A New Beginning

Chapter 24: Family Meeting

Jaddu's POV:-

I felt like a ninja. I know it was serious and I was freaked out of my wits but I still couldn't help thinking that. It had taken me a little while to coax my dad into letting us both go, ultimately he had not agreed but there was nothing he could do to make us stay. He was instead have to be content with just knowing about our whereabouts and the fact that police would reach there an hour after us.

I drove over to the location and there was a tense silence in the car, that was almost suffocating. Before getting out of the car I looked at Akku and tugged at her hand to stop her from getting out.

"I love you." I said.

"I love you too." She replied.

We both got out together and she held my hand tightly. When we got to the door of the place, she squeezed my hand tight before releasing it completely and walking in before me.

We were greeted with silence and looked all around the place to see if we could spot someone. There was no one in this room but there was a room on our right which had a dim light coming out from under the door.

Akku looked at me once and I nodded in assurance. She twisted the knob of the door and peeked in.

"I had told you to come alone my dear." A voice called out from inside.

The room was dull with no windows. The walls were a pristine white and seemed uncanny. The only light was from a dim table lamb sitting beside a body that was lying unmoving on the floor.

Akku gasped from behind me and my eyes took a second more to adjust to the dim light before I saw what she had already noticed.

Her mother was lying coiled up in a sleeping position. Her face was bruised but the slight movement in her chest told me that she was still alive.

Akku surged forward but I kept a hand on her shoulder to restrict her, at the same time that the guy from the shadows spoke again.

"Uh uh uh," he said shaking his head. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. One more step and all three of you die." He spoke in a calm and clear voice as if telling us the time. But I heard and understood the underlying menace in his sentence and my hand on Akku's shoulder tightened.

"What do you want?" Akku growled out in a low voice with hatred clear in her tone.

"Akansha. My daughter! Would you not give daddy dearest a hug?" He spoke in a sweet voice and I felt myself shaking in anger. I had to stay calm for all of us to get out of here alive.

Akku didn't reply. Her eyes didn't waver from her mother's unconscious form.

"Dearie, did you know why your mother named you Akansha? I had always liked that name. I had always wanted our daughter to be named that." He continued unwavered. "You mother did not want me around you. She wanted you to have nothing to do with me, yet she gave you the name I had chosen for you." Disdain dripped from his voice when he rederred to aunty.

"No wonder I never liked the damn name. What do you fucking want!?" Akku spat at him, finally looking at her father.

"Tsk tsk. So impatient. The fun has only just begun dearie." He chided her like she was five and took a step out of the shadows.

His face looked like Akansha's. There was an eerie similarity. But the facial expressions are where the similarities ended. Akku was nothing like her father. His face was soft, almost boyish. With the same hair that Akku had and the same nose. He looked like a normal father.

Except for his eyes. They looked evil, mischievous. I had no words to describe it but when I looked into his eyes I almost cowered in fear.

He took another step towards us and so even I moved forward to shield Akku from his vision but stopped just beside her. I was close enough to jump infront of her to keep any harm away from her and also to support her but not enough to fight the whole battle for her. This had to be done by her, and I felt that this would be the first and last time the father daughter duo came face to face.

He suddenly pulled his hand behind him and removed something from his backpocket at if it was a play toy. But I'm sure a long butcher knife was not something to play with.