"I need to go. " Rehan said , the urgency clear in his voice.
"I'm coming with you. " Arya replied picking her bag up from the bed.
"No you need to rest and take a nap. It's fine. "
"Do you really think I will be able to sleep when I don't know where my sister is or what happened to her. " She snapped.
"All my life I had a fake family but now I have people who care for me who love me and I am not going to just sleep when the first person who made me feel welcome here is missing. " Arya yelled in a mix of anger shock and sadness.
He pulled her forward and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
"Everything's going to be okay" he whispered to her as an assurance.
'Atleast I hope so'He thought to himself.
They reached the office as fast as they could through the traffic and signals. There weren't that many people in the building as it was already dark and late.
The skyscraper still had the lively buzz of PA's and employees working extra hours.
They hurried past them all to the elevator.
Rehan could feel his heart pounding and his brain was trying to come up with all types of outcomes and solutions.
Arya intertwined her hands with his and gave it a light squeeze. It was her turn to assure him.
"I'm bloody sure that Susheel Shekhar have did this" they heard Veer shout as they entered his cabin.
He looked like a mad man. His hair was messed up and a couple of his buttons were undone. His neatly ironed inserted shirt was a wrinkled mess. It was not Veer Singhania , the CEO of the Singhania Empire but it was a frantic husband yearning for his wife.
Dhruv was on call with the police.
"Did anyone get any lead?" Rehan asked to no one in
"Nothing yet. "
"And Bhai Why are you always behind that guy?" Rehan asked confused
"Because he always tried to come between me and Dhwani and he is a Shekar. They are the only people I know who will swoop this low. "
"But bhabhi never said a bad thing about Susheel. " Arya stated.
"She never says anything bad about anyone. " Veer retorted.
"Bhai it's okay. The police is searching and they will send a force to his house and office too. "
"But we don't know if he's the culprit.
You know what call him. Let's see if he is the one who did it. " Rehan suggested
"Good idea. " Dhruv gave him an appreciative pat on the back.
Veer called him from his phone and it ringed once... Twice and in the third ring he picked it up.
"Put it on speaker" Rehan mouthed to him.
Even before he could say a hello veer yelled into the phone.
"Where's Dhwani? I swear to god if anything happens to her I will kill you with my bare hands."
"Anything happens to who. Wait Veer is Dhwani okay? " His voice was urgent.
"Don't act like you don't know anything. Where's Dhwani you bastard? "
"How will I know but first answer my question Singhania is Dhwani okay?"
"I don't know. You tell me. She's been missing for the last fucking hours. "
"Shit" he sighed.
The line went silent for about a minute.
"There are some things you should know. Where are you?" Susheel asked coming to the point directly.
"What things?"
"I don't know if it is the kind of information you share via phone Singhania. " he said with a bit of mockery.
"Meet us at the Singhania industries HQ" Rehan said taking the phone from him then hanged up. He shrugged to the glare Veer was giving him.
"Ughhh. It would have been so much easier if we had some kind of tracker on her. " Arya sighed seating herself on the couch in his office.
",Bhai. Locket. Tracker. " Dhruv shouted suddenly.
There was a communicative glint between the brothers and Veer gave him a thankful smile.
"Arya you are a genius. " Dhruv told her as he opened his laptop.
Arya just looked about the room oblivious.
"Everyone in our family have a secret gps somewhere in them. It was Dhruv's idea. " Veet explained.
Dhruv nodded from where he was tracking the signal. He was occupied with it. Dhwani and him may not have been as close as her and Rehan but she was still him bhabhi and she was his family.
"Does that mean I have one too?" Arya inquired
"Obviously " Rehan said giving her a side eye.
"Yours is in the wedding ring. Mahika's is in her mangalsutra. Rehan's in his spectacles like that. " Dhruv explained not taking his eyes or fingers of the laptop.
"That is really intelligent. " Arya said admiring the genius idea.
"Bhai I found out one more thing. The source that leaked the news of your divorce was from your office itself. " Rehan turned to Veer.
"What does it have to do with this Rehan?" Veer pinched the bridge of his nose.
"I don't know but I feel some connection between these. My heart does. "
"Sir Mr Susheel Shekhar is here to meet you " veer's PA announced.
"Tell him to come in" Veer said through gritted teeth. He didn't like this idea one bit.
"I'm not glad to be here too Singhania " Susheel Shekhar said seating himself on the chair opposite to his table.
"Dhwani has a past none of you know." There wasn't any time to best around the bush.
"During the time she was doing bachelor's at IIT Kanpur, there was a guy behind her. Stalker is a more apt word. He was so obsessed by her that it terrified her to her wits end.
I was at Kanpur during that time helping a journalist friend of mine crack a human trafficking chain based in UP. They were smuggling children and women to our state too in the pretense of our family. We tracked it down to a guy and that's how I met Dhwani. We asked for her help which she was happy to accept.
The next time he came by she started dropping hints and when he proposed she accepted it.
Dhwani started collecting evidences for us whenever she was over at his place and one day she saw him making a deal about a new shipment with a local politician and took a video of the entire transaction.
By then we had enough solid proofs to bring them infront of the judiciary and he was arrested but went missing from the custody.
His father was a very prominent businessman in UP. He died of a heart attack on the day of his arrest. His entire family went MIA after that.
We knew he would come for her and I offered her protection. I brought her back to Rajasthan and took her under my wing. We posed as a couple for the media but she never loved me or anyone for that matter except you. "
He said pointing to Veer
"You were her first and last real connection as she used to say. " S.S. said recollecting the memories when Dhwani would eat his ears talking non stop about Veer.
