Affair Of The Heart

Chapter - 27

Author's POV
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There was thick silence inside of car. Hardik keep driving for almost 4 hours, non stop, Afraid of causing more delay. he was feeling so anxious for Ishan's safety.

But Shubman was looking normal, not a in good way. He seems emotionless and a dark aura was surrounding him.

"We are here..." Hardik announced breaking the silence.

Shubman looked around his surrounding, they have left colaba depot few kilometres behind, right now they are at a abandoned area.

"From here we have to look for ishan ourselves...I feel they must be near, if we search carefully, we can find ishan..." Hardik continued.

Shubman nodded and opened the glove compartment of his car, there was a gun inside, he take it. Hardik stare at him in shock.

"What bhaiya? I'm a famous businessman, it's for safety purpose and I have license too..." Shubman said while closing the compartment.

Hardik nodded at his words and raised his shirt to take out his gun too, which he had tugged in pant.

He is a detective so it's nothing strange. Hardik aways carry a gun with himself all the time.

"Let's split...and no matter stay on the call..." Shubman instructed

Both of them had bluetooth plugged in their ear, so that they could talk to each other.

Hardik gave him a firm nod as Both of them get down from the car.

They shared a look before going in different directions. Shubman went in left while hardik in right.

Shubman looked up at the sky and stare at the orange hue, indicating it's already Evening.

He clenched the gun in his hand, he have to hurry and find ishan as soon as possible.

"Just be safe ish..." He muttered under his breath as he continue walking.

Even after walking continuously for more than 30 minutes, Shubman didn't find anything suspicious or any place where those people could have kept ishan.

The corner of his eyes has turned slightly red, he is finding it hard to control the urge of bursting in tears. He is feeling utterly helpless right now.

"Where are you? Why can't I find you, baby?! I'm feeling so lost without you, I can't breathe, I can't think...please come back to me ish...please..."

His voice was filled with longing and desperation.

Deep down he was blaming himself. He should have stayed more alert about that bastard. It's his fault that he underestimated that varun Malhotra.

On the other side, Hardik who can clearly hear Shubman's desperate cry, felt so bad for him. The last he was this miserable was when his mother died, hardik was 10 years old that time.

"Shubman please pull yourself together...We must stay focused..." Hardik reminded him through bluetooth.

"I'm trying bhaiya, i'm trying but it's just so hard...w-what if something happened to My ish?..." Shubman was sounding so scared as he mind filled with worst possibilities.

"Fuck-nothing will happen to him okay? We will find him...I trust you, Shubman you can find him...just control your emotions..." Hardik immediately tried to reason with him.

As if hardik words snapped something inside him. His eyes were filled sudden determination.

"You are right bhaiya...did you find anything there?" He asked, a little hope evident in his voice.