Meetings line up one after the other making me completely busy in the office. Finally all the meetings were over and it was lunch time. I could no longer operate without my sweet wife beside me. I close the files lying lazily in front of me and inform my secretary that I will be reaching office only by tomorrow and the people who require my appointments can wait till then.
Putting the engine on fire I headed to my destination where I could see my cute wife, my home. When I find the living hall empty I hastily climb the stairs to our bedroom escaping a step at a time. The bedroom was empty with no trace of her presence. My pressure begins to rise as I check for her in the washroom but vilely meet with the same result - a sick feeling was escalating in my heart as though something wrong had happened.
My eyes fall on the half opened closet just to find it completely empty. Sweat begins to feature on my forehead and I start pulsating. With trembling hands I pull out my phone out of my pants pockets and dial the security.

Chapter 47
Adaah
I have been sitting in one of the parks in the city since the time I left the office. The climate outside was like a replica of my fate. The weather was cloudy. There was a sudden lightening followed by a loud thunder making the atmosphere fierce. I didn't wish to leave home even after the warning of the inclement forecast. The people in the park rush to their shelters. I watch them toneless with no change in my body movements. My eyes were red by endless tears with feelings I couldn't control any longer. Soon there were big droplets of water falling and then there started an outpour of heavy rain.
A woman in her late sixties with wrinkled skin reaches me. Her face held kindness. She sits beside me and pats my back. "Young lady, it is raining heavily. You will get wet and fall sick if you continue to stay here. Please go home." She insists on me. I peep at her with my watery eyes. She oozes motherliness and looks at me concerned "should I drop you home?" She asks me in her gentle voice pointing to a white car parked in the front. I shake my head and peel myself out of the seat hazed by her tenderness to walk out of the park.
It was 10 in the night and I was completely drenched by rain. My sky blue shirt soaked in water, hugged my body like a second skin marking me half naked by its super fine transparent material. Caring less about the people's stares, I take slow and tiring steps to my abode. Softly opening the door of my flat, not bothered about my surroundings, I walk directly to my bedroom for a change when I hear him screaming. "because she is my wife damn it!" I turn back to look at him and then our eyes meet. He was gaping at me with his baaing eyes from my living room balcony with a phone in his hands. Impetuous about his presence I continue to walk to my bedroom taking a mental note tomorrow I should vacate this flat else this beast would keep invading my privacy giving me more heart breaks.
"Wait" I hear a tired but firm voice from him. This Romeo still has the audacity to command me. I grit my teeth and turn back looking at him with distaste. Not bothering about my facial features he asks me in his stern and angry voice "where have you been all day? Don't you know you have to inform in the house or in the office about your whereabouts?" My eyes shifted to Maria who was looking at me with pitiful looks. Then my orbs go back to the devil who reprimands answers from me but who by himself had no morals. I was in no mood to mess with him at this late hour yet I had to get him out of my house at the earliest. I turn to him and give him my firm and deadly answer "that is none of your business Mr Ajit Acharya. Now if you leave l can... " I direct my hands to the door.

He gets taken aback but resurfaces in an authority. "It is my damn business and now you will answer all my questions like an obedient little girl." My eyes automatically close. A sneeze, and then another. A set of continuous sneezes erupt out of my lips. He halts for a second observing me and his voice viscerally turns calm. "Go take a bath and change your clothes before you get sick."
After fifteen minutes I was fresh from showering but did not bother to open the door. Away from the devil is away from hell. Ten minutes more, I hear a knock on the door. "Little girl, I know you have finished changing. Now be a good girl and open the door to have something to eat." I don't give two hoots on what he thinks. There was another knock on the door after 10 seconds but this time with a warning. "Little girl, you know too well that I store the spare keys for all these doors. You have five seconds to open this damn door else you know what I am going to do."
I grit my teeth at his annoyance and burst open the door with a fuming red face "Who the hell are you commanding me to open the door?"He stops me raising his fore finger towards a caution. "Not one more word from that little mouth of yours." Taking slow predatory steps in my direction, his face was utterly serious giving no room for an argument. I gulp hard to control my fear looking at his beastly changeover.

What was Ajit going to do to Adaah?