65 Trapped
Part 65 Trapped
Ratna was keenly watching her brothers and their respective wives.
Manorama came to Manohar who was doing something on his mobile. She peeped into his mobile and sighed. He was watching Arnav's childhood photos that he captured from the old album. Manorama panicked when his eyes tear up.
"What happened to you? Why are you crying?"
"I'm looking at Arnav bituwa. See, how happy he was with his mother...! I didn't see him happy like that after Ratna's death until Khushi came into his life"
Manorama nodded yes slowly.
"Arnav always treated us as his people. He truly loved us..."
"Our love for him is no less than his" came from Sudhakar.
"No bhai, don't compare our love with his"
"What do you mean?" asked Anjana.
"Arnav bituwa is not selfish like us. His love is unconditional. He never expected anything from us except love. But we? What did we do? Especially you? You wanted him to obey your words and lead his life as per your wish. When he chooses his partner as per his wish, you can't tolerate it. You started taunting him. Have you ever thought about his generosity?"
"You are talking meaningless Manohar" Sudhakar chided.
"No... If I don't talk the truth, my life would become meaningless. Touch your heart and say, could you even imagine such a lavishing life if Arnav is not there for us? It was Arnav who provided everything we wanted. But, we left him alone in the crucial time and came out of RM"
"What can we do if he has no trust in us?"
"Trust should be gained. We should have made him trust us. But we never thought about it. You would have celebrated him if he had married your friend's daughter"
"He too would have gotten political support if he had married the girl. That's what I wanted"
"Who are you to decide what he wants? When Ratna died, he was a kid. That's why Amma wanted us to be with him. But now, he is not a kid but a grown-up man. He is running a business. He knows very well what he wants. You should understand that"
"But we are not out of RM for that reason" Anjana came for Sudhakar's support.
"We got ghostly sensation in RM. You too would not have liked to be in RM if you had felt it"
"I didn't feel it. That's why I am saying it must be Ratna"
"What do you mean?"
"She doesn't like anyone troubling her son. That's why I am off the list. Ratna knows me..."
"What you are thinking about us is not right, chachaji. We never wanted Arnav to feel like he has no one. That's why we interfered in his decision but we never compelled him for anything" said Shyam.
"If you care for him, why did you come out of RM?"
"Only for Anjali. She conceived after twelve years. She should be peaceful. If she gets scared of anything, it's not good for her and also the baby in her womb. That's why I brought her out of RM"
"Your reason is acceptable. Be it. I am going back to RM. I don't want to make my mother feel bad about us" Manohar stood up.
All of them looked at him stunningly, including Ratna. She didn't expect him to be emotional towards Arnav.
"Manohar, you are mistaken. We are not upset with Arnav." Sudhakar said
"I'm glad about it. You guys don't have to come to RM if you are scared. I will let you know when everything became normal. Bye," Manohar walked out.
"Chachaji is not wrong. We should not have come out of RM. Arnav just got married. He needs our support" Anjali said.
"We too want to be in RM only Anjali, but, definitely a spirit is there in RM. That is the only thing that evicted us" Anjana said.
"Why don't you understand Khushi has some divine power in her? Until she is in RM, nothing will happen to us. You will understand that soon" Anjali went to her room.
Ratna followed Manohar because seeing him again in RM, Nani, and Arnav would get angry at him. She didn't want it to happen. So she decided to go to RM with Manohar.
In the meanwhile,
Arnav reached the temple. He searched for Khushi and Nani. As he didn't find them there, he pulled his mobile out of his pant pocket and checked their location. He sighed, seeing them traveling toward RM. He headed to his car and started it towards RM.
On the other side,
Khushi looked outside the window of Sona's house. She roamed in the room slowly as it looked like her Lucknow house. Her legs denied moving, seeing a photo with a garland in the cupboard that was half closed. It was the same photo she saw in the paper cutting. The man in the photo was none other than the one who killed Ratna.
No need to say in which condition Khushi had been. She was shocked to the core and felt a shiver in her body. Her body sweated badly. What was the photo doing at Sona's house? What was the connection between Sona and the killer? Who was he to her? Did she know he was the one who killed Ratna? Or, was she unaware of it?
Was this a time to analyze all of them? No... That was a time to act. She wiped her sweaty face. Taking her mobile, she captured the photo and sent it to Arnav and was about to type the detail, she heard,
"What are you doing, Khushiji?"
She turned around and found Sona with a tea tray. Khushi smiled at her awkwardly with a drumming heartbeat.
"Oh... Nothing... I just..." she stammered.
Sona looked at the photo and then at Khushi.
"He is my brother Jai Kishan" Sona said.
"Oh..."
"He died in an accident, eighteen years ago. You are a nice girl. There is no wrong to tell you about him. He is not a good person. He did anything for money. Money was the only thing he always needed. He had been a wanted criminal until he died. Anytime, police visited our house searching for him. A very dangerous man. I told him not to be like that because I wanted him to settle down in his life. I even searched for a girl for him for marriage. I was about to fix his marriage, but before I did that, he died" She said sadly.
Khushi felt bad for her. So, this man was a myrmidon. He should have killed Ratna for money on someone's order.
Khushi looked at Sona and her facial expression changed. Sona was smirking at her.
"Have you believed what I said, KHUSHI?" She asked cutting JI. And her tone was different.
"Meena, Beena," Sona called, tapping the closed self on the wall.
Two girls who were looking alike came out of the self. It seemed they were TWINS. That was when Khushi noticed that was not a self but a room. No one could understand it was a room if it had been closed.
Sona gestured to them something. They reached Khushi and snatched her phone. Before Khushi composed herself, one of them, pulled her hand and pressed her thumb on the sensor of her phone. The phone unlocked. The girl looked at the phone.
"She sent Jai uncle's photo to her husband but he has not seen it yet," she said.
"Then why are you waiting? Delete it" Sona ordered her.
The girl deleted the photo.
"She has been sent her live location to him but the time is over. The live location will be active only for one hour" the girl added.
Khushi was horrified, hearing that. She didn't know the detail. She thought Arnav could see her location until she went back to RM.
Nani who could not understand anything asked,
"Sona, what is all this? What are you doing?"
"Meena..." Sona gestured something.
The girl called Meena removed a knife from her pocket and kept it on Nani's neck. Nani and Khushi were thunderstruck. Nani was about to say something,
"Shhh... One more word... I will stop your breath forever" Meena warned Nani.
"Call them" Sona ordered Beena.
She dialed someone. The call was attended.
"Bhai, Maa asked me to call you"
She passed the phone to Sona.
Nani was shocked. Were these girls Sona's daughters? Did Sona have daughters too? But, Sona always talked about her son and daughter-in-law. Who was Sona? Why was she doing this?
"The time for what we have been waiting came, she voluntarily came into our cave to give her precious life..." Sona said on the phone, looking at Khushi.
"......"
"Of course, Khushi herself... Come fast..."
"....."
"I caught her when she sent Harish's photo to Arnav. I think she knows he was the one who killed Ratna"
Nani looked at the photo shockingly and then Khushi who was silently observing everything.
"This is the best chance to finish her. We can never get this chance again. Come fast" Sona said not taking her eyes from Khushi.
"....."
"Mohan would be waiting for them outside... SEND him first. Don't leave any clue" She hinted and disconnected the call.
"Why are you looking at me like this, Khushi? Won't you ask me anything?"
Khushi was silent.
"Arrey, don't you want to know before your death that who I'm and why I'm doing this...?"
"I will surely get to know them before my death..." She said plainly.
To be continued...
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