Chapter 37

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Disclaimer: all characters, situations and names used in the story are fictional.any similarity is purely by coincidence!

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Part 22A:

"No you don't love me Sakshi...warna aise mujhe chodke nahi jaaathi..." He glared at the letter and stamped the ground angrily...

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He was shocked and also angry to the core...how could she go away from his life like that. What ever be the reason, she could have told him about it...

He had the rage to kill her now...she didn't think once about him when she left him like this...he felt dumped...and betrayed...yes he felt like a fool!

She had broken her promise to him...the promises of love and togetherness was all broken mercilessly by her...What was so important and urgent than him for her...

He looked around the room...her fragrance still lingered in there...he felt her all over him even now...the passionate night that passed replayed in his mind...the ruffled sheets, his body, clothes, her clothes which lay at the far end...everything around reminded him of her...

Every damn thing had a glimpse of her...He just couldn't throw away the feel of her in his arms from his head...she felt so near to him...close to him yet so far that he didn't even know where she was...She had literally driven him crazy and left him stranded all alone like a mad man...

He screamed angrily,"aisa kyun kiya tumne Sakshi?? Kyun? Jaana hi tha toh paas kyun aayi...tukraana hi that oh qubool karna ka naatak kyun kiya? Kyun???"

First Roshni, now her...he was forced to think if he was incapable of protecting and holding his love close to him...

He couldn't think logically...Anger blinded him...He stormed out of her house and drove aimlessly...was he searching for her? Well he himself wasn't sure of what he was doing or rather trying to do?

It was a sort of indifference now...anger turned indifference...but even then somewhere deep, he couldn't just accept the reality that she indeed had walked out of his life!

Almost two hours later, he entered ETF office...the entire team glanced at him as he took his usual position at the top end of the conference table...All had questions but none of them dared to voice it out...

Sameer barged in furiously and his first question was, "Rawte, Sakshi kahaan hai?"

Arjun didn't stir a bit though a storm was brewing inside him...Sameer began to repeat his question when Arjun replied not even looking at him, "mujhe nahi patha Rathod..."

Sameer scowled at his indifferent reply...all in the room knew that Arjun was the last person to have seen Sakshi...So everybody demanded a reply from him though the only voice which bravely spoke up was Sameer's...

All wanted Arjun's reply and know where Sakshi was but little did they know what Arjun himself was going through...

All through the morning he had been driving crazily frantically trying to find her and searching for her in every possible place...

Every lead met with a dead end...none of her friends who had been helping her so far and were in touch with her knew where she was...and now he had reached a vacuum like saturation point where he was neither angry nor at peace...an equilibrium and he didn't know what to do...But he had got some of his trustworthy people to get some information and he was waiting for that...

Sameer shot back, "What do you mean mujhe nahi patha Rawte?"

Arjun: I meant what i said Rathod...ussne mujhse kuch nahi kaha...so I don't know where she is...

Rathod tried to get up angrily voicing, "Dammit.."

But his words stopped when he felt Aisha's hand on his...She gestured him to sit down and remain calm...

Shree spoke up when the situation looked less tense and there was complete silence for a whole minute...In the morning, when he felt that something was not right about Sakshi, he had by himself started digging into her details...

He had also tried to reach Arjun for passing on the information he got but Arjun was unreachable at that point..

"Sir, mujhe kuch patha chala hai..."

Arjun looked to his side and there was anticipation in his eyes...though he posed indifference, deep within him was a broken heart longing for some positive news, a hint about his dearest wrong number...However hard he tried, he knew he couldn't let go off her so easily!

Shree passed on a paper which had the call records of a specific number to him as he continued, "sir yeh number Sakshi ka hai"

Arjun was shocked...no that would be an understatement..."Sakshi ka number?"

When the hell did she get another number? Didn't he throw away her phone and according to him, she didn't get another phone so far...

