CHAPTER 24

Author's POV

"Alisha, I'm really sorry for taking a revenge from you for something you hadn't done." It was a Monday morning and Armaan had said this for the nth time in the past 3 days. He already felt guilty after knowing it from Shanaya but Alisha still had doubt on herself so she called Karan and asked him about the accident.

"Al, please trust me. That girl had died few hours before your accident." He replied on the other side.

"Okay bhai. Bye. I'll talk to you later." She said seeing Armaan secretary calling her.

"Hello, mam actually you have a meeting. Since sir isn't coming to the office, I thought of calling you." Armaan's secretary had called her. Armaan had asked him to cancel all the meetings today since he wanted to stay home."

"Is it important?" She asked.

"Yes ma'am, they aren't even ready to postpone that meeting."

"Okay fine. I'm either ways coming to the office so I'll attend all of his important meetings." She replied. Armaan wanted to stay alone at home so he asked her to go to the office.

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Alisha was done with all meetings and left for home. On the way she noticed a car following her and suddenly her car stopped. Out of all the days, she decided to take the longest route back that led her back home. Her car was lack of fuel and an addition to that was her car was punctured too. She stepped out and checked the trunk to see if there was a spare tyre. The person who was following her was nowhere to be seen but a few minutes later his car came in view and it was a man she knew but couldn't recognize him.

"Have we ever met?" She asked him.

"Yeah ma'am, I'm Armaan sir's private investigator. We've met in his office once." He replied with a smile.

"Uhm.Could you please drop me back home? Actually my car has no fuel and it's punctured too." She asked him with pleading eyes.

"Yeah sure ma'am, this is a long route. I'll take you through a short one." He said and gestured Alisha to come and sit in the car.

He took her through a very unfamiliar route and stopped near a cliff.

"Why are we here?" She asked suspiciously since it was already midnight and the road was deadly silent.

"Ma'am someone wants to meet you. So I bought you here. It's a surprise for you so don't ask me who's it." He said.

'Armaan knows him. I know him too. Seems like Armaan must've told him to keep me here.' She thought and stood leaning towards the car but the place was creepy and she knew that Armaan would never ask a random man to take her to such a creepy place, so she sent him her location and texted him.

"Armaan my car stopped on the mid way so I took a lift from this guy who is your private investigator in Neha's case. But he stopped here telling that there's a person who's here to surprise me. Is it you?" She dropped him a text when the guy wasn't around and kept the phone in her pocket. The moment Armaan read this text, his heartbeat dropped. He had known the truth oh this person and cut off all the contacts with him yesterday when he got to know that he was the person who was helping Shanaya all the while. Shanaya had bribed him and he had changed all the truth and when Armaan shared his doubts with Alisha to this man, he confirmed all of his thoughts just to save Shanaya. He took his keys and left to the location which Alisha had sent.While driving to the location, Armaan had informed the police and they would be there any moment. But he was very far from her.

In the mean while...

'If it's him, he won't reply and if it's not him...' She thought and got scared but soon one person came from behind caught her hands from behind and tied with a rope and another person tied her legs and pulled her near the cliff where a girl was standing with her hair open and this man holding her went to his car and bought it behind Alisha and switched on the headlights and focused them on the upper side just so that Alisha could see that person's face and it was none other than Shanaya and then came the driver of the car who was none other than Armaan's private investigator. Alisha was standing on her knees between the car and the 2 people.

"Aww, aloo is scared?" Shanaya asked in a baby  voice.

"No, I'm not." She said boldly. To be honest, she was scared. She knew what Shanaya had done to Neha just because Armaan loved her.

"Why Alisha, why? I killed my own childhood friend because I loved him and, man just look at you. Didn't your husband tell you what I did to his first love. Actually, look at both of you. Seems like he doesn't love you at all or else he'd have thought about the consequences and divorced you by now." She stopped when she saw Alisha looking at her questioningly.

"Come on Alisha, It's okay to let go of someone you love if it makes them happy." She paused looking at someone who stood at the borders of the road and the mountain.

Now she assumed that next was her turn to die but she wanted to live with her Armaan and prayed to God to let her live even if not the whole life, she wanted to live her last moment one last time. She wanted to hug him, to kiss him and to feel him. She wanted to feel his heartbeat in her ears just like it felt when she slept with her head on his chest. She wanted to feel his love, his care. And most importantly she wanted him beside her always and ever after.

While Alisha was lost in her thoughts, Shanaya shot her on her chest and mercilessly pulled her body to the end of the cliff.

"ALISHAAAAA." She heard a known voice from behind her. She knew Armaan was here with  the police.

"Armaan stop, See I feel bad for killing them. I seriously do. It's just that I believe if you aren't mine then I won't force you to be mine but I won't let you be someone else's too." She held Alisha's collar till she ended and then pushed Alisha of the cliff.

Armaan immediately took the short cut to the place where Alisha's body was lying and found her body fully clothed with blood but her eyes were still open and he hugged her while she hugged him back and closed her eyes. The police had taken off Shanaya to the jail by then and Armaan with his secretary and friend, Zayn took Alisha to the hospital. Armaan sat behind in the passenger seat with Alisha's head on his lap.

"Jaan, please open your eyes." He kept telling this sentence during the whole drive to the hospital.

After a few hours of waiting the doctor declared Alisha dead.

~THE END~