The Rescue : A love story inspired by true events

: PRELUDE :

The nights were still heavy for him when all the memories which were "good" once,used to come only to announce how stupid he had been to believe her in first place."It was all a lie since the beginning, a ploy at best to toy his emotions.", he used to tell himself every night before going to bed, least this thought could help him sleep and keep away the memories.

What appeared to be a monogamous association in the beginning turned out to be a poly-amorous scheme, except, unlike open relations there was no honesty here.
The cards just kept opening with the time.It was too late for him to retrace his steps and walk away by the time he came to know about the polyamorous aspect at play , all efforts to accommodate to ever unfolding facts resulted in a great loss of emotional well-being.

The story build upon these gloomy situations narrated above and unfolds as follows-

:THE DAWN:

20 august 2014 : 04:07 AM

The cell phone started ringing , he was wide awake but was not willing to pick the phone.
"Who this could be at this hour of early morning ? Everyone knows I don't pick calls during early hours of morning" he mumbled to himself, as he picked the phone.

The number was unknown, he disconnected the call and sent a message requesting who the caller was, the phone started to ring again.

"Hello, who is this ?", he said, there was no sound from the other end for a while which seemed like ten minutes ,though he was hardly on phone since 10 seconds.

"How are you doing Amrit ?" He was fully awaken by the tone of a feminine voice he had almost forgotten.

"What the ....!!! how did you get my number and where are you ?" he blurted out in excitement.

"I'm in India , just landed few minutes back, don't ask me who gave me your number because the SOB doesn't want to be named, now you can either keep the phone or you can get yourself on the next flight here, what say ?"

He paused for a moment and said "Naah not going out of town for few days, get your lousy bag of bones straight here, I will ask someone to get you tickets and find you a nice place to stay, not to mention all expenses are on me.".

"You haven't changed a bit have you ?" she squealed.

"Why should I ? After all I need to make sure you get the same hi-kick treatment you deserve for being gone for so long" he quipped.

"Right then, I will be right outside first arrival gate, send someone fast, wooooieee !!!", she sang once more.

"What was that wooooieee bit about ?" He asked.

"Wait in anticipation , I haven't changed either" , she made a smooching sound and kept the phone leaving him wondering what was the smooching sound for ?

He scanned the horizon of his mental world and started to look for memories from around 5 years back, two months in Maldives spent during some official assignment.

Her name was Zia, enchanting Blondie and a dear heart angel, single child of filthy rich parents, yet down to earth compassionate and easy to go along with.

They worked in same teams and got to like each other due to their shared interests and crazy built of minds, while everyone would sleep they would sneak to the hotel terrace to sing "Amazing grace" or try ,yet again, to sneak past security of the president's residence to get a selfie with the man whose house had two frigates and an armed speed boat docked right across the road for his security.

Once they got apprehended by the security trying to get through the main entrance, and she played the beauty and female card so wonderfully that he had hard time controlling his laughter.Their laughter echoed well past early morning in the Hulhule resort bar.

She must have re-enacted about 10 times how she told the guards that "its an emergency and I needs to use the loo NOW", yet every-time she would start he had hard time keeping himself sitting on the bar stool, laughing madly at the memory of the event.

"Some awesome memories, what a wonderful time we had " he smiled thinking, he picked the phone once again and called the concierge desk of a trusted travel service company, gave his introduction and arranged for her tickets and stay at his city. They said they will send someone immediately to the airport and it will take max 15 minutes to deliver the tickets, they also arranged for the executive lounge for her.

Satisfied with the response he called her back, told her to sit tight and proceeded to prepare for the day, which was to unfold its mysteries in few hours.

He had smile on his face , after having been trapped into an abusive relationship for so long it was like a fresh breath of air to meet someone who was what she said she was."I was almost loosing my mind over this woman, thank god Zia is coming", he thought.

He planned to sleep for a while least he is all red eyed when she arrives, He cancelled all meetings, though there were not many for the day, and proceed to sleep.

The ring of his phone brought him back to his senses, it was Zia , announcing that she had boarded the flight, "You slept alright ? I have boarded the plane, see you in an hour" She kept the phone, "She should be working with news company, breaks the news without any pleasantries" ,he thought and smiled.

