The Lines of Fate

20: Isn't it too quiet?

The next four days were almost uneventful. Other than searching for the whereabouts of the ring there was nothing much work for them. The ring did look like Radhika's father but it was not his as his ring was already kept at her home. It had been for the last nine years.

"Isn't it too quiet," Radhika asked. "Since these days?"

"Isn't that good?" Ansh asked sitting up from his lounged position on the chair beside her. They were all at a nearby cafeteria for a late-night snack.

"Definitely...but how the last week went, this silence feels weird and it's worrying me."

"Well, it had been quiet for you guys but it was not for me." Rishav was frustrated. He had been performing an autopsy on three dead bodies since morning. "Will I ever get any rest?"

"I don't know about you all but I am going out tomorrow," Ansh said. A smile formed on his face as he talked.

"Yeah. Sure, a date." Radhika looked at Ansh, a slight smirk on her face.

"Oh my god!!" Ansh looked at her with disbelief. "You are a freaking CCTV camera!!!"

Both Rishav and Dhruv chuckled before Dhruv said, "Nice one Ansh..."

"Hey..." Radhika jokingly warned. "I am not a camera!"

"It's true though," Dhruv reclines with a smirk. "But really how does it work?"

"What?" Radhika asked placing her forearms on the table.

"Your visions," Dhruv said. It was really weird to believe such things but Radhika was far more than happy that her team members were giving a chance to her, trying to believe her.

After Radhika finished saying how she sees the vision Dhruv mentioned that he would go and talk with Ishaan's parents once again. Hearing Ishaan's name, Radhika reminded of his face, and how devasted he looked in the morning when she went to meet him.

He was feeling guilty though it was not his fault. He was not himself then. Someone was controlling him, but still, he couldn't look in her eyes. Every time Radhika saw him like that, her anger increased to its next level.

According to the interrogation, Mrs. Langston and his husband met the Sens and joined the Arc four years ago when they met in London. They came to India after that. There are no pieces of evidence of them staying or coming to India before that. They didn't know Radhika's father and Keshav's parents.

Radhika knew Mr. Sen and Ishaan stayed alone at home most of the time. Her mother spent most of her days in America or performing shows in different places in India. Mr. Sen was the only person who was in the Arc from the beginning. So, if it's not Ishaan, then could he be involved?

But then what about a woman visiting Keshav's house before the murder? Every lead they found ended up being blurry. There were so many questions, so many doubts.

The most prominent one was; Was the killer someone presents very close to them? Someone within the Arc or someone who had a grudge against the members of the Arc??

"I hate you guys!!" Vaarsh's sharp frustrated voice interrupted Radhika's thoughts. "You knew the shop is two kilometers away but still you all sent me to bring them." He grumbled placing the drinks on the table with a thud.

He continued frowning as he took out the glasses handing them to everyone. But when he was giving it to Radhika, his fingers brushed with her making her close her eyes quickly and the next second, she screamed Keshav's name standing up and making others shocked.

"What happened?" The guys asked in unison.

"He is in d-danger..." Radhika said before running out of the café followed by Vaarsh.

"Rishav, go back to the station, we will follow them," Dhruv said before leaving with Ansh.

Radhika ran to the parking area and was about to enter her car, more like Rishav's car but realized the keys are with Rishav. Shit!! She had seen a vision. Keshav was in danger. How will she go now?

"Radhika!!" Hearing her name, she turned around to see Vaarsh on his bike. She ran up to him, quickly getting up, and gestured for him to drive out quickly.

............

Radhika got off the bike in a rush, not being able to mutter thanks to Vaarsh among the thoughts of Keshav swimming through her mind. Her hands were shaking, breath hitching as she ran up the stairs in the hotel as fast as her legs could take her.

Even waiting for the elevator was impossible for her. She can't let anything happen to Keshav. She will not be able to live if something happens to him.

Vaarsh didn't understand anything but still followed Radhika. He was in such a hurry that he bumped with someone at the end of the corridor of Keshav's room. Muttering a measly sorry, Vaarsh ran behind Radhika.

Radhika ran to Keshav's room and found the door unlocked. Thinking of her vision coming true once again, she threw open the door walking in. It was completely dark inside. She placed her hand on the wall searching for the switches as she called Keshav's name but there was no reply.

"Why is it so dark?" Vaarsh asked from behind, his breathing sounds completely hearable.

That's when Radhika found the switches and pressed on them. Both of them screeched at the very next moment.

Keshav was lying flat on the floor in a pool of blood, not moving at all.