Haunted Love...!!! AsYa FF #2 - Updated Chapter 26 - Page 22

Hello lovelies!!! 🤗 So here's a looong update as the thrill in this Chapter can't be broken down till the next update...there are some shocking truths and revelations...and maybe answers to many of your questions these many days too...hope you enjoy the update...Happy Reading!! 😳

Asad and Ayaan reached at Imraan's flat. They just opened the unlocked door and walked amidst the dusty home.

"I informed Ram that we are coming here with regard to that message..." Asad said moving the things across the dusty and dirty floor with his legs, "It's a police case yeah...so we must not fall in any issues right..."

Asad looked around the house and saw a cabinet opposite him.

"Let's not waste time and start searching for the clue regarding this message!!"

He walked to the cabinet and started flipping things to find something useful to that clue.

"Asad, you check here... I will search in his bedroom!!" Ayaan said and walked to his bedroom, while Asad continued his search at the living room.

"This is the best situation I can ever get!!"

Tanveer took the dishes from her kitchen and arranged it on the dining table.

"Well...today I have cooked all the food myself...especially for my love!!" Tanveer said with a smile and then walked to her kitchen cabinet.

She opened the last drawer of the cabinet and took a bottle and twirled it around.

"Adding some special essence to it is essential right??" Tanveer walked towards the food dishes and opened the bottle. She poured it into the dessert and mixed it with the ladle gently with an evil smile.

"This slow poison will kill you within a week portraying it as a heart failure...I will be free from police complaints...and you will have a safe journey too!!"

Just then the doorbell rang. Tanveer quickly threw the bottle under the sofa, and rushed to the door. She opened the door and there stood a smiling Zoya at the door, dressed in a denim shirt and pencil skirt, with her hair curled.

"Hmmm...Looking great Zoya!!" Tanveer said with a smile, while Zoya said with a smile, "Natural in-born attributes!!"

"Come in!!" Tanveer said with a smile, while Zoya entered inside and Tanveer locked the door.

"This is just frustrating!!"

Asad threw the books down from the book cabinet of Imraan in frustration, while Ayaan too came over there.

"I didn't get any clue Asad..." Ayaan said with an irritated face.

Asad looked at the message again and said in irritation, "What did he mean by refer my dictionary...what does this mean?? Some people's disturbance don't end after death too...Imraan is one such guy!!"

Ayaan looked around and saw at the pile of books at the floor, which Asad had thrown down.

"Asad...you checked if there are any diaries or such in this rack?? Maybe there might be some clue in that??"

"Yeah..I..." Asad stopped his sentence looking at those books at the floor, and something clicked his mind. He read the message once again:

"Refer My Dictionary"

He looked at those books, and quickly knelt down and searched among the books and stopped as he found the huge Oxford Dictionary.

He looked back at the message and then smiled at Ayaan, "Dude, you are a genius!! This is exactly why I brought you with me!!"

"Haan?? What do you mean??" Ayaan asked with a confused face.

"I mean...your clue about books opened this way to me...he said "Refer my dictionary" right?? Which could mean the dictionary book...there is definitely some clue in this book!!"

Ayaan too looked at the book engrossed, as Asad flipped through the dictionary and stopped at a place. He opened the dictionary and saw a hole was made in middle of the center pages, and a pen drive enclosed in that slot.

Asad and Ayaan looked at each other in awe, and Asad picked the pen drive and looked it back and forth.

"Pen drive?? He meant this??" Asad asked thinking over it.

"If he informed you this secret before dying, it means it definitely has some information which you must know!"

"Come...let's leave to your home right now...!! I want to know what's in this pen drive that Imraan wanted me to know."

Saying so, Asad and Ayaan rushed out of Imraan's flat.

"It is nice having a chat with you like this at home, Zoya!!"

Zoya smiled, while Tanveer stood up and asked, "Well, we shall start dinner??"

"No...actually..." Zoya said thinking, while Tanveer wondered when would she serve her the dessert if she doesn't have dinner soon.

"Why not begin with some drinks Tannu??"

"Ohhh...with pleasure!!" Tanveer said and walked towards the kitchen and stopped on the way and asked, "Which juice do you like to have Zoya?? Lemon or Apple??"

"Wine!!"

Tanveer opened her eyes wide in astonishment and asked, "Excuse me...you meant...wine...I mean...really...wine??

