"Sure why not? He comes to our home if I request him." with a smile on my lips I said.

"Then please. I can feel more relaxed and happy if I talk with him."

"Sure I do that."

"One thing here Dazzle. Even it makes you feel uncomfortable and uneasy. One thing has become quite certain here if that Salmon's death is a murder." Williams said.

"Yes. That someone does not want me to know about what that Salmon wanted to say to me." I replied to him.

"Yes, that is what I want to say. The other thing we need to notice is, that someone may try such a thing on this Smaran also as he is investigating into the same thing."

"I have expressed this fear to him and he said to me that he would be in his care." I leaned back in the chair but I am still feeling fear. How much careful that Smaran can be? If those people are so desperate to harm him they may harm him in some way or the other.

"I am feeling in the same way you are feeling dear." Observing the fear expression on my face Williams is saying. "We may better request him to take extra care."

***

"I am very happy Mr.Smaran that you have come to our home honoring my words." Looking gratefully into his eyes my aunt is saying. "Really I am feeling happy."

"There is no necessity to thank me at all. What is the difficulty in coming and seeing you people? In fact I am feeling happy conversing with all you people like this."

"Dazzle is a precious thing to all of us." After a nod my aunt is saying again. "We all do love her a lot. She is like a daughter to me. This Dazzle and that Viola both are my daughters even though I have not given birth to them."

"Whether you gave birth to us or not does not matter. You looked after both of us so affectionately, lovingly and carefully. You are more than a mother to both of us." Gratefully looking into the face of my aunt Viola said.

"I am also of the same opinion. You always worried, is worrying and shall worry about us both than your own son too." I said with complete feeling of gratitude in my heart.

"Williams is a boy. He does not need as much care and affection as you both need. Girls are delicate things comparing with boys." With a smile on her lips my aunt said.

"Absolutely I agree with you." Smaran is also smiling.

"Ah, Mr.Smaran. I am feeling happy that you took up the matter which is troubling our Dazzle a lot. I became completely upset considering the recent incidents. She was about to jump over the parapet wall on the terrace! If your Menaka did not stop her I don't know how the situation on this day."

"I heard about this." Smaran said. He is about to say something I think but my aunt started in before.

"It is not the first time Mr.Smaran. She tried such a thing in the past also. At that time my son Williams saved her."

"I heard about that also."

"I am feeling so much of fear. She is saying that she is hearing a woman's voice and following it blindly. But none of us heard it. Why it is happening like this, I just cannot understand." My aunt's face is with full of fear and anxiety.

"I am sorry that I have to make you more anxious now. But Dazzle's life is in real danger. She must be quite careful. I have already said that to her."

"Mr.Smaran indeed you made my fear trebled! How can we save her? How long we have to suffer like this?" my aunt's face is full of anxiousness now.

"I promised that I do solve the mystery just in one month. There are only seventeen days remained. After completion of the seventeenth day there shall be no mystery. Everything shall be so clear. If I cannot solve the mystery like that by then, question me." There is the same confidence and assurance in Smaran's voice. How he can be confident like that?

My aunt's face suddenly lit up with happiness. I think everyone there is feeling happiness including me on hearing that. "Very nice Mr.Smaran. I am feeling very happy on hearing what you have said. All I want is my Dazzle should lead a very happy life. In fact....." she took a pause before continuing "thousands of families are depended on her. I think you probably know how big our Penkins Conglomerate is. Six very profitable companies are under this Conglomerate and they are giving food, shelter and clothing to thousands of people directly and indirectly."

"I know about that all. I know about Mr.Thomas also very much. I have not had an opportunity to meet and talk with that great man but I know about Thomas very well."

I am just listening intently whatever conversation is going on there. I have not have a chance to interfere. I am really feeling very happy seeing the concern of my aunt so. I know that my aunt worries always about me like that.

"One thing I want to say to you here sir." Williams said

"Yes please. I am all ears to hear." With a smile on his lips Smaran said.

I can guess what Williams is going to say. Williams and I are thinking it is quite necessary also.

