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Vikram doesn't care that he is being watched and judged by all those elite businessmen as he runs towards the exit with the speed of light. This isn't about his reputation anymore. It's now a do or die situation. It's about protecting his brother, himself. 

"You son of a bitch!" Vikram curses under his breath, getting a glimpse of Ravi. 

Running tracks in his high school days definitely came in handy though he has lost some sparks. 

"Wait, you son of a bitch! I will kill you." Vikram curses as all those suppressed emotions find the surface.

His mere threat doesn't stop a psychopath like Ravi because he doesn't stop. Who would? He rather takes a sudden turn to the right direction causing Vikram to halt and wait a few seconds to control his composure. It doesn't stop Vikram either. He starts running faster than before, giving Ravi a hard time. 

The roads are crowded with moving cars, deeming their speed. They are both lucky that they are able to dodge the cars in time though Vikram hopes Ravi gets hit by one. He needs to catch that psycho but Ravi is as fast as him. 

Finally, it seems as if fate had taken pity on Vikram. Ravi gets hit by a car, sending him 3 feets away due to the force. Vikram runs to catch him before he can start running again.

The owner of the car starts to press the horn but none of them move from there as Vikram has Ravi pinned to the ground. The adrenaline rush is too intense to ignore. His heart starts beating faster upon finally catching Ravi in his hold. 

"You son of a bitch." Vikram punches his jaw hard, maybe breaking one or two teeth.

"I finally found you!" He punches again. 

"I'm gonna call the police if you guys keep fighting on the road." The car owner warns. 

Along with the man's nonstop threats, Vikram's ears pick up the noise of several sounds of car horns. He was so engrossed into it that he failed to notice that there was a big line of cars waiting. So, he grabs the collar of Ravi's shirt and drags him to the nearest alleyway which is fortunately dark and quiet. Perfect for him.

Ravi pries Vikram's hands off his collar and kicks him in the guts. Vikram is caught off guard by the sudden attack. However, he doesn't let Ravi have the next hit. He composes himself and lands a fierce kick on Ravi's knee, causing him to fall to the ground.

"How did you get the video?" Vikram asks, punching his jaw once again, making Ravi look redder than red itself.

Even after almost having his jaw break, Rabi laughs out like a maniac. It must hurt like a bitch to laugh like that when a few of his teeth are missing and blood is pouring out of his mouth like a waterfall. It's not that hard to notice that this man is indeed a psychopath.

"You will never get it, Arora." Ravi says, still laughing while laying on the hard and dirty ground.

"You want me to use the hard way then." Vikram utters, pulling him up off the ground by his collar. 

But before Vikram can do something, he groans in pain as a metal is prying through the skin of his belly. His fucker has stabbed him!

Vikram doesn't realize when Ravi took out a knife from his pocket. Well, Vikram should have known that he was dealing with a vicious criminal. 

Ravi wipes the blood away furiously as Vikram falls to the ground gradually, holding his belly. 

"We will see each other again, Arora." Ravi says, kicking Vikram's stomach.

But Vikram can't let him go this easily. He refuses to accept defeat even after coming so close to solving it. So, Vikram grabs Ravi's leg, refusing to let him go. 

"I can easily kill you with this knife, Arora. But what's the fun in it?" 

Ravi is taking Vikram as someone who is too vulnerable when the wound isn't that bad either. It's bleeding but not that heavily, the knife didn't go deep. He takes the advantage and yanks at his leg which causes him to land on the ground beside Vikram with a loud thud. He must have hurt his head in the process, the fall was hard.

Even though Vikram feels like he has already run out of energy, he punches Ravi again. A stab through the belly couldn't kill his determination yet.

It's like they are participating in a wrestling match where you don't know whom to support as the situation is unstable. One moment it feels like Vikram is the one winning, then Ravi comes into the frame with his evil tactics. He grabs Vikram's wounded stomach and puts pressure on it. It's too much to handle right now. He ends up losing his grip on Ravi.

Ravi takes the opportunity and runs away. Vikram wants to run after him but he knows his body won't cooperate with him right now. 

"Fuck!" Vikram lets out a yell of frustration. 

He was this close but now everything has slipped away from his hand. He feels like a failure. His everything is at risk yet he couldn't give his best and couldn't stop Ravi. But now he got his confirmation. Ravi is the blackmailer indeed. 

However, it seems like he isn't totally out of luck today. Nobody is a perfect criminal. Not even a psychopath. Vikram grabs the wallet that he finds beside him. It must belong to Ravi. 

Vikram brings himself into a sitting position, resting his back on the concrete wall. Taking some deep breath, he opens the wallet in hope he will find something useful. All he finds is some cash and then finally something useful. An identity card which is of course fake but it's all he has. 

Vikram rests for more than 5 minutes, waiting for the pain to settle in. The wound has stopped bleeding but it doesn't hurt any less. He lifts himself off the ground before taking a photo of the identity card. 

"I'm sending you a photo of an id card. Give me the information about it as soon as possible." Vikram says over the phone, hoping Nilay won't fail with his hacking and connection skills. 

He gets a call from Priya as soon as cuts the call. 

