Delusion or jealousy???
“What! She left even though she saw that I am not fine?” After waking up Nick was so furious when he got to know that Sanaya didn’t bother to stay by his side but left as she had some work.
“She said you were fine so… So she didn't need to...” Kyle responded.
“Where is she right now?” Even though he nicely told her to quit, she didn't listen. To her, her career was more important than him? Was he the only one to whom she was important more than anything else in his life?
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“What! How can you say that so easily? For that woman, you want to divorce me?"
“I love her.”
“How about me? I’m your wife, did you ever love me?”
“Sorry…”
“Sorry, sorry and sorry. Do you think I need your apology?”
“Cut!” Everybody started clapping their hands. Mona quickly ran to Sanaya with a bottle of water.
On the summer day, the weather was hot. Sanaya sat on a chair and drank the water in one go. They said, today her acting was on another level. Nobody knew what was going on in her life but of course, she couldn't let her personal life affect her professional one.
Sanaya was glaring at the screen of her iphone again and again, Mona noticed it.
“The next scene will start in five minutes.” Sanaya heard Mona say so. "Ok.”
Even while getting up to the chair she stared at her phone again. Though before coming she checked that Nick was fine but still she was worried about him.
“Sis, is something wrong?” Seeing her to stand still, Mona asked her.
“Nothing.” Sanaya answered faintly.
The shooting was about to start, she was practicing the next scene with her co-actor Charles. They seemed quite close together. They were laughing together when Charles moved a strand of her hair over her face and she smiled at him. Everybody in the set could feel the cute couple vibe from them, as if they were a real couple.
“Ac-tion…” The director pronounced so. Suddenly everybody got up and started looking at a man, “Mr. Davis…” When Sanaya and Charles were about to hug each other while looking into each other’s eyes. Suddenly they heard, “Cut!”
Both Sanaya and Charles glared at the direction the enraged tone of voice came from and they were surprised.
“Mr. Davis, please take a seat.” Someone said so, moving a chair towards him but Nick was only staring at Sanaya angrily. Giving no importance to Nick, Sanaya looked at Charles. She was about to wrap her arms around him but suddenly Nick walked to them.
“Today’s shooting is halted.” And with that he grabbed her hand. Pulling her hand, she glared at him furiously but he didn’t bother to watch her. He took her to the car and then asserted, “Get in!”
“I am not going anywhere.” Saying so she turned to leave but was taken aback by him.
“Was it fun to hug him?” This very question stopped her from walking. Sanaya let out a soft chuckle and said, “Of course, it was. As you know…” she couldn’t even complete the sentence but all of a sudden she saw Nick in front of her eyes. His eyes were as cold as ice, but more than his eyes, his grip around her wrist felt more painful.
Sanaya could see how tight he held her wrist, she hissed but it didn't reach his ears.
Pushing her against the car he pronounced angrily while still looking deep into her eyes, “Your husband is standing right in front of your eyes and you are saying that it was fun to hug another man!”
“Husband? Who?”
“Me.”
“Haha…” She smiled sarcastically.
Seeing her smile, his anger rises more. “Why are you laughing?”
“Look at our fingers." She grabbed his right hand. "None of us are wearing our wedding rings. Look at my head, I am not wearing the vermillion that I used to… So, why do you still want to call yourself my husband? Frankly speaking, we two don’t even look like husband and wife.”
Nick glared at his ring finger. He had his reasons not to wear it but why was she not wearing it? Exactly his question, as he glared at her head, he noticed from her head to toe she didn’t look like a married woman at all. For some moment both of them were silent, only glaring at each other.
That past year had been hard for both of them. Care, love and all their feelings were still there. He certainly had so many things to tell her but he never could think of getting her involved when he knew...
“Where do you think you are taking me to?” Getting angry she asked.
Nick didn’t bother to answer her but he forcefully pushed her to get in the car. As she was about to try to open the car door, he held both her hands. Sanaya was super angry but she couldn’t fight with him. The whole time until they reached the mansion, he didn’t let her hand go.
When the car stopped Nick took her over his shoulder and walked through the entrance. “Hey, let me go!” Sanaya shouted out.
Along with Kyle and Aiden, Mrs. Elisa was also observing everything but they said nothing. “Hey, where are you taking me to? That’s my room, hya…”
Instead of getting in the room she stayed in, he entered his room straight. “Let me go! What the hell!”
None of her words got in his ears. Putting her down he locked the door behind him. “What are you up to!”
Though she asked him, he said nothing. Seeing him still silent she lost her temper. She walked towards the door but was stopped by him.
