MY MYSTERIOUS MAN

chapter 8

What's that handprint is about

And the color of it looks like blood
Where did that come from?

He said I was hit by a vehicle why can't I remember it
What he is saying is that really true?
Am I thinking too much?

In the books I read all these years ...every handsome man is always a psychopath
Those seriously affected me damn

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(Next day)

Author pov

Nandini is rolling on her bed trying to sleep but still, her neck pain is making her awake...

"Ahhhhhhh" she shouted when the alarm started ringing...

"It's already morning and I didn't sleep a wink...
Thank God" she said slowly getting down from the bed ...

She brushed her teeth and took a bath slowly pouring hot water to remove her neck patch

"She saw in the mirror and there is a bruise on her neck like hit with a stick

"Huh?"

She slowly touched it and it hurt a lot...
It's swollen

"It's more like a person hit me than a vehicle," he said and chuckled and suddenly remembered something like a flash

Adil is breathing hardly struggling

"Right...he was struggling to breathe ..his veins got visible...he became hot ... I was asking him what happened..
Then ---" she tried hard to remember

"Why can't I remember"

Her phone alarm started ringing

"Shit it's late .." she applied her neck patch again and ran out of the washroom ..
She quickly picked a dress out of the drawer and changed into it ...

She ran outside and locked the door

"Ahhh ...it hurts" she mumbled angrily

She ran down and bought cream bread in the convenience store near her flower shop ...

She walked eating slowly

She reached the shop in 5 minutes

"I am not late," she said entering inside ..

"Nandini...what happened? ..your neck," the manager asked concernedly

"A small accident," she said panting

"Why did you have to run and come while you were in this position" she shouted angrily

"Manager--"

"Sister !! ..i told you to call me sister"

"How can I be late for work ..this place is my only happiness," she said keeping her bag aside and walking to the flowers laid on the table

"I don't want you to get hurt...how did the accident happen ....hardly any vehicle goes this way .."

"Really?" Nandini asked surprised..

"Yeah! This road is far from the highway and also from the market area ..so the vehicles going on this road are less"

"I see," she said slowly cutting the edge of the stem down the rose flower

"I don't know what happened too... I was just told by someone that I got hit while I was walking back home"

"Those bastards .." the manager said angrily while Nandini chuckled

The manager is a single widow women in her late 30s

Her husband died in an accident when she is 27
Many told her to remarry cause she is so young but she was pregnant and at that time...
And she couldn't bring a stepdad for her unborn child who may or may not treat her as his own child

Then with her small knowledge of flowers, she opened a flower shop.
Although the area is quiet and silent
There are a few regular customers along with online deliveries the shop is working smoothly.

When Nandini first time reached her shop for a job ...
She got Pity looking at her state body.
Nandini was covered in wounds.
Being only 18 and going through something so horrible made her know more about Nandini.

After pestering Nandini to tell them what happened after giving her the job...
Nandini finally opened up and told her everything that happened...
That's when she decided to take Nandini as a sister and protect her as much as she can ...

"----------dead" Nandini heard the word from the television playing ...

She turned around and saw the Television

"30 years old Ms.Radhika is found dead
The fisherman found her body in the ocean while they went fishing
Her body has no wounds except two small holes in her neck ..
Suspecting the reason for the death ad murder ..
Her body was sent to the forensic
She----"
The manager off the television

"Why do you look at such horrible news"
She said placing the remote down on the table ..

"I want to" Nandini said and on the television again

"Ms.Radhika who is working as a software engineer in the software solutions company left the office after her night shift yesterday night at 10:30 ..
The family informed me that she never came back
She is a resident of xxx area"

"Sis ..isn't that our area?"Nandini asked panicking ..

The manager came in front and saw it

"Right ..Radhika .. I know that girl...
She resides near to here ..
She sometimes comes to our shop to buy dandelion flowers..
Oh my god ..
How cruel is that she died .." the manager said sadly...

"No ..look at that ..it's a murder .." Nandini replied

"This area is so peaceful though ..never once there is murder case related to here"

"Doesn't mean it always stays the same"

"Then you should be careful on your way back" the manager warned her.

"Except my father... I can't expect any other person to find and kill me ..so it's no problem," she said placing the flower in a water pot

"Your father ....how do you think he is right now," the manager asked slowly

"Who knows ..maybe alive ..maybe dead.
Maybe drunk ..maybe sober .."

"When you first said your story to me...
I saw that you love your father very much ...now don't you wonder how he is doing?" Manager asked which made Nandini stop her work for a second.

"I died for his attention all these years.
Whenever I stepped out of that house with blood dripping down my head and wounds all over my body...
I always expect my father to be the one who is in front of me when I wake up.
He must be the one who takes me to the hospital even though he is the one who hurt me.
I always thought that.
But never once he cared.

For one last time, I stepped out of that house once and for all and decided to never look back...
So I don't wanna know about him...
It will be great if he is alive.
If he is dead I don't even want to hear that news...
I will have the memories of him being alive forever"