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That day, I got the worst ever news. The news of my husband's murder.

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Date- 24th June 2022.

Case- Rudra Kashyap's Murder Case.
Interviewed- Miss. Vaishnavi Narsule. (Wife of Rudra Kashyap.)
Investigator- Tara Malik.

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"I know this is going to be hard for you, but I want you to co-operate with us so that the murderer of your husband would be easily caught."

Tara Malik, was the investigator who is taking my first interview today, directed the sentence to me in a firm and stern voice. She wasn't the main investigator of this case, she was the assistant of the main investigator.

Kairav Ghosh, who was the main investigator, sat in an room adjacent to the investigation room which seperated both the rooms by the glass with few of his juniors. He was listening to their conversation from the headphones he wore.

I nodded to her sentence, and looked at her to see her getting ready for the questioning.

"Where were you after your shift at the hospital ended...?"

She looked from the papers, and asked the question directly looking into my eyes, as if she is daring me to lie.

"After my shift, my colleague left me at the home as she always does. I was with her the whole time.

Now before you ask me, let me tell you, Rudra always leaves me at the hospital in the morning and then, she leaves me at my home in the night, because even though I have a licence, I can't drive."

I have nothing to lie. Why would I lie if I want that murderer to get caught soon and get most horribly terrifying punishment...?

I was desperate to prove my innocence because it was hurting me emotionally at how this people were doubting on me for killing my husband.

How can I kill him when I love him to the death...?

"Why can't you drive...?"

She asked an unexpected yet an expected question. I wasn't supposed to say that because I knew she would ask this but even after knowing that, it suddenly slipped off my tongue.

It was a personal question, and that's what I told her as I wanted them to respect my privacy.

Nodding to my statement, she continued asking few more questions which weren't that hard to answer for me.

Finally, that question comes which all the crime and mystery serials, dramas or movies ask the interviewee about it.

"Do you suspect anyone who can do this...? Or anyone who didn't had a good relationship with your husband...?"

It was a hard question. No matter from how many years I knew my husband and is involved with him romantically, he is just like his name.

He is that storm which comes everyday, and when it passes, it let me see his new side. He is mysterious, calm, quite and composed. That's what I love about him.

Everyday, I get to see his new colours and that excites me. But now, thinking about it, it made me shameful at how I couldn't even answer this simple question.

'Till when I am going to say, 'is', when his existence has turned into, 'was', now.'

My shamed emotions soon turned into sadness when the above sentence stuck my head.

"Rudra was a very calm person. Yes, he was the leading person of his family business, but he knew how to handle people very well. He was smart and have excelled in that art of handling people.

Even though if someone would make him angry, he have also mastered the art to handle his emotions and dictate the situation according to his own will.

Due to his experience, he already used to know what the person in front of him is thinking before they say something, so he used to always ready for the counterattack in a peaceful and composed way.

His such behaviour used to make some people admire him but at the same time, many people used to get frustrated and that frustration used to get turned into anger. But then again, he knew how to deal with those people.

With such a behaviour, I don't think soo he had any enemies. Or to reframe this sentence, I don't think soo I have seen any one with bad intentions approaching him."

Ask me anything, and I will always reply in how great person my husband was. He have always been an amazing and kind person. This is one of the reason why I fell in love with him.

The upward stretch of my lips, soon turned downwards when I realised that he is no longer here. It made me angry at the cruel destiny as it didn't even gave him the chance to see his child, to embrace them and give them fatherly love the child needs.

Anyone listening to my words, could tell that I respected him a lot. And how can I not when I deserved every single bit of my respect.

As a husband, he was always respectful to me. Before considering me as his wife, he used to consider me as a woman first.

He never forced me to do things which I never liked. In fact, when I got pregnant, he gave me the full liberty to decide whether I want the child or not. And also, advised me not to tell anyone about the pregnancy as it would definitely effect my decision making. He didn't wanted me to regret my decision.

"Okay. Now let me get directly to the point and ask you the last question."

Her frustrated state told me, that this all above questions were just an act to see my behaviour. The real question which they want to ask will come know.

How come I know...? I have took Criminal Psychology as my second major when I was in the college so I kind of know the drill.

I also assume that she have been told to go easy to me due to the fact I am pregnant and that's the reason why I got the hints from the starting. The hints of her holding herself back from tossing that one important question towards me.

"Someone told us, that you're marriage was a rocky one and that both of you weren't satisfied with the relationship. What will you say about it...?"

The sly smile which was thrilling inwardly as I was making sure that the slyness doesn't shows on my face, soon turned into a frown which I didn't cared to show it on my face.

I was upset with such a question and didn't wanted it to hide. How can they ask such a question without any proof...? Because one person is saying that our marriage was a problematic one, doesn't make our marriage one if they don't have a proper evidence. They just can't believe someone.

"Excuse me!! Our marriage was not a happy one...? And we weren't satisfied...?

If that was the case, I wouldn't be pregnant now and the divorce paper would have been signed up till now.

But that's not the case, we both were really very happy and compatible with each other."

I said with an exaggerated tone as I was getting angry because of the statement. But even though my tone was exaggerating, my words weren't. My words were the truth.

Even though I was confident in our marriage, her sly smirk which she didn't even tried to hide, made me nervous and soon, it started making me insecure.

Every second which passed, made me eager to hear what she got to say and why was she behaving in such a manner.

Did she got an evidence to prove her statement even though when it wasn't the truth...?

She stood up from the chair as she kept both of her hands on the table and at the same time, she bent down a little in the line of eyes. Her actions were an act. An act of intimidation.

Even though her act didn't scared me, but next her words surely shakened up my whole world as she showed me a legal document.

"Mrs. Kashyap, how will you explain this legally drafted divorce papers with your husband's sign on it...?"

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