You & Me ; Towards Our Forbidden Future

Chapter 24

They all where panicked to the core when they lost her in the busy street. Chandrashekhar and Abhishek along with their guards searched the entire street desperately for her. They almost turned the street upside down.

"Do you remember where we found her?" Chandrashekhar asked Akhila while tilting his head towards her.

"You found her. Didn't you say that she was playing with a baby in the street?"

"Two babies." Chandrashekhar interrupted her.

"Huh?" Akhila looked at him in confusion.

"She was playing with twin babies of a couple. They were only one year old or so at that time." He explained.

"The couples were waiting there with Gayathri and their kids. They knew that someone will come in search for Gayathri soon." Chandrashekhar said, the gratitude in his eyes cannot be hidden.

"It was him. The twin's father, a youngman who was only twenty-five years old, a great benefactor of our family. But he didn't accept any of our gift and said he did because he also has a daughter and knew a parent's heart."

"He pointed at a small stall like shop nearby and said, he is making all he needed there. And you knew, that shop was named "Augustine Tech". And that man was the founder of today's Augustins Group."

"I can't remember anything else about him. All I remember is their back figure, walking towards his little heaven with his one arm around his wife, and his child in one hand, and other child in his wife's arms. You know, it was one of the best scenes I had seen in my life."

Akhila was silent but whispering a thousand sincere and grateful prayers to that young man's family.

"Did you see him again?" She asked.

"No. Infact, if I have to calculate the time, after six or seven years later, when their company was slightly developing, they never appeared in public. Even though their headquarters is still here,there is not even an article about their personal life." Chandrashekhar said as he removed his glasses and put it aside.

"Maybe, he doesn't likes to be disturbed." Akhila said, and her husband nodded in agreement.

"By the way, when are we leaving?" Akhila asked excitedly as she suddenly remembered her main concern.

"Tomorrow. Abhishek will be there too." He replied.

"Hare Ram! It's been so long since I saw my kids. Thankfully my Lord Sree Ram is watching over them." Akhila said as she held her palms together in prayer.

They are going back to India to attend an important family function. Now that she is completely recovered she can stay there permanently then. Akhila was smiling ear to ear in happiness and Chandrashekhar was relieved to see her shining eyes. They were no longer weak and lifeless.

"Shekhar, this time I have so many vazhipadu* in many temples in Kerala. I must bring that brat Anil with me to complete those all!!!" Akhila said in certainty.

Chandrashekhar also nodded.

"That useless son of you is already forty-four and still doesn't even have a girlfriend!!! Is he trying to be a monk!? This time, if he doesn't find a girl himself, I will arrange one for him!" Akhila was getting excited as she said.

"You already had your grandchildren in highschool when you were his age! If he don't like girls, it's fine if it is a boy as long as they take care of each other till the end.

I can finally be relieved and go peacefully to God, if only I could see my child having a happy family..." Akhila said as she wiped her fake tears.

Chandrashekhar who was nodding in agreement for everything she said was speechless.

'Wife, Anil is not here. Why are you faking tears? Are you rehearsing?'

*Vazhipadu - offering to God