Aditi.

"Fine then!" I looked at them "You can go back if I am dead!" I screamed at them as I started to struggle inside sam's grip.

"Kill me you bloody traitor, You betrayed her, She trusted you and you paid her back in a cruel way, you-" I stopped as the blade cut my skin.

"Aditi!"

"No! Don't move"

Aditya and karthik took a step towards me and sam shouted again.

"This is my last warning to you two..you, stop struggling if you want to be alive"

"I don't want to be alive" I shouted.

"Ha! See what we have here!"

Karthik, Aditya and I froze at that voice, All of us turned around to see the executive director of surya corporation; Pramod and his men.

We are doomed.

Arjun.

"Thank you so much Arjun" Pramod said through the phone "if it was not for you, I would not have got this chance to prove myself" he said.

"How's mahesh and all?"

"I unlocked them, they are fine now, slightly injured"

"What about that gang?" I asked again.

"They are already taken care of" he said. "Mahesh's men have them tied up"

"Bring them to the headquarters" I said.

"Yes, I Am bringing the two guys with me, Mahesh said he wants to have a chat with the girl-"

"All three of them, Bring them here!" I said sternly "Father is already aware of this matter and he's waiting to meet them, Tell mahesh to bring them here directly" I said.

"I..I understand" pramod said.

"I would like you to keep it a secret that I send you there" I said "I don't want mahesh to think that I am taking credit for the work, Just tell them it was your idea, Father will reward you" I said again.

"Thank you Arjun!" he exclaimed "I will never forget this favour" he added.

I hung up on him and attended karan's incoming call.

"Karan?" I said "you have been calling me non stop-"

"The police officers called me, they can't keep trishana there, She is very angry and They can't handle her" he said.

For some reason, the statement just brought a smile on my face even in this grave situation.

"Tell them to let her Go" I said.

Now that the fight is over, She won't get into anymore trouble....hopefully.

"But why did you ask me to block her?"

"Then do you want to clean up after another bunch of photos of her?" I asked "I know my brothers well, If she took a wrong step again, They won't leave her with a simple threatening" I added.

"You were worried that she's going to get hurt?"

"No! I was worried that I had to clean up after Mahesh if she provoked him" I said.

"But She's very murderous now, I think she will sue that officers and it's going to make you work again-"

"Leave the case to varun then" I said "And drop it" I told karan "I need to attend the emergency meeting now"

Trishana.

I was still fuming as I dialled karthik's emergency number.

"Hello?" I heard the unknown voice and stilled.

No!

Don't tell me that they are already trapped!

No way!

"Where's karthik?"

"Your friends are with us, trishana"

This time I recognised mahesh's self satisfied tone "I especially liked the spitfire here" he said and my blood ran cold.

Did Aditi end up in that bloody womaniser's hand?

"Do not touch them" I said sternly.

"If you don't want us to touch them, bring shahid to us, Tell him to decrypt the Ajith roy files to us"

"He can't do that"

"It's fine, But decide within this 12 hours, I will give you time till this morning, You decide if you want to keep them alive or not" he disconnected the call.

But the files they took from the file house is only the duplicate and We can't hand over them the original ones!

I dialled shahid next.

"Trisha, Karthi and others-"

"I know" I said robotically "how's varsha?"

"Still in operation theatre, Dr.prakash told me to wait in his house"

"Let's meet up at the estate house and plan what we are going to do"

"But varsha is still-"

"Dont worry, I will call officer suresh kumar now and ask him to keep an eye on her, it's dangerous for you to be near there, they are still trying to open Ajith sir's files and they think they already have both the parts and they want you to decrypt it"

"But last time the police officers-"

"Karthik's dad and prakash uncle will take care of her, I will file a FIR and hand over the evidence to arrest mahesh"

"Evidence?"

"Yea, this time varsha left strong evidence against them" I said "She even risked her life for that" I said.

"Then let's meet up at the estate house"

Shweta.

