Chapter 79

The beeping sound woke Hayat up. She opened her eyes with very difficulty. She looked here and there to recognize the place. She would like to say that she was in a hospital but she was not. She didn't even recognize the place.

She was on a bed, soft as feather. Though the room looked like a regular one but it also look like a medical room. She looked around and saw Murat sleeping on the big sofa.

She couldn't understand why he needed to sleep on the sofa. That bed was big enough for four people! She shook her head but winced. She started feel the pain in her body. She was in a better condition, the doctors did well. She was remembering all the things happened and why.

'Maybe Lisa died.' She thought. She didn't know much about her. When she came to know what that girl did to Nandini, made her so angry. She hated how she did not get to know any of those that time.

But still whatever happened with her was totally unfair. She felt the bed dipped and turn to her right, wincing.

"Are you feeling good?"

"Better than I felt there."

Murat didn't need to ask what she meant by 'there'. Murat never felt so hollow as he couldn't do anything to erase her memory from there.

"Where is Nandini? How is she?" Hayat tried to get up but Murat softly pushed her to stay still.

"She is okay and she is in the next room. I don't think she is up yet. Doctor said she had lots of internal injury."

"She was in so much pain. Suddenly I saw my little sister getting big and handling her injury instead of whining. I really thought that we won't be alive."

"Shhh.. You are fine, she is fine and that was the last horrible experience. I won't let anything like that to happen ever again." Murat vowed.

"Are you going to show the world 'The Rise Of Devil'?" Hayat teased and dance her eyebrows.

"I should, right? Then only they will stay far away from my way." Hayat tried to shook her head but winced again. She needed to remember that she could no longer just shook her head at his antics.

"Why are you moving so much?" He frowned and tried to figure out what's wrong. He could not for the love of God let her feel uncomfortable and delay her recovery process.

"Should we postpone our wedding?" There was no way Hayat could get everything done for their wedding and walked down the aisle.

"No." She glared at him as soon as he said that.

"Murat! I didn't finalize anything. How the heck we will get married if we don't push the date back."

She was getting worked up and her heart monitor was beeping as if warning Murat not to say anything stupid.

"We will see what can we do. First you need to recover and then we will talk about everything." He caressed her hair trying to calm her down.

After a long silence, Hayat tried to ask the question she wanted to ask him. "Murat?"

"Hmm?" He had rested his head on the headboard and closed his eyes.

"Lisa --"

"Hayat, forget about everything. Don't think about her or Roy and what happened. Don't stress yourself with these things. Lisa is not in a good condition, Roy will be fine and as for our monstrous men, I believe they are getting what they deserve."

"It must be hard for you." Murat took Hayat's free hand, which was not connected with the machines.

"It's hard, yes. But more than me, it's hard for Manik. The security company was his dream. He did most of the work to creat it, flourish it into one of the best. If this incident leak then it may destroy the company. Moreover, she was kind of his childhood friend. He trusted them with her but.." Murat sighed. Though Manik did not show it but he was shaken badly from the inside.

Hayat knew that he was thinking about all the things so she tried to distract him. "Where am I though? I don't think I recognize this place."

Murat looked at her as if something was wrong with her. "Did they hit your head too hard?"

"What?!" Hayat frowned.

"It's Uzun mansion of Paris, where you used to stay. You never saw the medical room before?" Murat asked in disbelief.

"No. I used to spend most of my time in my office and the rest of it in my room engrossed with designes. So, I didn't even tour it. I only know about the kitchen, dining, living, the rooms and terrace."

"You missed me." Murat said with a smirk.

"I didn't. Don't bother to increase your huge ego."

"You surely missed me." Murat grinned.

"What a sickening smile! Where is the doctor?"

After struggling a bit Nandini finally managed to open her eyes slowly. She looked at the ceiling over her blankly for a while.

She looked at her left without moving her head. She was in one of the the medical rooms. She came here few times in search for Cynthia when they used to play hide and seek.

She then looked slightly at the right and saw Manik sitting beside her folding his legs and and his hands supported his head. His eyes were closed and it gave Nandini an impression that he was asleep.

'He must be exhausted.' She thought. She was not feeling better and she couldn't move at all. Her body was completely shut because of the torture it had to endure.

Manik's phone rang and it pulled him out of his sleep. He received the phone after looking at the number.

"Hello."

"Yes, I am with her. She --" Manik looked at Nandini and saw her looking back at him.

"She is awake! Call the doctor and tell him to come." He was so happy and excited seeing her up.

"Are you okay?" Manik asked trying to keep his voice down.

"I can't move as if my body shut itself down." Nandini's voice was groggy.

"Doctor said that you need time to recover as you have many internal injury." Manik said with sadness. He was blaming himself for everything. First he couldn't save her from being kidnapped, second he couldn't save Lisa from his own men and last couldn't save Hayat and Nandini from being kidnapped and tortured.

" Don't worry. I will take very good care of you and you will be fine very soon. I am appointing myself as your personal nurse." Manik tried to crack joke and smile.

"I know my personal nurse will take good care of me but Manik you don't need to act. I know you are hurting, you are blaming yourself but you can't control things Manik. This will make you more strong and-" She winced in the middle of her speech. She was so busy to make him feel better that she forgot about her own pain.

"Nandini! Don't talk much. You are hurting yourself." Manik scolded.

"Then stop blaming yourself. I can't see you like this." She whispered softly.

"I know. I just need a while to let everything sink. I felt like I was in a horrible nightmare." Manik kissed her free hand.

"I was given oxygen?" she asked when her hand felt the mask.

"Yes. You were having difficulty in breathing."

"Oh," She frowned. She felt like she was forgetting something. Her eyes widen and she was about to jump but groaned when her body resisted shoting pain everywhere in her body.

"Nandini! Are you crazy? I told you not to move."

"Manik, di... I need to see her." she couldn't believe she forgot about her.

"She is fine. She is resting in next room. Goodness Nandini! Relax!"

Nandini tried to calm down and control her breathing. Her sister was fine. After a few minutes she calmed herself and Manik was giving her support by holding her hand.

"What happened to Lisa?" Nandini asked. She wanted to ask what she wanted to know and never bring the topic again.

"She tried to commit suicide and currently in coma." Manik said in a low voice.

"I can't even imagine what she went through." her eyes watered

"No, Nandini. You went through a lot too. If only she acted as my good friend not the crazy girl who liked me. She kidnapped you to kill and the vicious circle started." Manik trying hard to control his emotions.

"lay beside me please. I know you are drained."

"Nandu.."

"Do it." She said firmly. He hesitated and lay a little far. He was worried about hurting her but he kept holding her hand.

"Will I be fine?" Nandini wasn't feeling great and she was kind of getting worried about her responsive-to-only-pain body.

"You will be fine. You just need more time because your internal bleeding damaged a lot. Your body needs to recover from it all. Hayat is halfway healed her injury isn't that bad." Manik sighed and started to think something. After a bit silence, he started again.

"I feel like such a loser."

"You are not Manik. It's just things didn't happen as you wanted. She is strong so I would like to believe that she will be fine. What happened to the men?"

"I don't know. Roy demanded those eight and we didn't hesitate. Now it's Roy's turn to punish them. To do whatever he wants."

"But don't you have an idea about it?"

"It will be more dangerous something you may never imagined. He could use his gay men to rape those, he could cut their thing and leave them to die or,

He could beat them to death."