"Where are you, Vikram? Come here soon." The urgency in her voice scares him. 

"What happened?" 

"I want to introduce you to someone. It will do wonders for your business." Vikram breathes a sigh of relief. 

"Yeah,I'm coming."

Vikram should definitely get his wound treated but he decides against it. He can handle it. For now, Veer needs him. It's his brother's first party after his marriage, even if it's a business party. It's important for Veer, so naturally it's important for him as well. 

On the other hand, Kairav giggles at Veer's terrified face. It looks funny to him. Alcohol has already taken over his entire system. 

"I didn't kill her!" Veer says again, he keeps ranting again as if he was trying to prove a point. 

But Kairav is too drunk to understand Veer's desperation. 

"Good. Cause me neither!" Kairav giggles, not knowing what he is saying and what Veer actually means. 

Veer narrows his eyes at the boy who is laughing like he has seen something funny. It triggers Veer even more. Fear overtakes all the rational thinking, he cowers into the corner of the room. All while Kairav makes his way towards the room, totally forgetting about his urge to go to the toilet. It seems more entertaining. 

Kairav grabs the phone that was in Veer's hand a few moments ago.

"Wow! So much tomato sauce over her body and it's you!" Kairav yells in excitement, seeing Veer's face in the video.

"You are playing with her body with tomato ketchup." Kairav laughs, "Nope. It's not a good thing to play with a lady's body like that….. Well, unless it's poooorn." Kairav says, dragging the word "porn" for some unknown reason.

"W-What are you talking about?" Veer asks in a shaky voice.

"Dude! You are in the video with the lady! And omg." Kairav exclaims in shock without taking his eyes away from the phone. 

"She is not a bread. Why are you playing with a knife?" Kairav pouts, the video is now making him upset, "Why did you pull the knife out of her like she is a knife? You shouldn't do that! Only use a knife in the kitchen." Kairav advises, not really realizing that he is watching something that he shouldn't.

If he was sober enough, he would lose his vocal cord by now. However, he starts giggling again seeing Veer's terrified face. 

"You look like a…….. what again?....yeah, like the knife man in the video." 

"I SAID I DIDN'T KILL HER." Veer yells, anger replacing fear as he approaches the drunk kid. 

He grabs Kairav's neck in a tight hold and slams him to the nearest wall.

"I didn't kill her. I said I didn't." He keeps repeating himself, putting more pressure on the hold, making it harder for the boy to breath. 

"Ahhhhh,I-I s-said y-y-ou were playing with h-her." Kairav tries to talk in his defense, trying to pry Veer's hands from his neck.

Luckily for Kairav, Priya enters the room and finds her husband almost choking him to death. 

"Veer, let him go, please." She pleads as calmly as possible, as if she was coaxing a little child. 

"I didn't kill her.I didn't." Veer sobs, loosening his pressure on Kairav's neck finally. 

His words shock Priya. Why is he suddenly talking about it? Veer didn't speak about it even once. He was always too scared of it. What made him go feral? 

"I know that, love. You can never kill anyone. But you don't want this boy to die, do you? Didn't you tell me a while ago that you liked the kid?" Priya sweetly whispers to her husband. 

Veer let's Kairav go when his thoughts come back to reality. He was so shocked, so scared that he didn't even realize he was choking Kairav. Guilt makes his heart heavy. Just like that day. He didn't kill her. He didn't.

Kairav can finally breathe freely. He thought he would die soon, the pressure was too much. However, his throat now feels sore. 

Is playing with tomato ketchup over a lady's body and killing her the same thing? He thinks. 

Priya hugs her broken husband who breaks into a fit of tears and finally loses consciousness in her arms. With some difficulty, Priya settles him on the bed. The whole situation is making her paranoid so he ends up calling Vikram.

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Vikram is too agitated and worried after getting a call from Priya. She hasn't told her clearly what happened but it's related to his little brother. Ravi was also here so he can understand what might have happened and it doesn't sit well with him. 

Grabbing the extra coat that he has in his car, he changes his current one with it, buttoning the front so that none can see the dried blood. He looks like a mess but he can't do anything about it. He combs his hair with his hand, trying to look like he didn't just go through hell. 

"Veer!" Vikram almost yells, finding his brother unconscious on the bed. 

Hurriedly he makes his way towards the bed, feeling more helpless than ever. His regret knows no bounds now. He couldn't catch that bastard who did this to his brother.

"What happened?" 

"He had a serious episode and then blacked out." Priya informs, tears forming at the corner of her eyes. 

"He didn't have any episodes in the past few months…..what must have happened?"

Priya shows him the video which makes his blood boil. 

"That bastard!" Vikram throws the phone on the floor with so much force that it breaks down.

"Just give me a few hours, I will kill him with my bare hands." Vikram vows. 

Vikram knows that the video is a lie, a fabricated lie to frame his innocent brother. Veer can never kill anyone. He couldn't kill Vikram's girlfriend, could he?

It's just Veer's mental condition that makes him violent sometimes. Someone took advantage of it. Vikram will make sure to find out who it is. Not that he didn't try to find it out before. 2 years have passed. In those years, he tried his best to catch the real culprit but everything led him to a dead end. 

