"I said to you already that I was not sleeping at that time. How a dream occurs to me while I am not sleeping?"

"Here it is a peculiar case. You were awaken at that time but your subconscious mind was the in-charge. No, doubt your subconscious mind imagine all that. Why it has happened like that I cannot say but it has happened just like that."

There is silence again and what Menaka said is appearing quite reasonable to me. "Here is another important thing I want to discuss with you." Hissing out heavily I am saying again. "I led a free way of life until recently. I have sex experiences with two men before George." Then I have told Menaka briefly about Nathaniel and Chuck. "Both of them were dead. Nathaniel in a motor accident and Chuck with heart attack. The point I want to tell you here is...." I paused for a moment as if to give more stress to whatever I am going to say. "Every time after making sex, Chuck used to say something to me. While listening it, I used to fall asleep. But however hard I am trying I just cannot remember what he said to me then."

"I think you have got the rape experiences in your house with these two men." Menaka is saying again. "Anyhow with their spirits in your opinion"

"Yes." I nodded my head. "I told these incidents to your uncle also. But I don't remember I have said everything to your uncle." My cheeks blushed while saying this.

"I see." Menaka nodded her head. But there is confusion in her face.

"Next..." I am saying again. "After I have severed my connection also, Chuck used to phone to me. I too talked with him even I have no intention whatsoever to continue my relationship with him. It is just out of pity I think. The important thing here is, after talking some this and that, he used to talk something else. However hard I am trying I cannot remember what that is either."

There is a blank expression on Menaka's face.

"Have you understood anything?" observing her carefully I asked her.

"No Dazzle. I cannot say I understood anything from what you have said. How you do forget something that he said like that to you?"

"That is what I too cannot understand." I am saying. "I thought that you may be a little helpful to me in this regard."

"I cannot come up with anything from what you have said. Anyhow I do dwell in it and see if something strikes me. If you have no objection whatsoever I share these with my uncle. I am thinking that it is very important that he knows about these."

"I am also thinking like that. Please do so."

"Anyhow, the noteworthy points here are, after that thing Chuck used to say something to you and you fell asleep hearing that. However heard you try you cannot remember what he said then. In the same way you cannot remember his phone conversation as will with you after the usual and formal talk." Menaka is looking into my face keenly.

"Yes, they are the absolute noteworthy points here. Please share these with your uncle and see what he says." I said.

***

"It seems you both have become very good friends." Observing me and Menaka keenly, Viola said.

"You are right. Menaka is very good company indeed." I am saying. "Anyhow I am saving lot of time for you to spend with Williams."

There came some angry expression in her face. "Just tell me it is not so." Taunting her even more I said.

"How you are feeling here Menaka? Is everything perfect for you?" looking into the face of Menaka, Viola asked her as if to change the topic.

"Yes, it is just so." Menaka smiled. "Everything is so good for me. Here and in the office also I am enjoying a lot."

"But your main duty is to protect me from dangers." With a smile on my lips I said.

"I do always remember that Dazzle." Menaka is saying. "Its my pleasure."

"Dazzle, you notice one thing? After this Menaka became your bed companion you have stopped hearing that woman's weeping." Viola said.

"You are right! How I have forgotten about this? For the last two days I did not hear the weeping sound of that woman or her cursing. And there are no strange experiences either. I am thinking a major problem has been solved." I am saying cheerfully "What do you say?"

"I am also thinking in the same way." Viola said.

***

"What you are doing now?"

I looked at Viola hearing her voice. I am writing something in my notebook at that time concentrating a lot.

"Smaran, the detective, gave me an exercise to do. I am on that." Once again putting myself in that I said.

"What is it?" curiously Viola came and sat beside me and she is now looking into my note book.

"We have found out that whatever my father wanted to tell me is something that I don't believe easily. I have to be convinced a lot to make me believe it."

"Why you are thinking like that?"

"My father expressed himself so in the diary." Now I am reminding her about the said writing in my diary. 'Dazzle does not believe it easily. She would not be convinced easily."

"Then?' with a questioning expression in her face Viola asked me.

"That detective asked me to make a list of things which I don't believe even my dad said them to me."

Viola burst into laughter. "Really interesting! These detectives are indeed peculiar things."

"I must agree with you on this." with a smile on my lips I also said to her.

"May I look at the list so far you have made?"

"Why sure." Giving the note book to her I said.

