"..No!no!no!..." just as Alyah was about to grab her bag...

Crash!!

The drinks bottle crashed inside the bag, leaking with the alcohol oozing out of it.

"..." Feroza gritted her teeth knowing very well the drunken girl's intoxication madness.

"...*grunt*..." the women looked at the wakening man who moved in his unconsciousness and thought to take care of him first.

"...where is the bar?...I need a refill...darling!!!..." Abu managed to walk towards the bar looking study table with his blurry vision.

"...Ahh!..." the broken glass pierced his bare foot but managed to move further when he slipped.

"...*growl*..." he got up from his fallen position and shaked his intoxicated head.

"...Blood!..." Alyah whispered catching hold of Feroza's arm being trying to not touch the man who was moving like a snake.

Both the woman saw the nonstop blood oozing out of the man's stomach as he pulled out the big piece of glass.

He threw away the piece and marched towards the bar table to get his drink. As the women saw him juggling to recognise the one that he wanted, they tried to move out of the suite with their hard-earned loot. When..

Slouch!

The man fell suddenly making them halt and turn to see him motionless and suddenly the door knocked.

"...son!..." Masood was calling out his son from outside tensing the women inside.

After two to three knocks...

"...Masood?...what are you doing here?..." a skimpy night dress donned Feroza opened the door, leaning on it to not let the man see a struggling Alyah trying to pick Abu and lay him on the bed in the bedroom.

"...I came to see Abu...call him...I need to talk to him..." Masood welcomed himself inside and sat on the couch royally.

"...regarding?" her question made Masood give her a stern look, replying "...I don't think I need to tell you that..."

Thud!

Masood turn to see the place from where the noise came but found Feroza suddenly falling on his lap, distracting him with her lustful moves.

"...never noticed that you were so musky...and...*chuckles*...rough!...just the way I like it..."

As Feroza was trying her best to seduce Masood and help out the poor Alyah to reset Abu on the bed and escape out of the hotel before being caught.

"...hahaha!...you are so funny!...tell you what?!!...lets go out!..." as Feroza brushed the man's beard and glanced over the sneaky Alyah trying to move out of the suite closely watching their moves.

"...on the contrary!...let's take a shower!...together, Hm?"

"...what about Abu?..."

"...what he doesn't know...won't hurt him, hm?" saying so Feroza grabbed his wrist and moved softly towards the shower, giving enough time for Alyah to escape.

The next morning

Masood got up to the murmuring sound from the living room of his suite to find the police and hotel manager being questioned by them.

"...what is the meaning of this?!!...barging inside my suite like this?..." an enraged Masood tied his robe and stood like a boss in the centre of the living room.

"...on the contrary...it is your son's suite...specifically dead son!..." the detective spoke the facts that the sleeping Casino owner missed. His eyes searched for Feroza and found her crying over the couch with the female police officer standing beside her.

It was a mystery on how did Alyah got killed when she had escaped the suite. Feroza couldn't remember any of the events after she and Masood got drunk followed by their brief shower.

She does remember waking up bare, sleeping onto Masood's naked chest; which confirmed of them being intimate the previous night.

The case got complicated further more.

Feroza was lucky to have some support from the dishonest member of the Casino staff by flashing some green notes to them.

Now, she just have to plan her escapade from the forsaken Hotel before the CIA give their final verdict which she knew would surely but her behind the bars. Dubai would be the next destination for the con woman Feroza.

Mumbai

Police HQs

"...Thank you so much, Commissioner...I don't know how I would have handle this without your immense help..." Harish thanked the Police Commissioner for solving the Yogita Case so soon and tried to move out of his cabin.

"...Sir...I think you should..." Arjun came inside the cabin to see Harish shaking hands with the Commissioner and smirking at him.

"...Mr. Naik...don't worry...we will try to close the case asap...best of luck with your merger..." the Commissioner then led the businessman towards the door ignoring the detective who had seen the way Harish smirked at him.

"..." Arjun slammed the desk at his helplessness. It was evident when the Commissioner tells you to close an ongoing case with the brisk evidences which would not justify the culprit being just the repairman and his clumsiness.

The blame on Yogita's murder was put on the clueless repairman who did admit that he had done some mishap in fixing the main power house electric work.

The case was far from clear and did instigate the detective of some foul play. But as usual his hands were again tied by his father of a Commissioner's decision.

