Chapter 5 Teaser (Hurt)
She frantically searched for her
phone, tipping out the contents of her purse upon the polished marble floor.
Sifting through the objects, she found what she had been looking for. Quickly dialling
the only number that lay in her vacant heart, she waited desperately as the dialling
tone continued.
"...Hello?" She let the breath that she was holding escape as she heard
the voice she was yearning to hear. Taking another deep breath, she composed
herself, reigning in the myriad of emotions flying around her.
"Viren-ji... Rheya's gone. She's- I
can't find her..." She looked around her, her broken voice echoing around the
empty hall.
"Jeevika, wha-what do you mean? Where the hell are you and where the
hell is my daughter?" She could hear the anxiety and anger laced in his
voice, leaving a cold shiver running up her spine.
"She's gone Viren-ji... she's gone..."
Her vacant eyes looked around the dimmed hall, barely registering the aggravated
calls from the other end of the line.
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"Jeevika! Jeevika, damn it, tell me
what's happened!" He screamed into the phone for the fiftieth time, barely
expecting an answer from his estranged wife. Pacing around his room, he calmed
the rising desire to catapult the phone from his hands to out the window.
Inhaling a deep breath, he calmed his nerves slightly. "Jeevika, please... Please
just say something."
"Jeevika-ji! Jeevika-ji, you're here. Thank god, I've been looking all
over for you. Jeevika-ji?" He could hear a deeper voice in the background,
growing in volume. "Jeevika-ji?" He
could hear the clattering of her phone against the floor before hearing it
being picked up again. "Hello? Who is
this?"
Viren took a sigh of relief,
finally finding someone who would talk to him. "Viren, Jeevika's husband."
"Viren... it's Rohit. I'm really
sorry, Rheya's missing and Jeevika's in some sort of catatonic state. It's like
she's in some other world..."
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