Zoya leaned along the sofa and asked Tanveer, "Why Tannu?? It's been long since we had such a meet up right?? And who knows if such a night happens again too...so why don't we make it memorable??"

"Ohh..." Tanveer exclaimed and walked to her bar counter with a smile.

Tanveer poured the white wine into two glasses, while she said, "Today you seem so different to my eyes Zoya...firstly the type of dress you are wearing...your new hairstyle...and now your request for wine...are you even Zoya??" Tanveer giggled.

"You will know that soon!!" Zoya smirked, "By the way...today I have come with such a good motive...and I should be well dressed and arrive in a celebratory mood right??"

"Good motive??"

Tanveer sat opposite Zoya and handed over one glass of wine to her.

"Yes good motive!! And today's night is really auspicious for starting good ventures, you know!"

Zoya raised the glass and said to Tanveer, "To this night!!"

"To this night!!"

They both had their wine, while Zoya eyed Tanveer having her sip.

"Zoya is not picking up the call...guess she slept off soon today..."

Asad said cutting the call, while Ayaan was working on his system at his home, connecting Imraan's pen drive.

Asad walked towards Ayaan and sat next to him, "Opened??"

"Yeah..." Ayaan looked at the pen drive name and said with a bewildered look, "IMMYTAN? What sort of a name is this Asad?? Sounds like some SPARTAN!!"

A smile escaped Asad's lips hearing that, and he 'said, "Shut up Ayaan...just open it!!"

Ayaan opened the folder and saw three folders in it named Raaz, Raaz2, Raaz3.

"Don't tell me...these are just movies??" Asad asked with a confused face, "We did these much efforts for this only??"

Asad got up, while Ayaan asked, "Really?? Why will Imraan message you urgently before death to watch movies...he must be nuts to do it...there must be something more to it..."

Ayaan opened the first folder and saw many image files.

"Asad...these are some photos..." Ayaan said and Asad sat back next to him, while Ayaan opened the first image.

It took some time to load, and it opened finally.

Asad and Ayaan stood up from their places in shock looking at it, and looked at each other's face.

"Aditi...was..." Ayaan stammered while Asad completed, "...Imraan's wife???!!!"

"By the way...what's that good motive...venture Zoya??"

"I am planning to make a movie casting you after completing Haunted Love, Tannu!!" Zoya said having a sip from her glass of wine, while Tanveer asked with an amused face, "Casting me??"

"Yes..." Zoya smiled, "A thriller story...of a girl who comes to Mumbai aspiring to be an actress, but falls prey to some blood suckers utilizing her need for money!"

"Interesting!!" Tanveer said taking a sip of wine from her glass, "Tell me details...Zoya"

"You...I mean the heroine...is brought to this industry by her husband who cites advantages of spending more time with her and earning money by coming to this industry, where her hubby is an art director already in an illicit affair with an actress!!"

Tanveer stopped the glass at her mouth and put her crossed legs down hearing that, while Zoya crossed her legs and shook her foot slightly against her with an innocent smile, while the lights started flickering.

Tanveer looked around, and looked at Zoya with a suspicious look.

"Well..." Zoya took a sip and placed her glass on the table and said with a thinking face, "Let's keep names for the characters for better clarity...let the heroine's name be...uhhh" Zoya tapped her forehead with her index finger in the pretext of thinking and said snapping her fingers at Tanveer, "Aditi!!"

Tanveer opened her eyes wide breathing heavily in fear, while Zoya said, "Let the name of the art director husband of Aditi be...well...yes...Imraan??"

Tanveer clutched the handles of her sofa, while Zoya leaned forward while still sitting at the sofa, "And the actress with whom he had an illicit affair...ohh yeah...best name...Tanveer!!!"

Tanveer stood up in horror and moved back few steps giving a terrified look at Zoya, and started sweating profusely, while Zoya said with a smile, "Sit down Tannu!!"

Tanveer looked around here and there with a helpless look, while Zoya screamed, "Sit!!!!"

Tanveer abruptly landed on the sofa with panting breath and panicked face, while Zoya stood up and placed her foot hard on the sofa in which Tanveer was sitting and said, "My story is not over yet...Tannu didi!!"

Tanveer's heart beats almost skipped a beat hearing that, while the lights went off, and she looked around searching for Zoya.

Ayaan scrolled all the photos of Imraan and Aditi which was clicked during their register marriage.

