𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢 (𝟏𝟖+) ✅

6

"Riya" I called for her from outside the tent

"Haan" she said but I could see her groaning maybe...in pain.

"Are you okay?" I asked in worry.

"Um...yeah can you call Aisha for me"

"Bhabhi and Bhai already left, what is it?"

"I'm coming in," I said entering.

I saw her standing near the mirror holding both of her hands at her back, with widened eyes she looked at me.

"What are you doing?"

"Um, actually I got a cut on my back, I wanted to apply ointment but I'm not able to reach"

"move," I said

"I'll not look, I'll close my eyes,"

"Oh no, I trust you, how will you apply with closed eyes?"

She moved towards the back and I could see a cut down her shoulders, she couldn't have reached that either from her shoulders or back, it was in the middle,

I took the ointment and she held the knots of the top more firmly, I freed her knuckles, and pushed her to the wall, harshly, Shit.

"Ah" she winced.

"Um, Sorry" my voice came out hoarse because seeing her bare back with only denim shorts in the bottom was an invite to my beast, I can't let this go. Her hands went onto the wall, her top was strangled in between her body and the wall she was not holding the knot anymore and the top was still hanging on to her shoulder otherwise if she had stepped back it would have fallen. Fuck. I need to stop thinking like this.

I applied the ointment while blowing onto her cut, I felt her stiffen under my touch where I was holding her by her arm, I could feel the goosebumps on her skin, I smirked seeing my effect on her.

"Ahh" she winced in pain but it came out more like a moan, I could feel myself hardening impossibly to that. Her sweet voice, she moans with a mere touch, then how would she handle, what I do?

"It's done" I said clearing my throat and going away from the tent. I didn't even look back at her. She might be tying her top now, which had what 5 small Doris, how does she even tie them?

"Chale?" I saw her coming towards me.

"Hmm" I nodded.

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Inside Penthouse

Riya's POV

"Papa, what are you doing here?" I asked I saw Aisha, Jiju and Papa standing in what Akshat told me was his penthouse, I didn't know why he said everyone was there and Aisha specifically asked for me to be there, I hoped it wasn't something Mafia-related because if it was, I don't want Aishu involved, she's way too sweet and nice for this.

"Riya beta, I want to tell you something, you have to marry one of the Oberois because I can't protect you anymore"

EXCUSE FUCKING ME?

I started laughing, of course, this is a prank and I'm sure Aisha is behind this.

"Yeah right! come out Aishu, you got my reaction on camera, right?"

Inside a room

"I'm not marrying her"

"It's not up for discussion Akshat, you will marry Riya Malhotra that too, TOMORROW"

"Why?"

"Either you or Aarav will marry her, we can't let her go to the enemy's territory like that, Italians will chew her out and throw her bones nowhere to be found"

"I can protect her"

"Pray to tell, how?"

"I'll be her bodyguard"

"What the actual fuck Akshat, that is not possible, you have to marry her, or Aarav once she's married, that Motherfucker Matteo will have no interest"

"Matteo? As in Matteo Vinchi?"

"Yes, he's apparently obsessed with Riya which is why he's encroaching on our territory, Rishi used up all his resources to shield her till now, but now he's exhausted and need us"

"Why won't he have interest after marriage? How will marriage solve it?"

"Because he doesn't take leftovers, if you understand what I mean"

"Leftovers? Fucking leftovers? Leftovers or not, my Princess will never see the sight of that man, he's the piece of trash, not Riya!"

"Exactly what I mean, so...Excuse me, go back... your what?"

"Nothing"

"Riya is your Princess? The princess you've been pining over for years, and obsessively might I add. When you were 8, in the park? That princess?"

"Then motherfucker, why the fuck are you not marrying the girl you've been in love with for 16 fucking years"

"Do you not see Bhai? What do I do? If I make her my weakness, all our enemies will hawk like a freaking eagle and make her life miserable, I don't want her to live a life of danger 24 into 7"

"She's in danger! Did you forget whose daughter she is? She is the daughter of Rishi Malhotra, Satan's fucking heir. One of the criminal overlords, we take ammunition from him, remember? She'll always be in danger; she was born in a Mafia family and will now marry into one that covers themselves as a corporate business people."

"Exactly, she deserves normal. Not this!"

"She'll never get normal, don't you get it you moron, also on a side note, we give normal to our family, look at Aisha, she has no clue what is going on and she is doing just fine, she's safe, I keep her safe, so you must do it too, you can't chase her away and then keep her safe, you have to keep her close."

"Look at Aarav, he's the bubbliest kid out there, acting like that but you and I both know, he's the manipulator of our group, I didn't want you guys involved, and I tried to keep you guys' way as much as possible but dad wanted you guys in, this is the fucking family business, the outside world doesn't know about, we shield it very well, you know all this still acting like a fucking brat. If you don't marry Riya, all our ammunition deals will be gone to Italians, we need them."

"Also, Akshat, she's not weak, she can protect herself"

She's weak, my Princess is weak, so small, so fragile, almost like a ball of fur, so innocent so pure, she's the epitome of every good thing in the world, she's the personification of fucking angel you read about. She can be feisty I know that, but her heart, I don't want it to break seeing the cruelty like that. But I can't leave her unprotected, Bhai is right, keep her close and protect her but never LOVE her. Fuck that. I already do it, never show love, she can't come out to be my weakness for my enemies to catch, I'll ignore her then she will find someone else, someone who wouldn't belong here, and then she would be with him while I would continue to protect her from the background.

No one would know, she's, my weakness. No one would attack her; this world would leave her alone. If people say, she lives in dreamland, I would fucking make that dreamland from scratch. She would get every fucking happiness in this world. I will make sure of it.