"...Arjun?"

"...Papa...why? Huh?...this close!...I was this close to find the truth...all gone in vain...*tsk*..." the Commissioner caressed Arjun's shoulders explaining that he couldn't do anything for now as he had got his orders from the DGP.

The DGP being the close friend of Hemant Joshi was not able to deny the request and hence the case got closed abruptly.

Arjun could only cuss his luck and a certain Harish Joshi at spoiling his master case which he had taken from the start of his career.

The Sara case – the Canada cabin arson – the missing Mrs. Joshi, Nithya and Pia – the Yogita case.

The tangled puzzled Joshi file attracted the dynamic detective Arjun who wanted to be the first to solve the case and had been gathering the evidences that the past officers had probably missed or overlooked or bribed.

Paris

Abhishek Law Firm

"..." Edward couldn't believe his ears when Abhishek told him the news. Even Sara was shocked on the weird revelation done by her Jiju.

It was only after Michael told them the reality of the case was the trio able to fill in the gaps of the Macintosh case.

The new caretaker of the Macintosh family – Fatima was found in an unconscious state in the garden area by the gardener in the early morning.

As the police enquired, it was revealed that a possible attack for murder was attempted on the caretaker by an intruder who had alas escaped before he could be nabbed by the securities of the mansion.

Robert had called the lawyers regarding the assassination attempt on Fatima which in a way eliminated the accusations laid on her by the other maids of being an assassin herself.

Apparently the other maids and servants had raised their concern on Fatima being sent to finish the assassination work on the Macintosh family which made the lawyers change their course of investigation on the particular suspect.

Her getting injured would now bring the lawyer back to the track of making everyone suspects.

"...this close we were!...now what do we do?...question them all again...I mean..." Sara was at a standstill on how to proceed with the case now.

Edward stood up from his place and glanced outside the office window zoning out.

"..." Abhishek thought to call his detectives to scan the entire garden area and question the maids and servants again.

"...Sir?...why don't we visit the Harvard university campus?..." the question made Abhishek think of the route that Edward was seeking but that would only mean time consumption and they might end up with nothing.

"...why Harvard?...what has that got to do with this case?" Sara asked the duo who looked at her and thought to end her turmoil.

"...Robert is a Harvardian...and Edward here suspects that this all is a play created by Robert to kind of reduce the price of the Macintosh land...to kind of get rid of the money hungry relatives off their hook and acquire the entire mansion for themselves...or rather himself...I presume..." Abhishek started off his theory of the actuality of the Macintosh case.

"...but why?" Sara's predictable question made Abhishek glance at Edward who continued.

"...Macintosh mansion along with the surrounding 1000 of acre land is under a different case...wherein it was presumed to be haunted... by the said family's then dead pregnant maid. A rumour spread by the localities around 20 years back..."

"...what?...when did...?...how come we don't know about this?...I mean I don't know about this..." Sara was now quipped with the underlying questions coming in and out of her head.

"...the Macintosh family believed that one of the offsprings might be the illegitimate child of the young unmarried Macintosh prince...the great great grandfather of Robert Macintosh...who had presumably killed his lover after she delivered his offspring, ending with the mansion haunted by her ghost...

it was an old wife's tale narrated by the neighbours...being hovering over the estate for almost a decade...but when the recent heir came to claim over the mansion...even after their relatives told them otherwise to not occupy the haunted mansion...the now Macintosh family waivered it off as a myth...and had been staying there for more than five years...till now..."

Sara was listening to how the simple murder case became a haunted murder case in a fraction of a second.

"...this is weird...even for me...I mean...so...are we going to look into a...what an exorcists or something...to get rid of the ghost?!!" as Sara showed her concern, Edward and Abhishek gave out a hearty laugh.

"...*chuckles*...no honey...not a exorcists...but yeah...the family is already doing their cleansing rituals by calling a priest almost every day...so yeah...we are ok there..." Abhishek pacified her who seemed to have forgotten to breath with the mention of ghosts.

"...although...we need to put one or the other detectives on the lookout in and around the mansion...who would communicate even the minute details to us...so yeah...we can rest assured...well...you guys must be hungry?!!...lets go for lunch..." as Abhishek grabbed his coat calling out the young lovebirds, Sara nodded as she was hungry and quiet shaken with the ghost invasion in the Macintosh case.

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