This story is a short thriller book.This revolves primarily around a girl named Aarvi Arya who is part of women's under 19 Indian cricket team but one night she suddenly disappears at MIDNIGHT under mysterious circumstances. What happened to Aarvi...
Abhijeet meets Aarvi's parents who are completely distraught by now. Dr. Arya Mehta these days try to keep himself busy so, that he don't get haunted by the memories of Aarvi's missing. He trys to keep a brave face in front of his wife Anjali but still he toofrom inside is broken . Aarvi's mum Anjali Mehta spends most of her time in Aarvi's room . She feels close to her daughter in her room. She tries to be normal and hides her remorse from her husband.She don't speak much these days and she remains quiet but the deep eye bags under her eyes says a lot. These eye bags tells that Anjali have hardly spelt nicely after Aarvi's missing.
When Abhijeet saw Aarvi's parents he promised them that they he will bring their daughter back . Being a father himself Abhijeet knew how painful it was for Aarvi's parents to live without their only daughter. Abhijeet felt a lump in his throat when he saw the couple in such a miserable condition. Looking at them he decided that he will get Aarvi back home at any cost.
After meeting Aarvi's parents Abhijeet flew to Istanbul ,Turkey with his team in search of Aarvi. Abhijeet met the police in Turkey and with their help the search for Aarvi begin. According to Anthony Aarvi was sold to an old rich man in Turkey whose address and name Anthony mentioned to Abhijeet. Police of Istanbul and Abhijeet went to the house of the old man who took Aarvi with him.When they reached his house another shock was waiting for Abhijeet.
Abhijeet's p.o.v starts....
I reached the house of old wicked man who bought Aarvi from Anthony. I wanted to smack his face as he had bought Aarvi like an object from Anthony and thinking of this heinous crime my blood was boiling because I also have a daughter who is of the same age as Aarvi.
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HUGE BUNGALOW OF THE OLD MAN
This old man owned a huge bungalowat the banks of Bosphorusriver.I thought many people might be residing inside this huge bungalow .But only a frail old woman lived here and a few servants lived in the out house of this bungalow.My eyes were searching for that old man while the turkish policeman spoke to the old woman.
I could not understand their language as they spoke turkish.But I could make out from the frail woman's gestures that shewas in deep pain as her eyes were filled tears. Then the translator from Indian embassy translated to me the conversation between old woman and the turkish policeman. Hearing the translation ground below my feet moved.
Abhijeet's p.o.v ends....
Through the translation Abhijeet got to know that this old woman was the wife of that old man who bought Aarvi from Anthony . This old man and woman went to India as part of their world tour plan. This old man whose name is Emir and his wife Ayla dreamt of going on a world tour in their retirement days . So, the couple were on a world tour since 3 years visting different places around the world . Each year for about one month they went on a vacation to their favourite destination.
FLASH BACK STARTS......
About one month ago they were off to India. They were in Agra to see magnificent Taj Mahal.They were happy and cheerful .Both were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.
After seeing Taj Mahal they decided to have dinner in a restaurant nearby . They were dinning in the restaurant where they heard a teen girl sniffing . The girl looked young . Three men were sitting with her and they were giving her glares indicating her to eat the food. The girl was adamant to not eat the food . It was visible from her face that she had cried her eyes out. Emir and Ayla saw her and instantly knew something was wrong . Then suddenly those 3 men got up and went out of the restaurant while dragging the girl by her arms along with them.Both Emir and Ayla felt bad for the girl and they decided to talk to those men who walked out of the restaurant with the girl.
As Emir and Ayla went out of the restaurant to look for those men they were thunderstruck as they saw one of the men was slapping the girl and the other two were holding the girl tightly in her place. Emir felt pity on that girl and he decided to intervene. The elderly couple asked the men what was the matter . One of the men tried to shoo the couple away but the couple threatened them to stop beating the girl or they will call the police.
On hearing the word police they panicked and one of the man showed the couple a gun to threaten them . Ayla got scared and she asked Emir to leave the place immediately but Emir was courageous and he faced those men.
Emir knew Hindi and Urdu quite well so he spoke to those men and he said" I am not scared of you! Tell me what is the matter with you ! Have you kidnapped this girl! If this is the case then I can help you people out but for God's sake leave this innocent girl."
Those goons laughed evilly and they said " We are off to sell her to a sex racket and if you want to save her then pay us the money and take her with you".
Emir paid them the money and the goons gave the girl to the couple but before leaving those men noted Emir's name , address and contact number and threatened the couple not to inform anyone as those people will keep an eye on Emir and Ayla.
On the other hand Ayla insisted Emir to take this girl to their home in Turkey . Emir was reluctant at first but then he agreed because the couple lost their 15 year old girl in a freaking drowning accident at their house pool 24 years ago. The couple was devastated after the death of their one and only beloved daughter. Ayla missed her daughter immensely but the couple were not able to adopt another child as their daughter died in their backyard pool and in the eyes of law they were not suitable for adopting a child as they were tagged as negligent parents.
The couple shifted to another house because they wanted to get away from the memories of their daughter's demise . When Ayla insisted Emir to take that young girl home , he knew that Ayla saw their own daughter in that girl. Emir knew Ayla was seeking her long lost motherhood in that girl and because of that he could not deny her. This girl whom they saved looked weary ,pale and was unable to talk . The couple took her to Turkey in their private plane. Emir had his contacts so they had no problem in taking the girl with them to Istanbul in Turkey.This girl whom the couple took with them was none other than Aarvi Arya but she was slender , pale and totally unrecognisible at that time.
After going to Istanbul Aarvi never talked to anyone . She just scribbled in her diary and never let anyone read it. It seemed like she hid pain in her heart but was not ready to share it with anyone. Emir tried to communicate to her to know about her whereabouts,her parents and her home but she became quite or sometimes even violent at the mention of her friends or her native country.
FLASH BACK ENDS....
Ayla told Police how they took Aarvi with them and how they treated her like their own daughter by calling her with their daughter's name Alara as they didn't knew her name . Aarvi became like a close shell and she never told Emir anything about her identity or anything else .
Before Ayla could tell anything further to the Turkish police officer she fainted. Abhijeet wanted to know where Emir and Aarvi was .But he had to wait until this old lady Ayla regained her conscious. Abhijeet could now understand that Aarvi's parents and this elderly couple SHARED the same ANGUISH of getting separated from their daughters respectively in different circumstances . He hoped that he would unite Aarvi with her parents soon and fulfill the promise he made to Aarvi's parents.
