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As it has been a long time , I suggest you to read the previous chapter ( Chapter 66: Mystery Pt2) so that you can get the continuation for the story. And many hadn't read the previous chapter yet.

Precap : Sana and Arjun had an emotional moment pouring out their hearts. They gave food to homeless people on the beach for the occasion. Arjun goes on a long drive in an unrecognised street after talking on the phone with Sana who wished him for his birthday. Nisha went in search of Vinoth who had gone towards an old mechanic shop building in the middle of the unrecognised area. She finds drugs, an opened corpse without any organs, and Vinoth's chopped hand with his engagement ring but denies it wasn't Vinoth's and runs away from there.

Author pov

Nisha found a hand with Vinoth, her husband's engagement ring that was too familiar. She stepped out of the building while denying it wasn't him.

Nisha stopped at the secret tunnel wall that they surpassed before and took off her shoes. She started to run through the sheet at the tunnel and continued to run further.

Nisha: Paaru naa appaiye nenachen antha seruppu thaan karanam illati naa munnadiye vegama poga aarambichirupen. She grinned at her own brilliant realization and continued running further throughout the road.

Her minds kept trying to pull back her to reality but her heart and mouth kept adamant on repeating about reaching back to Vinoth who was waiting for her at home. She held the ring and her thaali chain alternatively from time to time to get some courage.

As Nisha wasn't noticing the surrounding, she slipped on a branch and fell down on the road. A car which was driving speedly push the brake dangerously close to her but fortunately stopped before causing any harm to her.

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On the other side, Arjun blushed rubbing his nape after the call with his Sana. He continued driving the car smiling happily after many many years. But he get confused to see he was riding in a unknown road to him. He search the location in the map but didn't get any signal.

Arjun sighed and take a u-turn and tried going back using the same path he came. Suddenly someone try crossing the road infront of his car but fell down in the middle of the road. Arjun quickly hold the break trying to stop the car as he was driving the car speedly only to bump his head in the steering wheel due to the sudden force.

As he was wearing his seat belt, he doesn't get fatal injury other than a minor pain at his forehead. As he saw someone crossing infront of his car very well just now, he get off the car to check the person.

He was shocked to see an unconscious woman in the middle of that lonely road. The blood in her dress and hands also didn't seemed any better. Her thaali chain was also covered with blood.

Arjun gulped when these scenes brought back his memory of another accident. His vision seems to blurring. He stood and was about to return to his car as he felt like fainting and out of breath.

But when his peripheral vision caught the woman who lay unconscious, he didn't want to left her, he was scared about her life and the loved ones of hers. He shoved all his fears away and went towards her.

He checked her pulse and tried patting her cheeks but to no avail. He rushed towards his car to take water bottle only to realise it was empty. He throwed the bottle and rubbed his forehead in frustration.

Just as he was about to move around to find any water, the rain flowed down heavily drenching both of them.He quickly went towards the woman and patted her cheeks.

He could see her eyeballs moving through the eyelids and heaved a sigh thanking the god. After few more patting on her cheeks, she opened her eyes fully. She looks at his face for 5 seconds and then towards her hand where a ring was gripped tightly.

Arjun : are you feeling okay now ? He asked only to be ignored by the women entirely.

The women kept staring at the ring and the sky alternatively while still laying on the middle of the road. Arjun tried asking her name, or about her health, her whereabouts and anything but that women wasn't even showing any reaction at all still ignoring him. The rain drenched on both of them smudging all of her makeup and bloodstains from her clothes.

Arjun: Enga neenga en car munnadi vandhu vilundhitinga. Ungalukku edhavadhu aacha nu parka vantha , neenga ennamo paralyse aana mathiri kadukuringa . Vai thorandhu sonna thaane ethavathu seiya mudiyum ? Ethavathu adi patrukuna sollunga ga hospital polam . Ipdi onnume sollama iruntha epdi nga ?

Arjun mv : Oru vela ivanga oomaiya (dumb)? Illati kaathu kekatho(deaf) ?

He thought and even waved his hands infront of her face but there was still no response as it seems like she wasn't even there at all. Even the rain and cold also didn't seemed to bother her at all.

Arjun: eenga neenga en car la vandhu vilundhitinga nu naa vandhu ungalukku help panlamnu vandha, neenga ennana badhil um solla maatringa enakku edamum kuduka maatringa, edho unga appa veedu road mathiri paduthu irukinga. Neenga panratha partha naanum ipdiye unga koodave iruntha vara pora lorry la neenga, naan, en car nu apdiye mutti modhi accident la saavanum polaiye he asked out of frustration.