I don't know what's going on, I was still locked inside their room and there was no signs of them.

Did something terrible happen to them?

What if father and my brothers killed them?

Oh my God!

What if-

I was snapped out of my thoughts as I heard the sounds and ran to the door.

I waited until they opened the door for me.

"Finally!" I exclaimed "where are the other-" I stopped as I took shahid's form in.

He was looking tortured and covered in blood.

"What..what happened?" I looked at them widely.

"It looks like we have to use you after all" Trishana told me as shahid grabbed me by my elbows and dragged me to the chair.

"Hey!" I shouted.

He dumped me to the nearest chair.

"Let's just see if you are valuable or not" he said as he started to tie me up "let's just see if your family wants to keep you alive or not" he said.

"I don't understand-"

"Mahesh took Aditya, Aditi and karthik with him" Trishana said "If we can't rescue them by next morning, They are going to get killed" she said.

I froze at that.

"They..they are going to get murdered?" I asked.

"Yes" Shahid looked like a crazy guy "And your lifespan depends on theirs" he said "If we can exchange you for them, you can live, But if they are not ready for the deal, You die with them" He said deadly.

Aditya.

We were thrown inside a windowless, narrow room with only the cctv in place.

"Are you alright?" I turned to Aditi who was looking tired.

"I told you to escape!" She said angrily.

"I think this is the same room Trisha was taken when she was kidnapped" karthik was looking around "There is no way outside, May be Trisha must be the only person who had escaped this prison after coming inside"

"Even if there's a way out, We are tied up, I can't even move" I told him.

"It's easy to untie this knot" karthik said "but I don't want to alert them now"

Oh..I forgot his identity for a while. karthik is highly trained in things like this.

"What do you think they are going to do to us?" Aditi asked slowly "what if we get killed here-"

"Before killing us, They will try to get details from us" he said "So if you want to live, Endure the torture, If you speak up, You are as good as dead"

"You sounds like you have been in this situation before" I looked at him.

"Twice" he said grimly "Try to stall for time" he said "we can over power them when they let their guard down"

"I don't think we can over power them" Aditi said "There are too many of them" she said "Even if we manage to get out of this room, this is surya head quarters, All their private goons will be chasing us"

"That's why I have another piece of advice for you" he looked at her "If you want to win, take their leader down first" he said.

Arjun.

"You should have informed me first!" father looked angry at mahesh for calling varsha to his private residence "you have already messed up before, You know there's a journalist among them and still decided to keep it from me!"

"If you had reported it earlier, we could have gotten hold of the whole gang, Now shahid and varsha got away" I said

"That's right! And if it was not for pramod, They would have escaped today!" Abiram agreed.

"No they wouldn't have!" Mahesh said "I had already bribed her best friend, sam and They couldn't escape because of him, They were already trapped even before pramod and his men appeared"

"They were about to escape when I reached there" pramod said.

"Who's this sam?" father narrowed his eyes "is he someone we can trust?"

"He's varsha's childhood friend" Mahesh said "I offered him a job as the head of the fashion department"

"It's that guy who told you where Abraham was hiding?"

"Yea, that's him"

"Careful, he cannot be trusted, keep an eye on him" father said.

Then turned to me "where were you when all of this happened?" he asked me.

"I blocked trishana and her people from coming there" I said.

"That's one thing less to worry" Father nodded and turned to Abiram "What about you?" he asked.

"I dispatched our men when I heard about the fight but they were stopped by another group" he said.

"Another group? ragav sir looked at him "what do you mean?"

"I suspect palace group is starting to take their move" he said "I recognised one of their men"

"Why would they do it today? Is it really a coincidence?" Mahesh said.

"Today palace group MD was taken for questioning regarding Abraham's case" I said.

"That's no surprise if they attacked us now!" pramod said "They have noticed us and they are starting to counteract" he said.

"Is it important now?"Mahesh shouted "What are we going to do with them?" he asked and everyone turned to the Screen.

