Along with Pratham, Rocky's face also turned pale with fear.
Vidyut. Looking at Pratham with zero emotion, walking calmly into the room, both hands in his pant pockets.
In a casual black outfit, Vidyut looked very calm and relaxed. But his aura, as always, was filled with darkness and coldness.
As soon as Vidyut fully entered the room, a suffocating atmosphere spread. The temperature in the room dropped as if not a human but an icy demon had entered.
Including Pratham, the few guards present there and Rocky also started to feel as if the oxygen level in the room had suddenly dropped.
Pratham came out of his fearful world when Vidyut stopped two steps away from him.
Pratham took a deep breath, adjusted his expressions, and then, gathering all his courage with a sense of guilt, looked into Vidyut's cold eyes.
Vidyut's blue eyes held extreme deadly intentions. Vidyut hadn't even tried to hide those dark intentions.
Pratham couldn't look into Vidyut's eyes for long. Lowering his head, he said in a soft voice, "Vidyut Bhai! I am sorry! I have disappointed you. I couldn't keep my promise. I am really! really! sorry! If you want, you can take my life. I won't even flinch."
Hearing Pratham's words, Vidyut's expression didn't change. He didn't say anything either.
Vidyut kept looking at Pratham in complete silence. But his silence was giving off dangerous vibes like the calm before an impending storm.
After staring at Pratham for a few moments, Vidyut looked coldly at Rocky.
Vidyut didn't need to say much to convey his message to his subordinates. Just one look was enough to make them understand.
Rocky understood Vidyut's gesture and left the room.
Until Rocky returned, Vidyut kept staring silently at Pratham. But unlike Vidyut, Pratham kept apologizing continuously for something.
When Rocky returned, Pratham fell completely silent. There were no expressions on his handsome face anymore.
Pratham looked at Rocky's hands.
Rocky was holding two iron rods.
The iron rods had been heated to the extent that they had turned into red-hot embers.
Rocky walked straight with the hot iron rods towards Vidyut.
After giving Pratham a glance, Rocky said to Vidyut, "Boss! I have brought what you asked for."
Hearing Rocky's words, Vidyut took the rods from his hands without saying a word.
Pratham knew what was going to happen to him next. So he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.
Without wasting a second, Vidyut, with emotionless expressions, stabbed both the hot iron rods into Pratham's thighs.
The rods went through Pratham's thighs, but not a sound escaped his mouth.
Pratham still had his teeth clenched. Two drops of water escaped the corners of his eyes, but they were not his tears. They were just water that had come out due to the unbearable pain.
Vidyut was not satisfied by inflicting this much pain on Pratham.
Vidyut ruthlessly twisted the rods deeper into Pratham's thighs and said in a cold tone, "I trusted you only because of what she said. I entrusted you with her responsibility. But you broke my trust. You failed in your responsibility. And because of you, I lost her forever. Tell me, can death be a punishment for your mistake?"
Hearing Vidyut's question, Pratham said in a soft voice despite the unbearable pain, "No! The mistake I made, death is too small a punishment for it."
Even after hearing Pratham's answer, there was no reduction in Vidyut's cruelty. Instead, Vidyut started twisting the rods more violently in Pratham's thighs.
Despite enduring so much torture and pain, Pratham didn't groan in pain from the beginning until now. Maybe compared to the pain in his heart, he couldn't even feel the wounds on his body.
Neeraj, who had just regained consciousness, was filled with fear as soon as he saw Pratham.
Blood was streaming out of Pratham's thighs, along with some chunks of flesh falling on the ground.
Neeraj trembled from within seeing that scene. He opened his mouth to say something, but upon seeing Vidyut, his voice and breath got stuck in his throat.
Due to excessive bleeding, Pratham was on the verge of losing consciousness in a few moments. But before losing consciousness, Pratham asked Vidyut in a weak voice, "What... what will you do with Maya? You won't do anything wrong with her, right? Vidyut Bhai! I admit I made a mistake, not just a mistake but a sin. But Maya has nothing to do with this. Everything happened because of me, because of my stubbornness. Everything is my fault. Maya doesn't even know anything about this."
