95. The Attacker!

Author's POV

Everyone was looking at Durga shocked.

"Why?"

Damon stepped towards her and she stepped back in fear.

"Damon?"

Mira called him as she came towards the kitchen.

Damon quickly placed his gun back in his waist. Rudra quickly kicked away the glass which shattered between Neel's beating and Neel quickly wiped the blood from his lips.

"Rafael didn't call me!"

Mira looked at him confused.

Damon let out a chuckle and went to her.

"He did, maybe he was playing a prank on you... I don't understand your crazy things..."

He led her out towards the dining table so she wouldn't see the chaos behind her.

"I am still waiting for the desert."

Mira smiled.

"Yeah, Dylan will serve us. You distracted me."

Everyone took back their seats and Durga was the last one to come. Yang looked at her confused and bothered as she sat down.

Everyone was looking at her suspiciously.

"It's yum..."

Mira grinned cutely at Damon and he smiled back at her.

Durga looked at the clock and gulped, Damon noticed her nervous and sweaty face.

"I am full, the dinner was so good..."

Damon looked at Mira impressed.

"Good choice, wife. But I need to take a walk to digest this. What do you say, Yang?"

Yang understood his sign.

"Yeah, I need that too... Come on, Durga. Let's take a walk in the garden."

Durga looked at him nervously.

"I'll stay with Mira... I need to discuss something with her."

Yang leaned down to her level with a tight smile.

"Come out with me now, sweetheart... Don't make me punish you!"

He grabbed her hand and made her stand.

"Excuse me, people... I need my girlfriend with me!"

Durga started shaking when Yang literally dragged her out.

"I'll be back!"

Damon kissed Mira's cheek and walked out.

"What happened to them?"

Mira asked confused.

"Neel, what happened to your lips?"

She noticed his busted lips.

"I slipped on the floor and banged my chin on the chair."

He lied.

Her eyes widened at him.

"You always find creative ways to injure yourself."

She laughed.

"Mira, can you come with me for a minute?... I need your help!"

Aurora came out and requested her.

"Excuse me!"

Mira excused herself from Rudra and Neel to go with Aurora.

"I can't select a nice dress for tomorrow's date... I am so confused."

Aurora was tensed.

Rudra watched both of them disappear from the dining hall and dashed out along with Neel.

"Answer me, Durga?"

Damon asked strictly.

She was crying continuously.

Yang took a deep breath while holding her by arms.

"I know you didn't do anything, but you definitely know something... Tell me, what's happening?... Is someone blackmailing you?"

He asked gently.

"You don't have to be scared of anyone... Just tell me, Durga!"

Damon tried to calm her down.

She shook her head.

"I am sorry! I placed that phone in Neel's jacket when you were greeting him."

She confessed and Neel realised why she placed an assuring hand on his shoulder.

"Who told you to do it?"

Damon asked eagerly.

Durga shook her head.

"I can't tell you but I promise you won't be attacked again... It will stop!"

She cried.

"Please, let it go!"

Damon grabbed his head frustrated.

"Listen, I don't want to hurt you..."

Yang stopped Damon and took the matter in his hands.

"Durga, it's about your sister's happiness. Why are you hiding someone who is trying to hurt her?"

Durga wiped her tears.

"It was to protect, Mira..."

"Protect from whom?"

Yang yelled frustrated.

"From Damon!"

She looked at him scared.

Damon looked at her confused.

"From me?"

He scowled.

"Who is trying to protect my wife from me?"

Durga looked at the entry of the basement and gulped when she noticed black shadow running out of the basement.

Damon quickly followed the direction of her eyes and noticed it. He was quick to run behind the shadow followed by Rudra.

Yang checked the basement and saw the man who tried to kill Damon in an accident was shot to death. The person was trying to kill the evidence and the dead man knew the mastermind behind it.

The shadow disappeared behind the bush but Damon didn't give up. He chased it out of the gate until he finally got his hands on it.

The person fell on the street and he pounced aggressively, snatching the mask off the face.

Damon was about to throw the punch but he froze when he saw the familiar face under the streetlight.

"You?"

Rudra and Neel stopped when they saw that he had caught the mastermind.

"Maa!"

He looked at her shocked.

Maya pushed Damon away from her and got up while dusting her clothes.

Damon shook his head in disbelief.

"Why?"

He asked her confused.

"Maya, why would you do this? Why were you trying to kill me? You used Durga in this and what did she mean by you are trying to protect her from me and I won't get attacked anymore?"

Maya looked at him annoyed.

"Because Mira is pregnant now!"

She replied to him sternly.

"I can't kill you anymore because she is pregnant and has fallen for you!"

