tara had cut my skin on the right arm from a knife. I was screaming because it hurt like hell. "Bitch you were in your world so thought to make you come back to reality and what better way other than this. Take this if you are so strong." And with that she put another cut on my left arm and I felt my soul leaving my body, the pain was unbearable and on top of that I was tied from hands and legs to mouth.

"That's enough." A manly voice came and at this point I was giving up but thinking about Krsh, I kept my eyes open. Tara also backed off after giving me another cut on my right arm, dropping the knife she sat on one of the couches.

I frowned as I had never seen this man in my life. His age seemed to be the same as dad's. "You must be thinking who am I, what I have to do with you. I will just say that these are your last moments. Just like my son was killed by your husband, you will also be killed by me. Don't try to act smart with me and try to escape. You are in my area, no one can come to save you." And with that he went away with Tara behind him.

I was drowning in a pool of questions, about his identity, about his son, why he said that Krsh killed his son. I know Krsh, he will give his life in order to save someone else. I need to get out of here before he comes again and this time with the preparations to kill me. I was looking here and there when I found the knife which Tara dropped on the floor a few centimeters away from me.

I looked around to make sure that no one was there and with a lot of difficulty and whole power I shifted in my chair such that it would go forward. I must have tried two times more when I fell flat on my face with the chair on my top.

I felt so suffocated and had a mental breakdown there only. Now what will I do, how will I escape, the only chance I have ruined for myself. After five or so minutes when I gave up, Krsh's face flashed in front of me and I tried for one last time.

I turned myself sideways so that my hands were towards the knife. I was feeling where it could be, when I felt its tip which was very sharp as it pierced my finger. I hissed but then held it from the handle of it. It was very hard and tiresome but somehow I kept going and tore the rope with it. Then I tore the tape from my mouth and then at last went for my legs.

The cut which was given by Tara was throbbing relentlessly and I just wanted to give it back to her for that. I made a move to stand up but my legs were numb and I fell down. I didn't realize that it is so difficult to walk. I dragged myself till the wall and then with the help of it I stood up.

I just succeeded at it when I heard the door being open and my senses heightened. I felt my heart will come out with the way it is beating. It was Abhay, he came to me smirking. "What a sight, trying to run, babe. But alas, it is not possible, because you are at the end of this corridor and above it is the house of that old man. Ohh, and before you ask why I came, it is because I heard you are going to be killed so thought to enjoy a bit first. I talked with that old man and I got you for a few hours. Now don't be a wild cat like this, be a wild cat in my bed."

Hearing him, I felt so sick and nauseated. He started coming towards me and I warned him to stay at his place but he didn't listen to me and made me lay down. At this point I just prayed to God to do some miracle and save me.

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Krsh's pov

I was at the beach when Raghav came beside me and told me that Abhay had been released from jail. I was shocked because he couldn't and he shouldn't. Apparently he was released by police this morning and some old man came for his bail with a lawyer. I couldn't process it. I told Raghav that we needed to go to the police station and he agreed.

We reached the station in another half an hour and this time I was running. Raghav came and talked with one officer who told us the whole story without wasting any time, because he knows who I am. He told an elderly man named Vishnu Swaminathan came with a lawyer as he is Abhay's friend.

My mind is in a mess, now who is this Vishnu Swaminathan, I have never heard of him. Then I saw a camera in the top corner of the room. I asked the officer if it worked and he said yes. "I want to see the footage of the time when he came to take Abhay." I said to him making sure that there is no room for him to not agree with me.

He went away and came back with the cd of that time after some time. I and Raghav both went towards the computer when he turned it on. Everything was fine, we can see Abhay in the jail staring into space making no movement. We asked him to forward the video when that man comes.

Raghav asked him to stop when he spotted the chaos in the station at that time. There were not only the man and the lawyer, with him were five other men, maybe bodyguards. We can see him banging the table and signing towards Abhay to be released. The video had no audio, so we were just guessing as to what was happening around. After some time, Abhay was released and they turned back.

I saw the man and asked the officer to zoom in, then I told Raghav to take the photo. I asked the officer if he would be able to describe the man's characteristics if I called a sketcher to which he agreed. The sketch was prepared in another half an hour. I told Raghav to send the sketch to all police and stations and inform all the investigators so that they can find any information about him, from his birth up until now and I want all that in the next hour.

As the time went by, my anxiety was at its peak. I don't know how Meera will be. My thoughts are a tangled web of distress. I want Meera to be with me. Once I find that man, I don't care if he is older than me, because of him my Meera is not with me, I will not leave him.

I went home, in my room to see the condition to be the same. I went near the door where her blood was, though it has dried now, but thinking about it only, my blood is boiling, it would have been so painful and agonizing. She must have cried and said my name and I was not there for her, I am such a bad husband.

I touched my forehead where the blood was so that it makes me feel the presence of my Meera. I feel like I am a dessert which is scorched without her soothing rain. Every moment of my life spent with her is flashing in front of my eyes like a movie and I want more of these moments with her. I can't lose her. I have decided, I will anyhow find Meera before the sun rises, even if it means that I have to take extreme steps.

My phone started ringing after a few minutes when I picked it up to see, it was one of the investigators. "Any news", I asked and he told me all about Vishnu Swaminathan, his age, his history, geography, everything. I was now just waiting to see him, just wanted to know the reason why he did what he did.

After cutting the call, I told Raghav everything. Now we have to think where he would take Meera. I got the documents which contained information about him and was scanning through it when my gaze fell on his address. And then it clicked, maybe I am wrong but we got to start from somewhere and it will be hitting like a jackpot if we found Meera there.

I called my bodyguards and informed the police about my plan. We have to be very careful, if they have kept her there we can't take any risk, we are not even hundred percent sure that she is there. But I have to take this chance and believe in our love.