Mumbai Noir

16

I yet again visit Mrs. Kapoor house, she opens the door and again the workers leave, she asks me to come inside and talk to her.

"This isn't going to work, Sanaya Kapoor," I said, addressing her for the first time by her name and not only Mrs. Kapoor.

"What? You don't want to find out about my daughter," she said, nearly shocked.

"Not about that, but the relation we are making, it is not okay, either now it should be professional or the other way around,"

"I can't understand what you are trying to explain me,"

"Sanaya, this isn't a joke, you try to come closer to me and then leave me like I am nothing, of you want to be like that, it's okay I will be like that and work professional but you have to stop with seducing me," I said.

"So you think I was seducing you?"

"I know it, I am a detective, I want to work hard on this missing girl case, I was bored with doing all this cheating cases, I don't want to ruin my life with this one,"

"So you don't want to hold my hand and be closer to me in this hard times?" She said and came closer to me yet again.

"You need to decide," I said.

"So...let it be the other way around," she said and kissed me, I kissed her back, as our lips touched there was butterflies in my stomach, a warm feeling inside me, we went to the bedroom and made love, I could see her the whole day, the beauty she was, we kept kissing even after making love, it seemed I was addicted to her, as we stopped kissing, she looked at me and smiled.

"What have we done?" She giggled.

"Never seen you smiling in all this days, I am grateful to have made you smile," I said and gave her a kiss.

"Kiss me again," she said.

The next day I again went to the house, we again made love and kissed for a long time, it felt like a dream making love to her, it felt like a whole world will collapse, had I fallen in love? Then days passed by like this and she then started giving me the clothes she wore when we made love and said "I want you to remember me the whole day, take it," I wouldn't have asked for anything less, things were going good but then one day she didn't let the workers go out and stayed in the building, she again came close to me and as always I started to take her saree off but then she stopped me, told me that it was wrong.

"We shouldn't be doing this, this is going off track, I have made a huge mistake," she said and left.

"But wasn't this the same tactic you would use on other men?" I said. She seemed shocked.

"What are you talking about? You men come close to me, make love to me and then accuse me for everything?"

"I thought this was the only way you could fool anyone, isn't it?"

"Ragu or Vikram whatever your real name is, listen to me you are here to find my daughter and not anything else, consider this just as fees," she said, irritated.

"So you even gave the same fees to Verma to handle your daughter well?" I said, her tears stopped, her anger was gone.

"It wasn't a thing, he was just flirting with me," she said.

"I don't think so, because you used the same things as you used with him, come closer and closer and then make love and then try to again go away,"

"So you want a married women to cheat? You are believing in that moron?"

"No, actually I am believing in your.... daughter, she had to say something to us," I said and it seemed everything just stopped over there.