As soon as Maya was mentioned, Vidyut's handsome face darkened.
Vidyut stared coldly at Pratham and said, "Why do you think I would hurt my wife because of a useless and worthless person like you? Maya is my wife now, not just since today, but for the past six years. I have been looking for her madly. Now that I have found her, of course, I will love her. I will love her so much that as soon as she comes into my arms, she will forget everything."
In his last sentence, Vidyut's voice held determination, passion, love, and madness.
After hearing Vidyut's complete statement, Pratham's face showed relief. Pratham was happy after hearing Vidyut's words.
In the end, Pratham lost consciousness with a sense of relief instead of pain. Seeing his head lolling, Vidyut loosened his grip on the rods. Then Vidyut turned around and left the room.
Five minutes after Vidyut left, Sanjeev, who was standing in a corner, approached Rocky and asked in confusion, "Rocky! There is one thing I don't understand. Why doesn't Vidyut Sir kill this boy? If he really loves the lady boss, why doesn't he kill his love rival? Who is this Pratham anyway?"
Hearing Sanjeev use the term "love rival" for Pratham, Neeraj and Rocky looked at him together as if he were a madman.
Feeling uncomfortable under their gaze, Sanjeev said irritably, "Hey! Why are you both looking at me like that? I am not crazy."
Hearing Sanjeev, Rocky punched him on the back with sarcasm and said, "Idiot! Do you even know who Pratham is?"
Rocky's punch hurt Sanjeev, but in his curiosity, he ignored the pain. Right now, the most important thing for him was to know Pratham's real identity. This name Pratham had confused him a lot.
Sanjeev said to Rocky, "No! I don't know. That's why I asked you, idiot! Now tell me, who is Pratham?"
Seeing Sanjeev's curiosity, Rocky created a bit of suspense and then pointed at Pratham, saying, "Pratham! This boy's full name is Pratham Arya."
Hearing Pratham's surname hit Sanjeev's mind like a toxic bomb.
Sanjeev looked at Rocky with speechless eyes. Then Rocky continued with a crooked smile, "Pratham is our lady boss's twin brother. Basically! Pratham is a few minutes younger than the lady boss. The lady boss has another brother, Rohit Kashyap. You might have met Rohit Sir. He is three years older than the lady boss and Pratham. Rohit Sir is the same age as our boss."
Hearing this bombshell revelation from Rocky, Sanjeev started coughing violently. Those two boys! The two boys he had thought to be Maya's lovers from the beginning were actually her brothers. Her real brothers.
"Damn it."
Seeing Sanjeev's reaction, Rocky's eyes narrowed with suspicion. Now that he had mentioned Rohit as well, he realized that Sanjeev had also mistaken Rohit as Maya's lover, just like Pratham.
In anger, Rocky grabbed Sanjeev's hair and said, "Bastard! Our lady boss is as pure as the Ganges water. How did you dare think such things about her?"
Hearing Rocky, Sanjeev, with embarrassment, pulled his hair out of Rocky's grip and said, "Yeah! What could I do? It's not my fault. Based on the situations I had seen, my thoughts weren't wrong. Things were as they seemed. My thoughts were natural according to that. I don't know everything like you do."
Hearing Sanjeev, Rocky let go of his hair after a few moments. Somewhere, Sanjeev's words were completely true.
On the other hand,
When Vidyut came to his room, Maya was nowhere to be seen. Only Ayansh was sleeping on the bed.
The pillows around Ayansh were a bit scattered.
Vidyut, with zero emotion, arranged the pillows neatly.
After seeing the balcony door locked from inside, Vidyut left the room.
Outside, upon asking a servant, Vidyut found out that Maya had gone to the indoor swimming pool, so he went there.
Upon arriving at the indoor swimming pool area, Vidyut's steps halted as soon as he saw Maya.
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What will happen next...?
To be continued…