Author's pov:

3 years back:

Maya was in the second year of completing her engineering degree. She has always been this most innocent nerd in the school whose life revolved around books, library and the professors . Even though , being a studious one , she wasn't the typical girl with two tightly braided ponytails with oil in hair .

She has been always a decent girl in terms of fashion. She never knew how to dress to impress someone. Her parents never allowed her to dress too short or too tight . She compromised even on this one . She wanted to wear short skirts sometimes. She wanted to try what it feels like to be in a short skirt. But, she never did that to go against her parents.

She never had any friends in the college. She used to go to college alone, study there and come back home. This was her regular routine.

She never knew that there was a boy , who was trying to get close to her .

His name was Harry. He was this guy from her college who would try to talk to her by asking certain doubts or trying to make friends with her for helping in a project or for some other things.

Something she never knew, were his advances towards her.

After some days, she became very good friends with him. She started considering him as her best friend. They used to be together everytime. From sharing each other's fears to each other's secrets, they did it all.

One day, he proposed her to be his girlfriend. She was shocked at that moment . She never thought that the guy, whom she thought as her best friend, will propose her .

Having no other friend in the college, made her trust that guy with her life. She thought that saying no to him or rejecting his proposal, would mean that her friendship with him would end. She would lose her only friend.

Engulfed by the fear of being alone again, she thought to give it a chance. She accepted his proposal.

But , she clearly told him that she wouldn't appreciate any sort of physical closeness or anything else that would make her uncomfortable.

Even he agreed and she trusted him on this one because he was her best friend.

But, that's what she thought.

It had only been two months of them together, he started to make physical advances towards her .

He started to hug her every time they meet , would try to come close to her and did things that made her uncomfortable.

One fine day , he called her and asked her to meet him since , it had been a long time they spent quality time together.

And that's what was her mistake.

She went to his apartment after the college and there he was lying on the couch in his living room fully drunk only in his trousers.

She was shocked looking at him like that .

All these days, he had been very good boy in front of her eyes who doesn't drink or smoke, respects everyone and talks politely.

When she asked about his condition at the moment, he forcefully tried to hug her.

And when she refused, he barked at her loudly telling her that she was this ungrateful bitch who couldn't satisfy a man.

He started to kiss forcefully and threw himself on her.

That was the moment when she realised, that she was getting forced by someone and that someone was not any stranger , but her own best friend and boyfriend at that moment.

She was continuously trying to save herself but her strength was never enough infront of him.

He got his hand under her top. It was very close to her breasts.

She somehow managed to push him aside and he fell on the couch.

She took that moment and instantly ran from his apartment towards her house .

She went home and told her parents everything. She expected her parents to be on her side, console her and punish that boy .

But rather , they beat the shit out of her at that moment for being in relationship, leading onto that boy and giving him wrong signals . They even called themselves the most unlucky people on the earth who have given birth to such a burden. They called her by names . Be it slut or a whore.

That was the worst day of her life. Her best friend or she would rather say her boyfriend, tried to rape her and when she went home and asked her parents for help they physically , verbally and emotionally abused her .

That was the day, she wanted to die . She wanted to end this life of hers that had nothing but pain.

She decided to end her life. She had a blade in her hand and before it could cut her, Daisy stopped her . If it was not for Daisy that day, then she would never have been alive today.

Maya's pov:

Present day:

I remembered all the things from the incident that happened three years back. This was no different from that.

It took me a while to absorb all the things that Mr. Adams said to me.

I broke down completely. My breathing started to get heavy.

I was bounded by anger and frustration.

I didn't know what I was doing and why I was doing it, but, I started throwing all the things in my room . Be it curtains, be it the bedsheets, the comforter . I even broke the mirror in my room and it was that moment when the breaking of mirror made me realise that I have broken down too.

I started choking on my breath . Breathing had nearly become impossible for me.

I held onto my throat and started to take a large amount of air . That's when someone held me by my shoulders.

Xavier's pov:

When I went to Maya's room for taking my mobile , I saw the condition of her room . Everything was scattered here and there . The curtains weren't there on the window but , they were on the floor . The bedsheets , the comforter, the pillows were also scattered here and there . Even the mirrors were broken .

I got scared for a moment looking at the condition of the room. When I went a bit inside , I saw Maya curled in a fetal position , sitting at the corner on the floor , holding onto her throat and taking huge amounts of air inside.

I went near her and held her by the arms and said , "What's happening Maya?"

She didn't reply anything. But , tears were continuously flowing from her eyes . Her breathing was heavy and from what I could see she was choking on her breath.

I was rubbing her back trying to help her. But, suddenly she got up from the floor. She wasn't able to stand properly. She was looking here and there for something. I was scared as hell looking at her.

I was continuously shouting and asking about what she was looking but she was ignoring me like I didn't even exist in the room .

She went towards both the side tables of her bed and started to look for something in the drawers. In that panic , both the lamps fell down and broke.

