54. The End

Atharva's POV

I got a call from Prem which interrupted me from searching for the source of the voice.

"Hello," I said in a hoarse voice.

"We have caught the driver of the car" he informed me.

"Good, you know where you have to take him. Take him there. I will join you after some time" I said and cut the call.

Although I wanted to rip the throat of that person this second but for now I have to go to my butterfly. I left the temple for the hospital.

I looked at her from outside. Doctors were doing their work. She was still looking lifeless and was not responding to the treatment in any way.

How happy she was for the day out but who knew that the day was going to be in this way.

The girl who came as a light in my dark world is herself lying in the darkness. The girl who taught me how to live life is struggling for her life.

She is facing all this because of me. I am responsible for her condition. This is me who dragged her in my life.

The ratings of the ventilator were going down and the tension of the doctors was increasing second by second.

'You promised me butterfly that you will never leave me alone. You will always be there for me. You remember your promise na'

I said this because I know she can hear the voice of my heart. She understands me more than I understand myself. There is no need for words to talk with each other.

And for a miracle, the pace of her heartbeat immediately increased and the doctors got excited. They picked up there speed too.

I cannot stand it anymore. I moved from there and started to roam back and forth. After around half an hour doctor came out.

"What happened? Is she fine now?"

"Yes, she is out of danger"

I released a breath that I don't know for how long I was holding.

"Thank You"

I thanked the doctor for saving my butterfly's life.

"But," he said sadly.

"But, what?"

"She is in a coma. And we can not say how much time she will take to come out of it. It can be a day, one week, one month, one year, or forever. But have faith in God, everything will be alright."

Coma? Forever?

I felt like someone has snatched everything from me. My feet moved towards my butterfly.

Her eyes were close. She was sleeping silently. I haven't seen her so silent in my life. She was always so energetic, so full of life. She can never even sit silently. She always keeps moving her hand or her leg, which somewhat was irritating for me. And now look at her she is lying still. Her lips were white and there were scars on the delicate skin of her beautiful face.

I took her hand in mine in a hope that she will also hold mine like she always does but she didn't. Her hands feel so cold. I kissed the back of her fingers. I remember how her body used to shiver whenever I touch her. But now she is not responding to my touches and kisses in any way.

"I want to take her back home," I said to the doctor.

"But sir, we cannot discharge her so early. She still needs care and treatment"

"Ok, send your staff to my home for her care. But I cannot leave her here" I said

I cannot leave her in the hospital because I cannot trust anyone anymore now. I will keep on changing the staff every week.

They arranged for her discharge and I took her to our home and made her lie on our bed where she meant to. Madhu Aunty got panicked at first but then recomposed herself. I asked her to look after my butterfly and the staff as I have to go for a very important work. At this time I can only trust her.

I left the mansion after making sure that she was sleeping peacefully and safely.

I reached my destination within no time. Prem and one of my men were already present there.

"Where is he?"

He opened the gate of the room. There he was sitting in the middle of the darkroom all tied up to a chair. I entered the room and sit on a chair in front of him.

"What is your name?" I asked him in a low but threatening voice.

He didn't reply.

"I don't like to repeat myself"

Here I was controlling my beast anyhow and he is testing me.

"I asked you something," I punched on his lips with full force.

"Sa...samarth"

"Hmm....Who ordered you to do this because I don't think that you are samarth (capable) enough of doing it yourself"

But he was not ready to say anything.

"Ok, so you have decided to stay mum. Good! I too don't like pathetic screams"

I took out the knife and his eyes became wide. I just smirked on his reaction and without wasting a further second I dabbed the knife in his left palm.

"Ahhhhhhhhh" he screamed in pure agony.

"Shhhh, no voice from your filthy mouth"

"Pl...please remove it" he begged

"He is making a lot of noise Prem!"

He understood what I meant and he ducked his mouth with the tape.

I dabbed the knife again but this time on the back of his right palm. His screams were muffled by the tape.

"These were the hands with which you were driving na. These were the hands that dare to take the life of my butterfly. Haan"

"Oh, how much I want to cut these hands of yours," I said in a low but dangerous tone.

He was trying to move his hand away but everything was going into vain. A river of blood was flowing out of his hands. This was giving me so much peace that I can't express. It makes me remember the amount of blood that my butterfly lost just because of him and suddenly I felt the urge of taking more blood out of him. I rotated the knife which resulted in a hole in the middle of his hand. He will remember this for the whole life.

I took out the knife which was now dripping in his dirty blood and kept it on his neck piercing his skin in the process.

He was looking at me with pleading eyes and moving his head in no to stop me.

"Do you want this torture to end?" I asked him pushing the tip of the knife further in.

He moved his head a little up and down because of the fear of a knife.

"Who gave you money to do all this? Who?"

He moved his eye down to indicate towards the tape. I looked at the Prem's side and he removed the tape.

Although I wanted to cut his body into millions of pieces and throw it for the stray dogs to devour the meal but I would not do it because I know my butterfly will hate me for this.

As soon as the tape was removed from his mouth he started to take deep breaths.

