Body of Work by Ravi Subramanian

Author:Ravi Subramanian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: null
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Published: 2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

LIES

'Hi Hera!’ Ronit smiled as he stood at the huge oak main door.

‘Ronit! What brings you here? And so late? Oh my god, you look tired. Come in first. Let me get you a drink,’ Hera said as she smiled brilliantly.

‘Oh, please don’t trouble yourself,’ Raina heard him say in a nervous tone.

On the other corner of the house, Raina felt numb with foreboding. He was inside the house and standing near Hera. What should she do? What she couldn’t do was escape alone.

First, she had to deal with Don. She wanted to shoot the butler once and for all, but instead, she tied the man up with a telephone cable, tearing it off the wall along with the plaster and paint. Hera would not hesitate to kill Ronit if he suspected anything or tried to locate the source of the gunshot upstairs. There had to be another way, something she could do to warn him so that they could escape while they still had time.

Once she had tied up Don, she walked towards the other end of the corridor, back to the staircase she had come from, with Don’s gun clasped between her hands. Ved seemed to have grown tired of trying to break the door or—better—had choked on his tongue. She kept walking to the end of the corridor, beyond the staircase, and reached the end. There was a room on her right. She rotated the doorknob and the door slid open effortlessly.

The room was dimly lit, with lights coming through the sheer curtains. Raina didn’t dare switch any lights on. She walked in silence towards a French window in the room which, according to her understanding of the lay of the house, must overlook the main hall. Raina hid in the corner of the window and moved the curtain an inch. She could see Hera sitting on a plush white couch a good distance from her, in a grand hall.

‘I uh … I don’t know how to put it …’ Ronit had taken a seat beside Hera, who was nodding, listening intently. ‘It’s two, and Raina hasn’t answered her phone, messaged me or logged online even once. I called the security of her building, and they told me she hadn’t gone home either. I got worried and started asking around. No one’s heard from her. Would you know anything of her whereabouts?’ he asked with a nervous smile.

‘Well, of course! You think I’d let her go alone so late at night? I made her stay back. She’s upstairs in one of my guestrooms.’

‘Thank God,’ he said and exhaled in relief. ‘I’m sorry I didn’t know who to call in here, and it was my mistake to leave without her. I’ve just been so worried. Sorry, I bothered you.’

‘She’s such an angel, honestly. I’m glad she stayed back. It gave us a chance to really understand each other.’

‘That’s wonderful … she didn’t mean you any harm. She was just doing her job.’

‘I understand, and I think let the past be in the past.

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