Shree nodded slowly sensing that anger was surging through Arjun..."haan sir...bas kuch hi din hua hai...maine apne sources ke through patha lagaaya hai ke yeh number Sakshi ne liya hai...dho din se khaafi saara incoming and out going calls hua hai...kal dher raat bhi ek call aaya tha aur usske baadh Sakshi ne bhi ek number pe call kiya hai...lekin yeh saare numbers alag alag PCO ka hai..."

Arjun was listening to everything keenly but then he was about to say something when Shree replied, "iss number se final call aaj subah hui hai aur woh kisi "Sharanalaya Mental asylum" ka hai jo Mumbai ke outskirts mein hai! usske baadh se yeh number switched off hai sir...I am trying to find the location of the phone...abi tak track nahi hua..."

He added after a pause, "ek baat ajeeb hai ke yeh number Sakshi ke naam pe nahi kisi Kalyani Deshpande ke naam pe registered hai...matlab ek fake name..."

That rang a bell in Arjun's mind... "Kalyani Deshpande" he had heard this name somewhere but where??...he swirled his pen setting fire to his mind process...he rewinded back a little and in a few seconds he knew where...he had seen this name in Sakshi's college id card...She had told him that kalyani is her friend and she uses her ID for keeping her identity a secret...

He immediately sprang to action, "Shree, Presley college ke student list, alumini, aur library ke member list check karo... Kalyani Deshpande ke baare mein patha lagao...I want this Kalyani here..."

Sameer, Aisha and Chotu sat wondering what was happening and who this Kalyani was...

Shree got to work immediately...

Arjun turned to the others and he knew they had to know the rest of the story...he briefed them about it and then instructed Chotu, "Chotu, tum unn PCOs mein jaake poocho if they know anything about Sakshi and also who the caller is...dher raat mein call aaya hai toh unne patha hi hoga ke call kisne kiya hai...agar identify kiya toh ek sketch bannwao"

Chotu nodded as he stood up, "Yes sir..."

Aisha spoke up, "sir, main Sakshi ke previous work places mein...I mean unn news paper offices jaakar poochthi hoom...Shaayad Sakshi wahaan gayi ho"

Arjun knew that if was going to be a dead end but he didn't want to rule out any loop without checking...so he didn't stop Aisha...he just nodded...and Sameer too acknowledged her adding, "Aisha, Sakshi ke saare friends se bhi ek baar phir se pooch taach karo..."

Arjun butted in, "koyi faydha nahi hai Rathod...unn sab se main pooch chukka hoom...they don't know anything about her"

Sameer shot back, "Aisha has her ways of handling them Rawte...kya patha, tumaare ghusse ke aage darrke kuch nahi bathaaya ho..."

Arjun glared at Rathod but then he chose to ignore it as the most important thing was to find Sakshi...who, what or how wasn't important now...

There was no other case that day...so they could all focus on finding Sakshi...

Arjun got up from his seat to walk out but Sameer stopped him, "kahaan jaa rahe ho Rawte?"

Arjun stopped and replied without turning to him, "Sharanalaya mental asylum...Sakshi ke maa wahi hai"

Rathod was taken aback by that sudden revelation...yeah he knew that her mom wasn't well and was admitted somewhere but this wasn't expected...he mentally scolded himself for being so irresponsible and engrossed that he never bothered to ask her about it so far...

He stood up and voiced, "main bhi chaltha hoom"

Arjun didn't say Ok neither did he say no...he just walked out and that perhaps meant a yes...

Rathod let out a sigh of frustration at his second in command's attitude and followed him...

But nothing came fruitful there...her mother was there but nothing more...

Rathod blasted out, "aise kaise koyi information ke bina aap ek patient ko admit kar lenge"

The incharge there shuddered seeing the cops blazing in anger after hearing that Sakshi's mother Mrs Shobha Anand had no personal details which linked her to Sakshi or her father...and in the first look it would only seem like she was orphaned and abandoned by her family...

He managed to justify their stand, "sir aap samajh nahi rahe hai...uphar se pressure tha...We had to consider this as a special case...unnke jaan ko khatra tha...isiliye koyi details ke bina humne admit kar liya..."

Rathod enquired, "Uphar se matlab??? Bhagwan toh nahi ho sakthe na?"