"Sh..shaurya," he said in between his breaths.

I already knew it.

"If you want to go out of here in one piece then just tell each and everything"

"I was following you from the last few days but I didn't get the chance of doing anything but today when I saw her alone crossing the road. I thought it as the golden opportunity to end the game. He said that you love your wife very much and you will either end up your life or will go into depression after the death of your wife and he will take all of your business and money. He promised me that if we succeed then he will give me a huge share out of it. That's why I followed his instructions"

"So don't you think that when you have failed you deserve his share of punishment too?"

I said and moved the knife from the neck to his stomach tearing his shirt in two.

"No sir, please no. I have kids and a wife at home. Please no!"

"That girl who is struggling for her life just because of you is also a wife of someone, she is also a daughter of someone dammit"

I said and pushed the knife in anger.

"No Atharva! Stop! He is not the main culprit. Leave him for the police now. He had enough of it"

On the advice of Prem, I dropped the knife.

"Where is he? Where is SHAURYA?" I screamed

"He was trying to leave the city but we have sealed the city and our men are constantly trying to find out his location. They will catch him soon and I have also informed the police on the basis of the doubt" he said

"Police? But why did you involved police in the case? I want to kill him with my own hands"

"That's exactly what I don't want. You know that Shreya will not like it. Think about her" He said.

"Shreya, my butterfly, you know she was so happy today and never in my dreams I expected it. I will not be able to live if something happens to her." I said looking down trying to hide my eyes.

"You can not break like this. He is doing this because he knows that she has become your weakness. And if you will break like this then he will be successful in his intentions. Be strong she is out of danger now. Nothing will happen to her" he said and put my hand on his shoulder, consoling me.

For the first time, I was able to see an elder brother in him.

"Yes brother," I said looking up.

He hugged me.

Sometimes the relations of the heart are more strong and pure than the relations of blood.

"Let's go and catch that moron," he said moving.

I nodded and moved towards the exit leaving Samarth in the hands of our man.

Prem called the police and they said that they have traced his location and are going towards him. Prem asked for the location and conveyed the same to me. I turned my car to his side.

I am coming for you Shaurya. Escape if you can.

We were soon able to catch the police jeep. Shaurya's car was running way too fast so I overtake the jeep to catch him. He turned and changed the direction. Very clever but not more than me! I knew where he is going I took another way to catch him. In this way, he would think that we have stopped chasing him.

"What are you doing Atharva?" Prem asked me

"Just wait and watch"

I soon reached there and blocked his way. He became hopeless and moved out of the car. We too left the car and started to chase him. He keeps on running with me behind him and Prem behind me. He stopped as there was no way further and looked here and there. Soon he found a building that was half-constructed and he went into it and started to climb the stairs.

"You cannot escape from me this time," I said and ran behind him.

He was running too fast. He reached the last floor that was open from all sides. It was so high that a person can die if he/she jumps from it.

He started to search for something in his pocket but without wasting any time I grabbed him with his shoulder and punched his jaw. And kicked in the middle of his legs with my knee.

"You cannot become lucky every time. Did you get that?"

I punched his nose and he punched me back in my stomach. I pushed him and put all my weight on his stomach crushing him below me.

"I will make sure that this is your last day of life"

"You can kill me but mark my words Shreya would also not able to survive," he said and I punched on his lips.

"Don't you dare to take her name from your mouth and I will never let anything happen to her even if for that I have to fight with the God"

I started punching him like a punching bag pouring all my anger on him. I was thinking about all the pain that my butterfly has to go through just because of the man lying below me. This ignites my anger even more. I punched his eyes and his jaw multiple times.

My eyes fall on a large stone. I stood up to pick up that stone. I took it, it was pretty heavy. This is it. Today I will crush his head with this and his chapter will be close forever.

He was now in a sitting position trying to find something. When he looked at me his eyes became wide and the fear was clearly written all over his face.

I raised the stone up but Prem pushed me from the side and the stone falls on the ground.

"You cannot kill him Atharva!" Prem screamed

"But he deserves to die. And I will kill him today otherwise he will again try to harm my butterfly."

My back was facing Shaurya and Prem was facing me.

"Yes, but"

He paused and looked at my back and his eyes became wide. He grabbed me by my upper arms and rotated me to switch our positions.

"Atharva!"

He screamed and I heard the sound of a gunshot. Suddenly I saw blood in front of my eyes that was oozing out of Prem's arm. He fell down putting his hand over the area where he got the shot.

"PREM!"

I sat down to his level.

"I..I am fi...fine," he said

"No, you are not"

I was getting the feeling of nausea because it reminded me of the incident of my father's murder. Suddenly I was feeling weak and dizzy. It was getting hard for me to breath.

"Today I will kill both of you. Hahaha," he said and started to laugh like a maniac.

I looked up and he moved his gun to my side.

"Don't you dare..ahh" Prem threatened him.

I stood up.

He pointed his gun directly to my heart.

"Goodbye brother"

He said and then there was a utter silence followed by another gunshot.

And that was it. That was the end of everything.

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