Mumbai Noir

17

I told her that before we took Raj to custody, he told that he wanted to meet his mom, she was very ill, he would tell her sorry and would come back, Patil was hesitant for it but I said yes and told that Patil should follow him, Raj went to this old mansion and opened the door while looking here and there, Patil the tugged himself in the house and heard a voice “Raj please don't, please don't do it,” 

Patil knew he found her,  he found Ayushi, he took his gun and went into the room and put the gun to Raj's head on Raj and told him to tell the truth. 

“Mrs. Kapoor told me to do it, she blackmailed me with my stalking, she was caught cheating on Mr.Kapoor with Verma, Ayushi caught them and wanted to tell the truth, she said that I could use her, she is the one who told me tk wear this blac,k court and visit Tejas snd threaten him and just take Ayushi and leave her back home, just sk there was some mystery in the case, she told me to threaten Ayushi and tell her not to tell about the cheating of her mother, but she didn't buy it and her mother did plan B” he said and cried.

Patil slapped hard across his face.

“Sir, arrest him. He touched me at…inappropriate place and also kissed me forcefully…sir….” She broke down and cried, Patil hugged Ayushi and called the woman constable and told Ayushi to a safe custody.

“I am sorry, sir, I am really sorry,” Raj said.

“Can't respect a woman, and you call yourself a human?” Patil again slapped him.

Then Mr. Kapoor was called, and he met with his daughter and hugged her, and had an emotional moment with her. Both cried, and Vikram told “I will never leave you alone again,”

Mrs. Kapoor's face fell as I said all of this truth. She had no choice left. Then I continued and said Mr. Kapoor told me and recorded his statement.

“I am sorry, I didn't tell the truth but fuck that, I am taking all of this tress out of my mind, so the truth is that Ayushi is not Sanaya child, I once went on a business trip and got fond with a girl while I was married with Sanaya, that girl and I made love one night and next day I left back home and I thought everything was over but then one month later she called and said that she was pregnant and when I said this to Sanaya, she said that she won't tell it to anybody but I have to follow her instructions so as to not make my reputation fall, I thought she loved the baby girl but I think I was wrong, she told me to not take the security on birthday so Ayushi could have woke family time, she told me to look uninterested so you guys won't know that the baby was not her, I think she just made me lie, she cheated on me, made my daughter suffer,” he broke down and cried, 

Mrs. Kapoor said “He just wants sympathy now, this man never gave time to his own daughter, never tried to give me some time, what should I have done, he caught me with Ranjan but when he caught us he was flirting with me so he was expelled, I wanted love I found it in Verma, I wanted to divorce Vikram but Ayushi caught us and I didn't wanted this divorce to be dirty, I thought that I will keep Ayushi kidnapped and then be a messiah and let her out and make her forget all of it by Raj asked for more and more days and that's when I decided to have a affair with you so you feel distracted by this all, but you did the exact opposite,” 

“Let me tell you, I once had feelings but when I got to know that you were going the same way as you did with Verma I got to know the plan and Raj became our trump card to this case,” 

“So you indeed loved me,” 

“You can't distract me now, miss,” I said and opened the door of her house, and the female constable came and arrested her. 

“This was a turn I didn't expect this case to be,” Patil said as we had tea, we were sitting in his office, satisfied by solving the case. 

“Even I didn't, she made one blunder and got caught,” 

“She is beautiful, isn't she?” He said. 

“Yeah, I mean, she was,” I said and blushed a little. 

“There is someone to meet you,” a constable came and said to me. As I went outside to see, it was my mother and my ex. 

“She brought me here, Aditya,” 

“His name is Vikram,” Maya said. 

“You told her a lie?” My mom was the only one who knew my real name. 

“Even she did,” I said. 

“What? Don't fight over here now, let's go home, give your mother a cup of tea,” my mom said and started walking toward the taxi. 

“I am sorry, It wasn't even anything, I didn't want to cheat on you, I love you…Aditya,” Maya said. 

“Okay let's have tea with my mother,” 

“That means you accept me again?” she said and came to hug me. 

“Don't lie to Aditya, you lied to Vikram, it was okay,” I said and laughed as we hugged. 

“So what case did you just solve?” She asked. 

I thought I could say I finally solved a missing girl case, but in the end, it was yet again “Was a cheating case,” 

“You need to now have some murder mystery,” she said and smiled. 

“I hope,” 

“Can you people come to the taxi and let this old mother have some tea?” My mother said, and both of us laughed and walked over to the taxi.