CHAPTER 37
Rubina arrived from her meeting and found Sunil .......in the hall..watching Reshma.....play snakes and ladders.......good god. she .thought...snakes and ladders.....really.......it was such an ancient game.....
'' i will be back in two days,....' i want you to take care of business Sunil.......she said
'' i will..... replied Sunil..............eyes still on Reshma............he had laid out his plan........and was waiting for the right moment.......Raghav was away so there shouldn't be any problem....so he thought......
'' krish ....was near the door.........looking out..........
Rubina came downstairs.....a maid behind her........carrying her luggage,
after she left the house.....Sunil stretched and went up to his room,........Krish watched him go.....he checked on all the doors and windows .....took a cup of tea for himself..when his phone rang,,,,
"'hello.........was the only word that Krish spoke......when something hard landed on his head.......before he closed his eyes... Krish saw Sunil's face ....he was laughing''
Reshma.....wondered what took krish so long. , even the maids were not to be seen......she slowly peeped outside Sanjana's room.....there was no sign of anyone.....holding the little girl's hand.....she walked out slowly......it was then she saw krish staggering at the foot of the stairs,,, the side of his face....covered in blood,,,
'' run Reshma..quick.......hide...Sunil is coming for you...go ' hurry.,,,take baby with you,,,..Reshma was in a state of shock..........
mummy ,mummy.....uncle krish is hurt.......Sanjana began to cry....
'' shhhh...''.....Reshma hushed Sanjana....and froze when she saw Sunil..hit Krish....and dragged him to the kitchen..........
Reshma felt her body shiver......she held onto Sanjana and ran back to Sanjana's room,,,,it was too late... Sunil was coming upstairs.....'' Sanjana......tugged at Reshma's skirt.....'' ...mummy mummy..........daddy's room.........she said almost in a whisper......she knew something was wrong
'' Reshma hurried outside and remembered....the keys in her pocket......she took it and raced to Raghav' Gupta's room and unlocked it ,,, pushing sanjana quickly into it and locked the room and hid behind the bed..the room was dark,,,,, Reshma fumbled in the dark........hit her foot on the bed ......and winced in pain..........'' mummy....are you hurt...Sanjana whispered.....and hugged Reshma....
there was a heavy thud on the door.......Reshma moved further down under the bed.......her feet accidently touched the side table lamp switch.........the wires entangled on her toes..and pushed the lamp off the table......causing it to fall and rock back and forth... ..the light showed a huge photo on the wall..'' the photo of a girl ..whose face was illuminated by candles..
Reshma....stared at it....both her hands cupped her own face...from under the bed.............''..the door swung open.....suddenly causing Reshma to move back...the lamp rocking on the floor got stuck.......and the room was plunged in darkness..''
'' a hand grabbed hers and dragged her out......'
"'ah come my sweet.....Sunil rasped and pulled Reshma towards him...
"' let me go......Reshma screamed... Sanjan began to cry.......
Come.........'' Sunil dragged a frightened Reshma to the front door..a land rover was parked outside......... Sunil tied Reshma's hand and carried her and dumped her into the back of the land rover.....''
'' mummy.....mummy...screamed Sanjana........Sunil was like a mad man....he shoved Sanjana away from him...and jumped into the land rover and drove away.......
Sanjana fell ....on the drive way....but managed to run into the house.....to the kitchen....she had witnessed the horrific deed of her Uncle Sunil........dragging Krish after hitting him..'
"' uncle krish..uncle krish.........'' she cried but there was no answer from him.... Sanjana sat on the floor beside....The motionless krish..
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Raghav drove like mad to the house ..followed by Raj kishen and sheila............the cut on the his head was quite deep......it bled on but Raghav couldn't care less about it..as he drove,,he could think only of kalpana...'
the car stopped with a screetch......... Raghav rushed out..'' kalpana.....'' kalpana......where are you.? .Raghav ran to the dining room....no one was there........'' kalpana... he called out ...Raghav rushed out to the hall.....'' kalpana...........''''Krish.... Raghav called out...Krish had answered his phone
call but the line got cut off with just a hello........
" Krish.......' where was everyone..?.. Raghav was about to go upstairs.....when he spotted blood on the floor,......it was still fresh...he followed the trail of blood and to his horror he found his faithfull chaeuffer and friend lying in a pool of blood and his daughter
Sanjana....huddled beside krish....' Sanjana looked up and cried and Raghav rushed to her''
Daddy daddy.....uncle Sunil is bad,,he hit uncle krish and took mummy away...
Raghav hugged Sanjana as she wept,,.. '' i will kill you Sunil.....Raghav was mad with anger...''
Raghav sir...........is everthing ok.......Raj kishen asked......''
'' No "' ... call the ambulance and the police...''Raghav shouted..and knelt on the floor and checked Krish's Pulse......it was beating..Krish was alive but bleeding......
'' Sheila was shaken by what she saw.....'' Raj Kishen told her gently to look for the servants........ sheila got to her feet and searched and
found the servants all tied up...they looked as though they had been drugged .........Raghav rushed to the storeroom and helped to untie the servants....and went out to the back yard,,the night guard and security personnel suffered the same fate..they were all drowsy.......'' within the next half hour.....the police arrived ......the paramedics treated....the servants..and got krish onto the stretcher and got him into the ambulance''
'' krish opened his eyes.....''for a few minutes and saw Raghav
' ' I am sorry Raghav sir i couldn't protect Miss Reshma....he said with difficulty....and held Raghav's hand''
"Kalpana ..krish,,she is kalpana....,,'' Raghav rasped......krish smilled weakly through his pain,,then closed his eyes.....the ambulance drove away ... the siren ....causing a stir among the residents close by......
Rubina who was on her way to the airport stopped the car and told the driver to turn back and follow the red landrover speeding on the right lane...... Rubina thought she had seen Reshma in the landrover driven by her son Sunil'' what are you up to Sunil ? ..i will put an.. end to everthing tonight Sunil.'.....thought Rubina..she had hated kalpana and now this Reshma who looked like kalpana has come to disrupt her life..once again.............'' driver faster '' Rubina instructed her driver and searched under her seat,,,,the gun was loaded.....
Raghav made sure.....police were in the house,,,,,for protection....leaving sanjana in Raj Kishen and his wife's care in his mother's house....... Raghav left in a hurry..with police patrol..following him.........he tried to think hard..on where Sunil could have abducted kalpana to...........tears began to fall............To be continued..................Evelyn
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