Arjun pitched in, "it must be her family friend Rathod...I know him...unne bhi nahi patha ke ab Sakshi kahaan gayi hai"

Arjun probed further, "Shobha ji ke yahaan ke bills kaun pay kartha hai?"

The incharge replied after verifying the records, "ek fixed deposit hai unnke naam pe...usske interest directly humaare account mein transfer hota hai"

Arjun hissed and stamped the floor in rage!

A little more enquiry is done and Arjun tells him that they should inform him if Sakshi contacts or comes there to meet her mother...

Sameer takes the details about the banks and few more things before meeting Shobha Anand...

As Sakshi had told Arjun, her mother was in a different world altogether...no words, no smiles..not even a cry...she looked lost...as if in a trance always...the incharge said that at times, a lone tear would run down her cheeks but nothing more than that...

Arjun and Rathod were deeply touched by that sight...Even in that angry mood, they couldn't help stop sympathizing with Sakshi!

They came out with a heavy heart...

Though Arjun was sure that nothing was going to come up from the bank details, he passed on the info to Shree to collect information about the related accounts...Arjun had by now realized that Sakshi had planned it all too well and this disappearance of hers wasn't a sudden one...It was all set and she had planned her moves well ahead!

She had always been the master of her games and this game was no different...Nailing her down in her own game was next to impossible!

As they reached back ETF, Shree told them that Kalyani existed in real and she was Sakshi's batch mate back in college...Presently, she worked for a MNC and was in US now for some assignment...she had left 3 months back and will return only after 6 more months...however Shree managed to get hold of her number in US and talked to her...She faintly remembered Sakshi Anand but she too had no idea of how Sakshi used her ID...

Arjun hissed in irritation realizing that it ended in another big dead end!

It appeared as if Sakshi Anand had suddenly ceased to exist or had vanished into thin air...

Where the hell was she?

It was midnight...Over 15 hours passed since Sakshi went missing and no clue about her...He was restless and impatient...

He sat twirling his pen and looking into the horizon...sleep was going to be alien till he found her...

All his fuming questions to her surfaced back...as they suffocated him, he snapped out of it gasping for breath...

At that instant, his phone beeped with a message...something chirped that it was from her...his 6^th sense wasn't wrong...it read, "Pls Arjun...dont get so worried for me...I cant see you like this...mujhe doondne ki khoshish matth karo...I will come back very soon...love you...wrong number"

He didn't waste a minute to analyze or find deeper meanings to her message...The first thing he did was to call Shree and ask him to find the location of the number from which the message was sent...he had already forseen the possibility of her contacting him at some point...SO he had asked Shree to keep his number under tracker 24 * 7...

He somehow felt that she wouldn't be able to keep herself fully detached from him now...Now that she had seen and felt his love for her, staying away from him wasn't that easy for her...he knew if he was so disturbed and lonely without her, it wouldn't be any better for her...She must be getting tortured and feeling like hell without him...

And it was right too...it was with a heavy heart that she had sent that message to him...she had forseen his desperate attempts to find her...she longed to reach out to him and tell him that she was fine...

She had died a thousand deaths already without being able to run back into his arms...But no...she couldn't go back...not until she found him...the only black shadow in their life...Sikandar!

Taking a deep breath, she took out the SIM card from her mobile phone and threw it out of the window muttering, "I am sorry Arjun..."

The train flew past leaving behind everything that could connect him to her...

Lakh Duniya Kahe, Tum Nahi Ho
Tum Yahin Ho, Tum Yahin Ho
Lakh Duniya Kahe, Tum Nahi Ho
Tum Yahin Ho, Tum Yahin Ho
Meri Har Soch Mein, Meri Har Baat Mein
Mere Ehsaas Mein, Mere Jazbaat Mein
Tum Hi Tum Ho, Tum Har Kahin Ho
Ho..
Lakh Duniya Kahe, Tum Nahi Ho
Tum Yahin Ho, Tum Yahin Ho
Ho..

[To be continued]

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vidya.anand2013-10-24 03:17:02