Seventeen years had passed after the marriage of Paigne and William Dravid. They were living in a two storey building at the end of Chennai. William Dravid had become the Manager of one of their industries. They spent their lives happily.
Unfortunately William had lost his parents in a fire accident which happened in their house. Moreover Paigne had lost her mother Carina due to leprosy.
Paigne's brothers, Milan and Jake got married. Milan's wife was Rossy and he had a daughter named, Marin. Her age was just four. Jake's wife was Saggy.
Paigne and William spent their lives happily. As per William's promise, he didn't make Paigne sad at any occasions.
They had a son. He was studying in a private school n the city and he was tall and fit. His age was sixteen and his name was Kasper Dravid.
"Bye Kasper!" Paigne said, standing near to the gate of her house as her son was climbing the steps of his school bus. Kasper replied, "Bye mom!"
Paigne smiled and entered her house. Her husband was inside the house and she searched him. Finally she found him in the backyard. William looked glum and disappointed. He was wearing his office suite but he didn't seem to go to his office. Paigne sat near to William and said, "What happened William?"
William looked at his wife sadly and said, "Something wrong is happening around me."
Paigne considered for a moment and said, "What's wrong?"
"I mean something bad was happening in our industry" William replied in a lowered voice. Paigne had not seen her husband so sad for the past seventeen years. William stretched his legs and looked at the sky as if it would solve his problems.
"What was happening in our industry?" Paigne queried.
William let out a deep breath and said, "I have been working in our industry for more than seventeen years and –"he stopped.
"And what?" Paigne asked in a hurry.
"I'm sorry to tell this to you Paigne. I suspect that Franklin had committed a huge mistake in his life."
Those words flew in the air for about a minute and Paigne was taken up on hearing that. Paigne couldn't believe that her father would have committed a mistake.
"What are you saying?" she enquired.
"I'm sorry. But I had noticed him." William looked at his wife and went on, "Yesterday when I was standing out of his cabin with a file in my hands to get his signature, I found him talking to Henry"
Paigne said, "Who is he?"
"He had got the ownership of one our industries nearly seventeen years ago"
"How did he get it?"Paigne asked.
"I don't know anything about that. But yesterday I noticed that Franklin's face was too red on hearing the words of Henry. I couldn't hear them at all. But the final moment made me freeze"
"What had happened?" Paigne stressed.
"I saw Franklin extending a gun to Henry" William finished.
"Are you serious?" Paigne asked in doubt. Paigne couldn't believe her father having a gun in his hands and extending it to Henry.
"I'm damn serious!" William yelled.
"How did my dad get a gun?" Paigne asked. William shook his head indicating that he didn't know anything about it.
"Then what did Henry do?" Paigne asked.
"He nodded his head and turned showing his back to Franklin. Instantly I hid myself. After his depart I went in"
"What was my dad's reaction?"
"He looked normal as if nothing had happened and signed the file and I too seemed to look normal." William said as he rose from his place.
"What are you going to do about all this matters?" Paigne asked.
William shook his head and said, "I really don't know what to do. But I decided to keep an eye on Henry"
"Ok. Take care" Paigne said as she kissed her husband on his cheek.
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The time was 4:00pm.
Henry was sitting opposite to Franklin and Milan. They were in the Café House. They had come here obviously for not getting any beverages.
"Did you complete the given job?" Franklin asked Henry.
Franklin looked too old but he was healthy. He didn't bother his ages.
Henry removed his sunglasses and slipped it into his pocket. "Sir... sorry to tell this" he said and took a glass of water and went on, "Let me tell a story" he started.
"In a huge forest, there lived a giant falcon. It won't give any respect to the majestic animals such as lions, tigers, elephants, leopards etc. It often killed many small animals and it stole the prey of big animals. It violated the rules of the forests. So all the animals in the forest joined together to attack it and kill it. On seeing the huge army, the frightened falcon wrote a sentence,
"My fate had ordered me to escape"
So that's the end of the story gentlemen."
Henry said as he drank a glass of water.
"What non sense is this?" Milan asked in anger. He couldn't understand what Henry had said.
But Franklin rose from his seat and went near to Henry and said "Good job Henry. You return that thing which was given by me to you. Proceed in your personal work. The danger was destroyed by us."
Henry nodded.
Milan sat behind hopelessly and saw his father moving out of the shop to his car. He rose from his seat and said" What are you coming to say Henry?"
Henry gave a smile and took out a piece of paper from his pant pocket and extended it to Milan. Milan read it,
"My fate had ordered me to escape"
Milan gave a short smile indicating that he knew the back-story behind the statement.
"Oh! Sorry Henry I understood it quite lately" he said.
"You have to grow Milan" Henry said as he started to depart. Milan stopped him and said, "How are your sons, Lavan and Greyson?"
"They are pretty good" Henry replied and departed.
Milan went to his dad who was in the car and Franklin said, "You have to grow Milan"
"Sure dad." Milan replied as he started the engine of the car.