Of Messages and Markets

                                    

                                          
Vikram's Pov
                          
After dinner I went back to my room. It was too warm that night. I worked for an hour or so but I couldn't wait to go back to my wife. 
                          
It was years since I had a good night sleep without medicines. 
                          
Lila is good for me. 
                          
I hope she accepts my proposal. But what if she asks for reason again? Ignore it and change the topic. I can't tell her about it. 
                          
I get up not able to wait any longer and enter our bedroom. Lila is already asleep on the bed with one leg on the pillow and other tangled in the mattress. 
                          
I chuckle at the sight. 
                          
Suddenly my phone vibrates. 
                          
A text from some unknown number. I choose to ignore but something in my mind tells me to open it. 
                          
'You new girl is pretty like the old one. Will she go away the same way as her?' 
                          
Shit! 
                          
My whole body goes numb. I think about somebody hurting Lila and my body starts shivering. 
                          
Who could have sent it. 
                          
Somebody knows about her. My past... Lila going away the same way? An accident? 
                          
I forward this message to Raj. I call him soon after. 
                          
"You didn't invite me to your wedding, so from now on I don't know you" His says as soon as he picks up. 
                          
"Check your mail" I am in no mood for nonsense. 
                          
After few seconds he messages,"Shit. Who sent it to you?" His voice was laced with fear. 
                          
"It was from a blocked number"
                          
"Let me see about it. I will tell you as soon as I can. But how can Lila suddenly get into an accident? How can somebody talk about an accident before hand"  
                          
"Unless, Megan's death wasn't an accident. It was planned"
                          
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Lila's Pov
                          
I woke up to a buzzing sound. There was no one in the room. The voice was coming from the bathroom. I entered inside to see Vikram with a towel around his waist, looking at the mirror with a razor in his hand. 
                          
He saw me through the mirror and turned around, he was not his usual arrogant self,  there was something different in his expressions.
                          
Panic? Worry? I didn't know.
                          
He turned around and pulled me to his chest. He smelt of fresh air. My face was rested on his chest. He was  holding me too hard, as if afraid to let me go. 
                          
"You are crushing me" I said, my nose on the verge of breaking on his hard chest.
                          
"I have been crushing on you since I have seen you" He chuckled on his own bad joke. I hope it brought him a little away from his dark place.
                          
"Your shaving cream is all over my hair" I stated.
                          
"I think we have shampoo somewhere around here, you can use it" He said still not letting me go.
                          
I pushed hard against him,"It is a men's shampoo, I don't want my hair to smell like mint thingy" 
                          
"Okay. Go shopping then. Buy what you need"
                          
And that I did. Me and mom went to a supermarket near tge house. Even mom sensed that something was wrong with Vikram as he was acting strange during breakfast.