But turn silent on hearing her sudden outburst. On hearing the word lorry and accident her brain flashed all the incidents that had happened on the past 2 hours. She sat up started crying out loud in agony and pain clutching her chest. She seemed to be hiccuping and wheezing while crying out loud scaring the hell out of Arjun.

Arjun : engaiyavathu valikita ? Ennanga aachu ? He asked shocked and worried on seeing her sudden outburst.

Nisha : Eemathithaan enna !!! Avan enna emathithan anna , emathithan ! Ethanaiyo promise, aasai, kanavu nu ellathaiyum kaati kaati ippo enna eemathi vittutu poitan na !!

Arjun froze hearing each and every word of her. Everything seemed to similar with his past. The 5 years ago Arjun could relate very well with her words. But hoping so much that it wasn't what he was thinking, he questioned her.

Nisha start narrating the whole thing that happened from how she playfully turned the car until how she ended up in the road. Due to her sobbings, many words wasn't pronounced properly and many words were lost in her wheezing. But Arjun didn't need any of that, just her pain filled all the unsaid words.

When Nisha remained silent after narrating him all the things, her tears had dried out along with her emotion. She felt numb and blank.

Suddenly they both heard an heavy vehicle like a lorry sound. Even though they couldn't see the lorry yet, they know it was a lorry , not a lorry but that lorry ! Nisha sat like she had been thunderstroke.

But when a horn sound was heard from the lorry, Nisha smiled scaring Arjun more. She stood up and started running towards the direction they heard the lorry sound

Arjun panicked and chased her to catch. He pulled her dress which teared a little but they didn't notice it, one were eager to catch the lorry while the other one was frightened about catching the running person.

Luckily as Nisha was tired, her running spirit was short-lived helping Arjun to catch her quickly. He pulled her and slapped hardly in her right cheek. Nisha placed her hand on her cheek due to so much pain. But she was glad he does that as she realised how stupidly she was behaving.

Arjun quickly pulled her and both of them get into his car. He speedly drove towards the police station.

The car ride was filled with silence. After few minutes of silence , Nisha thought about everything she does. And realised all of her stupid behaviour. She decided to apologise to him for behaving stupidly.

Nisha : Anna I'm sorry she whispered as her throat was dried completely.

Arjun ignored her and opened the car dashboard and passed her the emergency water bottle he had kept there but had forgotten before due to the panic.

Nisha just sipped little water even though her throat felt so dry due to all the cries and shouts.

Arjun: padichava thaana nee ? Haan ?

Nisha : hmm

Arjun : aprom entha ( he was about to tell a bad word but stopped himself gulping the word) ipdi senja ? Enna thaan yosicha nee enakku purila ? Enna poi lorry la vilundhu saavalam nu poniya ?

Nisha : illa anna. avara kaapathalamnu thaan ponen.

Arjun : evara ? Haan kekuran evara? Antha lorry la thaan avan irukannu unta sonnana illa unakku thaan theriyuma ? Vinoth inga iruntha kooda nee ipdi seiya ponathukku ipdi thaan aranjirupan !

Nisha grew silent as everything he told was right. But Arjun cursed himself for reminding about Vinoth to Nisha again.

Arjun apologised for it but Nisha shook her head and accepted her mistake. So he apologised her and warned her not to make anymore stupid mistakes like this in future. Nisha also nodded her head accepting.

Then, Arjun asked about Nisha and Vinoth's family to her and was sad to hear they both were orphans. They had few friends in Bangalore but no friends here as they had moved to Chennai only a few days before.

Soon, Arjun reached the police station but parked it away from the place and got out of the car.

Arjun : naa konja nerathula vanthuren athukulla nee

Nisha : haan theriyum anna

Arjun : ennathu ?

Nisha: adhukulla anga ulla police station la poi complain kudututu apdiye ungala thollai pannama poidanum.

Arjun rubbed his forehead in anger and frustration hearing her reply.

Arjun: unna innum oru arai(slap) aranja kooda thappe illai nisha ! Olunga ullaiye ukkaru engaiyum pogama naa vara varaikum solliten .

Nisha: naa ethukku ungalukku thollaiya. Naa poidren ...

