Vineet looked at Ruhana and asked "kya aap bata sakti hai kab aur kyun Manvi ghar se gayi?"

Ruhana said with her eyes getting moist "mujhse jhagda kiya aur chali gayi" and she tells him the whole incident.

The jeep stops and chuabe says "sir, hospital aa gaye"

They get down and moves into the hospital. At the reception "Excuse me"

The nurse looks at Vineet and Chuabe who were in Police uniform and gets scared "yes sir"

Vineet spoke up "yahan ek nurse kaam karti thi jinhe abhi retirement mila hai Miss suzy mujhe full details chahiye"

The nurse nodes and gives him the record from the computer. He then showed her Manvi's picture "ye ladki hospital mein laayi gayi thi?"

The replies "sir mujhe yaad nhi hai.."

Vineet looked at her and then at Ruhana "tum ghar jao main pata lagake aata hoon"

Ruhana denies "main kahi nhi jaa rahi hoon"

Vineet sighed and they visit Suzy's home.

Viraj's home

Manvi was sitting on the dining table silently and looking scared, she rolled her eyes towards Viraj and gulped down her throat. Viraj looked at her, he had a knife in his hand. He held her and placed it on table, he ask her to open up her fingers.

"Viraj.. tum.." she tried to speak but he passed her anger gaze. He forcefully stretched her fingers giving gap of about half inch in between each.

He then slowly starts to move the knife sharp edge in between them from right to left then left to right. He eyed her and said "you love me, you love me not" and with every move his speed was increasing.

Manvi pleads "Viraj please"

Viraj smiled and there was some kind of craziness in his eyes, his attention was on the game "you love me, you love me not"

Soon his speed was too fast and knife hits her second finger. She screamed in pain "Aah" the blood starts to ooze out from it, within few seconds her whole finger turned red, the pain was reflecting in her eyes.

Viraj smiled broadly and said "Dekha you also love me"

Manvi looks at him and screams "Tum paagal ho gaye ho samjhe I don't love you"

Viraj then points knife to her neck "chup, zyada chilao mat samjhi"

Manvi had tears in her eyes, she recalled a incident.

Ruhana was with Anvi and Manvi was cutting vegetables and in process she cut her finger "ouch" escaped from her mouth.

Ruhana heard it and went to her and scolds her "kya karti ho? Har dusre din ungli kat leti ho tum! Dhyan se kyun nhi karti"

Manvi smiles and says dramatically "ab meri nazuk si ungli hai, bechare chaku ka bhi dil aa gaya mujhpe"

Ruhana eyed her and smiled at her antics "nautanki", she puts band-aid on her cut.

Avni comes and laughs.

Manvi glanced at her and questioned her "aapko kyun itni hasi aa rahi hai Anvi?"

"kyuki aap Anvi se bhi zyada shaitani karti ho" she said teasingly, Manvi was left with open mouth.

She pouts "ruko batati hoon tumhe", Avni runs and Manvi got up to run behind her, their tom and jerry chase begins. Ruhana smiled seeing this.

Her trance was disturbed by Viraj touch, she looked at him and tried to get up but Viraj's grip was too tight "janti ho tum mujhe jab mili main kitna darr gaya tha, kaise sadak par tum behosh thi khoon mein latpat" while bandaging her finger.

Manvi sighed and said "Acha hota wahi mar jati main kamse kam aaj ye haal na hota mera"

Viraj eyed her "tum mar jati to main kya karta? Jab tak main hoon tumhe kuch nhi hoga"

In the jeep

Vineet again asked "Phir kya hua?"

Ruhana said "intezar kiya uska jab bhi gussa hoti thi aise hi ghar se bahar chali jati thi lekin kuch ganto mein wapas aa jati thi" her voice reflected the pain "iss baar wo nhi aayi bahut zyada naraz thi mujhse shayad maine usko phir agle din dhundhna shuru kiya nhi mili mujhe police station bhi gayu kehte hai bhaag gayi hogi aa jayegi lautke maze karte, har jagah talash ki nhi mili"

Vineet kept his hand on her "mil jayegi"

Ruhana moved away her hand, she wanted to say something but stopped. Vineet said "Sorry"

Both of them looked to other side.

Chaube speaks up "Sir jee hum aa gaye is pate par" Stopping the jeep.

Ruhana quickly gets down and rings the bell. A lady opens the door and asked "jee kahiye?"

Vineet comes from behind and says "police! Yahan koi miss suzy rehti hai"

The lady was surprised and said "Aayie main hi hoon suzy"

They get inside and Ruhana shows her Manvi's picture "Aapne dekha hai ise kahi?"

