Meanwhile Solly and Kiara were grilling Payal. Santosh a.k.a Duleep was with them.
" Who paid you to put the poison in his food", asked Solly.
" No one", said the girl.
" You work for black cobra gang", asked Kiara.
" I spit on men like Joshi. Hell I will work for him", said the girl.
" So why kill Raj? What enemity you have with him", asked Kiara.
" I did not want him to die. Just suffer", she smirked.
Kiara slapped her.
" My sister suffered", she bellowed.
" I am sorry for that. Queen Kanupriya is doing a great job. I did not want to harm her". The girl was ashamed.
" But you are okay with hurting Raj". Now Solly was confused.
" He wears many faces. One of those face is that of a criminal", said the girl.
" Criminal", exclaimed Solly. " Elaborate."
" Just kill me", said the girl. " I knew I was dead the moment I was caught. I have nothing to say".
Kiara was about to hit her but Duleep stopped them.
As they came outside leaving the girl he said
" She does not work for him. The hatred in her eyes..." Is similar to mine thoght Duleep.
" If she is his enemy then she is our friend. Lets dig more about her".
" Okay", said Solly. Kiara just nodded.
Raj met Kenny and Gaurav.
" I have another summon from the big man", he said to them.
" Ramcharan Oberoi", said Gaurav. " Strange he is very keen on you".
" Nah its that another man Veer Mishra. That is whom I am working on", said Raj.
" The one who voted", said Gaurav.
" Yep. His son is dead. No heirs. Veer was the face of Oberois. Joshi dosappeared. You left. He needed heirs. Old driver. Figures. He was with Vicky. And today married with two sons. Oberoi has a vast fortune. Mishra is dependable and loyal. HEIR APPARENT".
" Good thinking", said Gaurav.
Raj shrugged.
" So Mishra will be present", asked Gaurav.
" He was the one who invited me", said Raj.
" Okay then Kenny", he asked.
" Okay G". She was a bit lost.
" Look beautiful. It may be not subtle to ask about his dead son and daughter-in-law in first meeting", said Raj.
" As you say", she said.
Amidst this a snake had entered Junagarh who was Cobra boss's spy.
Maddy got a breakthrough first.
" You all were wong about genes. Ro look here", he said.
" Padmanabh Pundit", asked Raj.
" I visted Acchi's house in village. There I found about another one which was ruined and abandoned. Around 1940's. Independence time", he said.
" Did you find something", asked Raj.
" Padmanabh Pundit married Rose Healey . James was their son. Joshi is related to James Healey. Padmanabh was abandoned by village and his parents for marrying a foreigner", he said.
" Well British kept a record of their citizens in India", said Parry.
" Bang on", said Maddy. " I got records on Rose. She had a twin sister who died in an ambush with tribals. Rose went back to England with her husband. Now Padmanabh was a psycology major. Also a relativist who studied time's relativity. The research is unavailable ", said Maddy.
" So I am Padmanabh's descendant ", said Parry.
" A 6% surity as per DNA", said Ro.
" Good", said Raj. " Parry don't be direct when you ask Manav but in your talks you can mention Riya and her research. "
" Will do".
Solly told Raj abiut Payal.
" Surprisingly Duleep believes her", he said.
" Kenny too believes in an emotional story behind her actions", said Raj.
" Trust Kenny's instinct ", said Parry. " She was right about Lokayukt."
" Hmm", said Raj." Get me Darshan's paintings. For Rahul's art department. That is one thing that boy did right."
Raj did not want to fight Rahul for the throne. Hell he never cared about it.
BUT JUNAGARH WAS DISLOYAL TO HIS MOTHER...
But Ro was right. Kenny would perish to save his dark soul.
" The mess", he hissed
Meanwhile
Kenny read the memoir.
"Srikant Pundit", she said. His name did nothing to her. Raj has told her not tp overthink.
" Gunjan", she said out loud.
Now there was a familiar name. No not from Raj's nightmares. The name hit a cord in her. She closed her eyes overwhelmed with all the emotions she felt for RAJ.
" You are too young for me Dhara. Your baba won't approve. I am as old as him", a young man's laughing face came in front of her closed eyes.
" DHARA", she squealed as she opened her eyes.
She knew who that young man was. He had dominated her visions and dreams. She closed the memoir and pulled everything she had on him. Raj had provided her with everything on Aditya.
She read each and everything yet found something missing.
She found a hand drawn potrait of him. On an old paper. It was bark of a tree.