Arjun : Nisha naa irukura tension la enna innum tension aakathe. Enna anna nu koopudrala nee , appo intha anna soldra pecha ketutu olunga ukkarura ullaiye naa vara varaikum.

Nisha nodded her head but not trusting her, Arjun locked the doors leaving her inside and ran towards the police station using his hands to cover his head from the rain.

Arjun asked the constable about Darshan who told he had gone to Bangalore this morning. Arjun thanked him and went back to his car.

Then Arjun drove them towards Rakshan's house. Nisha was in deep thought reminiscing all of her moments with Vinoth. While Arjun was thinking about what to do next.

After reaching the house, Nisha was suddenly nervous to enter in an unknown place but Arjun reassured her telling her his identity including his id proof.

Nisha : naa ungala namburen anna but...

Arjun : nee enn namburala athu pothum, veetla amma, appa en friend lam irupanga. Nee bayapadama vaa.

Nisha nodded and got out of the car. But just after walking a few steps she fainted and fell down on the floor as she had no energy left on her body. Arjun quickly rushed towards her and lifted her up in his arms and entered into his house.

He managed to unlock the key while still holding Nisha in his hands and entered inside only to be stood confused seeing the pitch dark house. Usually the night lamps would be on but today there were no lights at all.

Arjun switched on the main light at the hall only to be confused on seeing the hall's scenario. There Rakshan was walking here and there. Devi was asleep laying on the sofa while Sana was asleep laying on Devi's lap.

Arjun's heart swelled with happiness to look at the scenario. He looked at the dining table to see a cake and few chocolates. The place is decorated with balloons with happy birthday wordings on the wall.

Rakshan : arjun eenda ivlo late-u... dei yaarda adhu kaila !? Enna vela da panna nee ? Thangachi kooda inga thaan da iruka !! He screamed out loud in horror waking up Devi and Sana too.

Arjun visibly gulped as Sana saw him at a position like this with another girl. He feared she would misunderstand him.

Rakshan was confused and shocked to see Arjun like this. Rakshan trusted him but was not sure about Sana's reaction, so his fear blinded him, making him angry at Arjun.

The woman's makeup was smudged, and her hair was so messy. Her dress was also torned a little. Both the woman and Arjun's dress was squeezed and fully drenched.

Devi : Dei yennada kolam ithu ? Yaarda antha ponnu ? Enna kariyam da pannirukka nee ! Arivilla unakku

Devi as a mother of Arjun was equally scared about Sana's reaction so she started to scold him badly for his irresponsible behaviour as she feared Sana might go away again even though she trusted her son.

Sana : ennachu arjun antha akka kku ? She was worried about the girl he was carrying.

At first Sana was confused to see someone in his arms. But then Sana was worried on seeing the woman's appearance. The torn dress of the woman makes the situation even more worse. But no matter what, she was sure if anything bad had happened to the woman, it won't be because of Arjun.

Arjun sighed in relief on hearing her reply. So he nodded at her indicating to wait and went towards the guest room after informing Rakshan to call the family doctor immediately.

Rakshan and Devi were stunned hearing Sana's reply. So Rakshan immediately went to follow Arjun's order while Devi retired to the bedroom where Lakshmikanthan was already asleep letting them to take care as she wasn't feeling well due to the sudden shock from Arjun.

Arjun lays down Nisha and called a maid in to help changing her dress and went out towards Rakshan to ask about the doctor's whereabouts. Rakshan informed that the doctor is on the way and went towards his room as Saranya called him.

Sana came towards the guest room too but stand quietly not disturbing Arjun. Arjun was standing leaning against the wall while closing his eyes. Sensing a strong gaze Arjun opened his eyes and looks at her.

He smiled slightly while Sana smiled back blinking her eyes assuring him. Arjun smiled back feeling much better now and closed his eyes again still leaning against the wall absorbing the comfort in her presence itself.

After few minutes, doctor rushed in and checked Nisha's health. He asked Arjun about the reasons to Nisha's current condition.

As Arjun wasn't sure about the reasons behind Vinoth's incident he didn't trust anyone. So he kept it simple stating as Nisha was searching for her kidnapped husband in deserted road and fainted in shock upon experiencing a near death accident.

Doctor nodded and gave her IV strip treatment. He prescribed some more medications as she had blacked out due to over dehydration and shock after advising him to gave her plenty amount of water and food after she woke up.

Arjun thanked the doctor showing his way out and locked the door safely before returning to his room to take the much needed shower.

Author's note

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Hope you all like the chapter.

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