The time was 5:30pm.
Paigne had completed her flashback. The sun started to sink between the two mountains. The birds flew happily to their nests. Paigne was sitting opposite to her brother Milan's daughter, Marin. Paigne wept a little while telling her history but she controlled her tears.
Marin as usual didn't know how to respond to the situation. Even she didn't know what to speak. She could barely breathe. She could feel butterflies in her stomach. She could feel pain in her legs and hands. Fatan Khan was sitting in his chair as if the chair wouldn't allow him to get up. He was deep in his thoughts and said, "Now what shall we do Paigne?"
Paigne turned towards Fatan and said, "Wait".
"Did you understand my history Marin?" Paigne asked.
Marin just nodded in fear and a doubt landed in her mind.
"I couldn't reach my bestie, Lavan. I suspect that…" she stopped.
"You're right Marin. You don't know the real truth behind the death of Franklin. You think that Fatan and I had killed Franklin. But you are wrong. Actually Lavan was the one who killed Franklin!" Paigne said.
Marin felt as if a lightning had attacked her heart. She couldn't believe it. She said, "Where is he now?"
Paigne giggled and said, "May be in the hell."
"No! It can't be true!" Marin yelled. Paigne knew that whatever she had told now were lies. Fatan was the one who shot Franklin with his sniper and he also shot Lavan who failed to complete the given order. Also Lavan went missing after he was shot by Fatan.
Marin was confused. She said, "What mistakes did Lavan do? Why did you kill him?"
Her question made complete sense. She noticed Paigne taking a sip of her wine and rising from her seat and came closer to her. She went near to Marin's right ear and said, "Because it was his fate's order!"
"What do you mean?" Marin asked.
Paigne sat in her chair and said, "This phrase was officially found by your grandfather."
"He is your father!" Marin said.
"He was my father." Paigne replied in complete hatred.
Marin was again speechless. The pain in her body parts and Paigne in front of her made her frustrate. Paigne gave a look at her friend, Fatan to speak. Fatan nodded and rose from his seat.
"First of all I was indeed happy to help Paigne. I knew a friend in Mumbai and with his help I got many gadgets like guns, snipers, bug detectors, camera hackers and stuff like that. Our primary aim is to kill Franklin."
Fatan stopped and expected that Paigne would speak. But Paigne was busy with her wine. He went on.
"But our ultimate aim was to show Franklin that Paigne is alive still. We decided to hide anywhere in this world and decided to bounce back after ten years. He stopped and said, "It took for us ten years Marin!" he said in high pitch voice.
Marin wondered why Fatan said that in high pitch voice.
"Now check your pant pocket." Fatan ordered.
Marin wanted to yell at this man. Her hands were tied and how can this man expect to check her pant pocket? "My hands are tied sir" she said. Fatan nodded and removed the ropes and released her hands."Now check it madam." he said.
Marin didn't listen to him and watched her hands as if she was watching them for the first time. She thought of asking him to unlock her legs too, but she kept her mouth shut.
She slipped her right hand into the right pocket and searched. She came to know that she had found the dart which was found by her in Franklin's room.
"I knew that you had taken it from your grandfather's room. Am I right?" Fatan asked.
"Yes." Marin replied.
"Do you wanna know about that?"He asked.
Marin nodded. She wanted to know the reason behind it.
"After ten years we decided to show the presence of Paigne in this world to Franklin. On February 02, 2019 Paigne went to his room with a gun with this dart. She showed her to Franklin and shot him as a surprise." Fatan finished.
It seemed weird to Marin. She said "If you want o kill my grandfather, you should have killed him in his room itself. But why did you do look like this?"
"You are not getting it Marin" Paigne, who had completed her wine, said. She went on.
"Our ultimate aim is to show that I'm alive still. Also we want to cause damage to Henry's family too. So we used Lavan as bait."
Marin understood. It was their idea to kill one by one. Marin realized that she was their next target.
"How did Lavan accept to kill my grandfather?" Marin asked.
Fatan smirked and said, "I played with him by saying that I had kidnapped you and in order to rescue you, I asked him to kill Franklin. But at the last moment he cheated me and I shot him too."
"How did he cheat you?" Marin asked.
Fatan gave a crazy look at Marin and said, "He shot towards the sky and I shot Franklin first and him second."
"Avoid asking questions." Paigne warned her.
"Shall we finish her?" Fatan asked.
"Sure" Paigne replied.
"Please leave me!" Marin pleaded. Both Paigne and Fatan laughed out loud. Paigne took her gun and said, "This was the gun which was responsible for this catastrophe." This was the gun which was taken by Paigne when she was in the burning house.
"Please don't kill me" Marin pleaded once again.
"Sorry, Marin. It's your fate's order to die." Paigne said.
But before Paigne could press the trigger of the gun a spherical ball sized thing came into the hall with a hissing sound.