" Pretty old", she said.
She said to it...
" What are you hiding and why? Why are you a mystery Aditya"?
At that moment a wind blew..and the potrait fell. She bend to pick it up. It had turned upside down. She picked and read the name written on it.
Written in simple Devangiri it read....
" A gift from Dhara"
" You kept it yet you kept rejecting her love", said Kenny. " Why"?
She was unaware of Aditya's soul hovering around her.
" Like moth to flame Dhara you pull me", said the soul.
She saw a vision
Aditya keeping a souvenir hidden near a river.
" Another piece of your love Dhara. These gifts I am sure I'll repay them for centuries".
" What more"? Kenny searched frantically.
" I wish I could help you", said Aditya.
" You know what. I am getting nothing like this", she said as she walked out in the park. She always had visions of him riding his horse.
She took her mare and raced in that direction.
Lets see where do you take me she thought.
Kiara saw her sister racing on a horse without protocols. She was having tyryst with Maddy in the stable.
" Do hell with her", she said. " Now where is she going. No bodyguards", she said.
" Follow her. I 'll inform Raj", said Maddy.
They both were in immediate action mode.
Kiara picked a horse and raced after her. She switched on tracker on her.
" ASK SOLLY TO TRACK ME", she bellowed.
" ON IT", Maddy screamed back.
He called Raj.
" Maddy", he answered.
" Kenny took a horse and ran frantically to woods without protocols. Kiara is following her. Get Solly to track her".
" Damn", he heard after the orders Raj barked to Solly.
In minutes Raj was in stable mounting Falcon.
" Where", he asked Solly.
" 10 km north -east".
Raj took off with Duleep and one more following him.
" Sir chopper is here", said someone to Solly.
Meanwhile
Kenny was now nearing a river. Visions came rushing to her.
"You can't find me", giggled young Dhara.
" Of course I will", Aditya pulled her out.
She teased him putting her tongue out.
He laughed.
" What gift you got for me today", asked Aditya.
" A sweet my mother made", she gave him a ladoo( an Indian dessert).
" This tastes good", said Aditya.
Kenny was at the river.
Raj was literally flying on falcon.
" Solly where is she", he asked.
" Kiara is approaching river", said Solly.Yeah spotted Kenny. At river Raj. I am coming down. How far are you", he asked.
" Nearby", Raj had already taken a shortcut.
Meanwhile Kenny was now searching stones near the river.
" Somewhere here", she said.
" Kenny", she heard her sister's voice.
" Oh Kiara wait", she said as she kept looking.
"What are you looking for", asked Kiara.
" Anything any clue. I am sure this was the place where they met", she said.
There was nise and wind of a chopper landing. Her hairs flew now.
" COME TO ME DHARA", said the fire .
" She is going to jump in that fire", screamed Kenny.
" I CAME TO MARRY YOU AS PROMISED", said Aditya.
" STOP HER", Kenny screamed.
Solly and Kiara held her.
" My last gift to you Aditya", said Dhara. " My body. No man but you will touch it. Consume me". She fell on her knees.
The fire surrounded her.
"" Don't kill her please", wept Kenny.
Fire danced in her eyes.
A frantic Raj reached her.
Suddenly looking at him Kenny's body jerked. And suddenly her hand was on fire.
" NOOOO", screamed Raj as he threw her in river jumping right afyer her
" MINE", screamed Kenny.
Raj engulfed her in his arms.
" Sssh love calm down", he said.
" She gave him gifts", Kenny whispered to him. He kept them. He loved her too but kept rejecting her. Why Aditya"?
She started crying.
" ADITYA", bellowed Raj. " WHAT DO YOU WANT YOU B*ST*RD? TALK MAN TO MAN. LEAVE HER ALONE.".
" Its here. This place", said Kenny
" What about this place Kenny", asked Raj.
" Its here they met everyday", she said. She started searching again finally finding a hollowed space in ground.
" Come here", she said.
Raj and Solly removed the stones.
It was basement a small storage room. Kenny entered.
There were loads of trinkets there a hair clip, a bangle, a broken pearl necklace, a veil. And sketches of two people on stones. Near river, laughing, playing.
"Dhara...her gifts to him..."
" Who was Dhara", said Raj.
The space in the basement was less . So only Raj and Kenny were able to enter there.
A spirit suddenly manifested in front of them.
" Dhara was my gift always and forever", he said.
" ADITYA", they exclaimed together.....