Chapter 5 Aaron

"Katherine?" Aaron Singh Roy called out for the nth time, he woke up after an hour again searching for Katherine, his life.

Zeba went to the medic to buy medicines for her little brother just two floors below, relieved that her brother was out of death bed. Kavya who was joined by Shravan was overjoyed. As they sat beside Aaron, looking at their Son out from the Coma, who was looking as pale as white, they were little relieved. The back of his palms was wrinkled, looking white and blue, they could clearly see the damage Cannula had done to his nerves, through which he was fed Blood and Saline.

Their prayers were answered and so, when they finally find their darling son calling for Katherine, they inform Katherine who was just freed from the process of Bail.

"She's on the way, Aaron." Shravan Singh Roy pats his arm. He called her an hour ago, she must be here in minutes if not less.

"I want her now," he whispers again. He doesn't want any excuses. His Katherine should have been here, the one beside him, taking care of him, and praying for him.

Where's she? Why isn't she here?

Aaron doesn't wait long to throw his thoughts out his head for the umpteenth time, as words rolled down his tongue in a mere whisper, he's all weak and was poisoned with a deep gash on his back after all, "Where is she? Why isn't she here? Besides me?"

The duo hasn't had any questions to reply to him, how would he react if he ever knew his Katherine was arrested and abused by police, just because they have had circumstantial evidence against her?

Although the police were right in arresting her, the little pieces of evidence are indeed pointing towards her, just to remind them again even if they don't want to think about something like that about their Katherine. Period.

Aaron Singh Roy would certainly kill everyone who touched her.

And what's more, what will he do when he gets to know the case was filed by none other than..Sameera?

Ex Mrs. Sameera Singh Roy and now a...Sameera Advani!

The only woman he doesn't get well with. He'd kill Sameera for sure.

***

"Hello," the woman on one side responded as soon as the call was answered.

"Madam, the body of a lady is found on the outskirts here," a man, looking at a woman lying in the pool of blood informed the nearest police station.

"Address?"

".........."

***

Shravan and Kavya don't reveal anything and made sure he's out of reach for Television and Phones, basically keeping him away from every damn thing which could shout 'The Best Selling Author, Katherine Gupta is a Murderer!'

He'd jump out of bed and burn everyone with his gaze, his baby brown eyes wouldn't take less than a second to emit a volcano, and that would destroy ...everyone!

"She'll be here, Chotte. Very soon. In fact in a few minutes," Shravan consoles him again. The same thing he's been saying for an hour now.

The only change was the word minutes.

"It's been an hour already. You're repeating the same. Where is she? Has something happened to her? Are you guys hiding something from me?" he exactly waited for a few more minutes before voicing his worry again.

Aaron Singh Roy hadn't won the best young business tycoon Award in a hat-trick for nothing. He's shrewd, perspicacious, and astute. He can smell the black before it can even reach others beside him. If he doubted they were playing with words before, he's now sure they're really playing with their words.

"Why would we hide something from you, Beta? She'll be here soon. It's just that she had some important things to do," Shravan reveals the half-truth. He isn't able to handle his son anymore.

Question Bank was better than his son. Period.

"Important things and that too when I was sick? Please, Dad. Find a better excuse the next time. I know my Katherine. And even if she had some important things to handle, it's already been one hour since you called her and didn't even let me talk. She'd have been here by now," he scoffs. He was purely irritated and angry when his Dad talked to his girlfriend without letting him even say Hello or at least hear her voice.

Shravan guessed he'd be geared back by his son, but he had no more excuses to give it to him, yet tried again, "It takes some time to come from her house, Aaron. Understand."

One should give him an award for handling his son for this long, who's behaving nothing like a patient, like an adult.

A frown adorning his face mirroring a kid who was rejected an ice cream by his parents and with an alike frown, he huffed before saying, "It takes not more than half an hour from her home to Life Line Hospital if I'm not wrong."

...and Aaron Singh Roy is never wrong!

Kavya sighs as Shravan facepalms, "She'll come soon, Beta. Nothing happened to her."

"But-" and before he could say anything more, he heard the voice he was yearning for.

Katherine! His Katherine...

"And I'm here, Aaron." She smiled opening the door to his room.

A smile was making him look even more handsome, if he was as pale as white before, they could see a glow on his face now, the twinkle in his chocolate orbs before reaching his lips, curving up his lips a little- a smile.

The first ever smile he bestowed upon his parents after coming out from unconsciousness.

"Katherine," he whispers looking at her as Katherine walks nearer to him.

Because of sedatives, he put on for four days now, he wasn't able to see from afar. So when he saw Katherine walking near to him, his smile dimmed as he noticed the little bandages on the sides of her lips, "Katherine!"

His whisper was as low as before, just that it lacked the enthusiasm he had. It's replaced with worry and anger as he saw her cheeks - Blemished Cheeks looking red, her eyes - marred in red, and her beautiful face - snafued with scars of tears and ...abuse?

Aaron Singh Roy was engulfed in a Blue shirt and pants, an indication of a patient in the hospital, looking feeble and as blemished as a worn-out rose, with dried-out lips looking emaciated, a little yet lymphatic palms and cadaverous legs barely able to sit on his own - was the man whose paled yet soulful eyes were screaming nothing but fury.

He was apoplectically aerated. Period!

No words could define the maddening rage hopping in his mind.

He glared at his mother and father, gritting his teeth as nerves on his sides were bubbling up, "You said she was fine!"

Kavya and Shravan stood shocked looking at Katherine. They didn't know she was subjected to abuse. She was indeed arrested and kept in Prison for three days. Sameera had visited her, she was fine then. Kavya and Zeba bestowed the Prison with their presence a day later.

Only if they could meet her!

They were denied and sent back by Inspector Ashish.

Their influence didn't work. As if Ashish's hate towards Katherine had more influence on him than the greed they offered.

They weren't aware of the abuse she was receiving.

"I'm fine, Aaron," Katherine ignored the question he threw towards his parents and sat beside him, taking his palms into hers, pressing them together.

Shravan moved aside giving her the place she needed. If Kavya knew her Son, she is sure he would blast soon!

Aaron looked into her hazel eyes which looked nothing but blank.

The same emotion he despised to see in her little grey and green ones.

Emptiness!

The thing which he had seen in her eyes the first time he met her. And he had seen that fading away as they grew close, every day and every minute they wittered together about everything and anything.

The last day she had quite a bit of nothingness in her hazels was the day she decided to relinquish her loneliness. Never was she alone but yes lonely she was, until the day he decided to color her life in his arms.

Now looking into her eyes and finding the same emotion, he wasn't happy.

Katherine saw the emotions his words wanted to convey, in his eyes and knew the time had come for telling him the truth.

..and she dreaded the outcome.

Aaron is Aaron and his actions are unexpectedly inscrutable.

***

Zeba had just bought the medicines the doctor had prescribed for her brother, after waiting for a long time in the queue, and was walking towards the lift only to bump into a woman hurrying into the ward beside her.

"Oh my lady, just look before walking," Zeba's words were a mere nothing as the woman who bumped into her walked away without a bother.

Not even a Sorry?

"Must be tensed!" Zeba who thought positively about her behavior shrugs before walking away to the lift.

"But I think I saw her physique somewhere," she mumbles, lost in thoughts, trying hard to remember something she was exactly sure of.

Must be a Deja-Vu!

Zeba peels the thought of her head as the lift opens up.

Goutham Khanna!