"Where were you on friday?"
"I was in Mumbai"
"What were you doing in Mumbai?"
"Getting married"
"What is your wife's name?"
"Swara"
"What does your wife do?"
"She is a music teacher and also works at a party management company".
"So you were in Mumbai getting married with your whole family here in Kolkata? When your brother's wife went missing?"
"I did not know she was missing".
"But.."
"Sir!"
Both Sanskar and the inspector looked up as another police officer entered the room. "Sir Ragini Laksh Maheshwari took back the complaint".
Inspector frowned hearing it and muttered, "Saara time waste kardiya (Wasted all our time) I already had an intuition hearing her story that he might not be the culprit. Who openly tells their name while kidnapping? We listened to her words and did all the formalities only for her to take back the complaint".
Sanskar gulped as the officers asked him to leave. He walked out to see Arjun waiting for him and left with him silently.
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Sujata smiled with tears seeing her son at the entrance, her legs moved but she stopped seeing Swara running to her son.
Everyone stood frozen seeing Swara hugging Sanskar tightly. Sanskar hugged Swara back with tears pooling his eyes.
Swara broke the hug and caressed his face. Her voice choked as she murmured, "tum.. tum theek tho ho? Oh my god", she immediately hugged him again.
Laksh closed his fist in anger, the slightest of his hopes vanishing away. Realization hitting him that Swara loved Sanskar and was probably still married to him. So they never got divorce? Did Sanskar lie to everyone when he said he and Swara were divorced?
Ragini walked out of her room, she saw Laksh looking at Swara and Sanskar angrily. She smiled sadly as even her tiniest hope died. So it was Laksh who kidnapped her.
Ragini descended the stairs. Swara broke the hug seeing Ragini. Sujata moved to Sanskar and engulfed him in a hug. Millions of questions in her mind but she first wanted to give peace to her heart that her son was home and fine.
"Care to explain Swara?" Shekhar said angrily and Swara sighed. "We will talk tomorrow Baba, it is late", she said politely.
"It was not late when you came here all the way from Mumbai? It was not late when you blackmailed us to take the complaint back?" he shouted feeling furious.
Sanskar blinked his eyes confused. Swara blackmailed? His head started spinning with the information.
Ragini silently walked to Laksh, everyone were focused on Swara expecting answers and all jerked as Ragini slapped Laksh.
"Ragini!" Annapurna screamed coming near them. "He is the one who kidnapped me", Ragini screamed with tears.
"Lo first my son kidnapped her now Laksh kidnapped her. Why doesn't she just say she kidnapped herself?", Sujata said sarcastically.
"Are you out of your mind Ragini?" Annapurna asked sternly.
Ragini cried as she held Laksh's collars. "You would have killed me if I didn't run away, you.. you how could you?"
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Almost Fireworks, Almost Darkness
Fanfiction"Stop playing with me!" he said trapping her between him and the wall. "Sanskar?" she gasped in shock by his behavior. "You love me, don't you?" and everything froze when he hissed those words angrily on her face. She couldn't speak, she couldn't br...
