Falak’s POV
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After hearing those things from him, I seriously didn’t know how to react thoughtfully.
But I was not going to freak out after learning that.
Because that was the expression that he didn’t want to see.
“Okay!” I said in a low tone. And block all the thoughts that gave me an indefinite reason to leave him. I was not someone who supported extra-marital affairs. Nor did I want to be a part of that relationship, but at least I should listen to him out.
“I have always loved you. Always. But got stuck in the marriage with my brother’s pregnant girlfriend.”, He continued. “Remember, I mentioned to you that my mother gave birth to triplets?”, He asked, pulling himself away from me but still, his arms were around my waist while my hands were on his neck.
“Damian, the eldest among us, was about to marry his girl by the end of this year or before. The date was not finalized, but last month…”, he paused before continuing, “he met with an accident and couldn’t make it.”
I gasped hearing that. But I couldn’t respond to that sentence. I didn’t know what to say. I had no valuable words. I had never experienced this time of pain before, the pain of losing someone so close to me. At the same time, I didn’t know anything about Damian to express my sadness over his death.
Several seconds passed before Klaus spoke again, “No one in my family knew at that time about Angela being pregnant with Damian’s child. I guess even she was unaware of this until she fell unconscious after listening to Damian’s news.”
I could dot a few of the things after listening to him; still, I didn’t disturb him in between.
“Remember, I even told you about my ancestor’s having connection with the Mafia?”, He asked again, to which I nodded my head. “Umm…well, they are somehow still connected to them. My uncle, Jacob’s on-paper father, is connected to a Mafia leader. So, years back, Jacob asked his father to help me by helping you. And Dad came to know about it, and he was damned too pissed for getting myself involved with those people. He sent me away from you, away from this country, but he had an idea that I would have to pay the price for the help I receive from them. And that day came after ten years.”, He paused again before speaking.
“Nicolas Juan Diego, the mafia leader of Australia, asked or more like blackmailed me to marry Angela if I wanted you alive.”
I furrowed my eyebrow before asking, “Why did he blackmail you into marrying Angela?”
“Because Angela is his daughter. My brother finds a mafia leader’s daughter to fall in love with the whole world.” He answered sarcastically. “Even we didn’t know this truth until NUCLEAR BOMB named Nicolas Juan Diego fell on our head.”
I slapped his shoulder. “You can’t say anything over the fact that with love Damian fell in love with because love is not something you plan; it just happens.”
“But that can’t change that my father and my so-called father-in-law have made my life a living hell. Since Angela is carrying Damien’s baby, my father was the next heir of the family. And to save the status of Diego’s family, Nicolas has trapped me in the name of the wedding, as he didn’t want his daughter to give birth to the child without wedlock.”, Klaus muttered furiously.
“To some extent, I can handle my dad. But Nicolas, that older man, is too evil. Do you think that Lance and his father reached this city independently? Nope, it was him who informed them about it. And not to forget, that night, the accident was planned for you, not for Lance. You were just lucky that nothing happened to you.”
“You mean to say that whatever happened with Lance was a planned murder but not an accident.?” I asked in surprise. Because I didn’t know that I had earned a new enemy just because Klaus loved me.
“Yes. Not only that, this was my plan to create so many coincidences so that you will assume Jacob to be me!”
“WHAT?”
“I’m sorry, but that was needed.”, He apologized. “There is someone from our office or someone close to you or us who keeps on my every moment. That’s why I was creating as many incidences as I could so Nicolas would somehow think that it is Jacob who looked after you now and is interested in you. And your natural acting for falling in love with him, assuming him to be your lover, will surely look like it was not an act to fool him.”
“I can’t believe it.”, I growled, removing my hand from his neck.
“And to make it look real, I also captured a few photos of you two in which you are close to him.”
Here! I felt ashamed that I was throwing myself at someone else whom I didn’t love. And the person sitting beside me was telling me that he was the one who wrote the script of this story, not just he was the writer, cameraman, producer, and the director of the movie.
“I know you’re mad. And you have every reason to be mad at me. But I had to fool Nicolaus to keep you safe”, He said, cupping my cheek.
“I don’t want to talk with you. How could you plan something like this?” I hissed, pushing his hand away from my face, but his grip was getting tight on my face whenever I tried to take him out.
“Do you think it was easy for me to see getting close to someone who is not me?”, He asked, but I kept pushing him away. “I lost my control seeing you in Jacob’s arms. The moment you chose Jacob instead of me, I realized what I was losing.”, He added. “Seno! I’m sorry, and I will say sorry for playing this dirty game with you. I’m sorry.”
Tears dwelled in my eyes, and I stopped fighting before speaking. “All your life?”
“All my life. I promise.”
“How? By keeping me like your dirty secret?”
“Falak…I…” didn’t say a word because he didn’t have anything to say; he just removed his hand from my face.
Now, I recall our previous conversation, ‘You said you love me and want me. Does it include marriage as well?”
No.’
He couldn’t marry me because he was already married. And no matter how much I try not to give logic to my stupid heart, I couldn’t…I couldn’t be him. No matter what!
I left the bed, standing on my feet.
“Falak….”, He quickly grabbed my hand when he realized something.
“Let me go, Klaus! It will be better for both of us.”, I said, trying to take it out of his grip.
“You promised to stay by the side as long as my intension wouldn’t be wrong.”, He reminded me.
“Exactly.”, I said. “You are punishing an innocent woman and her unborn child because of your selfish reason.”
“You have to understand my situation, Seno! I’m not being cruel to her. That’s her fate. And I’m no saint who will think about others first, sacrificing my happiness.”
“I’m sorry, but I won’t be the one who would take you from her when she’s already been through so much.”, Saying this, I jerked his hand and ran out of the room as fast as I could because I was scared that he would catch me and wouldn’t let me go.
“Damnit, Falak,” He roared angrily.
Shit!
His HULK mode was ON.
“I don’t love her, Falak. I love you and only you.”, He shouted and ran after me.
Shit!
The distance between the room to the elevator looked like a mile to cover when he ran behind me. I reached near the elevator and tapped the button on the elevator continuously.
“Falak, you can’t leave me like this, you…”, He tried to reach me, but I showed him my hand.
“Stop there!”
“Please don’t go.”, He pleaded, but I didn’t move an inch from the elevator. A lot of things were going on in my mind. Immediately I turned toward the elevator after hearing a ‘DING’ sound and saw a man in his fifties standing in front of me. I couldn’t recognize him because he had never visited here before. While he was looking at me in shock, behind him, Albert was standing.
Tears started dwelling in that person’s eyes, and a smile broke on his lips. He looked happy after looking at me, but how could I be the reason behind his happiness!
“She’s the one.”, Albert said to him, on which he nodded his head.
“I know. I know.”, He smiled widely.
Okay! Something was wrong with him.
“Falak!”, He called my name, on which I furrowed my eyebrow, wondering how did he know my name. I think that man read my expression and pointed his finger toward him. “Yo..your father.”
I blinked twice and then thrice!
I was trying to come out of the shock!
The person standing in front of me was my father.
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#TBC