Her Mysterious Lover

Falak’s POV

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“I’m for real.”, I added, and these words seemed to give him electroshock, and he suddenly got agitated. “I missed you so much, Falak! I missed a lot. Please punish me but don’t leave me.”

I put my hands on his cheeks, looking into his eyes, trying to calm him down. Our faces were so close. He kept shaking his head, whispering a lot of pleading in a broken voice.

“Klaus, calm down,” I murmured calmly.

“No. I’m going to keep pleading or begging until and unless you change your mind so as not to leave me.”

“I wouldn’t be here if I would have to leave YOU.”, I pointed out, to which he looked at me in surprise. “I’m sorry for breaking my promise then! But Ash made me realize that I was doing so wrong with you.”, I explained.

“Wow! She deserves an increment in salary for doing this.”, He said and pulled me close to him. “I’m glad that you’re not leaving.”, He added in a low tone, nuzzling his nose on my face.

“Well, I mean to say that I’m not leaving you, but I’m leaving this country.”

“Why?”

“I want to spend some time with my family, Klaus. And we…we can’t do these…these things till you’re lawfully married to someone else.”

“This marriage means nothing to me, nor that woman. I just hate….”

“A heart filled with hate can never love. So, please don’t say these things.” I slapped him on his shoulder before cutting him in between.

“But…

“Ssshhh! Not a single negative word. PLEASE.”

“Okay! But what now?”

“You can’t divorce HER at least for one year. Along with that, you must have been separated from your HER before you apply for a divorce.”

“But that bitch…”

“Can you please talk without getting angry and yelling at me? And she has got a name ‘ANGELA.'”, I asked, cutting him in between.

Taking a deep breath, Klaus said. “But she will not give me a divorce. I had already talked about it with her.”, He said those words by gritting his teeth. I would be surprised if his teeth would break because of it.

“That’s not the factor which we should even consider as of now. The major problem is Nicolas Juan Deigo. But as long as we won’t be staying together, he wouldn’t have any problem with it.”

“He has a problem with everything. He will then threaten me to stay here so that I can never file for divorce in the future. He knows very well that you’re my weakness.”

“Then don’t consider me as your weakness. I will be staying at my parent’s place, and I’m sure that no one will harm me there.”

“I doubt the security of your house. Not to forget that you got kidnapped from a place where you were surrounded by all your family members.”

“That was the incident of twenty-three years back, and Dad said I shouldn’t worry about Nicolas because he can take care of him.”, I saw him opening his mouth but I beat him. “If you’re going to say a word against my family then it won’t be good for you.”

“What can I say now? But I will have to check things on my own as well. Unless I confirm your security at your place. I’m not going to do anything which will attract Nicolas’ attention toward you. Because he already started believing that something is going on between Jacob and you.”

“And how are you going to do that?”

“I’m coming to your place, at your cousin’s wedding. Remember your father invited me?”

“I remember that. But please bring Angela with you instead of Jacob. I want to know more about her and it is said that we should keep our friends close and enemies closer. We need to know her in a better way.”, I explained before he could say a clear NO. “I will personally invite her before leaving here.”

“But I’m not going to pretend to be her husband over there.”

“Okay then! To be on the safer side, you can come to my place with Ash and Angela both. In that way, I’m sure no one will take any of you as a couple. But let me tell you that Dad already knows the truth.”

“How did he take it?”

“His expression was normal. I can’t say what was going through his mind.”

Suddenly I received a notification. I checked my phone and found Dad’s message.

“Lunchtime, Princess.”

“Quickly freshen up! And come downstairs as soon as possible. It’s lunchtime already and by observing him since yesterday, I can say that he is someone who is punctual to everything.”, I said, pushing him away.

“At least give me a kiss.”, He said, leaning toward me.

“NO. Go away.”, I pushed his mouth. “Bye! See you downstairs.”, I added, standing on my feet and ran toward the way from where I entered the room.

****

“Hey”, I greeted Angela when I saw her taking baby steps toward the stairs.

“Hi”, She gave a small smile. “So everything is good?” she asked, to which I nodded. “Wow! That’s unbelievable, you know. How do you do that?”

“I don’t know.”, I responded, shrugging my shoulders. “I really don’t know.”, She just nodded her head. “So, are you allowed to travel during pregnancy?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t ask my doctor about it. Why?”

“It’s my cousin’s marriage on 20th of April in India. So, I was wondering if you could make it.”, I responded.

“You are inviting me?”, She asked me in surprise. “What the catch here? Okay! Let me guess, you want to make my father a fool, don’t you?”

“Because if Klaus is there alone then my father can get suspicious. So, you both are using me!”, She concluded and chuckled.

“I won’t deny the fact which you mention.”, I said, after all it was half truth.

“Why are you even asking me? Don’t you know how your maniac boyfriend is? If you have already decided then he will drag me to India whether I want to visit there or not!!”, She questioned back. Though she was being rude to me, but I didn’t miss what she said.

“What do you mean by ‘he will drag me’?”, I asked in concern. “Does he ever misbehave with you or hurt you physically?”

I tried to look into her eyes to find the truth but she was too good at masking it.

“No.”, She shook her head. “I just spoke too much without checking my words.”, She added.

***

After a while, we sat at the dining table for lunch. Even Klaus joined us after getting freshened up. We were about to dig for food when I heard dad’s loud voice.

“STOP”, He looked angrily.

I hadn’t seen him angrily from the moment I met him. Without wasting a single second, he started scolding, “Have you lost your mind? Tilefish is avoided during early stage of the pregnancy.”, He said and snatched the plate which was in front of Angela.

“I.. I didn’t know that”, Angela muttered.

Dad looked at all the food which was on the table before speaking, “Not a single food is cooked which a pregnant woman should have during her pregnancy.” Everyone stayed mum when dad was speaking after that Dad instructed the chef to cook something which was healthy and nutritious for pregnant women.

“Wow, dad! I didn’t know you were so talented.”, I cracked a joke to ease the environment.

“I end up reading at least ten to twelve books related to pregnancy when your mother was pregnant with your sister.”

“Really? That’s romantic.”, I chirped. Immediately I received a message. I checked my phone and found a message from Klaus.

‘I’m going to borrow those books when you will be pregnant with my babies.’

I started smiling at that message but my smile disappeared when dad said. “What’s so funny?”

“Joke, dad. I just received a funny joke.”, I lied.

“Oh, read it loudly so that even we will smile or laugh at that joke”, Dad announced, making me and Klaus shocked. He started coughing loudly. Dad offered him water to drink.

He was offering him water and then he would offer him poison. I thought.

“Read it, Falak.”, Dad said.

“After lunch, dad. We shouldn’t use our phones during lunch.”, I tried to give the best excuse which I could come up with at that moment.

“Give your phone to me. I will read that joke on my own.”

I was so dead.

“My phone?”

“Yes”

The first thing I did was, I quickly unlocked my phone and uninstalled WhatsApp.

“Oh no! Whatsapp got uninstalled on its own.”, I acted all innocent little did I know that Dad already knew the message from Klaus.

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