The Broken Promise: Iqra Investigates (Aunty Millennial Book 2) by Andaleeb Wajid

The Broken Promise: Iqra Investigates (Aunty Millennial Book 2) by Andaleeb Wajid

Author:Andaleeb Wajid [Wajid, Andaleeb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andaleeb Wajid
Published: 2023-08-02T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter 29

The hotel was in an uproar. As soon as the bellboy came running downstairs, screaming about a dead man, Iqra stood up, unable to stop herself.

‘Who died?’ she asked, a little frantic with worry. She knew that Inspector Adhiyan was going to be too busy to wonder why she was interested because she sensed him walk past her swiftly and go up the stairs. The people from the reunion group were all talking to each other in loud whispers.

‘....what the hell?’

‘....must be a mistake.’

‘....can’t be right.’

Iqra walked up to the bellboy, who was quivering, looking panicked, and crying loudly. ‘Hey, what happened? Who’s dead?’ she asked, just as the manager joined them, wiping his forehead with a hanky, muttering something under his breath.

The bellboy was in a state of utter shock. ‘Satish Sir asked me to call Shabbir Sir. I wait outside his door but he didn’t open after many times I knocking. I used the key to open and saw he lying on bed.’

Iqra felt the blood drain from her face.

He was the only one from the reunion group who wasn’t here. But how had he died? And more importantly, why? She’d cornered him just a little while ago, and he had gone upstairs. She thought he must have been holed up in his room. What had happened? How could he have died?

She felt dread clutch her insides.

‘His mouth had foam. I think he took poison,’ he said, breathing in quick bursts.

Suicide? Shit. But why? Had she unknowingly pushed him over the edge? Had he taken his life because of her questions? No, no, no. That didn’t make any sense. She was afraid to ask the bellboy for details, but he had no compunctions whatsoever about offering them to whoever would listen.

‘That’s it. We’re leaving,’ George said, grabbing Amayra’s hand when he heard the words ‘poison’ and ‘suicide’. Amayra looked too shocked to respond.

‘Wait.’

Iqra’s voice was loud and firm, and everyone stopped. People looked at her in surprise as she walked back towards them.

‘Who are you?’ Rani asked, squinting at her.

‘I’m a guest at the hotel, and I don’t think you can leave now. Not until Inspector Adhiyan talks to you first.’

The group looked at her in astonished silence that lasted just a moment. Then, they all broke up, dispersing, planning to go upstairs to their rooms just as Inspector Adhiyan came downstairs.

His face was thunderous, and he glared at the group, which froze in the middle of their plans to flee. It was almost a comical tableau, but given that the man she’d spoken to just a while ago was dead, Iqra found nothing funny at all.

‘Where do you think you’re all going?’ Inspector Adhiyan asked as he pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialled a number while still looking at them.

‘We want to go home,’ Ranjit said, a petulant but scared expression on his face.

‘No one is going anywhere. Not until we figure out what happened to two of your former classmates.’

Iqra was relieved that Inspector Adhiyan was back, and in charge of the situation.



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