CHAPTER 23

Author's POV

"Morning beautiful." Armaan greeted his wife who was now awake but still kept her eyes closed and kept snuggling closer to Armaan so that she can block the sunrays that was directly falling on her face. Armaan chuckled at his wife's cute gesture and then went to open the blinds to block the sunrays. His wife smiled at him and then he went to lay beside his beautiful wife who was looking too cute without even trying to look cute.

"Alisha, wake up? Jaan, it's weekend. Let's go meet Shanaya and then we will go on a drive later." Armaan suggested in the afternoon when his wife was wide awake and was throwing daggers at him for ruining her beauty sleep. Armaan chuckled at her actions and pecked her forehead to which she smiled and then went to get dressed.

"Armaan, you go and meet her . She's your bestie. You guys are meeting after a long time. What will I do there?" Alisha asked while eating her toast. She still remembered how Shanaya had looked at her during her engagement. She didn't want to have an awkward moment with Shanaya. But she respected that Shanaya was her husband's best friend and knew

"Armaan, did you call and inform her that we are going to visit her?" Alisha asked while having her toast sitting on the kitchen island. Today was one of the rare weekends when Armaan cooked and Alisha devoured it. This was their thing now.

"No, I'm gonna surprise her. Plus we aren't going for lunch, so it won't be a trouble. Don't worry" He replied.

"Oh, but Mr. Husband, how do you know that she's back here?" She asked.

"We usually have each others CCTV setup on our phones. When we used to plan a trip they used to keep a check on the staff and vice versa, but when they shifted, it was a problem for us and them too. So we decided this thing." Armaan replied while finishing his toast.

They reached Shanaya's place. Armaan was a bit emotional now since he had taken Alisha to Neha's place. But then he decided to be relaxed since Alisha's mood would spoil if she saw him in a bad mood. Alisha was also quite understanding because of which she bared his grumpy mood till he came back to himself again.

"Alisha, we've reached." Armaan said while searching for the bunch of keys which Shanaya's parents had given to his parents and now he got it just to keep a check on her and her safety purpose. Now, he was fully prepared to sneak into Shanaya's place to surprise her.

They sneaked in and hid behind the medium sized pillar kind of a wall which was 3 feet wide that separated the living room and the entrance. They found Shanaya sitting in the living room and talking to someone on her phone and in the background she had her laptop open with live CCTV footage of Armaan's living room and kitchen. Armaan was shocked to see his house footages on thinking that his surprised was ruined. But what he heard next surprised him to a next level.

Armaan's POV

"I killed her because I love Armaan. I'll make sure that only I have him and no one else. I didn't want anyone between us back then and I don't want anyone between us now. I'll make sure that he loves me and only me. I've just killed one because she never left him. If needed I can kill many more just to have him."

"Ma'am, I can't hide it anymore from Armaan sir. I guess you need to pay me more for that." The man on the phone said.

"Take as much as you want but make sure he never gets to know the truth." She says unknown of the fact that he already heard her from behind. Though he didn't know who she was talking to, he knew that she was talking about separating Neha from him. He was really hurt. He never expected her to be this heartless. How could she be so heartless?

Author's POV

Armaan stepped out of her house shocked. He didn't expect her to do this because of her silly love that she thought she had for him. She had proposed her when he was dating Neha and he denied telling that he was already dating Neha. He opened the CCTV recording of her home and replayed it just to confirm what he had heard was true. Once he had confirmed it, he knew that this lady he called his best friend was crazy and would go to any level to hurt his wife now. He immediately called the police and informed them about it. He had screen recorded the replayed video till the police arrived and Armaan showed them the recording and joined them inside to arrest her. The police went inside and arrested her.

"Armaan, Please understand. I really love you. I won't let that Alisha stay with you. If you can't be mine, I won't let you be anyone else's too." She screamed while the police took her to the van. Every time he heard the last sentence in the Bollywood movies, he would laugh at how silly it was. But today he realised that mad people do stuffs like that and the thought of her hurting Alisha scared him.

He drove back home furiously scared of the fact that that insane woman he called his best friend would harm her even now if possible. He reached home. His eyes were teary. He was at the verge of crying.

"What happened?" Alisha asked the moment she saw him. He first removed all the cameras and threw them in the bin and then hugged her tightly and sobbed.

"What happened? You're scaring me." She asked rubbing his back

".....I was scared. I thought she harmed you too." He said her the whole story and then let out his fear that was there in his heart since the time he had known the truth.

"Come sleep for a while." She said after noticing his head had turned hot.

"I'm here. Don't worry." She said covering him with the blanket and then massaging his head. He kept his head on her lap and soon both of them slept.