The Binding String

N I N T Y - N I N E

"Han...han. Main aur teri bhabhi yahi hai. Tu theek hai Romi."

"Sa..r...i..ka." Romi breath started to become uneven, he gasped to take breath continued to look at his brother with hopeful eyes.

"Theek hai wo."

He managed to reply in a composed tone, trying not to reflect his worries and stress on his face, otherside Ishita continued to cry standing at the side. She was not in the position to speak, her heart was bleeding, she was angered and agonized with the circumstances led Romi in life threatening condition.

"Sab theek hai Romi. Tu fiqr mat kar." Ishita gathered courage and held Romi head softly, his eyes were filled with questions but they're not in s condition to discuss anything. He need to rest.

"Let him rest Mr. Bhalla." The nurse asked them to move out, the couple looked at him for a few more minutes before they left ICU and came out. The corridor was chaotic, it was filled with police men and Raman personal bodyguards making impossible for common people's to access it.

"Doctor. How's his wife?"

"She is in a bad shape Mr. Bhalla. We removed the bullet from her upper back but the injury on her head is in a real bad shape. Her chances to survive still look slim. Fortunately you reached on the right and saved them."

Yes, he reached at the right time but still he was late, he was to stop those monsters who were trying to kill his brother and his wife just because they loved each other. Raman was in the police commissioner office and discussing the case with him when he received a signal message on his mobile phone, a distress signal given by Romi. Recently he gifted him a watch which sent distress signal when in need. They were a few kilometres away when he received those signals and reached to save Romi and Sarika along  policemen and his bodyguards but things were not easy to control.

Baljeet was about to fire the gunshot when Raman snatched the gun from the policeman hands and shot a bullet which hit on his right arm.

"RAMAN BHALLA!!"

Deepak, Sarika cousin aimed at Raman. He pointed gun towards him when a policeman shot another bullet which strike on his chest leaving him unconscious. When Raman reached near Romi, he was lying bruised and broken, his wife was lying in the pool of blood. They were taken for emergency, Deepak died due to gunshot whereas Romi, Baljeet and Sarika were taken in operation theatre. The death news of only nephew of former chief minister of Haryana was not a joke where his son and daughter were fighting to survive. Mr. Kuldeep Singh, former chief minister of the state was infront of Raman Bhalla, they met earlier precisely four years back when Raman asked him to backout but the man didn't. They were adamant to kill Romi and Sarika but with the help of his maternal uncle, Raman put them behind the bars but it never lasted for long, with their political approch, Sarika father never let them proven guilty and today he ended up loosing his favourite nephew and his son is fighting for his life.

"You killed him." He heard Kuldeep Singh voice form behind and sighed.

"Your hatred and anger killed him Mr. Singh."

"You snatched him, earlier your family snatched my only sister and now you snatched her only symbol. I know you fired bullet on him, I will put you behind the bars."

"We? That was your political conspiracy which killed aunt Payal. You lost your one sister earlier and now you lost your one son and other two are fighting for their life. Many times you tried to hurt our family, the anger of your sister demise continued to cultivate into hate for us and it didn't leave your daughter too. The same daughter you loved beyond anything uncle, the same daughter you treated like a princess. See how she is fighting for her life, her son is crying for his parents and my aunt-uncle, they're grieving for their only son.