Redamancy

The Chase Part 1

30 mins later Khushi's phone vibrated woth an incoming call...She was sitting with her hamd wrapped around her phone tightly so it took her a split second to receive the call ..
"Khushiji.... is Arnav with you?"...
Khushi gulped and looked at Arnav...
He gestured to her what to say....
"No, he is in the hall and I am upstairs in the room...I am not going to tell him anything...please do not hurt my bauji or Anjaliji....please Shyamji...I will do what you say..." She clenched her jaws clamping down on her molars while she uttered his name...it felt like blasphemy to her own ears...like a curse word...

"I won't Khushiji...if you don't give me a reason to hurt them why would I?..Afterall your bauji is like a father to me too...Do you have the things I asked ypu to bring me?"
Khushi looked at the stack of currency and jewellery that Arnav and Khushi had taken out from Anjali's safe themselves...
"I have..."
Shyam didn't speak for the next 30 seconds while Khushi tensed...he was a vile man but his brain worked really well in criminal matters .. that's how he had been able to fool all of them for auch a long time...

"Khushiji," he said slowly... "you seem too compliant... don't try any tricks with me or you will be veeery sorry...."

Her hands turned clammy at that threat...

"Shyamji, my bauji needs his medicines...he can't go too long without them...please take whatever you want and just release them..."

"Whatever I want??" He asked, his lascivious tone not lost on Khushi...

Arnav could barely contain the rage coursing through him...he could very well understand what was going on in Shyam's dirty mind while he spoke to Khushi...
And then he looked at Khushi and her hapless countenance made his heart twist..

Arnav closed his eyes as he saw the naked worry lining Khushi's voice...He knew what Shashi Gupta meant to Khushi... he'd move mountains to get her what she wanted...and now he was so helpless all because of that one mistake by his sister...

"Khushiji, come to Sector 8, Woodhouse Estate...its an abandoned set of buildings...do not....i repeat Khushiji...do not bring anyone with you and do not inform the police...i hope our phones are not being tapped, if i go down, i am taking these two with me!" He nudged the two captives on the ground with his shoes! And you'll regret it for the rest of your life....."

Khushi looked at Arnav, tears scalding her eyes while a niggling whisper pulsated through her...

"Was it right to inform Arnav beforehand?.."

Arnav texted his friend and after a while he signalled her to hang up... She held on because he was on the other side still on the phone...

"Hum aapse bohut mohabbat karte hai khushiji...hamesha se, jab se aap ko arnav ke sharyantra se bachaya thha unn gundo se aap ke liye ladkar."

He gestured her to come with him...he had already apprised his family members and now they walked out, Arnav determined to finish this cat and mouse game once and for all.