Siya Rajput Crime Thriller 3: The Bones Are Calling by UD Yasha

Author:UD Yasha [Yasha, UD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, India
Published: 2021-05-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

I took an auto-rickshaw back home. I was jaded by what had happened to Dr. Sonia. I didn’t know her well, but I knew she was a capable woman. More than anything else, she was a good woman who didn’t deserve to go away so young. I kept checking my phone to see if there was any update from Rathod about her.

Maa was already fast asleep by the time I got home. Radha, Rahul and I sat in the living room without saying anything. As Sonia was conducting the tests for us, she was a part of our team. An attack on her was an attack on us. There was a bleak and depressing silence that none of us wanted to break.

After a while, I thought about how we were on the right path. Sonia would not have been shot otherwise. She had found something relevant and useful. Something that had the potential to expose some powerful people. The only way to stop the truth from coming out was to silence her forever. The bullet was a match.

I looked at my phone again just as it started buzzing in my hand. It was Rathod.

‘Are you home?’ he said, sounding urgent.

‘Yes, I got back a while ago,’ I said. ‘How’s Sonia?’

‘Still in surgery.’

Silence.

‘I’m coming over right now,’ Rathod said. ‘Secure yourself. Make sure all the doors and windows are locked. I think everyone who’s involved in this case is now in danger. Don’t let anyone in. I just found something that changes the way we look at this case. It was again Sonia’s work. She’s a gem. I’ll reach in ten minutes.’

I asked Rahul to check the doors and windows upstairs while Radha and I made sure everything was in order on the ground floor. Shadow sensed something was up so he followed me around. Once everything was locked up, I paced the living room floor to try to keep my mind occupied. The last time we had locked down the house was when Kishore Zakkal was back in our lives. It had sent us into a spiral of constant fear, especially as Zakkal was then trying to personally target me and Radha.

The silence was broken when we heard the gate outside. Shadow leapt towards the door, probably thinking that he needed to guard us in some way. I went to the door and opened it slightly to check who it was.

Relief spread its wings when I saw Rathod. He climbed up the stairs and walked in. Shadow jumped on him once and then sat quietly on the floor.

‘What happened?’ I said as soon as I locked the door.

Rathod looked at me and took a deep breath. He said, ‘Remember I had told you that Dr. Rastogi had found gunshot residue on Jane Doe’s hands?’

I nodded. ‘Yes, that hinted that she discharged a firearm sometime before dying.’

Rathod said, ‘That’s right. Sonia decided to see if the same GSR was present in any of the other bullets we have found at both crime scenes.

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