Trusting heart - ArShi - show based

17- Playing cat and mouse

The next morning, Shyam woke up at dawn and was lurking at Lisa's apartment building. He couldn't afford to let her go and tell anyone about everything he disclosed in his drunken state. He waited in his car, trying not to go back to sleep, he was hammered and his head hurt but he regained more and more of his senses. He chided himself for blurting out his plan. But Lisa wasn't a real threat according to him, merely a small thorn in his scheme. She will either accept to help him, or join his list of victims. The girl clearly didn't know what she put herself into. And he kept looking at the doors for hours, his thoughts still replaying all his plans to get Arnav Singh Raizada's money.

Lisa woke up at 8am, as per her habit on Sundays, and got ready for her morning jog. She liked to run in the morning to clear her thoughts, and keep her model figure. Little did she know that the devil from last night was waiting for her near her door. When he saw her get out, he couldn't corner her directly, as there were people around, and cameras near the building, but he decided to get out of the car and follow her on her jogging, the parks wouldn't be very crowded this early on a Sunday, especially in winter.

His condition didn't allow him to run though, so he was afraid of losing sight of Lisa, he really needed to corner her as soon as possible, he was going out of breath. And to his luck, Lisa stopped near an empty bench to stretch, he silently went behind her, making sure no one was watching, and he put his hand on her mouth. Lisa was taken aback, since she had earphones on, she didn't hear him coming. What Shyam didn't know is that Lisa took several self defense classes, because she is a woman living and traveling alone a lot. So, to his grand surprise, she elbowed him in the ribs hard enough for him to let go. She turned to face a crunched Shyam, who was out of breath due to him running earlier and her punch.

Lisa wondered if she should run, and find a way to reach ASR today, instead of waiting to meet him in his office, or if she should play Shyam's game and make him think she was on his side. But seeing as the man didn't hesitate to chase her and corner her, she quickly decided to save herself. Fortunately, all this thinking took her merely 10sc, so Shyam was still crunched, growning. So she quickly took off her earphones and ran as fast as she could until she reached a more frequented area. She didn't look back and she knew that she was safe as long as she wasn't alone. She also knew that going back home wasn't an option, so she decided to head to her friend's house, hoping she was home, since she didn't have her cell phone to call her. Fortunately, her friend lives only a few blocks away, on this side of the park, opposite to her apartment.

When she crossed the park's gate, she allowed herself to slow down and look behind, and was relieved upon not seeing Shyam, she outran him, and he had no way of knowing where she was going, or so she thought.

Unfortunately for her, Shyam did his homework when she was still asleep. He took the time to look for the details of the other four girls he met with her at the club. The task was easy thanks to his police connections and to the fact that he knew the names of the two other models. He found both their addresses, and knew that one of them lived with her sister, and the other one with a roommate. He didn't know for sure if the roommate and sister were the girl that looked like Khushi and their other friend from last night, but he had to make the guess.

Seeing Lisa run to the opposite direction of her apartment, he recalled that one of the addresses was only a few blocks in that direction. He ran to retrieve his car, and headed to the building mentioned.

Lisa arrived at her friend's address, she went into the building, using the door code, and started to knock on the door. hearing no response, she tried the knob, and realized that the door was open. She pushed it, and she had to muffle her scream with her hands at the scene in front of her. Her friend Anya and her sister Meera were both unconscious, on the floor. She didn't think for a second and went to check if they were still breathing but she felt something hit her on the back of her head, and she was immediately surrounded by darkness.