It was getting dangerous . She could also step on the broken lamp and damage her feet.

I went towards her trying to catch her . But , she was stumbling here and there.

She was , I guess, trying to grasp air but , that didn't help .

I didn't understand what she was looking for.

She suddenly walked towards the door of her room . She was trying to balance herself to stand properly but, she was stumbling here and there.

I was shocked and scared at this whole scene.

Then, I realised that if she keeps on walking like this , she could fall down and hurt herself.

Before I could reach and catch her, she was on the edge of the stairs.

Within a blink of an eye, she slipped down the stairs and fell down.

I quickly ran towards her. She rolled down the stairs and I went towards her shouting her name.

When I reached her , she was lying on the floor unconscious with her head bleeding.

I started shouting, " Mimi! Mimi! "

I know for a fact that, at this time no servants would be here in the mansion.

As soon as Mimi came out of her room, she was stilled looking at Maya.

She walked towards her and panicked like I did.

"What happened to her? Why is she bleeding? What happened Xavier? "

Mimi kept on throwing questions.

I told her that she fell down from the stairs and started to pat her cheeks with her head on my lap thinking that she would wake up.

But , she wasn't opening her eyes. I was losing my hope now .

And before it was too late, I picked her up and went towards the car.

Even Mimi was there with me.

When she was about to sit in the car I said, " I will take her to the hospital. You please contact Dan and Lucas and ask them to meet me at Liam's hospital . You please stay at the mansion . If I would need something from here, I will call you ."

Without waiting for her response, I quickly drove the car of towards Liam's hospital .

I reached his hospital to see that Liam was waiting with two ward boys with a stretcher for us at the gate . I have called him when I was in the car itself .

As soon as , I put Maya on the stretcher , Liam said , "What happened to her? She is bleeding heavily."

I told him that she fell down from the stairs. He quickly took her to the operation theatre . As he went inside , I sat in the waiting area.

All the moments started to replay in my mind. From me accusing her of god knows how many things , to her choking on her breath and falling down from the stairs.

I was responsible for this whole thing that happened to Maya right now.

In the next 10 minutes , Lucas was there with me.

I don't know what came onto me, I hugged him tightly. Warmth on my cheeks made me realise that my eyes lost their control over the water, and tears were slipping down.

"What happened man? You can't lose yourself right now. Just tell me about all the things that happened. We can sort this out and I am sure that Maya would be super fine in the next few moments."

I still wasn't ready to let him go off and I was continuously crying over his shoulder . That is possible only because he is that person whom I trust more than my own self . After I don't know how much of the tears I shedded, I left him and told about everything that happened.

From knowing that Maya has a boyfriend till the time she fell down the stairs . I told him each and every detail of the things that happened.

Looking at him, I could see that he was really angry at me .

He kept quiet for a few seconds and said, " I am really glad that Dan is in London right now for a meeting . If she would have been here, she would have definitely disowned you right now. How can you even think this low of her. And for god's sake, she is that girl who was forced into this marriage and instead of making her comfortable at your place , here you are accusing her of such filthy things.

How could you do that to her? Right now, this isn't the place for these things . So , I am letting go off the matter. But, just keep this thing in mind that as soon as everything settles, I'll have a look at you.

You know that, somewhere I love you even more than Dan and this is the reason, I won't say anything to her.

Otherwise, even I know that she would probably slap the hell out of you after listening to the amazing deeds of her dearest brother . "

I know that his anger was genuine and I was at fault here . So, I kept quiet. He sat there with me till the time Liam came out.

As soon as , he came out of the operation theatre , we both stood up and went towards him.

"What happened Liam? Tell me my Maya is alright. Nothing happened , right?"

I asked him hoping for a positive answer.

"I will tell you everything. I please request you to come and meet me at my cabin in the next 10 minutes. I would talk to you there ."

With that , he went towards the changing room , to change his clothes, that he wore in the operation theatre.

Within 10 minutes, we both went to Liam's cabin to see that, he was sitting on his chair and analysing certain reports.

"I know that you both are very close. So, I won't ask Lucas to wait outside .

I know I can talk in front of him."

We both nodded at this.

"Xavier, as far as I remember, I asked you to talk to Maya in a very proper and calm way. Haven't I?"

I nodded at his question.

"And seeing her condition, I can definitely tell that you haven't done any such thing . Instead you made things worse , right ?"

I nodded at this statement.

"I expect that you both would be shocked after I give you the reports of Maya . "

We both looked at each other and that's when Lucas interrupted, "What happened Liam ? Is everything alright with Maya ? "

" Let's just wait for the next five minutes. I have half of the reports with me and others are coming . After analysing both, I can clearly tell you everything. As for now, Maya is critical."

Liam said shocking and scaring the hell out of us.

Three of us were patiently waiting for the reports to come when someone entered the cabin loudly pushing the door.