The Case Chase 3

Rajat's home ...

The dining table was laid and our cute couple were having lunch.

Purvi : Please ... pretty please

Rajat : No, absolutely not. I don't know why they thought you know about the location in the first place. I'm not risking it.

Purvi :But I am the wife of the secret agent handling that case.

Rajat: For the umpteenth time I'm not handling that case

Purvi : I need info. It's about me. Then if you don't disclose it, I'll be thinking who did that and that...I'll go behind them... I .. I'll...Please na...

Rajat : Okay, okay, fine. Listen. One, I don't handle that case. Abhijeet's team does. I handle other part of that case...Two, the man you overheard was a wrong target guy; a decoy. So there is no reason you should know the location of the so-called bod...

Purvi : Yes, the location of what ?

Rajat : Enough talking, now eat.

Purvi : No...

and she starts to protest again. This has been the routine now. Every now and then she pesters him for information which he absolutely refuses to give.


Today at 4, CCD.

A message from Shreya popped up from the Instagram friends group.

Okay, replied Tarika.

Ditto, replied Purvi.


Abhijeet's house ... 3 pm:

Abhijeet :Why do you have friends who are always this nosy?

Tarika :It was just a text to meet up.

Abhijeet :Well, we could have gone on a date, you know.

Tarika : I thought you had an appointment with Daya?

Abhijeet :Postponed to 5

Tarika :What about the 48 hour deadline ?

Abhijeet :Do you think I'll care about Chithrole's words ? There is nothing much I can do unless we find out about that kidnapped lady doctor. Our operatives and secret agents are working on it.

The good only thing I can do now is to romance my wife...

saying this he comes closer to his wife with a significant look on his face . Tarika starts blushing knowing what's going to keep her busy for the next one hour...


At the CCD - 4 pm

Tarika, Purvi and Shreya sat sipping on their drinks. Each was preoccupied by her own thoughts. Nobody spoke anything for a while and then...

Purvi : Hey Tarika ... remember you told something about your husband and a case he's been working on last time ...?

Shreya : yeah ... you told you knew something but didn't want to interfere

Tarika : Ohh that ... sorry guys I can't give you the details but I did it . I solved the case.

Purvi :Isn't it a happy news? Why the long face?

Tarika : You see that was just a minor case. You know, he's handling this very big case that has been going on for years and now top of it,he has got a deadline to do it ...

Shreya : Hey, don't worry. I'm sure he'll solve the case easily.

Tarika : I hope so too. You know, he told me he's got this big break and he's going to meet a secret agent regarding that at 5.

Purvi : Let's hope for the best then... Hope this agent has some good trick up his sleeve; I meant information or break or whatever you call it!

Tarika : Thanks ! What about you ? How's residency and marriage?

Purvi : You know how it is right? Marriage and residency... and they started chatting about the life of doctors and their marriages... expectations etc...

But Shreya didn't join the conversation since she just realised something...

Daya is meeting someone at 5; Abhijeet's gonna meet a secret agent at 5; Abhijeet and Daya were talking to each other at the mall last weekend... they might say it was just a coincidence and acquaintance, but something's definitely fishy ... so Daya is a secret agent ! That means ...

Purvi : Hello ! (Waves her hand in front of Shreya) Back to earth babe! What happened, you alright ?

Shreya : Ohh yeah.. I'm fine; just zoned out.

Tarika : Hmm... sus ! You've been awfully quiet since we arrived here.

Shreya : That's because I have a great news and I wanted to do it justice.

Purvi : You're pregnant???? Yayyyyy!!!!

Shreya : What ? Nooo ... I was just gonna say that Daya and I have cleared things up; we have decided to start afresh :) We even went on a date!

Tarika : That's so nice to hear Shreya.

Purvi : Yeah but not as exciting as you getting pregnant... I just can't imagine a pregnant Shreya

And they all start laughing... but Tarika's laughter faded away slowly as she realised her position; she had been married for more than 2 years now but childless. Everybody around her had started questioning her... blaming everything about her - right from her health to her career; if not for Abhijeet's supports and her friends... she would have gone into depression.

Purvi understanding her thoughts, said loudly, "Tarika , your baby is waiting for me to complete OBG so that I can deliver him/her. So it's me, I'm the cause for your pregnancy delay."

This was her reply every single time when Tarika becomes upset over the baby issue. And it always puts a smile on her face. Then Shreya takes over the convincing part where she explains not to heed to others words and just be together with Abhijeet in this situation and etc.

And the chatting continues ...


At the mall - 5 pm:

Abhishek meets Daya at the mall and they go to the food court. They gave their orders and asked for a takeaway. Then went to Daya's car for the chat.

Daya : Your hunch was right. It was Rajat's wife.

Abhijeet : We should have known before. He is an agent. She is a doctor. But what's the... She is back?

Daya : Yes, escaped apparently.

Abhijeet : How?

Daya : I figured they were careless...I mean the group who kidnapped her

Abhijeet : But why was she kidnapped?

Daya : Because she was the one you were searching for.

Abhijeet : You mean the one who spied on us when we were interrogating that decoy in the ward?

Daya : Correction! She walked in by accident. Then the group X kidnapped Purvi to get info; they must have thought you got the right guy.

Abhijeet : Purvi? That rings a bell. Wait... Isn't she the friend? Tarika's friend?

Daya : Finally you got the point, yes!

Abhijeet sits there speechless. Daya, happy that he confused Abhijeet to the core, now started on his burger.

Abhijeet : That girl, I mean Purvi being Rajat's wife complicates things. It could mean two things...

1. It could be that Rajat knows the location that's why she was kidnapped. It also explains why Chithrole gave me an ultimatum all of a sudden.

2. Her friendship with Tarika and Shreya possibly could be because of her knowing our identities. To spy on us or something.

Daya : First one is right but the second one is far-fetched Abhijit. As far as I know she is innocent. Remember what Rajat was blabbing when we found him that night? He kept saying that she was fragile, that she couldn't tolerate it and stuff, you must remember .

Abhijeet: Huh, that's true too. But then she kidnapped her own husband right under her noses.

Daya : I don't deny it. She got tipped off from one of the nurses apparently. You see, Rajat used to work at that hospital in which we admitted him. Purvi had escaped the night we found Rajat. She hitchhiked a lorry and reached her home; Had all her belongings with her apparently... no idea how! Then that nurse called her to inform that her husband had been admitted by the police and you know the rest of the story.

Abhijeet : But how on earth did she make it out alive from that jungle? And how could she trust a lorry driver or anyone else in the middle of the night ?

Daya : That's one of the questions I am planning to ask her when we meet her tomorrow. Rajat has info on the Group X.

Abhijeet : Then tonight.

Daya : What? Boss , I have dating plans you know

Abhijeet : And I have a deadline, you should know.

Daya : I thought you didn't care about that.

Abhijeet : Only until I got the info. Now let's go.


That's all for this chapter! Thank you for the reviews sinchanaskowshik02 and ABHIRIKA JAI!

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On a curious note though, what are the plans for this weekend?

Mine is mainly studies and crochet !

Ok bye... until later :)