The Letter (2)

Vedha chuckles sarcastically "Of course Now She will!".

Her mother states "She truly wants to talk to you Vedha".

Vedha curses "I don't understand why is she still in that garbage marriage!".

Her mother warns her "Vedha!".

Vedha declares "I am just saying the truth. Why can't she just throw him away already and live her life peacefully?!".

Her mother speaks "She loves him. We can't decide for her".

Vedha scoffs mockingly "Yes! She truely loves that asshole who abuses her verbally all the time! How lovely!".

Her mother advises "You don't have to worry about her life when you have yours to handle. Take care of your health and don't run around asking for trouble. I will call you later. Krishna needs me".

Vedha nods ending the call "Okay..".

'True...I have my messy life to handle now..'.

KNOCK!

Vedha rolls her eyes 'Now this drama queen will show her sullen face! God dammit! I can't believe I am still not firing this girl!'.

Meera walks into the cabin and gives her a letter "Here".

She looks her sulking face and smirks suddenly getting the mood to tease her "I know you like me. But what's with this old fashioned idea? I am not into girls, Meera. I have tons of men as option. So take this love letter with you".

Meera gasps too shocked to even believe "What?! You! I am not into girls too! This came for you".

'Jeez! How the hell is she doing this?! Just a minute before she was spitting fire all over me like a freaking dragon and now she has the shameless face to tease me?! Impossible!'.

Vedha frowns "I receive many letters from the column readers but why is this important?".

They were behaving as if nothing happened before! May be these is normal between them.

Meera speaks placing it on the table so that Vedha could reach it "Other letters came addressing your column but this one had your name on it and I find it strange..After..the Inspector went missing...may be..".

Vedha avoids her eyes and looks at her laptop hiding her nervousness "Then leave. I still have to edit this week's magazine".

Meera says while opening the door "It is mentioned that only you could open that...".

Vedha raises her eyebrows.

"Looks like it's personal".

"Ok"

Meera leaves closing the door. She knows that she can't irk Vedha twice in a day. Then things might get intense!

Vedha looks at the letter and as usual she opens it without any delay. She can't wait the suspense though. Her mind would have already started itching all the possibilities of the letter's content.

The thought of that letter from Adhi made her too anxious.

Her face fell to find simple few words written in it.

"Dear Vedha Lakshmi,

I need help. I want to study. I will reach Chennai Bus Terminal in 2 days. Please help me after that".

She blinks in disbelief.

'What the fuck?! Who the hell is this sender?'.

She twitches her lips seeing a girl's name.

She smirks mockingly reading the content again "She didn't even asked help. She just dived straight into demanding".

'Just like me'.

Her smirk fades recalling something.

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The Past.

Aditya walks into his station of control.

A contable informs "Sir, we have arrested the people involved in prostitution and few women".

Aditya nods and follows him towards the confined cell of those people.

He steps inside and asks looking around the women who were sitting on the floor "How many of them-".

He gasps in shock seeing a single woman sitting on a bench in the left corner of the cell. She was looking around the room and watching all the other woman curiously.

"You?!"

'How the heck did she end up here?!'.

Vedha lifts her head from the women and looks at Aditya who was staring her in shock.

She rolls her eyes 'And my cover got blown up now! Who is this guy now?!'.

She still asks innocently "Yes?".

She averts her eyes from him to look the women who were asked to sit on the floor after gotten arrested even though there were many benches in the cell.

Aditya asks still in shock "Why are you here?!"

She smiles still clueless "Excuse me? Do I know you.."

She looks at his uniform and frowns "Inspector?".

'This face..'.

Of course she now knows that pretty face *cough* handsome face.. but she can't recall how they met. She meets quite a lot handsome men recently and she is not good in remembering a face after a single meet. It always happens to her.

But for some reason she remembers him instantly after looking him from his head to toe in his uniform.

'Yep! I know that look now! The creepy guy from the hospital...But how in the hell I can remember his face till now? It's been a week!'.

Aditya clears his throat awkwardly recalling how she caught him staring her last time.

He speaks rubbing his neck "Glad you forgot my face. Not a great first impression anyway. But why are you here?".

Vedha speaks "I-".

A Constable interupts her rudely "We arrested her from a lodge. The Prostitute cases-".

Aditya was the one to react so fast even before Vedha could speak "What?!".

Vedha rolls her eyes.

The constable raises his eyebrows noticing Vedha's arrogance and speaks pointing her harshly "My my..look at that face! I will poke those eyes if you don't stop being arrogant. Didn't I order you to sit on the floor?! The nerve of this woman-".

Vedha chuckles "Just stop it, Constable. Your voice is really annoying".

Aditya raises his eyebrows hearing her and forgets his instinct of rescuing her as she is doing a great job at it.

He gives a look to the Constable to be quite.

But the Constable is adamant to not let it go and complains "But sir! She has been so demanding ever since we arrested her! She didn't want to be touched by the female officers! As if a born princess!-".

Vedha shrugs innocently "Well. I was already cooperating with you. What's the need of pushing me forcefully like a bloody criminal?!".

The Constable fumes walking towards her "You are a criminal you slut!-".

"Enough!".

Now it's Vedha's turn to raise her eyebrows hearing Aditya's sudden outburst.

'Cool...but why is he angry?'.