He was out of his place in fifteen minutes, airport was about 15 minute drive and he thought he would have some extra time so he stopped and picked some flowers for her.
"She loves the chivalry to the core of her heart", he hummed and sped past the entrance of the airport.

She stood out in impeccable white attire, flowing hair and unchanged smile, "My god !! look at the people , they are going to eat her alive or what", he thought as he rushed to take her bag from her and gave her the flowers.

She looked in his eyes for few seconds , "Some woman messed with you, right ?", she said, "Long story, will tell you some other time, what a pleasant surprise you devil!!", he replied.

"Tell me now, where are we going by the way ?", she asked.

"Not to get a selfie , you are being dumped in your hotel and when you have had some rest we can plan the evening out", he was trying hard not to let the stray memories of the past two years creep in his mind.

On the way to hotel he gave her short details of what he had been through and the last shock when he discovered that she had been telling lies about her inability to contact by playing "poor helpless me" card, after which he decided to break away from this woman.

"You tried to stay too good, if she is even ten percent of what you told about, then she is a bad omen , better to be left as dead meat. What is wrong with you ? what were you thinking ? Once a cheater is always a cheater and this woman just abused your trust, let her go to hell", she was speaking fast and with concern, " if I were you, I won't shed a tear even if she were to drop dead, wake up!!!".

He had no words at that moment , he kept driving, dropped her at her hotel, she insisted that he should come up and help her unpack her things. He joined her in her suite.

She had brought him some things she knew he would love to have, he was happy to see her after such a long time, they ordered coffee as they talked about their lives in general. He noticed she was looking deeply into his eyes more and more as if searching for something in him.

He got up to leave, "I guess you have made you point, I am already breaking away, I know she was just keeping me at an arms length, I am getting over her, get some sleep, give me a call when you are ready", he said as he proceeded toward the door.

He felt her hand closing in on his hand from behind, he looked back, her hazel eyes met his once more and before he knew she was hugging him, unable to think he started to say something, "Don't say a word, just be, just be here and now", she said and kissed his eyes.

His left hand reached for her waist and with his right hand wrapped around her shoulder from behind he let himself go, there was silence as the hug intensified, he had never hugged her earlier, but he shunned all thoughts and stayed in the moment.

Humming of the air conditioning was the first thing he heard when he started to come to himself again, they must have hugged for about 3-4 minutes , longest he had ever hugged someone, that too for the first time.

"This is strange, this is more than a friendly hug, what is going on in here", his thoughts were starting to get some footing after a brief absence. She must have sensed that he was getting ready to break the hug, she held on to him gently once again ,"just stay a bit more", was all he heard.

Soon the bodies picked up the hint and their lips found courage to lock on each other, the warmth of breaths over their lips and sensation of pulsating heart beats which started to gallop faster and faster.
He found himself coming back to senses , the woody scent she had on her, the arches of her neck and the shimmering ear gear got full attention of his eyes.

"I must stop now at any cost", he thought and with a gentle peck below her left ear which made her twitch, he pulled himself off her embrace, she still had her eyes closed as she said - "I knew you were gonna try to leave", she opened her eyes as she finished speaking the last word.

"What is happening here Zia ?", he tried not to look at her eyes.
"Remember you once said if there is anything I can do for you, just give me a call ?". she asked smilingly.

"Yes, but , I meant to ask what is happening here,a minute ago, what was that ?" , this time he could look into her eyes. "I never thought she had so beautiful eyes", he found himself thinking as he waited for her answer.

"I came to know what happened, I knew it all along, I am here on a rescue mission", she smiled in a know-all manner .

He felt his heart sinking "This is not happening, I have been played enough for the lifetime already, was it all about her wanting to pull me out of a relationship ? God knows who told her about this, only three people knew and none might be directly knowing her", he was trying to look away from her towards the door once again, trying to find words to say before he leaves.

"I loved you since the day one, I am rescuing myself too of the curse of not being able to tell you then, not a single week passed when I didn't think why I couldn't". her eyes were moist.

She held her hand out , tears gleaming around the corners of her eyes, this time he held her hand firmly and gently pulled her towards him.

"You rescued me the moment you called", he said closing his eyes as they hugged once more, this time ever so gently as if touching each others souls, the humming of the air conditioning slowly faded away....

:THE BEGINNING:
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