The three of them were still sitting in a corner.

"We need to know where shahid and others are hiding" father said "We need to know these guy's identity too" he added.

"That's easy" Abiram got up from his chair "let me teach those guys a lesson today!" he said.

"Wait" Mahesh said "They are more skilled than you think, they practically beaten up my 6 most powerful men and locked us inside, Don't take your muscle power with them"

Abiram scoffed at that.

"They are locked inside and what are you worried about!"

I watched as Abiram walked out of the room and walked to them.

When he opened the door, All the three raised up from the floor slowly.

"You owe me a debt last time" he said, looking at the guy in the right "You attacked me and took her away last time" he added as he walked forward.

"I don't think this is a fair fight" the guy in the right side spoke up "we were beaten up and tied up" he said.

"Turn around" Abiram growled and the guy turned around and waited as Abiram started to loosen the tie on his hand.

"Let's fight like men now" Abiram said.

"I told him not to!" Mahesh said looking at the screen "They even defeated nakulan!" he said.

"Then I would really like to see how strong they are" Father said and all of us watched.

Abiram started his strikes and every punch was missed, dodged and ducked by him, which made Abiram more angrier.

what I was watching was the accurate, precise and calculated movements of the guy.

"He's trained" I said "He's well trained in martial arts" I said again.

"Sir!" someone opened the door to the conference room and the ex-SI who was suspended because of varsha's case stood there.

"You got hold of them? The bloody guys who fought with me and escaped last time from the skylines?" SI thomas mathew cursed in his police language.

"I asked you here to find me their identity" father said "As you can see, they don't look normal, see if there's any similarity with anyone, They could be disguised-" he stopped as the punches started.

The guy was single handedly beating the crap out of Abiram.

"Let me go and help him!" thomas said eagerly "I was suspended because of them!" he said and when father didn't object, he walked to their room.

"Is there anything in their phone?"

"Nothing" I said "They haven't saved even a number, I think they were keeping it to use in case of emergency" I said.

"Do you think shahid will decrypt the files in exchange for them?" Mahesh asked.

"I doubt it" I said "But I am sure that they will try everything to get these guys out of here, they have a strong bond between them"

"We can't trust shahid even if he agree to decode the files, he had already tricked us once by giving a self destructive file" father said "And once he is here, kill them all, don't let them escape" he added.

Aditya.

Someone else opened the door to our jail room and I recognised the cruel police officer with a shock.

I know he's notorious and heartless in his field and I haven't forgotten the last time we came face to face, from skylines.

"Karthik!" I shouted as he swung the wooden chair and hit karthik from behind.

Karthik was thrown back and hit the wall with the unexpected attack.

"Sanjay and nakulan!" Abiram called and the two killers entered the room "take care of them" he ordered, moving back.

Karthik was already fighting with the SI and I joined the fight.

My hands were still tied behind, So all I could do was to dodge their attack and shield Aditi from them.

"Who are you?" Abiram questioned "Where are you staying?" He asked again "where's Shahid?" he demanded.

Sanjay pushed me to the wall and tightened his hands on my wind pipe.

"Aditya!" Aditi screamed and karthik turned to kick sanjay back from me.

Nakulan took the chance and punched him and karthik was thrown back with the impact.

"Wait" Abiram said as he walked towards to us again.

"Are you going to answer me?" he asked slowly.

"You won't get anything from us even if you were to kill us!" Aditi screamed at him.

"Very good" Abiram surya narayan said "I know a way to make you talk" He said and looked at the door.

"Bring it inside" he shouted and we watched in horror as they brought in an electric chair with wires attached.

"There was no one who had tolerated this punishment, let's see if you can keep your mouth shut or not" Abiram said cruelly "Hold them" he ordered and five or six men reached near us to hold us in place.

"Bring the girl here" his next order came and my heart dropped.

"No!" I shouted "Don't touch her, Don't!" I screamed as they pulled a struggling Aditi towards the chair.

