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Whenever I think about this book this song starts playing in my head...
🎶Baby I'm Preying On You Tonight, Hunt You Down Eat You Alive, Just Like Animals, Like Animals, Like Animals, Woo~🎶
It started with a housewarming party when Paakhi was ten. That night, the Mehra family and the Vashishtha family became close friends.
Azaan
I am Azaan Vashishtha. My dad said you're new in town?
Paakhi
Y-yes. P-Paakhi Mehra.
Amaan
Are you scared of me and my brothers little one, why do you stutter so much?
Armaan
You're just a little shit, aren't you?
Well at least the elders became close.
Vaidehi Mehra
Aah.. Aahh.. Yes... Tushar, Just like that. Right there... Mm... Fuck!!
Tushar Vashishtha
Vaidehi, you bitch! I knew you were a whore who enjoyed fucking other men's cock!
Tushar Vashishtha
I told you not to scream so loud! She saw everything! What if she told your husband about it?!
Vaidehi Mehra
Promise me princess you won't tell your dad a thing?
With a sweet smile pulled across her face, Vaidehi Mehra placed a pencil between Paakhi's fingers and squeezed her fingers together hurting her.
Paakhi
Ahh... Aah. Mom, it hurts. I won't tell daddy anything. I promise!!
But cheating doesn't stay hidden for long and Saurabh found out everything.
Saurabh Mehra
Your husband is fucking my wife. Don't you want to get back at him!?
Surbhi Vashishtha
No! STOP!! I am not a slut like Vaidehi!
That one night ruined everything for Mehra and Vashishtha families. Every. Single. Thing.
Now it's years later and the children have grown. Paakhi has forgotten everything and moved on. At the age 24 she is successful and happily engaged until one day...
Paakhi
Why don't you trust me, it wasn't me who leaked the company's information to our rivals! These mails although from my computer, are not sent by me!!
Paakhi lost her job and when she returned home to her boyfriend...
Aakash
Paakhi, I swear I didn't mean you to see this!
Paakhi
Of course, you didn't Akash! Nobody likes to be caught cheating on someone red-handed!! We're over!
She went to the bar, found a handsome stranger, got her drinks spiked and one thing led to another.
Paakhi
Mm... Ahh... Yes... Feels so good.
Amaan
Fuck, you feel so good. You're never leaving, EVER!
The stranger whispered something in her ears while approaching the climax, she never thought he would actually be serious.
Amaan
I'll come back for you, okay?
Paakhi
H-how do you know my name?
Azaan
*smirks* My brother called me.
Paakhi
What are you doing? Leave me!! No! HELP!!
Never in her wildest nightmares she realized she would meet people as twisted as Azaan Amaan. Just when she thought people could not get any worse, he entered.
Armaan
So you are the reason my brothers who absolutely hated each other are living together in the same house from two fucking weeks?!
Armaan
Paakhi Mehra? Classy name for a whore!
Armaan
You're too beautiful for a slut! I don't mind sharing you with my brothers for now.
She thought monsters only came at night. She thought betrayal had a face. She thought pain had ended.
Because this, this wasn't a nightmare she could wake up from.
And this is her life now.
She didn't need chains to be caged.
She didn't need a collar to be owned.
And she didn't need a cage to forget who she used to be.
They didn't have to chase her.
She walked right into the trap...
Like she was always meant to.
Not because she was hunted, but because deep down... she never truly believed she was meant to be saved.
This book contains extreme themes of abuse, sexual violence, graphic torture, captivity, mental manipulation, and death. It includes depictions of non-consensual acts (rape), physical punishment, and psychological trauma. Reader discretion is strongly advised. This story is not suitable for sensitive readers or those under 18.
PROLOGUE
Saurabh Mehra
Paakhi? ANSWER ME! DID YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM AND YOUR MOTHER?!
Paakhi
I- Daddy- *crying continuously**
Saurabh grabbed Paakhi from her arms and pulled her roughly towards himself.
Saurabh Mehra
Look at me and tell me! Did you or did you not KNOW ABOUT YOUR FUCKING MOTHER?!
Paakhi cried while shaking her head in a yes.
Saurabh Mehra
THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NOT TELL ME?! She hurt you?
Paakhi
Please daddy, no. I don't want to answer.
Paakhi cried while begging her father to stop interrogating her, but Saurabh was furious. Tonight he had decided that he would take action. He could bear everything.
He just could not accept his wife's betrayal.
Saurabh Mehra
She threatened you?
Saurabh darkly looked over Vaidehi who was tied to the chair through the ropes with a cloth tied around her mouth
Vaidehi Mehra
Saurabh pl- I'm sorry...
Vaidehi said from behind that rag tied across her lips. Her voice sounded gagged.
Paakhi
Daddy please, leave mommy. Please daddy.
Paakhi said hugging her father's long legs, but she was too short for her tall father and since he was blinded by rage, he pushed his daughter aside and picked up a knife and stabbed it in Vaidehi's hand.
Her hand got pinned to the wooden chair's armrest and there were drops of blood circling the knife.
Vaidehi screamed from behind that cloth.
Paakhi cried closing her eyes shut and just then, the door to Mehra's house swung open.
Tushar Vashishtha
HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY WIFE YOU MOTHERFUCKER?!
An enraged Tushar entered the Mehra house with a scared Surbhi right behind him walking timidly. Her hair was scattered, the sleeves of her blouse were ripped, and her mascara was smudged from crying.
Tushar immediately grabbed Saurabh from his neck and Saurabh just smiled creepily from the corner of his lips.
