"HOLD HIM!"
Vivaan and his team entered the spot right then and caught hold of the knife, while Imli looked shell shocked seeing Suraj present in the room, opening the ropes that were tied around Chakor's wrists.
As the Team finally disappeared with the culprit, leaving only four people behind in the room, namely, Chakor, Suraj, Imli, and Vivaan, everyone felt the webs of deafening silence haunt them, except Suraj of course, because he only had a blank expression on his face, while Chakor looked at him intently, waiting for him to say something.
The other duo could already anticipate the impending burst of a time-bomb as the silent Suraj Rajvanshi, in all aspects screamed only ONE word, and that was DISASTER!
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Chakor gulped in horror as he was Suraj all deadly silent and still, and as soon as her hands were finally untied, she mustered all the courage in the world to utter a few words to her apparently callous husband, but she stuttered, as she tried,
"I..I..So...I was wrong after all, huh? You were right! It wasn't...Wasn't the Zodiac Killer!"
She tried so hard to plaster a smile to pretend like everything was all right but failed miserably as Suraj shot daggers from his eyes at her, making her feel far too vulnerable and both Imli and Vivaan helplessly watched her plight.
As a matter of fact, even they couldn't utter a word seeing the spooky, silent, Rajvanshi.
" Suraj.."
Chakor uttered his name with a shot of sincerity and that's when he looked at her again, this time a little softly, and keeping that as an anchor, Chakor tried to be brave and uttered,
"Will you not speak anything?"
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Suraj got up and gave Chakor his hand to help her stand, yet he didn't speak anything, and that for Chakor, was the end of her patience.
She couldn't control the tear escape her eye as she averred again,
" Suraj?"
And finally, the man who everybody had their eyes on spoke, in a voice barely audible, but the magnitude of it was enough to scare the wits out of everyone.
"If I was late even by a SECOND, do you realize what could have happened?"
Chakor lowered her head, shuddering even at the thought of the possibility which would have very well become a living reality had her husband not reached the spot on time.
She knew he had every damn right to be angry with her, but how could she tell him that all she was craving for at this moment was the warmth of his arms, the peace of his embrace.
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Suraj Rajvanshi on the other hand could take anything and everything in the world, except seeing her sad face, and the moment he saw her tears, it was his undoing.
He needed to really, really chastise her for her so-called bravery and taking everything in this case so trivially, wherein she crossed all extents of sheer stupidity and would have gotten herself raped as well as killed.
Even the thought of that scenario pulled him back to the dark zones in his head, where he didn't want to wander, because come what may, he would always rip anyone limb to limb, whoever dared to even lay their eyes on his wife.
And so, he straightened himself and with a stern expression, pulled Chakor closer to him by her waist, his fingers digging into her skin possessively yet protectively, while she held on to him for support, and when she thought it would get better now, she heard him warn,
"Wait till we go home, Mrs. Rajvanshi. You have some serious explaining to do and need to be taught some lessons tonight."
She gulped.
Vivaan and Imli looked at each other awkwardly, not entirely sure how to cool down the situation between the much in love yet at loggerheads couple.
Chakor knew that tonight she wasn't going to be spared and so the next best thing she thought of was pulling another stunt and hence, she faked an enthusiastic tone, looking at Vivaan and Imli as she said,
"You guys! Why don't you come to our place tonight? We can have the ritualistic case-closing pizza party tonight itself instead of office tomorrow, right?"
She was not in her senses, else she would have been herself shocked to see how insanely childish she sounded when she said that, and before she could even wait to hear a response from the other duo, Suraj swiped her off her feet, picking her in his arms at one go, while she struggled to get down, but his clutch was way too tight for her to escape, and Vivaan and Imli couldn't help but laugh at that sight despite the palpable situation.
"Suraj, get me down! SURAJ! I swear I am going to scream!"
"As if that's going to stop me!"
"STOP AND TAKE A SECOND!"
"NOR GOING TO STOP AND NEITHER GOING TO TAKE A SECOND!"
"WHAT? Are you crazy?!"
"YES! YOU have made me CRAZY! So just SHUT UP!"
And saying that he disappeared carrying damsel in distress, aka his wife, while all Imli and Vivaan could do was laugh like crazy.
THE END!
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