Chapter 5

Tara?!” His voice came as a whisper.

As he said this the girl in uniform came and stood beside Tara. She removed her mask and his eyes widened.

He trembled and said “Niti !

Youu?? …. You both know each other?!..... How is this possible!"

Both the girls looked at each other and their smirks widened. Both of them chuckled and Niti said

“ Kamaal ki baat hai! Tumhari research intelligence itni weak hai ?You must know who kidnapped your sister right?”

His eyes became red and he roared loudly

“ You fucking bitches ! How dare you do that”

Tara again chuckled and said

“ Not only we kidnapped her but you know how she died ? We tortured her just like you guys tortured Vihaan. Her screams gave me peace. She got what she deserved, now it's your turn.

How can you guys be so low haa ? Just for his company you killed him! Not only you snatched Vihaan from his family but also from that girl,she is also suffering from the past five years.

You snatched away my best friend from me and now you will face the consequences. You will beg for death but you will not get it. I will make you pay for all the wounds you gave to him.

I couldn't save him that day and for that I am not able to forgive myself till now but I will surely punish you in the most deadliest way. And not only you, one by one all the culprits will be punished.

You all will face Tara’s hell.”

Tara punched him hardly on his face multiple times and his face started bleeding more. She grabbed his hairs and banged his head on her knee making him yell in pain. She kicked him on his dick and with the force, he fell with the chair.

She went forward and kept her feet on his chest and crushing it, she said

“ Niti please pass me the rod, it's time for him to get a few tattoos."

Niti smirked and bought a red hot burning iron rod and handed it carefully to her. Looking at it , he started screaming and begging

“ please please Tara please! Beta.. Tara beta I am your uncle right? How can you do this to me ! Please Tara I beg you leave me …. Please ,Please… I will go away, I will leave this country and never come back in your life just spare me please!” 

Tara scoffed and said

“ Leaving the country, running away that's all you know. But not anymore! And I already told you uncle but I know that you are a total dumb. You are still begging for your life, doesn't that mean that I am lacking something? I want you to beg for death. I want to make your condition so worst that you will feel lucky to die . But, I don't want it now . I want to play more. So let's start !”

Tara bought the rod near his hand and placed it on his right hand making him scream loudly.

Niti smiled listening to him and Tara continued burning him with the rod. She bought the rod close to his chest and pressed the rod with force making him scream more loudly.

Then she stepped back and took out a gun from beneath her bleasure and shot his knee making him groan harder in pain.

He was bleeding badly and Tara said “ Niti, please call kriti. She deserves to see this. After all she should also get a chance to play with him.” Niti nodded and went out.

Kriti entered the room with glistened eyes. She walked towards Tara and said

“ Thank you Tara! My Vihaan will be happy.” Tara was also getting emotional but she managed to keep her face straight and emotionless.

She nodded and said

“ I handover him to you kriti. Do whatever you want to do with him but make sure he doesn't gets an easy death. Then your Vihaan will be more happy.”

Kriti wipped the lone tear that escaped from her left eye and said

“ Definitely .”

Tara spared a last glance at his half dead condition and then left the room. 

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Outside the room, Mr Bakshi was standing and seeing him, Tara went towards him and stood beside him .

Mr. Bakshi -

What happened? Today your torture session ended early. Otherwise whenever you go in you completely loose your cool ! Showed kindness towards your uncle?

Tara -

Ahha… kindness towards him? He didn't show any kindness while killing my vihu. But this time, he deserves to die from someone else's hands. I lost my bestfriend but kriti, she lost her everything. What was she! An orphan who wanted to achieve something in life, spread happiness . She was scared to love but Vihaan, he gave her every reason to love him. And when she did , she lost him. The girl who wanted to be a doctor and save lives is now taking lives without any mercy.

The day she lost him, she lost her smile, her shine and her heart. Killing him would give her some peace.

Mr. Bakshi -

This quality of yours makes you the best Tara. You gave me another reason to feel proud on my choice. Remember the day when you first came to me ………….

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At night : 

On WhatsApp:-

Aayan - Bhai meri purple aaj itne gusse me kyu thi ? 

( Bro why was she so angry today?)

Rishi - I don't know yaar. But I'll try to find out from office. By the way how was your day with her?

Aayan - 😶

Rishi - kya hua Bhai?

( What happened? )

Aayan - pehli baat ki aaj uska gussa dekh kar meri to himmat hi nahi Hui kuch baat karne ki . Aur dusri ki wo lunch time ke baad kahi chali gayi thi to main akela hi tha. So now you can figure out how was my day.

