Her Helpmate

30. An open Challange!

Shaurya POV:

 I scanned my wife's face. She appeared happy. I pulled her closer. Instead of pushing or yelling at me, she rested her head against my chest. 

"Thank you for this, minaret," She added.

I pecked at top of her head and then glanced at Papi. He winked at me. 

"Ok, you both go and take bath, we will have dinner. And not in your room, fresh up in separate rooms on the ground floor.  Enter from the backyard."

"Ok, Papi!" we both replied in unison. 

While having dinner, Saira asked Papi, "I hadn't confirmed yet, what to wear for tomorrow's reception!"

"Well, I have already decided and that's a surprise," Papi informed. 

"Where are we going to organize the party?"

"In the garden!"

After dinner, we went to our room. Saira as usual lay on another end of the bed like last night. I moved to the center and tapped on the place beside me, "come to me!"

 "No minaret!"

"Please, Baby bear!" 

She sighed and moved near to me, maintaining a two-inch distance between us. I rest my hand upon her belly. She rose her brow. "I will be within my limits," I assured her.

What will happen if a rat and a cat are sleeping on the same bed? Can a cat control himself without eating a rat?

But I wanted only one kiss. Deliberately I massaged her belly. "Minaret!" Her warning halted my moments. After a minute, she spoke again, "I am sorry for last night's words. I shouldn't have said that, about getting wet."

"Hmm..." she acts really immature sometimes. Whatever she is my Baby Bear. "Ok. Apologies accepted. So should I finish what I halted last night?"

"Go. To. Hell" She pushed me away and turned her back to face me. I hugged her from behind and drifted into my thoughts.  

I wanted to stay with her and enjoy every moment with her but unfortunately, I had to leave her alone, this morning, when I received a text message from Veer stating: You received a gift package in the Circuit Mall's reception from Saira's kidnapper. Then, I had to travel to the mall immediately.

I opened the box and saw a white mask, the exact one, which her kidnapper wore on the day he tried to burn Saira alive on the night of her brother's engagement. After reading his note, I reached my wit's end. He gave me an open challenge to find him in two weeks, if I was unsuccessful, he is gonna kill my bear.

The next morning, I woke up before Saira. I had to leave her even this morning, as I have left with thirteen days only. It's making my blood run cold. 

Eventually, Papi got succeeded to let out the date of the incident from Saira's mouth.  It happened on 28 November 2021. As soon as I reached the Mall the next morning, I asked the IT Department to find the CCTV footage of that day.

After an hour, one of the employees stepped into my office and replied, "we don't have any data of that day in our system, Junior!"

"How the hell can this be possible?" 

"It seems like someone deleted only that day's footage!"

"Someone is hacking our systems and deleting the data and you all are seating hand-on-hand?" I shouted at him. All he did was bend his head and listen to me.

"I want the footage of twenty-eight November 2021! Did you get me?" Watching my temper, he nodded his head, obediently. 

"Shaurya!" Veer forwarded a glass of lemonade. "You need to calm down!"