"Maa, what is this and why are you in Spain?"

Rudra asked her confused.

"Uday uncle told me that you are in New York for some training... What are you doing here? Does he know about this? And why the hell are you trying to kill your son in law."

"Because he married Mira against her will!"

She replied madly and looked at Damon.

"I told you, Damon... I warned you to stay away from her but you didn't listen... I begged everyone not to drag Mira in their dirty business but no one listened to me. I wanted to free my daughter from you because I don't trust you."

"Why?"

Damon asked madly.

"Because if a common man like Kabir can destroy her like that then imagine a son of the psycho mafia doing it!"

She glared at him.

"You have had your own share of harassing her... Everyone is trying to play with my child..."

"You didn't care when she was calling you for a warm shoulder"

Damon scoffed.

"I had a right to be upset with her but that doesn't mean I abandoned her... How does it give right to anyone to hurt my daughter?... If I had known that Kabir was treating her like that then I would have killed him before Mira could."

Her face turned in disgust.

"She never wanted to marry you but you manipulated the situation... I was scared that you would hurt her because she slapped you. You were always around her. I had seen you coming out of her room at midnight and she locked herself inside after that. What did you do to her?... I tried to keep your image clean in my mind, I tried to make Mira understand that maybe you are not that bad even when she was complaining about you but all her words made sense when you dragged her to the altar."

She accused.

"I wanted to free her from the suffocating marriage, how can I let my daughter suffer the same hell again?"

"But you tried to put the blame on Mira"

Damon asked confused.

"I never really wanted to kill you, I just wanted to create a doubt in your mind that Mira is trying to kill you so you divorce her and she will be free from this forced marriage."

She confessed.

"All attacks were just to scare you."

"How do you know about Kabir?"

Rudra asked suspiciously.

"No one knew except Neel, Mira and I!"

She scoffed mockingly.

"I am a doctor, you really think that you could hide Mira's abused body from me?"

Tears escaped her eyes.

"Her bruised ribs were visible when your grandmother poured cold water on her, her pale face was a symptom of blood loss and I saw the wound on her head when I tried to comb her long hair. She was limping while walking and I have enough experience to understand that she was___"

She shook her head disgusted.

"Mira had visited the doctor to confirm her pregnancy and that doctor was my friend... She informed me about it and I was devastated when I connected the dots..."

She growled in anger.

"Why she suffered hell from the hands of the man who she loved more than anything?... My child was innocent, she gave up everything for that monster and he destroyed her like that... He snatched her smile, he destroyed her innocence and took her playful youth away... I thought she would heal in solitude, those toxic old people won't live for long and after that Mira can live freely but then you came..."

She accused Damon.

"Everything was going fine but you started the toxic cycle again... You think I didn't notice your obsession for Mira?"

"I love her!"

Damon growled.

She let out a mocking laugh.

"You are in love now!... But were you in love with her when you dragged her to the altar?"

She asked and Damon couldn't answer it.

"You weren't in love with her that time, you wanted to just win her and that was your arrogance... Your pride and ego married my daughter not love... I did what I had to do to protect my child and I don't regret anything..."

She declared.

"If you want to punish me then go ahead."

Durga shook her head pleadingly.

"Maa stopped hurting you when she realised that you two have really fallen for each other. Damon, please try to understand her... She never wanted to kill you, it was just to scare you."

"How did you find out?"

Yang asked Durga suspiciously.

"I heard your conversations with Damon about the attacks... When you brought that phone as evidence to our home, I saw it... Maa had the exact same extra phone with her, it had the same dent on it which I saw on her phone. I had a doubt that she might have given it to the attacker for use but I was not ready to believe that she could do something like this."

She explained.

"But then I saw her at the cafe a few days back and my doubts turned into fear... I confronted her and she told me everything. I tried to turn suspicion towards Neel because I knew that he is innocent and he will somehow prove it but I got scared when you put a gun on his head... I just wanted to protect my mother"

Damon rubbed his face frustrated and his frustration slowly turned into a mocking laugh.

"Kaise family so pala pada hai, Yaar..." (What kind of family I got involved in, Man)

He asked amused.

"One daughter kills her ex husband, her mother tries to kill the second husband and another daughter tries to cover it... Bravo!"

He looked at Neel.

"Sorry for the beating, dude..."

He started walking back to the house with answers to all his questions.

"Aren't you going to punish me, Damon?"

Maya questioned with deep frown.

Damon stopped and turned towards her with a smile.

"I don't hurt women."

He chuckled.

"And definitely not a mother who tried to protect her child."

Maya looked at him guiltily when he said that.