The Pearl Necklace

Part 2

"Raju, she is moving. Bring the chloroform", Ashraf said.

It was quite hot and dark in the empty warehouse where Raju and Ashraf had kept, the so called "kidnapped", Richa. They were using chloroform every 2-3 hours on Richa so she would remain sleeping the whole time.

Richa was a tough girl to control. She was 16 years old. Strong and rough. If Raju and Ashraf missed giving her chloroform on time, she would start screaming. She was keeping them on their toes.

It had been 3 days since she was kidnapped and held in this warehouse. She knew why, the hired kidnappers didn't.

Raju opened the yellow bag pack in which they had kept all the necessary equipments and other things. He searched everywhere inside but couldn't find it.

"Ash-sh-shraf, it is n-n-not h-here", Raju stammered. Ashraf seemed puzzled. He also searched the bag pack, but in vain. Suddenly he remembered.

"Ohhh yes, I threw the bottle yesterday, there was no chloroform left. Take the other bottle out from that black bag in the car", he instructed Raju.

Raju stood up and walked a few steps towards their white Tata Sumo. He pushed the handle of the back door of the car to open it. But the door didn't open. He tried harder. Nothing happened.

"Ashra-af, this door is l-l-locked ag-g-gain", he shouted.

"Ohhh God, that door. After this mess is over, I will sell off this huge, useless car", he said in anger.

He went near the Tata Sumo and tried to open the back door.

Meanwhile because of all the shouting and noise, Richa woke up. Her head was paining very much. She moaned in pain. Her neck was drying up.

"Water", she said.

"Water", she shouted.

Ashraf turned towards Richa and panicked. "Shitt, this loudspeaker is awake", he said.

"I'll give h-her w-w-water. Y-you o-o-open the door and g—get the chlo-lo-lo-form", Raju said.

Ashraf nodded.

Raju went back and opened a bottle full of water. He lifted Richa's head and helped her drink it. Richa wanted to hold the bottle and finish it, all at once. But her hands were tied. Literally tied.

After drinking about half a bottle of water, she lay on the ground. She was not able to gather her thoughts properly. She was tossing left and right, trying to calm herself down.

The last thing she perfectly remembered was being caught while she was running and forcefully bought over here.

She was tired, exhausted, in pain. It was getting difficult for her to hold her eyes up. They were paining so badly. She closed them.

Ashraf still couldn't open the back door. So, he opened the rear side door and went inside to get the chloroform.

He came back with chloroform bottle in his hand. He handed it to Raju.

"S-s-she is asleep. W-w-will g-give it l-l-ater", he said. Raju took the bottle and kept it inside his yellow bag pack.

Ashraf wanted to resist and not take any risk. But he just let it go.

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*Tring-tring* The intercom phone rang.

Shumona was busy doing her favorite activity, nothing.