"Doctor said it will be ok if he doesn't get any trigger about the past anymore.We have to be careful about it."

Vikram nods his head. The whole time he failed to notice the whimpers that were coming from a certain boy but now that he has calmed his nerve down, he sees who's that boy. 

"Why is he here? Why did you tie him up, Priya?" 

Kairav's hands are tied in front of him with a tie which Vikram saw on Veer's neck before and a handkerchief is shoved into his mouth to work as a makeshift gag. 

"He was being so annoying. Asking "Is playing with sauce over a lady's body and killing her the same thing" again and again and he was screaming too when he saw Veer's eyes were closed so I had no other options." Priya explains.

"Playing with sauce?" Vikram asks, confused.

"He watched the video."

"He what?" It is another shock for the billionaire. 

Now that he is somewhat positive that the boy doesn't have anything to do with the case after observing him for days, the boy now has watched the video of his brother possibly killing his girlfriend.

"He is drunk now but when he gets sober up he may open his mouth and we have to make sure he forgets everything before he does that." Priya advises, looking at the kid struggling at the bonds.

Vikram ignores Kairav for a while and tells everything to priya, we'll, except for the fact that he has been stabbed.

"Nilay is on it. I think he will get someone very soon." 

"If he has one fake id card, he can have numerous." Priya says.

"Yeah but he was carrying that id card that means it is his identity now."

They discuss the matter for a while before they decide it's time to call off the party and let Veer rest. 

"Take your secretary with you." Priya suggests.

"Where will I take him? Let him stay for the night. When he gets sobered up in the morning, we will talk it out. I will have to hunt down Ravi for now." Priya shakes her head in disagreement.

"He is a trigger for Veer. I can't let him stay here. Take him with you. You will get some company."

"Yeah, a drunk and whiny kid's company." Vikam rolls his eyes.

But he agrees that he is a possible trigger for Veer. So, he ends up deciding to take the kid with him despite his unwillingness. He will make sure Kairav doesn't speak of the video before he lets him go. 

No one is present in the house now except for them. So, he drags Kairav out of that room. 

"I'm undoing your tie and removing the gag, please don't scream, huh?" Kairav nods his head desperately. 

But when Vikram removes the gag, the first thing Kairav does is scream his lungs out because that's the first thing his brain has told him to do. 

"Shut up!" Vikram scolds the younger male. Kairav eventually stops screaming. 

Vikram sighs in relief. He throws the boy over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and heads towards his car. The boy is too drunk to walk properly on his own which compelled Vikram to carry him that way. 

He settles the boy into the passenger seat, doing his seat belt and undoing the bind on his hand.

"Are you kidnapping me?" Kairav asks innocently.

"Kinda. Just until you get sobered up." Vikram honestly replies.

"Should I be scared?" The boy laughs. 

Vikram ignores him and starts the car. After a while, he gets a call from Nilay. 

"Did you find anything, Nilay?" Vikram asks in a gloomy voice.

"Yeah, your brain which you lost in your childhood. Sadly, ghostie's brain is still missing." He starts laughing hard.

Both Vikram and Nilay ignore the kid and talk about stuff.

"His current location. I'm sending you the address, set it to your gps."

"Great." 

"Keep me updated." Nilay says from the other side of the phone. 

"Hmm." Vikram cuts the call, driving towards the address Nilay just sent him. 

Luckily it's not that far. Good, he doesn't have to tolerate the drunk kid for long. But he isn't that lucky either. The kid doesn't shut up at all. He shouldn't have removed his gag in the first place! 

"Do you like mangoes ,Mr.kidnapper?"

Vikram ignores him.

"Reply or else I-"

"What?"

"I will tickle you." Kairav uses a mischievous tone which makes Vikram believe his threat. 

Vikram is very ticklish and he is driving. He can't let that boy do this stupidity right now. Both of them will end up dead.

"Yes." Vikram replies. 

"Oops! Too bad. Mangoes are for hoes."

Vikram shakes his head in both annoyance and amusement. This boy is something else. Even when he is drunk. 

Finally they reach the destination. He grabs his gun and tucks it in his waistband. Got it from Priya, he refuses to do the same mistake. Ravi may have more than a knife with him now. He needs to be prepared. 

"Don't get out of the car,ok? Stay here, kid." Vikram warns, unbuckling his seat belt.

He doesn't wait for the boy's reply though. He takes off in a rush towards the small one story house in front of him. It's not even a house, a hut maybe. Definitely not a place where Ravi is staying. A hideout? Maybe. 

He tightens his grip on the gun as he walks inside, using his phone as a torchlight as the whole room is dark. 

Something feels off. If Ravi was really there, he should try to attack Vikram right now. But nothing like that happens. Vikram's blood runs cold when he sees a pool of blood under his feet, he freezes on his spot after spotting a body. 

With a shaky hand Vikram holds the flashlight on the dead body. 

It's Ravi's dead body.

A/N: Why does Kairav get stuck in wrong situations always? 🤡

Now that we have some information of what might happened that day, do you guys have any theory? 👀

Anyway, thanks for reading! Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter ^-^