( Firstly, she was so angry that I couldn't gather courage to talk and secondly she left after lunch so I was alone. )

Rishi - Koi na yaar ! Ab to tu bhi yahi hai aur teri purple bhi.

( It's ok bro, you have a lot of time with your purple now. )

Aayan - hmmm.

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Around 12 am at night:-

Tara was again sitting in the balcony looking at stars but this time there was no smile on her face. Niti came from behind and sat beside her folding her legs. 

“ I know you want to ask something. Say”

Tara said still looking at the stars.

Niti smiled and said

“ Aaj Tak kabhi nahi pucha par Aaj jaanna chahti hoon. Kya story hai Vihaan ki ?”

( I never asked but now I want to know what happened with Vihaan).

“ We were in school when we first met each other. He was a very shy and introvert guy. One day few seniors were bullying him and you know my helpful ass. I went there and saved him and from that day we became best friends.

After that day we were inseparable. In college, people often assumed us to be a couple but we shared a different bond. After college I cleared the bar exam and joined dad's company as the legal head and he started his company with the help of his father.

And then one day, Kriti came in his life. We were in a cafe and she used to work there after college to bear her expenses. That was the first time he saw her.

She was also an introvert like him. It took her a lot of time to open up to him but he was patient. They loved each other a lot and we three had a great bonding. We were happy, but we didn't know that someone was ready to ruin our happiness. Vihaan's company was doing really good.

Kunal Oberoi, my uncle was a rival of Vihaan’s company. Vihu was happy in his small world, he didn't want to compete with any other companies.

At a business party Uncle saw Vihaan and he approached him. He told him to transfer majority shares of the company to him and in exchange he could marry his younger sister Amrita.Vihu straight away denied and told him that he has a girlfriend.

He thought that he would not raise this topic again but little did he know that Kunal started spying on him. Vihaan's every movement was being monitored by him and he found about me and Kriti.

He started mentally torturing him by threatening him to kill Kriti. When he found that I was his friend, he started torturing me too. He used to lock me in my room for days when I tried to meet Vihaan. I knew he could hurt him so I tried contacting him but he didn't let me.

And one day he called Vihaan to an under-construction building saying that he wants to solve the things between them.

When Vihaan was on his way, I somehow got a phone from the house maid and called him. As I heard that uncle has called him I understood. I rushed to him .”

She lowered her tshirt and showed her a scar which was present on her collarbone. It seemed that she was stabbed there.

“ I reached there and saw them beating him. My uncle was about to throw a knife on him but I ran and stood in front of him and the knife hit my shoulder.

I saved him from the knife but I couldn't save him from the gunshots that were made by my uncle after pulling me away from him. My Vihu lost his life in front of me and I couldn't do anything. That was the time when I felt most helpless but I after I swear to be powerful and unbreakable. In spite of being the legal head, I joined SAIB and trained under Bakshi sir. Siya di, whom I loved the most also left the world and then Vihaan too. I could not take this and I became the most ruthless agent.” 

A lone tear escaped from her eye as she completed.

“ But why did he kill your dad ? You never told me” Tara questioned her.

“ My dad needed money as our family was going through a crisis. He didn't knew that he was such a big person and a business Mafia. He took the loan from him but couldn't repay it on time.

Kunal refused to give him more time and killed him brutally leaving me and my mother alone without any means of living. I struggled and finally became a CBI officer. During a case , I met Bakshi sir. He saw potential and determination in me and offered me to join SAIB. I knew this was the only way to take my revenge and punish all the other monsters like this.”

“Don't worry Niti, we will punish our culprits and we will never let any innocent face the same situation like we did.”

Niti nodded and they both sat there looking at the stars.

Chapter 6.

Next morning Tara reached the office at 10 am. She was walking towards her cabin while looking down at her mobile phone.

She was engrossed in the mobile screen when she bumped into a well built chest. Her phone fell down but the person standing was fast enough to catch her from her waist saving her from falling.

She slowly opened her eyes only to meet with a pair of dark brown doe orbs staring at her lovingly. It was Aayan.She was lost in the beauty of his eyes while his smirk widened seeing her looking at himself like this.

He snapped his fingers bringing her back from her lala land. She cleared her throat and stood straight. She was about to leave when he came near her and said 

“ Thoda sambhaalkar chala kijiye, zaroori nahi hai har baar Mai hi bachaau .”

Saying this he left from there leaving her dumbfounded. She shook her head in disbelief.