"May be it is a person or group of people I don't know...who don't want that Salmon said that to her, murdered him. I don't know for sure what that something that Mr.Salmon wanted to discuss with our Dazzle." He paused for a moment before continuing. "But I am thinking that you are going to reveal out the same secret for all of us. Those people surely don't want that you either know about it or reveal it to anyone. They may try the same thing which they tried on Salmon and became successful. Be very careful please. None of us want because of our Dazzle or this investigation does something unwanted happen to you."

"You are hundred percent right." There is gratefulness in the eyes of Smaran. "I know those person or persons are so desperate to silence me also. They just don't want that secret to be known to me, to that matter to be known to anyone else. I shall be in my care. Don't worry about me." And he is saying after few seconds pause. "Anyhow I am very much thankful for your concern on me." He deeply breathed and hissed out before saying again "How is my Menaka with all you people? She lacked a little in manners, a little lazy and a little careless." Smaran said with a smile on his lips and while looking at Menaka.

"Menaka is a very sweet girl." Viola is saying. "She became a darling in so little time to all of us."

"Then I am happy." Smaran got off from the chair. "If you people excuse me, I do take leave now."

"Thank you once again for your visiting our house Mr.Smaran." my aunt is saying again. "I am feeling happy and relaxed after talking with you."

"You need not thank me at all. I also enjoyed a lot here on this day." Then Smaran is looking at me and saying "Be in the company of Menaka always." Now he is looking at Menaka and saying "Full responsibility is yours Menaka"

Then I remained observing Smaran while leaving our house.

"We are all indeed relaxed after hearing this gentleman. I am positive that he can solve the problem.' My aunt sighed heavily.

"But I am not feeling much positive in what he said." I am saying. "How he is going to solve this complicated problem in such a little time I cannot understand.

"Just wait and see. He threw such a challenge also to us to question him if he cannot solve it within these seventeen days." Viola said.

"I am hundred percent positive about this" it is Menaka. "You question me also if my uncle does not solve the problem within these seventeen days."

"Oh, Menaka dear, we all forgot that you are here." My aunt is saying. "Please pardon us for doubting your uncle's skills like that. But there are our reasons for our doubting. We don't see your uncle's skills personally yet. At the same time this problem is that much complicated."

"I can understand that." With a smile Menaka is saying. "My uncle solved more complicated mysteries than these in the time span he gave."

There is silence once again and it is broken by my aunt. "Dazzle dear. There is one thing I do want most now."

"Just tell me. You need not hesitate to say anything to me." I turned my head towards my aunt and am saying "Just think it happened."

'Once you have decided to marry George like that" she paused for a moment before continuing "why don't you invite him to our home? We all can enjoy that a lot as we have enjoyed with this Smaran."

"Wonderful indeed!" I exclaimed with happiness. "Why did not I get this idea?"

"One of us has got it, is it is not enough? Invite him to our house Dazzle. It would be indeed a very happy occasion to all of us." Viola said.

"I sure do that." I nodded my head.

***

"I have become a woman, you know it." After making me completely naked and while Nathaniel was about to occupy me, I said it.

"I know that." There was a smile on his lips. "It would be even more enjoyable to us now."

I still can remember that day. My aunt has briefed me about that and moreover Viola has got her womanhood even before me too. I did not know how she has come to know all about that in before itself, she did not feel any awkward for that and took it just natural.

"You know it is very important step in any woman's life. In one or two days you too get it." After explaining what it was Viola said to me.

"No, I don't want to have it." After hearing that, I did not like it even a little bit.

"It is not in your hands at all to have it or not to have it. It just happens to you, that is all." She said to me. "There shall be more fun to you with Nathaniel once you have got it." With a mischievous look in her eyes, Viola said to me.

"How it is going to be more enjoyable with Nathaniel? What my womanhood is going to do with all this?" I really did not understand what she was talking then. I heard about that but forgot then.

"Come near to me. I explain that to you." When I have gone near to her she explained that in a measured tone.

"Shut up." I angrily yelled but whole of my body was sweeping with a strange thrill. "I am not going to let that rogue touch me again."

"That is upto you but ....there would be more fun to you after you get it."

I don't know why but after one week or ten days of that incident I too had got that. Even I have heard about that before and briefed about it by my aunt, I was flabbergasted, confused and shocked on that day. But my aunt looked after everything so nicely and I became alright just in one week. That incident with Nathaniel was happening after one month or so of my becoming woman.

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

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