“From today on, you are not allowed to step out of this room.” He told her in a cold tone.
He was really kidding, right?
“What?”
“From this moment on until I say, you won’t leave this room.” He announced so in an authoritative tone.
Sanaya couldn’t help but chuckle as if he cracked a joke and it was too funny. Seeing her to smile he walked towards the door and she followed behind. Walking out of the room he was about to close the door but Sanaya put her one leg outside.
“Are you serious? What do you mean by I'm not allowed to leave this room?”
“I’ve said what I wanted to. Now move.”
“Never, who do you think you are to decide this? You move, I’ll go out.”
“Don’t worry, from now on I’ll spend more time with you so you don’t feel the need of…``Nick said so while glaring at her coldly.
“Wait, you are jealous?” Sanaya asked him casually. There was no way he would be jealous anyway since he had fun with other women when she was gone just for a year.
Without answering her he just closed the door. ‘He really has nothing to tell me. No explanation…’ hitting on the door, Sanaya screamed out, “Open the door!”
But nobody opened the door for her. For sometime she chose to stay quiet and not waste her time. Turning around she looked hither and thither, right it was his room. That one room where she long wanted to stay long ago but he never showed the same interest…
Taking a deep sigh, she sat on the bed. One year, she had to learn how to forget him. How to not have any feelings for him, she really tried hard and she was doing ok but now...
Sanaya was looking around when suddenly her phone started ringing.
“Hello, sis. Are you ok?” she heard Mona’s panicked voice from the other side of the call.
“I am ok. Don’t worry.”
“That’s great.” Mona let out a sigh of relief. She was super worried as Nick almost kidnapped her from the set.
Sanaya had no idea when she fell asleep. She was sleeping like a pig. Lying on the bed as if it belonged to her, her one leg towards north when the other one was at south. She had no idea that another person was present in the room too.
“She really has a rare sleeping style… Sanaya, get up. It's dinner time.” Pulling his sleeves up, Nick sat next to her on the bed. As she didn’t get up nor moved, he leaned over and stroked her hand gently, “Get up, Sanaya.”
This time Sanaya turned towards him with her sleepy eyes but instead of getting up she wrapped her one arm around his neck and pulled him closer instead. “Wait…” he found it hard to move.
Though he went to the office after locking her in the room, he couldn’t be less worried so he came back soon. After coming back, he didn’t go to freshen up first but wanted to wake her up as she might be hungry.
Touching her hand Nick tried waking her up, “Sanaya, let’s have dinner first then you can sleep again, now get up...” The more he tried waking her up the more she was pulling him close. Nick smiled seeing how clingy she was being.
At the least when she's awake, she tries to push him away. Nick wondered what she would do if she was to know about his condition, right. Her care, love could cure him but what would she do once she knew about it?
Touching her face affectionately he kissed on her forehead gently, “I don’t know why I didn't notice how cute you are…”
Pressing the thumb over her cheeks he moved a strand of her hair when he was still smiling.
Suddenly he saw something on her forehead.
“Didn’t she say that she doesn’t wear vermillion…” seeing vermillion in between her hairs he smiled and thought of how that time she lied to him.
Nick was still smiling, when sanaya started moving. He quickly moved away.
‘I slept well…’ sitting on the bed Sanaya stretched out her arms when suddenly her eyes caught on the figure lying on the bed. As soon as she saw him, she immediately crawled down and ran towards the door.
Nick quickly ran behind her, before she would be able to do anything he took her in his arms. Sanaya was not short but still she was shorter than him after all. She found herself in his arms and the way he was laughing was making her angry.
“I want to go to my room. Put me down.” She shot him an angry glare.
But giving no ears to her words, he put her on the bed. As she was about to crawl down the bed again, he quickly grabbed both her hands and sitting next to her he asserted, “From now on, you will be staying here with me.”
“What? No way, I want to stay in my room. Thank you.”
“This is your room.” He told her while looking at her.
Sanaya glared at him with confusion. Something was wrong with him, till the day they got married he never let her stay in his room then how come now…
When she was still in dilemma, he grabbed her hand and asserted, “Dinner is ready. Let’s go.” Sanaya was shocked by this nick, just like him once she too behaved this way. Sanaya couldn’t understand what he was up to. She was following his footsteps. Nick held her hand and looked at her. Weirdly, he even smiled at her.
"You don't have much time… you might go crazy or die at any time. I can't guarantee your safety anymore." Those words by Dr. Benson were echoing in his ears again. It never made him feared though, not even for a moment Nick felt like he was afraid of death. Rather he tried accepting it. But whenever he looked into her eyes, his desire to live with her got intense.