“ Did he just flirt with you ! His senior and you couldn't say anything? Huh”

She mumbled to herself and made her way towards her cabin. 

She was working but her mind was stuck in the morning’s incident. No one has dared to say things like this to her till now and moreover her own reaction was making her confused af.

“ I must say, he is daring!” She mumbled to herself. Realising that she was thinking about him she slapped herself and started working again.

“ Mr. Malhotra can you please come to my cabin?”

Tara said on the phone call.

“ Yes mam, coming right away”

came the reply from Aayan.

She hummed and disconnected the call. He knocked the door of her cabin and she gestured him to come and sit. 

“ Mr. Malhotra what about the list of those schools which I gave you?” She questioned him.

“ Mam I have already filed suits against them. We will be sending it to them by tomorrow.” He answered.

“ Okay” she said slowly but this was not what she wanted to ask him.

He thought that she was done and he started getting up to leave when she hesitatingly said

“Waitt..!”

He turned around asking her what happened to which she gestured him to sit and said

“ Mr. Malhotra can I ask you for a favour?”

  Favour! Arey aap to hukum kijiye!he mumbled to himself and then said “ yes yes mam anything.” 

“ A.. actually I have received an invite for an official party. It's on next Monday. All the sub dms ( sub district magistrates) have been invited so I also have to go. Butt…. everyone has to bring a partner like one of their juniors. So I was thinking if you could come….” 

“ I'll come with you” Aayan answered without letting Tara complete. He was extremely happy and excited.

“ If you have any issue then I can ask Mr. Verma….”

“ NO NEED! I'll come I am anyways jobless…

ah I mean free .” 

As soon as Tara mentioned someone else's name he instantly shouted making her flinch. He could not imagine her going with someone else. He stuttered while Tara was dumbfounded on his behaviour.

She was anyways thankful that he agreed to go with her. Because after what happened last time, no one was ready to accompany her.

She had asked four employees before him but everyone made some or the other excuse. 

“ Thank you so much Mr. Malhotra.” She said with gratitude laced in her voice.

Isse kya pata ki favour Maine iss pe nahi iss ne mujhpe Kiya hai. Mai to maraa jaara tha iske saath kahi jaane ke liye. Thank you so much bhagwan jii !

he said in his mind when he was interrupted by Tara.

“ Mr. Malhotra it's lunch time. Go have your lunch.” 

“ Mam If you don't mind can we eat together?” He shyly asked her.

“ No” His mouth hung open on listening such a rude and straight forward answer from her. He blinked his eyes multiple times to digest what just happened.

She looked up to him that he was still standing there dumbfounded.

“ I actually like to eat alone.” 

She justified herself making him pout like a child and leave from there.

“ Huh! How nicely she was talking when she needed favour and now ! This girl is very rude. Dikhti to itni pyari si hai but behaviour bilkul opposite . Aise to meri love story puri hone me do teen Janam nikal jaayenge”

He was sulking in himself when he came across Rishi.

“ Kya hua Bhai chal lunch karte hai” Rishi said to him.

“ Lunch ? Tu hi khaa !” Aayan scoffed and irritatedly said.

“ Ab kya hogya ?” Rishi knew that he was a big drama company. So something must have happened.

“ I asked Tara for lunch and you know what, she straight away rejected me ! Just a minute ago she was talking so sweetly when I agreed on going to the party with her.” Aayan was telling his so called pain when he was cut by Rishi.

“ Whatttt! Party ? You are going with her ? You are gone.” 

Aayan got surprised on his reaction and said “ Yes I am going and I am very excited also but why are you screaming? What's wrong?”

“ Long story bro. Let's go to cafeteria I'll tell you there.”

They went to the cafeteria and ordered their lunch while Aayan asked

“ Tell na why were you reacting like that ?”

Rishi took a deep breath and started

“ An year ago also there was a party like this where Tara Madam went with Ritesh Sir. Actually madam is very short tempered we all know this. She was walking with a glass of wine in her hand when she bumped into a woman and accidentally the wine fell on that woman’s purse.

She apologized but that woman was a total bitch. She started screaming on her and even started talking about her status and all. She was a businessman’s wife and started saying that government officials have no class and all.

So madam lost her cool and smashed a beer bottle on her head. And after that everyone is scared to go with her.” 

On hearing him Aayan gulped imagining the scenario. He was astonished by her badass behaviour. But still he wanted to go with her. As much as he was scared of her anger, he also admired her angry face.

“ It's okay bro , I can bear every behaviour of her.” He genuinely smiled and Rishi facepalmed himself knowing to the extent he was whipped for her.