"This guy has been a big time fraud Ayaan..." Asad said with an unbelievable look, "He married Aditi and brought her to Rashid Ahmed Khan and they introduced her to Zoya as a helpless girl who was Imraan's neighbour!!"

"But what would have made her do such a cheap drama with you, being his wife?? Which married lady would play such a dirty act of luring another girl's husband??" asked Ayaan with a disgusting look. Asad shrugged his shoulders and said, "Maybe the universal reason...money!!"

Ayaan opened the next folder named Raaz2 and saw many voice clips. Ayaan played it one by one:

"Immy darling..."

Asad and Ayaan looked at each other, while Asad asked, "Tannu??"

"Zo...ya...?"

Tanveer asked in a low tone looking through the dark while she heard a moaning sound.

She looked at a Zoya sitting and crying at the sofa covering her face, through that darkness. With abated breath she walked towards the moaning Zoya in short steps.

All she could see was Zoya's face covered with her hair in the front, and her hands covering it further.

"Why are you...crying...Zo-??"

Tanveer bent down to her and attempted to place her hand on Zoya. Zoya looked up abruptly:

"Why did you do this to me Tannu didi?????"

"Aaahhh!!!!"

Screaming high, Tanveer fell backwards out of fear. She grasped for breath, and moved backwards on the floor.

Tanveer's heart had come to her mouth looking at the flash of a different person in front of her eyes whose head was bleeding from all sides; none other than Aditi Sawant!

"I did everything you asked me to...yet why did you ditch me didi?? Huh??" asked Zoya in Aditi's voice startling Tanveer.

"A..a...Ad...Adi...ti...Aditi..."

Tanveer stammered and tried to rush to the door. She robustly tried to open the door, while Zoya pulled her by her hair and threw her on the floor, with Tanveer's head getting hit on the coffee table.

"Aaahh...aahhh..." Tanveer held her forehead and cried. She turned and saw Zoya right in front of her face. Tanveer quickly crawled back in fear.

"Please...please leave me...I am...I am...so...so...sorry Aditi..."

"Exactly..." Zoya clutched Tanveer's hair, "I said exactly these same words...remember??" Tanveer sobbed, while Zoya shook her head by the hair and screamed, "Remember???!!!"

Tanveer had a flash of events through her mind, how Aditi had clutched Tanveer's legs tight and uttered the same words:

"Didi...please leave me didi...I promise I won't say anything...please didi!!!"

"Remember???'

Zoya's scream brought Tanveer back to her senses, while she cried out of fear.

"Did you listen to me that day??" asked Zoya, and she clutched Tanveer's chin towards her, "I begged you to leave me right...exactly this same way...I said you that I have a paralyzed mom and blind brother...did you listen to me, you devil!!!!"

Zoya slapped Tanveer hard, while Tanveer fell on the floor bursting into tears out of pain. Zoya sat on the floor with tears, "I believed Imraan...my husband...and I came here...and even that moron betrayed me...bloody cheat!!! Even during my last moments he ditched me!!"

Tanveer's mind flashed the scenes quickly in her brain:

"Imraan...I am so happy you came...these people will kill me..."

"Don't worry jaan...till I am there...no one can do anything to you..."

Aditi hugged Imraan contently with tears in her eyes, while Imraan hugged her and just then stabbed her with a knife on her back.

Aditi opened her eyes wide in pain and looked at Imraan in tears, breaking from her hug, while Imraan looked at her with an evil smile.

"You...cheat..." Aditi grasped Imraan's neck, while Tanveer hit her with a wooden log on her head from the behind, and Aditi tried to hit Imraan and her pointed bangle tore his forehead, and he winced in pain, before Aditi collapsed on the floor.

Tanveer recalled how Imraan said before that he is bleeding from his wound on his forehead, which he couldn't see. She related everything in horror with Aditi.

"For you!!!!" Zoya took the knife from the cutlery nearby and pointed it on Tanveer's eyes, startling her, "He betrayed me for you right????"

Tanveer was almost half dead in the shock itself, while Zoya said, "He was the one who lured me to my death right??? He cheated and threw me in front of you blood sucking vampires!!!" Zoya said in tears, "Had he reached there 5 mins late that fateful night, or had I got a taxi 5 mins early...I would not be in this state!!"

Zoya barged towards Tanveer and said, "That's why...I sent him off first with so much love...it's a wife's duty right...now it's your turn...to give that thirsty womanizer a good company in hell!!!"