"She never cheated on you. You know. " He continued sympathetically
" She didn't want to meet her anymore as I was your rival that was until I got the news that he was spotted again. I wanted to meet her to tell her this but she was adamant on not doing so. I persuaded her and we met one last time. "
"You told me that they were meeting frequently" Rehan asked turning to Veer.
"That's what her Assistant told me. "
"And you trusted that ?" Arya questioned in an accusatory tone.
"This is done by him. "
"What is his name?"
"His name is Abhiram Ankush Khatri."
*
Dhwani opened her eyes with much labour.
It took some time to adjust to the dim light of the room she was in.
There weren't any windows only one door and Dhwani's hands were tied in the back. Her feet were no exception.
"Awake already?" She heard a female sound question her.
She looked towards the sound to see a familiar face with an unfamiliar smirk coming into the room.
"Natasha you? Why?" Dhwani asked shocked which was followed by coughs due to the dusty situation of the place.
"Natasha my foot " she spat.
"My. Name. Is. Diya Khatri you bitch. Do you know how bad I wanted to tell you that everytime you ordered ne around. "
"And you want to know why ?"
Diya churned Dhwani's hair in her hands and pulled her head up
"Do you know how much I suffered because of you. Because of you I my brother had to hide from the world. Because of you our family reputation and business was ruined. Everyday I had to see my mom cry because of you. When my mom died my brother couldn't do her final rites because of you. And all this time you were enjoying the luxuries by marrying that husband if yours. "
She slapped her hard accross the face.
"I wanted to do that since the day I joined as your so called PA. "
"Diya be nice to your Bhabhi. "
a new person said joining them.
'Even after all these years you still look like a snack. Did you miss me babydoll?" Abhiram saud with an evil smirk.
Dhwani spit at his face to which he chuckled.
"Still fiery and fiesty. I like it. "
"You know babydoll after so long everything is falling in place.
First I waited for the heat to calm down. Once I had enough resources I started searching for you but you were married. "
You didn't even wait for me babydoll.
Do you know how broken I was ?" He faked a pout.
"So we had to make a plan to first break your relationship. It was easy once we got to know that your husband is the lifetime rivals of Shekar. It made it so much easier. " Diya said with a laugh.
"By the way the miscarriage was not planned. It was a complete coincidence.
A very good one for us as it turned out. "
She said in between her laughs.
"My family will find me. They will not let you live. " Dhwani replied to their taunts confidently.
"How babydoll. How ?
You are with me and that husband of yours will finish that Shekar bastard thinking this is his doing. It will be too late when he figures everything out and by that time you won't be here. "
He said proudly.
"So what are you going to do kill me"
She scoffed mocking him.
Death didn't scare her one bit. Never did.
"No no. That will be a waste of such exquisite beauty " he caressed her face which made her flinch back. His hand on her skin felt like a hundred worms crawling up one's body.
"You are going to be my slave for the rest of our lives. I will fuck you every night and I will enjoy the tears that you will shed until you beg me to kill you. To let you die. But I won't because that's your punishment for being such a bad girl. "
His words sent a shiver down her spine. But she would never show weakness in front of an enemy whoever it is.
"Go to hell. " Dhwani yelled.
He gave a dark chuckle in response. Their celebration was cut short as
Natasha or Diya and Abhiram around at the sound of gunshots
They motioned some of the guards that escorted them inside to go and check what the commotion was. Abhiram's sister came near her and untied her legs not before Dhwani tried to kick her a hundred Times.
Dhwani had tried to free her hands sneakily when they were not paying attention. It was successful for upto a 75% of the knot.
The knots were pretty lose when Abhiram came behind her and held her by the nape of her neck with a loaded gun pointing at her head.
He pushed her forward to where he wanted her to go.
Diya was walking behind us both with another gun. Two men were walking in front of us clearing a path.
They took her outside to a car waiting for them and tried to get her into it forcefully but she pushed them away and ran with all the strength that was left in her. The fresh air was elixir for her body and it smelled like freedom.
A bullet whizzed pass her followed by a couple more. She was running in a zig zag motion and gratefully none of them could find their target.
"Don't shoot you morons I need her alive " she heard Abhiram shout.
Dhwani ran to stop only when she saw the police jeeps coming towards them.
She heaved a sigh seeing veer's car. She knew he would come.
A shootout initiated with the police and the gang and Dhwani was escorted safely away by a lady constable to their office car.
Veer and Dhruv got out of the car and rushed towards her. Rehan and Arya had stayed back at the office with Susheel to get more information to find her if the place they tracked was wrong
Veer took her in a hug and Dhwani heaved a breath of relief and cried into his shoulders.
Even though Abhiram and Diya tried to escape they were caught by the police. No one noticed the one guy hiding behind the car still with a gun. Except one person.
He stood up and shot the bullet towards the hugging couple.
Dhruv jumped in front of them to stop it from hitting the oblivious couple.
One of the officers shot down the person immediately but it was too late.
A single gasp echoed from his mouth as the bullet came in contact with his body.
Veer and Dhwani turned to see the sight of Dhruv and one side of his face and arm becoming red as he fell on the ground.
Dhruv was bleeding profusely.
*
Late as usual
I wanted to give this update from like 2&3 days but it never happened
Now here it is
There are a lot of editing to be done which I'll do later.
Hope you guys like it
With love
Aswa_maya