Now Viola is looking at the list of things I have made after taking the note book from me.

'I am a sinner. I have committed so many mistakes till now.' Viola read out the first thing in the list and is now looking into my face. "You don't believe even your father said this to you?"

"No, I don't believe it." I nodded my head in negation.

"There were so many women in my life after your mother's death." Viola read and is now looking into my face again.

"Never" with firmness in my voice I said.

"Your mother is not a good woman. She has illicit relationships with other men."

"Never, never, never" I said with the same firmness in my voice.

"I murdered your mother. Hers is not an accident." Reading that out Viola gasped "Oh, my god! I cannot read anymore." That is the page end. Without turning the page Viola said handing over the book to me.

"There are not anymore either. I have to think of." Taking that from her hands I am saying. "You just don't know how much painful this is to me."

"Oh, please Dazzle. Don't torture yourself so." Putting her hand around my shoulders Viola is saying to me. "Somehow or other that detective finds that out. You don't trouble yourself like this."

"You are right." I nodded my head.

***

"Nathaniel? Chuck? Why you both are here?" I am shocked finding them both. I am in my bedroom at that time.

"You have forgotten about us both." Nathaniel angrily said. "You are not thinking about us at all. So we both have come here for you."

"You both are dead. Nathaniel you died a long time back."

"Yes, I died a long time back. In a terrible motor accident. But you did not come to see me on that day."

"I am sorry. I felt fear to look at a mutilated body." I am feeling intense fear.

"Why? Even mutilated, it is my body. If you have died in such circumstances I sure would have come to see your body, however terrible it had become."

I am shuddering imagining my body in such condition.

"Why did not you come to me after my death?" it is Chuck who is also looking angrily at me.

"You are a rogue and scoundrel. Why should I come to see you?"

"Why you are saying me a rogue and scoundrel? I told you the truth." There is distress in his face.

"When you have told me the truth? After a long time. After we have involved so much with each other." I am angrily saying. "But then too you did not tell me the full truth. You said that your wife and you were divorced and living separately. But you both were never divorced and always lived together. Is it is not true?"

"But we loved each other."

"I never loved you. Even I was having any love on you it was vanished after I came to know the truth about you. You.........." I am fuming now with angry and trying to say something more.

"We explored each other's bodies. We enjoyed sex so much together." As if he does not hear whatever I said he is saying. "For that in fact you continued your relationship with me for a considerable period of time."

I am not saying anything now. I don't know what to say. There is truth in what he is saying also.

"You did injustice to both of us Dazzle." It is Nathaniel now.

"Shut up. I did not do injustice to anyone." I angrily yelled.

"You did not think about me at all after my death." He said once again.

"Why do I think about you? Only for your sexual pleasure you lured me into that."

"As if you did not enjoy it at all." Nathaniel is saying sarcastically. "Say don't you enjoy it a lot? Don't you come to me many a time for that?"

"You have done that to my friend Viola also." I am saying with the same fury. "You call it love now to me and Viola also."

"You don't love anyone but we have to love you!" Nathaniel also is angry now. "You can have it from any number of people but I have to limit myself to you."

"Nathaniel is absolutely right. How do you leave someone and go to another just for sex if you are having any love like thing in you?"

"Shut up. Why do I love either of you? Nathaniel wanted only my body. You wanted my wealth also in addition to my body. Is it is not true Chuck that knowing fully about me you trapped me so to get a hold on my properties, is it is not true?'

"No it is not so. Why you are thinking like that? Then and now also I want only you." Chuck is angrily yelling.

"Me also. I loved you Dazzle. With love only I did all that to you." It is Nathaniel.

"Then why did you do that to Viola also?" I am angrily yelling.

"Forget about that Viola. We both are here to look after you very well. We are going to take you to our world. You have to come with us."

"No, I don't come anywhere. I don't come anywhere." I am yelling loudly. "I don't come anywhere."

Nathaniel is coming to me slowly. After reaching me, he put his both hands on my shoulders and shaking them violently.

"I don't come with you people. Take off your hands."

"Dazzle. Its me. Open your eyes." Then I opened my eyes and looked straight. Menaka is opposite to me anxiously looking into my face. "Its me Dazzle. No one else. Please calm yourself."

"Oh, what a dream!" I exclaimed and saying. "It is all lifelike. Until now I thought all it is true!"

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

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