Hearing my voice he opened his eyes and looked at me. I must say my charming smile has a mesmerizing affect on him. It caused a smile on his lips also. "Of course, yes."

"Then don't put me in suspense for long. Tell me what it is?"

"It is not something I just delve into it Dazzle. You should be patient." He got off from the chair and went a little far and turned towards me then.

"I am considering everything Dazzle. Everything. From the point that your dad wanted to say something so desperately ....so desperately to you... and his heart attack suddenly like that....his unforeseen death..."

I interrupted him and am saying "My dad has a heart problem George....There is no surprise if he suffered suddenly like that and it caused his death...He was forewarned about it. But I am thinking he was not that much careful."

"In other circumstances you are right Dazzle. But it happened after he phoned to you. After he phoned to you and said that there is something very important he wanted to discuss with you. That something I am thinking made him over agitated and caused the heart attack."

"Your analysis is appearing reasonable George." What George is going to say to me after all? I am feeling my heart beating faster.

"Now your strange experiences in the house. Your hearing strange sounds. Why it should be so Dazzle? Why do you feel like that?" once again George came into the chair and slumped himself in it. "Tell me why all this is?"

"I must say George." I closed my eyes and reclined in the sofa "I am suffering from a psychological disorder."

"Alright. I agree. But why that psychological disorder started in you?"

I opened my eyes and now am looking into his face. The dead serious expression in his face caused a frown to me.

"How can I say about that George? People sometimes subject to disorders like that. I distressed too much with my dad's death. You very well know how much I am attached to him. That might make me mad."

"Quite ridiculous! Quite ridiculous! You are not thinking in a proper way Dazzle."

"George. Please don't vex me much. Just tell me what you are thinking about all of this. Tell me what you really want to do or want me to do." I am now irritating.

"I said to you Dazzle that you must be patient. It is not something I can say straight to you. To make you understand fully what I am thinking, you have to hear patiently whatever I am going to say and answer my questions."

"Alright I am prepared." I am smiling now using force. "Go on."

"Really from when you started hearing the voices, having the odd experiences Dazzle?"

I closed my eyes concentrating to remember. "I think it is after my dad's death George. Or a little prior to that."

"Before your father's death you were in USA."

"You know about it very well."

"Did you have any acquaintances while you were there?"

"I used to have some friends."

"Did you with any of them so intimate, so close?"

"Yes, with one man." I am feeling really awkward. Should I say this to George? "Chuck Watson. We both used to be quite intimate and quite close." I know that my cheeks are terribly red now.

"How is your relationship with him now?"

"He died with heart attack." May be no expression in my face surprised George. "I have no sentimental or emotional attachment with him....he is just a friend to me." I know George can understand it full.

"Alright." George nodded his head. "How much aged he is?"

"Thirty four or thirty five I think."

"Heart attack at such an age? Surprising!" There are frowns on his forehead.

"I too felt surprise. But not too much worried about that. He is not that much of a great friend to me."

There is painful silence again. I think that George has deduced something vital from all of this. He has come to a decision what to do with this all.

"And your father's writing in his diary. Your life is in danger. Death is dancing around you."

"Yes, you are right." I nodded my head. I think I discussed about my dad's writing with George before.

"And Nova's late husband's saying that a woman is after your life. It causes the death of your father."

"But you said it is not Nova's late husband but Nova herself and it is just her imagination."

"It is right of course. But there is something strange behind all of this."

"What you are thinking it is George? Have you come to an opinion on all of this?"

"And the recent murder attempt on me. Someone knows very well that I don't remain calm if something happens to you." George said as if he did not hear me at all.

"I have asked you a question George. It seems that you have come to an opinion on all of this. What it is?" Despite his warning I am feeling irritated and impatient.

"It is beyond our powers Dazzle. You and I cannot come to any opinion on this."

"What do you mean?"

"Our mental capacities are not enough to know what really behind all of this. We must have some expert's help in this regard."

"George, please tell me in an understandable manner. You are too much confusing to me." I am pleading with him. "Don't torture me with suspense like this."

"We need some private investigator's help Dazzle." Looking straight into my eyes George said.

"What?" I cannot understand what I am hearing. "What you are saying?"