"If you are really man enough, Abiram, have the guts to face us instead of using a girl!" karthik said coldly.

He didn't shout, But I felt the carefully suppressed anger and worry underneath it.

I realised that the more we show them the weakness, The greater will be her torture.

"She's not just any girl" Abiram stepped towards us and snickered "She's Someone the both of you wants to protect too much" Abiram said "She's also someone whom you two have risked your life to protect last time I kidnapped her" he smirked "let's see if you can talk now" Abiram turned to her.

"Let go!" Aditi was still struggling while they were belting her inside.

"Switch it on" Abiram ordered and Aditi's scream filled the room.

Karthik.

Aditi's scream filled the room and I closed my eyes tightly, But there was nothing I could do to block her voice.

I had had so much experience with dealing with terror, I had even been tortured until I was half dead during one of my missions, But nothing compared to the torture I am suffering now.

The sound stopped and I opened my eyes to realise that both of my eyes were filling and flowing down.

I blinked back my tears and looked at her, Aditi looked tired and tortured, Her eyes were red and hair sticking to her face and neck.

"Tell me now..." Abiram lifted her chin up with his hands "Tell me, Who are you? Why are you against surya group? Where are you hiding shahid?" He looked into her eyes "Tell me or I'm going to kill you today" he said.

Aditi Moved her head to the side "k..Kill..me.." She said in her shivering voice and my control snapped.

I fisted my hands tightly.

"Well..." Abiram turned to us "Tell me...Do you have the same opinion?Are you ready to talk?" he asked.

"You...you will have to..kill..us..all.." Aditya whispered, His pain and anguish clear in his voice.

I know it too.

We will never talk even if they kill us here today, We will never give away Shahid's whereabouts.

"Good" Abiram's eyes turned evil "what do you think?" he turned to look at me.

"I hide him away" I said "Nobody in the the gang knows about it apart from me" I said more firmly "Even if you torture her to death, You will get nothing out of it" I said.

Aditya looked at me in shock, Even Aditi lifted her eyelids slightly.

Arjun.

A chill went down me at his words.

I know what he's doing, He wants to switch place with her.

They are not afraid of death!

"Untie the girl and lock him here instead" Abiram ordered "pass the current until he's ready to talk" he ordered.

"Wait" father said "Let the girl take the punishment" he said through the small mic that's attached to the receiver in the jail room.

Apparently He could see through him too.

"But-" Abiram looked at the camera.

"Switch the power on and kill her now" Father ordered and I tightened my grip on the file.

This is not good..

Whatever reason I have to be here, It's not an excuse for me to get involved in murdering people..

"They are not going to talk" I spoke up against my judgement. "They are ready to die" I said.

"What? Don't tell me that your self righteousness back again" Mahesh mocked me "If they are ready to die, let them die then"

"If we kill them without knowing their identity, How can you be sure that someone else will not take their place?" I asked back.

"What is it, Arjun?" father narrowed his eyes at me "it's been so many years, don't tell me that you are still feeling "unsure" about killing people" he sounded angry.

"Kill them after getting the evidence!" I said "They can't get out of here alive anyway" I added.

"There's nothing on them and they are not ready to talk, keeping them alive is out of question" pramod nodded "They have already caused us a lot of trouble" he said.

So I turned back to the mobile phones that was taken from them.

"Continue" father ordered and the girl's scream filled the air again.

"What's this?" I took the guns that was placed near by "Is it the gun you took from them?" I asked and mahesh nodded.

"Silly girl, She was trying to kill me with the-"

"Stop now!" I switched on the mic to the room and said "pull out the plug, NOW!" I Shouted this time.

And the screaming stopped. I switched off the mike.

"What the hell are you doing, Arjun?" father looked furious now "I have waited for you to change, but it seem that you will never be-"

"look at this gun!" I exclaimed "This is not an ordinary gun! It's a police officer's gun!" I said. "It means one of them is a police officer!"

Silence filled the room.

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