Entangled {With Slaves Of Persia} (Book 2)

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Author's P.O.V continues....

'Dad I have tried Mister Rahul's number many times. All I get is the answering machine' Jason informed.

'Look Mister Wilson, I till now have no clue or any information about any kind of activities by anti social elements. Now that your guests are missing, I am sure there's someone who's either your enemy or your guest's enemy' the detective expressed his view.

'As far as I know, I have no enemies. And have no idea about Mister Rahul. Still he's in our country along with his girlfriend and want them back to their country safe and sound' Wilson said wiping his sweat even in that cold weather.

Being a very influential member of the society, Wilson personally knew many political leaders and also the head of police department. 'I want you Alex to take up the case and find them immediately' ordered the head of Police department that morning when he received a call from Wilson requesting for help. And Alex, the middle aged detective reached Wilson's office and was busy gathering all the information needed.

Opening his eyes, Rahul found himself partially naked. His shirt was taken off leaving him with just his trousers. He was hanging on to a rope that was tied up to a hook above. His wrists were tied to that rope and he could not reach the floor. Looking down the floor seemed to be a few inches below his feet and his shoes too were taken off.

He tried to turn around to check where he was. The room appeared dim with just one window to his back and a door to his front that was closed. Oh shit...Meera...where are you? The thought about her worried him much more than his present condition. He again checked the floor trying to move around a bit and saw Meera lying on the floor nearby and was still unconscious.
Thank goodness...she's safe with her clothes intact...

He tried hard to swing himself towards her while there was excruciating pain in his wrists and shoulders. He was successful and with his feet he touched her legs. 'Wake up Meera...wake up' he whispered trying not to invite those kidnappers who currently were not present in that room. He pushed her legs again and again.

'Hmm..' he heard Meera say.

'Shh...Meera don't be scared, it's me Rahul, come on get up' he again whispered. Meera opened her eyes. She was feeling too weak to get up. That chloroform dehydrated her body making her weak and thirsty.

'Sir...oh my god!' She exclaimed standing on her feet.

'Try and untie me Meera' Rahul again whispered. She tried to reach his wrists with a great difficulty. She was just about to untie when two of those masked kidnappers came into the room. Seeing them enter Meera's legs were shaking in fear and she wrapped her arms around Rahul's bare waist.

'So the bitch is up too. Move aside from that bastard, bitch' yelled one of them holding a pistol.

'Do as the man says Meera' said Rahul and Meera loosened her grip and moved aside. That man suddenly kicked Meera in her stomach so hard that she went and hit the wall close to the window and was unconscious again.

'Why did you hurt her you bastard? She's no harm to you' yelled Rahul at the kidnappers.

'Oooh our hero is hurt....listen you rich bastard' said the kidnapper holding Rahul's chin and continued 'listen hero, if you don't do as I say, then you'll see your girlfriend raped in front of your eyes by us all. I'm sure you won't want that to happen to her, right?'

'You morons...come on tell me what do you want?' Rahul was angry but was incapable to protect himself and Meera too. With no option left he had to agree to do what those kidnappers wanted.

'Okay' said the kidnapper leaving Rahul's chin. He spoke with the other kidnapper in their native language that Rahul could not understand. Within a minute he held a phone and asked 'What's your folks number?'

Rahul convinced himself and worded the number.
'Hello, speak with your son' said the kidnapper and held the phone near Rahul's ear.

'Hello Rahul is that you?' Questioned Vikram when he saw a new number.

'Dad listen to me first. After I speak, a man will speak with you and do whatever he asks' Rahul said.

'What are you saying Rahul?' Vikram could not understand what he heard. He never imagined that his son would be kidnapped.

'Listen old man. Your son and his girlfriend are kidnapped. If you want them to be back, alive, then transfer fifty million pounds to our account, I'll send you the details of that account in my next call, meanwhile you arrange for the money! And...and I warn you-no contacting with the police!!' said the kidnapper and hung up. He was pretty confident that nobody would catch them.

'Hello. Who's this?' Vikram tried to find out but was too late.

'Vinay..call the police' said Vikram very nervously.

'Mister Wilson, could you please come to the St Mary's Hospital, I need you to identify a body' said the detective Alex over the phone.

'Yes detective, I'll be there in few minutes' said Wilson and hung up his landline 'Jason we need to go to the hospital'

Wilson and Jason drove to the St Mary's hospital in fifteen minutes that afternoon. Reaching the lounge of that hospital they both met Alex.

'Come with me Mister Wilson' said Alex and walked towards the mortuary that was situated in the basement 'we found this body in a dumpster far away from his home at an isolated place' said Alex showing them the body.

'He's Orlando. Oh god' said Wilson covering his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and was shaken looking at Orlando's lifeless body with his throat slit. Jason caught hold of his father and took him out of the mortuary.

'We have some unconfirmed information that there has been this plan going on to kidnap your guest right from the time you have decided to collaborate with his company. I even have some information that the owners of those tiny accommodations in which all the wokers at your diamond extraction site stay, are behind this' informed Alex.

'Then why are you wasting time here. Just go and arrest them' said Jason very emotionally.

'See Mister Jason all the information I shared is still unconfirmed, when I gather sufficient proof then the next thing is to arrest them. You know I am equally eager to catch them as you are' Alex said 'But without any sufficient proof we can do nothing'

'You already have the proof. The dead body lying there, isn't it sufficient?' Jason argued.

Alex tried and convinced Jason that he was working hard to gather proof and find out where Rahul and Meera were.

'What do you think is their motivate and do you suspect any employee at my office?' Questioned Wilson who was back to normalcy but was still seated outside the mortuary.

'The motive Mister Wilson is very clear and simple. You wished to give your workers good homes to live in at cheaper costs while those workers are paying half their wages as rent to those owners who own the accommodations and if the apartments are built then they will no longer be able to earn' Alex said.

'That makes some sense. And so they have planned to scarp this project of mine completely' Wilson said.

'That's absolutely right and coming back to your employees, I surely suspect that this is an insider's job. Without whom how would they know who's coming to meet you, where your guests are gonna stay etc. .etc. It's the work of a newly formed owners mafia, we still do not know who all are part of this gang' Alex added.

'We need to find that person who's passing on the information to that mafia. I will try and catch that person dad' Jason reacted.

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