"Close your eyes and think of all the moments you have spent with your parents" Kiara said softly as she sat on her knees with him sitting on a garden bench and her hands resting on his thighs holding his palms.
She watched him closing his eyes and his facial expressions gradually becoming relaxed. "What do you see?" she whispered kindly and heard him reply in low voice, "Me and papa playing basket ball..."
"Then?"
"Mamma massaging my hairs..."
"Then?"
"Me playing with papa's beard..."
"Then?"
"Mamma feeding me..."
"Then?"
"What are you gonna do?" Khushi asked in her low broken voice, sitting on the bed.
Arnav stood near the poolside door and said in his hoarse voice, "I'll do what he wants. We'll take Advay away from everyone here!"
Khushi sniffed her tears and said, "He loves to be here, with everyone!"
Anjali who was sitting with Khushi on the bed said, "Chotte, I'll talk with Akash!" Payal who was hugging Khushi nodded.
"No need" Arnav said, "He is right! Advay may hurt anyone and we should stop that!"
"Akash just said it all in tension! This is the first time he saw Angel in such a state. Don't take him seriously" Payal said softly.
Arnav turned to Payal and said, "I apologize from Advay's part Payal. I'm sorry for what hap..."
Payal nodded no and said, "Advay is my son too! I understand! He is not well! He must be cured! And that is what Kiara is doing! We should trust her."
"But Akash..."
"Forget him! He is silly at times, you know that!" Payal said sternly, "You WILL NOT take Advay away from us! You and Khushi must be his biological parents but I was the one on whose lap he used to sleep! Consider this as an warning."
"Payal ji is absolutely right!" Anjali said, "Advay is our son! We won't let you take him away!"
"Now open your eyes...slowly..." she said softly.
He opened his eyes slowly and heard her soft voice, "Now tell me, do you think that your father killed Hanna?"
"I saw him there! It was him!" he said blankly.
"I don't want to hear what you saw there!" Kiara said sternly, "From all these years with your father, DO YOU THINK THAT HE KILLED YOUR WIFE?"
"I DON'T KNOW! MY DAD WHOM I KNOW FOR ALL THESE YEARS WOULD NEVER DO THAT! BUT I SAW HIM DOING THAT! I SAW HIM WALKING TO HANNA AND SHOOTING HER WITH HIS GUN! I SAW IT CLEARLY" he shouted.
"Sometimes our eyes do cheat us Advay" Kiara whispered softly. Advay sat mum and she said softly, "He is your father whom you love the most! The person you attempted to kill today is your sister whom you love so much! Your sister loves you so much! Your father loves you so much! The whole family loves you! They won't hurt you Advay! They can never dream of hurting you or Hanna!"
Advay sat silent with her words pondering over his mind.
"No lead so far ASR!" ACP Suraj Malhotra said to Arnav who was sitting on a chair before him in his police station, "We have checked the CCTV footages from the mall. No valuable information from that. Some people with black masks took them to car and drove away!"
"What about number plate?" Arnav asked.
"Fake! It's a fake number plate! The number belongs to someone from Haryana and it's registered for a swift car. The kidnappers had hidden their number plate." Suraj said.
Arnav held the bride of his nose and sighed.
"We checked the godown again. Nothing is there! It's a hard case ASR." Suraj said sighing.
"I want them Suraj! I somehow want those bas***ds!" Arnav whispered furiously.
"We're doing our best ASR. Wait...do you suspect someone?" he asked.
"One...if only he was alive!" Arnav said.
"Who?"
"Shyam Jha! He was my enemy! But he is dead. It couldn't be him!" Arnav said. Suraj said, "Yeah, your ex-jeejaaji right? He was hanged to death 20 years back!"
Arnav nodded.
"Then who is this? Whoever it is wanted revenge from you! Advay and Hanna were just way to you!" Suraj said.
Arnav sighed and nodded.
"Let me search from another angle ASR. But before that I need to talk to Advay!" Suraj said.
"He isn't normal. I told you!" Arnav said.
Suraj thought for a while and said, "Ok then. I'll talk to his doctor. Can you give me her number?"
"Sure" Arnav said and gave him Kiara's number.
"Any help Khushi ji?" Anjali asked as she came into the room watching Khushi folding clothes.
"No di...it's over!" Khushi said keeping the clothes in the wardrobe.
"Where is Chotte?"
"He went to police station to meet Suraj!" Khushi said. "I hope Suraj has some news!" Anjali said sitting on the bed. Khushi sighed and nodded.
Anjali knew that Khushi was highly depressed and she started drawing her into her conversation. Slowly Khushi started to come into the talks and started to cheer up.
It was then Hari Prakash came in. "Khushi bhabhi, Anjali di, some people from orphanage have come. They are asking for any old clothes!"
"Arrey ha! There are some in the store room!" Khushi said, "Come Hari Prakash ji, I'll show you!"
"Khushi ji!" Anjali said, "Why don't we give some of Chotte's old dresses? It's still inside the cupboard right?"
"Ha di...it's in the lowest rack of wardrobe. Arnav ji had stuffed his clothes there a month back." Khushi agreed and said, "Could you please take them. I will bring clothes from store room!"
Anjali agreed and Khushi left the room with HP.
Anjali opened the wardrobe and opened the lowest drawer where old clothes were kept. She started pulling out the clothes muttering, "Chotte bhi na...such nice kurtas he had and he never used it!"
It was when she pulled out a bundle of clothes when she heard a noise of something hitting the floor. She touched the bundle and her hands stopped at a corner feeling something.
"What is it?" she muttered as she opened up the bundle. Many old suits old suits of Arnav came out of the bundle. Her hand rummaged the bundle and her hands stopped feeling something. She pulled it out.
As it came out with her hand, Anjali felt her breath stopped. She looked at the thing in her hand in horror. She gulped and gasped.
Arnav ji had stuffed his clothes there a month back.
Khushi's words suddenly flashed in her mind.
"Chotte..." she mumbled in shock and she looked at her hand which held a black gun!
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