My Nepenthe

Chapter 63

Merry Christmas to you all... 🥳🎅🧑‍🎄🌲🍻🎂

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"Can I say that my friend is glowing? She won't catch an evil eye. Will she?" Himani loudly said when Gauri walked to the dining room the next morning.

Mithila and Arjun smiled happily while the latter's wife stood up to give Gauri a warm hug.

"Tell me that everything is alright," she asked.

Gauri chuckled and nodded a yes emitting relieved sighs from everyone at the table.

"Arjun sir, do you have a larger sized shirt and trousers? Omkara ji might need them. He is in the shower," the guest asked.

"No need for that Gauri. The police gave this cover for him," Gauri Shastri replied and handed over the packet.

"Bhavya sent it," Himani told her.

"Oh, thanks. I will give it to him then," said Gauri before turning around to walk back to the guest room.

"We need to be careful," Mithila said to the rest.

"Shivaay bhaiyya said that we are being watched," Arjun informed.

"But Omkara has to leave soon. Should we go and ask him to..."

"No Mithila. Let him stay. No one knows that he is here. It won't make much difference as to when he leaves. Bhavya said that she will inform us when she gets any information. We just have to wait for the call."

"We both will leave now for the college. We need to fall back to our routine and make sure nothing alerts them," said Himani.

"She is right. Arjun will stay home obviously. He doesn't have a job," Arjun's wife said.

"What about Sonali? I am sure she would have told Ajay by now."

"The hell she will," Himani scoffed.

"She knows that if she does that, I will not think twice before killing her. I made sure that she gets the point."

Arjun and his wife exchanged glances before they nodded at the student.

"Okay then. We will be on alert sir. Please call us if at all you need anything," Mithila asked.

"I will for sure," came the assurance.

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"My guess is that they will approach her the same way as they got to you Om. They cannot directly communicate with Gauri. So, they will find ways like an anonymous letter, phone call or any such resort to make her come to them."

"I am not sending my wife anywhere Shivaay. Not when I know that there will be danger. We do not know if they harm her," Omkara spoke on the phone.

Shivaay worriedly looked at Karan before he stood up from his place and walked away to get some privacy.

"Om," Shivaay whispered soothingly. "I understand your concern but they have Karan's father with them. He just got out of coma and he should be in a hospital the earliest possible. Only if we let them think that their plan is going just as they wished will we get the chance of an ambush."

"Are you crazy? Do you want to my wife to be a bait? Ask the commissioner to allot a special team or something and get things done," Omkara thundered.

"Om, Gauri is my sister too. Do you think that if the plan is not full proof I will let her walk into danger? Once you tell everything to her I am sure that she would want to do the same. Please try to understand that..."