Ringing of the phone!
Why does it always bring bad news?
Dad had an accident!
Ira felt helpless . Why? Why does the fate want to repeat itself?
She was shivering her lips parted making an anxious sound:
"Is he alive?"
"What nonsense are you saying sister . Of course, he is alive . He is an operation theatre . I don't exactly know but it was not life-threatening . " Ash replied .
"What if something happened to him?" Ira couldn't control her tears which were flowing like an opened tap .
She couldn't help but think negatively . Her pessimist assumptions, with vast distance and no contact with her dad, was literally sucking out her soul .
"Ira he is fine for now . Let us go see him first!" Viv tried to console her .
Rushing straight from airport to the hospital, Ira sprang to the ward . But her feet paused .
She couldn't build up the courage to look at her dad lying on the hospital bed .
The past visions of her dad on a stretcher with a bloody face, his broken and bleeding chest were haunting her .
"Dad," she said quietly .
"How is he?"She inquired with a doctor nearby .
"He was saved due to luck . There was a wound just beside a main artery of the leg . If that would have torn the artery then he probably would have bled to death in that remote village . "
Doctor explained . Discussing, both he and Viv went to his office .
She stood in front of the ward, refusing to push the door in . There was a pungent smell of disinfectant ward .
She stood rooted for half an hour .
Still Scared!
"Why do you stand at the door and don't come in?" A familiar but hoarse voice woke her up .
With her dad's voice, the fear which was drowning her vanished, instantly . She sprang up with life .
"Dad" Ira looked at him with a faint look, tightened her hand . This man is almost 50 years old but with the well-maintained face, traces of the years cannot be seen .
"Dad, " she called again .
Ira squatted to the bed and shouted," Dad, are you okay . Why go to that remote factory?"
The man in the hospital bed snorted
"It got into some issues when you left . I went to resolve those . "
The factory she built in a remote place for secrecy of her drug .
"Also, it was not my fault . My old car betrayed me!" he laughed .
"What? How?" Ira looked at him in confusion .
"Brakes were failed . I lost control of the car," he explained .
"Dad, Do you suspect anyone?"
she asked .
"Who would want this old one's life?" he denied .
Shivering and shaking hands she digested the new information .
Her Dad is lively, daunting, and more frightening . Everyone was scared of this man . Not many would have the courage to go against her father .
Except for James!
Ira's word was seeded in the heart of Dad, just waiting to sprout .
No one knew about his trip to the recent factory . Not many even knew the location of the factory .
'Why would someone harm me!'
Her beliefs were confirmed with an evidence in her hand .
Chapter end
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