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I could not believe my own eyes when I saw him after many years. He looked weary and had a beard which may be few months old. His eyes looked pale and his face resembled a dead man’s……… expressionless.
Observing him closely, I sat in my chair still wondering what made him look like this.
He looked at me as if he has never seen me in the past.
I started the conversation “How are you ?!!!”
Without answering my question, he handed me an envelope. His face was still expressionless.
I took the envelope and opened it to find “a two page letter”…. no… “a complaint” or …. “a self confession ?!!!”.
Even after more than ten years of service in Police department, my hands were trembling while reading the letter. A chill went through my spine.
I could scarcely believe that he has cold bloodedly murdered his Wife.
Dolly was in a jubilant mood. She was waiting for Johny, her husband. It was her birthday and he had promised her a big surprise.
She looked through the window. It was raining heavily outside. She cursed the rain. Though she knew her birthday falls in August, and hence, generally there will be rain during the whole month.
She could not guess what surprise he was going to unveil. She had known her husband very well - a very hard man to predict. He always does what others will not even think and imagine. Different. Always different. Hence, she dropped the idea of guessing what he was going to do.
Suddenly a thunder exploded in the sky. She felt a shiver. She, then, decided to call him and ask him where he was. She went near the telephone. The moment she touched the phone, it started ringing. She jerked again and took back her hand from the telephone and looked at it again doubtfully. She thought it must be her husband.
She took the telephone
“Hullo”
………………………..
She could not believe what was told to her.
“Are you sure ?”
……………………..
Her voice trembled, she felt dropping down. She held the receiver tightly. At last she screamed,
“Noooooooooooooooooooooo…..”
Her scream surpassed even the loud thunder exploded in the sky again.
*****
It was the first day of the New year.
“Will you marry me ? ” he asked her looking into her eyes.
She definitely did not expect that. Her expression told it all.
“I…. I…., ” she was searching for words.
He said, “Don’t bother. Take your own time. I will wait”
She heaved a sigh of relief .
“That’s fine,” she said.
They talked for about ten minutes. If you possibly ask them what they were taking those ten minutes, well, they really might not know.
*****
She took her dairy and started scribbling.
“The 30 days we spent together were awesome” It is bit a long honeymoon she thought.
She prayed looking towards the sky as if the happiness she experienced in those thirty days should never end.
She turned the first page of her honey moon episode. She read it again…. and again…. Her face became red. She thought… “It is too elaborate”.
*****
He did not understand what to do. It was a horrible shock of his life. He did not expect this to happen in his life. He could not tolerate what was seen by him.
“No…. I will not accept this….. I won’t tolerate this. I will take revenge…. Definitely I will take revenge….” he said to himself.
“What to do….. what to do…..” he was scratching his head. “Some thing needs to be done…..”
A horribly terrible idea came into his mind. He thought, “That would be befitting”.
He smiled cruelly.
*****
It was difficult for him to hide his delight. He had known that she loved him. He was expecting positive news from her.
“Thank you very much….” he said.
“No. I should thank you,” she said. “I too was in love with you, but I was hesitant to tell you”
“Whatever….,” he said… “Let us celebrate this day”.
*****
He was very glad to receive the Invitation Card from him. He said “at last you are marrying buddy”.
He said “Yes”
He said “she must be the luckiest girl in the world… because marrying a man like you with clean habits..”
“Thanks, ” he said shook his hands and went out of his cabin.
When he opened and looked into the Invitation Card he felt a shock of his life.
*****
When he entered the surroundings of the house it was mid night. The liquor he had an hour before gave him an unusual sense of strength. He carefully went behind the house and observed everything.
“Cool” he thought. He heard a faint barking sound of a dog in the distance.
He climbed the window and reached the terrace with the precision of a thief. He had a small bag behind his back.
It took only few minutes to unlock the door. Without making even a small sound he entered in to the room.
He fished something out of that bag again which …. he thought should be sufficient…. more than sufficient…..
He looked at the bed where she was sleeping peacefully.
He slowly went near her.
He heard the faint barking sound of a dog again. But she did not wake up
*****
She thought about the past two years. She thought that the first year was good which she enjoyed every moment of it. She even thought she will not be able to live without him. Soon after she noticed few changes in him which made her to think a lot. She could not believe whether he can be like that ? He made lot of money. He lied a lot. When she asked about it, he simply ignored her.
“Is he a good or a bad person ?” she thought. She could not come to a conclusion. She thought, it is difficult to predict him. Sometimes he is so good. Some times he behaves just opposite. At times she thought he is the cruelest man she has ever met. The incidents which she heard about him made her think so.
She thought…. “It is his profession…..but…. not…..this much cruelty”.
After much thinking she came to that conclusion… which …..she at that time did not know will cost her life.
*****
When she got up in the morning she felt the shock of her life. She felt still there was some heaviness in her head. Her body pained like hell. She could not understand what happened to her. She tried hard to remember what happened last night. All she could gather was his smell all over her. She experienced this smell for at least two years in her life.
At last she thought… “He is the cruelest man she ever met”.
She started crying….and she hated him….she thought she would never meet him in her life again.
*****
“Please do not read my Diary” This was the phrase written in the first page of her dairy which made him read the whole dairy.
No sooner he finished reading than he became violent.
He could not believe that his wife could do this to him. “She should have told me”. he thought.
He could not hide his anger. “She loved his friend and made romance with him for two years and cheated him and married me” he was restless.
*****
When she returned home she was shocked to see him reading her dairy. She felt a shiver. She wondered as to how he had got it ?...
Looking at his anger, she knew this would be the time to disclose everything to him.
She went near him but did not notice the heavy iron rod he had in his hand.
*****
Visibly shocked, I looked at his face which was expressionless.
I told him “No buddy. That wasn’t my fault. Whatever you have written in the letter is not true. Your wife misguided you or you have mistaken”
He gave me an old Diary.
I took the dairy. I tried my level best to hide my shivering.. but failed. I opened the dairy…. looked into it. I could recognize her beautiful handwriting. Her face came before me. After going through few sentences.. I could understand… she has written everything…. even a small thing….. crap….what a bad habit…”
For the first time, he opened his mouth,
“Johny… you should not have done this to my wife. She loved you very much but you cheated her. She took the right decision of not marrying you. You are the cruelest man. You had many encounters in your life, you killed many….you did not bother to find out weather they are good or bad. You did all for money…. Even last week there was a Lockup death in your station. This may be a part of your profession. But you should not have done this to her….my wife….”
“No… listen…. listen…she only cheated me. I too loved her but she refused marry me after two years”
“Sorry…. You have to pay for this…you are a liability for this earth. If I leave you now…you will repeat the same things you were doing…..”
Having said this he got up slowly took out a sharp knife, before I could act or my Police Constable who was watching us curiously could act …. he inserted the knife into my heart. That dagger knew exactly where my heart was. I felt…..the pain…..anger…..anguish…..felt losing consciousness….my wife came to my mind….. today….her birthday….I promised …..her…. something…..different….. but….
I…. I…… looked at him…….for the last time…… his face was still expressionless.
The end.
