“Agar mai nhi jaane deta toh pura din muh fula ke baith jaati and you would have killed me. Atleast now she's happy. So you'll be fine.”

Rashit wasn't wrong. And Shaurya too knew that. Hence, he kept quiet.

The girls were sent home the very next day. Their families were very immensely grateful and we assured them that it was our duty to keep them safe.

Two days have passed since then and Rashit was in the surveillance room when he saw something unusual. 

“Fuck!”

He cursed realising what it was and quickly blared the alarms. He got his guns and arms ready. His men came out of their rooms hearing the alarms and Rashit informed them about the attack.

His phone rang and he saw Shaurya’s name displayed.

What is happening?"

He asked and Rashit replied breathlessly.

"Security breach....do din pehle wala racket.... mafia.... we're under attack."

He could only get those words before disconnecting the call because the attackers were already inside and the firing had started.

Shaurya came down a good 15 minutes later and Rashit groaned.

“What the fuck took you so long?”

“I was getting Ruhi settled. How many do we have here?”

Rashit informed him about the level of threat and within the next half an hour, they and their men took each one of the attackers down.

“I'll check the front and the back yards.”

Rashit rushed out along with his men because the house was completely empty except for the attackers’ dead bodies.

Everything seemed in control until Rashit saw the head of the mafia sneak inside the house and cursed loudly rushing behind him.

Rashit was a little late. He entered the house just as he heard a shot and yelled.

"You fucking bastard!"

He shot the man who fell down the ground dead. He then looked at Shaurya who was over Ruhanika. He couldn't make out which one of them was hurt.

"Shaurya!"

He heard Ruhanika yell as Shaurya fell to the ground beside her and she cupped his face trying to keep him awake.

"Shaurya! No! Please stay with me. Stay with me Shaurya! Open your eyes. Shaurya please!"

The next few minutes are in a frenzy. Rashit and the other men carry Shaurya till the car. He is laying with his head on Ruhaniks’s lap and her tears are flowing non-stop.

Rashit sighed and tried to console Ruhanika.

"Ruhanika. Iska aapki koi galti nhi hai. Please stop crying."

"It is all my fault Rashit. He asked me not to come out of the room. Mai phir bhi aayi. That bullet was for me. He got shot trying to save me."

Rashit sighs and puts an arm around her shoulder. She put her head on his shoulder and cried.

"Its not your fault. Hum sabko laga that everyone is dead. We missed that bastard. It is our fault if anyone's. Aap please rona band karo. Agar Shaurya ko pata chala ki hum sabke hote huye bhi you were crying he is going to kill us all."

He joked trying to make her laugh and honestly it did a bit.  After an hour the doctors came out and told them that the surgery was successful and that the bullet missed his heart by a few inches.

Shaurya was shifted to the private ward and Ruhanika and Rashit stayed the night.

The next morning Rashit woke up feeling a sharp pain in his neck and realised that he slept in a sitting position. He massaged his neck from one hand as the other was under Ruhanika’s head who was sleeping peacefully.

He heard a groan and looked at Shaurya slowly gaining consciousness. He looked around confused at first and then his eyes landed on Ruhanika.

A smile formed on his lips which vanished seeing her head on Rashit's shoulder and Rashit grinned wide in a complete mood of teasing him.

"Why the fuck is her head on your fucking shoulder? Get away from her!"

Shaurya whisper yelled and Rashit grinned more widely.

"I proposed her yesterday and we are together now."

He said like he was telling Shaurya some secret.

"You are lucky I am injured right now or you would have been dead by now."

Rashit laughed so loudly at this that it woke Ruhi up and she looked at him confused. He pursed his lips to control his laughter and said.

"Oops! Sorry. I'll leave you two alone now."

He got up while Ruhi looked at him confused. Her eyes fell on Shaurya and they widened.

She went running to him even though he was only five steps away and Rashit finally made his way out of the room.

Rashit had just closed the door behind him and just as he turned to go ahead, someone bumped into him. The person was carrying a tray which fell from their hands, their legs crossed which made the other person lose her balance.

The girl would have fallen down on the floor if Rashit hadn't held her waist to stable her. 

“I'm sorry I didn't -”

He started apologizing but then the girl looked up and all the air in his lungs was wooshed out. Her eyes too widened and they stayed in that position, just looking at each other until Rashit whispered in a soft voice.

“Anika!”

This broke her reverie and she pushed him after standing straight.

“Excuse me! I have work to do.”

She said coldly before she got on her knees to pick up the fallen tray.

“Let me do it for you.”

Rashit too bent down and started picking up the things before she could. 

“I can do it myself.”

She muttered before taking charge and he just looked at her. She had changed so much yet nothing had changed.

She was more beautiful and mature looking than before. Yet the anger on her face showed the same way as it did when she got angry at him for something.

Her hands were shaking and held them in his making her movements stop and look at her surprised.