She looks at it closely and gets shocked as she recognized her, she said "jee nhi maine inhe nhi dekha"

Vineet eyed her and said in anger tone "aap jhooth bil rahi hai aap seedhi tarah se sach bata dijiye warna hamare pass aur bhi tarike hai aur main bikul nhi chahta aap iss umar mein jail jaye"

Suzy gets scared and reveals "haan 2 mahine pehle ek accident case aaya tha ye wahi hai"

Ruhana asked "kaun laaya tha?" with her eyes filled with tears

Suzy replies "mam, ek aadmi laaya tha usko aur zid ki ladki ko le jaane ki lekin doctor ne nhi le jaane diya fir agle din wo gayab ho gayi kahi nhi mili aur jo aadmi unhe leke aaya tha uska bhi kuch pta nhi chala doctor ne kaha tha yeh baat kisiko na pta chale isliye maine aapko shuru mein nhi bataya.."

Vineet shouts at her "aap log ke naak ke neeche koi ladki ko le gaya aur aap logo ne koi report bhi nhi ki uss doctor ko chodunga nhi main"

Ruhana was so much worried "Vineet wo aadmi hi use le gaya hoga Vineet please kuch karo mujhe bahut darr laga raha hai" she requested him.

Vineet looked at her and assured her "tum fikar mat karo main jald hi pata laga lunga.."

And they move out from there. Ruhana says "mujhe abhi ghar jaana hoga Anvi akeli hogi."

Vineet spoke up "thik hai tab tak main pata karta hun unn numbers ke baare mein aur hospital mein jaake shayad kuch aur pata chale"

And both leave to different directions...

Viraj's Place

Manvi looks at Viraj, she looks at the knife which he was having in his hand, she recalls the horrible nights and all the pain he had given her.

She slowly picks it up and tries to stab him but Viraj was smart enough to catch her hand.

Viraj got angry at her move and shouted "tum manogi nhi na"

He then touched her lips and moved his thumb on it "main tumhe kamre se bahar isliye nhi laaya tha jaan" she jerks his hand away.

She looked at him with much hatred, he sighed grabs her from arm and pulls her inside the room.

He throws her in and locks the door from outside. Manvi banged the door and shouted "open the door!" but Viraj was far to listen to her screams.

Manvi falls down with a thud and cries "mujhe jaana hai.." she hide her face in between her legs and shed tears.

Hospital

Vineet meet the doctor who treated Manvi and grabs his collar, shouted badly at him "tumhari ek galti ki wajah se ek masoom lapata hai mujhe abhi ke abhi cctv footage dekhni hai"

The doctor nodded and takes him to the room. Vineet checks the CCTV videos, he sees a man wearing cap hiding his face taking away Manvi on wheelchair "iska chehra damm it!"

Vineet asked "iska chahra yaad hai tumhe?? kaisa dikhta tha?"

Doctor said "Sir kafi time ho chuka hai itne log aate hai yahan"

Vineet sighed and moved out from there. Doctor called someone and smiled "Viraj, haan nhi maine kuch nhi bataya uss police wale ko tum bas mere paise ready rakhna"

Viraj's place

"ye doctor bada kaam ka hai, uss din Manvi ko bhi mere pass wapas le aaya aur aaj police wale ko bhi nhi bataya kuch"

It was around 8 o'clock, Viraj moved to Manvi's room. He unlocked it and moves in.

Manvi gets up, she said "tum please jao yahan se"

Viraj closes the door and laughs sarcastically "nhi aaj hum dono celebrate karenge kyuki main janta hoon tum mujhse pyar karti ho"

He shows her something which shocks her at core, she looks here and there in fear.

RuMan's home

Ruhana was with Anvi, she was feeding her food. Her phone rings, it was beside Anvi. She said "mumma aapka phone" she hands her the phone.

Ruhana takes the phone "hello"

"wo main.." the voice said.

Ruhana recognized the voice "kaho"

"tumse zaroori baat karni thi wo numbers" he said

Ruhana asked instantly "kya pata chala?"

"Ruhana wo dono numbers private numbers se aaye they isliye trace nhi ho paye ya to kisi politician ka hoga, higher business man ya koi police officer" Vineet shared his view.

Ruhana thought and speaks.. "lekin koi police kyun aisa karegi mujhe nhi lagta aur politician I don't think so."

Vineet spoke up "haan aise humhe kuch pata nhi chalega kuch aur hi sochna padega"

Ruhana sees Anvi eating food, she gets up and moves further from her.. "lekin Vineet koi to rasta hoga na? na uss nurse se pta laga kuch.. ab kya karungi main?" she said feeling so helpless

Vineet calmed her with "Ruhana please don't panic.. wo mil jayegi.. I promise"

Ruhana said in anger "please vineet yeh promise tumhare muh se acha nhi lagta"

Vineet sighed and said with a hope "ek akhri baar trust karlo mujhpe plz"

And a silence comes in between both of them, Ruhana speaks with teary eyes "trust kiya tha tumpar isliye wo galti hui thi" and disconnects the call.

Later Anvi calls her, she wipes her tears before it could drop and goes to Anvi.
To be continued...