Saurabh Mehra
I touched your wife, and you want to kill me, you fucked my wife. Imagine, what I would want to do with you.
Tushar's grip around Saurabh's neck loosened for a few seconds. His face turned pale but in a split second he looked at Paakhi.
Tushar Vashishtha
This little shit told you?! I WILL KILL THIS BITCH!
Tushar made a run towards Paakhi and Paakhi screamed
But before anything could happen Saurabh took action. He was already holding a knife after stabbing Vaidehi, he just went for it and slashed Tushar's neck. The blood was all around Paakhi's clothes and face.
Paakhi
AAH!! *a shrill scream**
Vaidehi eyes grew big and Surbhi slouched down on the ground. Surbhi didn't know how to react. When Saurabh told her, she didn't believe him but when Tushar himself accepted...
She no longer knew what to do with herself.
Saurabh Mehra
All cheaters must die.
Saurabh said again and in a split second slit Vaidehi's throat as well.
Paakhi screamed and fainted at that scene.
Surbhi Vashishtha
What did you do? You killed them!? Are you a MURDERER?! Have you thought about your little kid?
Surbhi yelled and reached out for Paakhi who was lying unconsciously on the ground.
Saurabh Mehra
I don't know. I don't know. I can't live with Vaidehi knowing that she cheated on me. I can't live without Vaidehi. What did I do? What did I do?
Saurabh said and with the bloody knife in his hands, he dropped on his knees crying.
Surbhi Vashishtha
You should have thought about all this before killing her! The police must be on their way. I am going to turn you in. You just wait!
Surbhi Vashishtha
I cannot let this little girl grow up with a monster like you as her father.
Saurabh looked at Paakhi and stopped crying.
Saurabh Mehra
You're right. Paakhi doesn't deserve us as her parents.
And with that, Saurabh slit his throat as well.
Surbhi Vashishtha
SAURABH?!!
Surbhi screamed but it was late. Saurabh was dead. Surbhi picked up the knife and looked at Paakhi who was lying unconscious in her lap.
Just then the police sirens wailed and cops entered the house. The neighbors had already called them hearing the noise coming out of Mehra's residence.
Cop Ramesh Kant
Mrs. Surbhi Vashishtha! You're under arrest!
Surbhi Vashishtha
Arrest? But I didn't do anything!
Cop Ramesh Kant
You can explain this to the court later. Drop the child and the weapon and come with us
And just like that. It was all a bloody silence.
Fired & Cheated
Aashima Shetty
So, what exactly do you have to explain yourself?
Paakhi
But ma'am trust me, I don't know why these mails are in my laptop, but I swear I haven't sent these mails
Aashima Shetty
Who else uses your computer besides you?
Aashima Shetty
And does anyone else in the office have your password?
Paakhi
No... But ma'am I did not-
Aashima Shetty
Hence, proved. You ARE the culprit. Now admit your mistakes, and we'll drop your charges. You will be free to go.
Aashima Shetty
But if you want to fight, trust me, we will fight back. Which would mean not only would you lose your job, you will even spend eight years of your life in prison.
Paakhi
I really did not do it, ma'am.
A lone tear escaped Paakhi's eyes but here nobody was going to pity her. The evidence was out on the table before everyone pointing her as the culprit. She had no idea how she would ever prove herself innocent.
Aashima Shetty
If you have nothing else to say for yourself Paakhi, I'd ask you to please leave my office.
Paakhi said, her head bowed down. Crying she left from her boss's room and keeping her eyes on the floor she kept walking towards her desk as every other employee in the office was staring at her like she was the culprit.
She wasn't, but only she knew it.
She cleaned her desk and submitted her ID and Pass near the HR office. She was heartbroken, but what else was there that she could even do?
Paakhi got out of her office in broad daylight, the first time since the year. She was suddenly jobless. Unemployed. This kind of sucked because now she had no means to pay for herself.
All she had was her savings which would run out in this month itself. She has no family to turn to. Both her parents died when she was ten. The only place she knew she could go to, was her boyfriend's.
So, she took the metro and reached GTB Nagar- Where her boyfriend, Aakash rented a flat.
Reaching his flat she rang the doorbell. Once and then twice. She didn't hear the doorbell ring. She saw it and the lights were out.
Paakhi thought to herself and fished her bag for the spare keys to her Aakash's apartment.
She twisted the doorknob and entered inside to see that the entire house was flipped upside down. Everything was kept out of place. When she walked a little more, she tripped on something.
She looked at what it was and found women's stilettos.
Paakhi
Stilletos? That's not mine.
Paakhi mumbled to herself and walked further towards Aakash's bedroom and found pieces of lingerie thrown on the floor along with Aakash's clothes
She opened the door to Aakash's bedroom and was stunned at the scene inside
This woman dressed in nothing was moaning under him while Aakash was moving in and out of her, doing her like a machine.
Paakhi roared his name and both Aakash and the girl came to their senses and stopped doing what they were.
Aakash
Babe? Um- I thought you were going to be late?
Aakash
Oh, Um- I'm so sorry... What happened?
Aakash got off his bed and came towards her wrapping a towel on his waist.
Paakhi
Don't act smart with me. What the heck was this?!
Aakash
Paakhi, I- I didn't mean for you to see this.
Paakhi
Of course, you didn't.
Paakhi stayed a little longer expecting an explanation from Aakash but Aakash was too embarrassed to talk.
Paakhi
*shakes her head and breathes out**
Paakhi
I'll uhh come back tomorrow to collect my stuff.
Aakash mumbled once again but Paakhi's heart was already broken and no amount of sorry could now mend her broken heart
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