"We have to hire a private detective to investigate into these matters Dazzle. Only a skilled private detective can find out the answers to these questions." He reclined in his chair and said.

"Absurd! Quite absurd! What you are talking George? You sure lost your mind." I quickly said. What an absurd idea! I remembered the detectives I have hired to investigate to know about George's life and a smile forced onto my lips.

"I am not talking about such type of detectives you hired to investigate into my life. Real skilled ones." As if he looked into my mind he said.

I cannot refrain myself from laughing loud. "Alright. I am not going to comment any on that. But this is a foolish idea George. Mine is mostly a psychological problem. How a detective can be helpful in that?"

"Not just that. But to know about what your father so desperately wanted to tell you before his death."

"George." I breathed deeply and hissed out. "The only one person who knows about that is my dad and he is dead."

"How and why you are thinking that only your dad is known about it? Why no one else does not know about it?"

I am feeling irritated. Hiring a private detective to investigate into these matters is not at all appealing to me. "May be some other people also do know about it. But how a private detective can know about it?"

"Detectives do have their own methods to know the things Dazzle. You don't trouble your mind about that. Just agree to hire a detective to know about it."

"Alright George. Even it is appearing quite absurd, I agree to appoint a detective to know about what my dad so desperately wanted to tell me. But for nothing else." My voice is firm.

"No Dazzle. You have to give permission to him to investigate into everything and know about it. You must."

It is like an order and once again George became an imposing type. To investigate into my psychological disorders also? How absurd! How George has got an idea like this? Is he is trying to make me low grade and inferior by giving chance to someone to probe into my very private matters also?

"I never agree to this George. You cannot make me to agree to this. What you are thinking of me? An ordinary twenty six years aged girl who hears and obeys whatever her lover asks her?"

"No Dazzle. I know you as an owner to a conglomerate which total turnover per year is more than thirty six thousand crores and profit is more than three thousand crores. I know about you and your organizations more than you know and you too know about that."

"But you don't know how ridiculous and silly to hire a private detective to investigate into my psychological disorders. That can be done only by a psychologist or a psychiatrist. But not by a private investigator." I am fuming now. I got off from the sofa and stood up as I cannot manage anymore sitting in it while feeling such irritation and anger on hearing what George said.

"The detective I am going to appoint is a psychologist also Dazzle. He has vast experience. He investigated in so many very important matters and did not fail even in one of them. He is very much experienced and skilled. Moreover he is a good friend of mine."

"May be George. May be he is a great private investigator, great psychologist and may be a great friend to you. But you cannot make me to agree to this. You cannot make anyone to probe deep into me even it is for my own good."

"If it is so." George's voice is firm and steady. "You too cannot make me your man. I don't stay in your conglomerate anymore. I do leave you and your organizations and go far away from here."

I felt suddenly a thunder fall just beside me. I am started feeling happy and sorrow at the same time. The very first sentence George said is making me intensely happy. 'You too cannot make me your man.' That means if I agree to what he is saying he becomes my man! 'I do leave you and your organizations and go far away from here.' It is too fearsome to think. No I am not going to let the situation come like that.

I hastily came back and slumped in the sofa where I sat before. "Tell me George. Tell the first sentence you have said just now." With excitement in my voice I said.

"You too cannot make me your man." He said that with an expressionless face.

"That means ....if I agree with what you have said....you do become my man.....you marry me then?" I know that my face is beaming with pleasure then.

"If you are that much desirous to marry this forty four years old man, I have no objection to it."

"Oh, George. You made me so happy, so happy." I really don't know what I am doing and in the immediate instant my both hands are around his neck and I am kissing on his left cheek strongly.

"Please maintain distance lady until I am sure you are completely agreeable to my decision. Just be knowledgeable all the time if at any moment you declined to cooperate with the private investigator the proposal is off and I do go away quite far from here that you never can be known about me."

"Why you are that much adamant on this George? I am not thinking at all that this does work."

"Don't break your head about this. Just think that you are doing it for my pleasure."

There is silence once again and this time it is pleasure-some. "What is the guarantee that you do become my man after I suffer all that with that private investigator?"

"Are you agreeing hundred percent to my proposal? Do you extend your full cooperation to the private investigator? However irritating it may be would you tolerate with that investigation until it completes?"

(..........to be continued)

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