RED: The shade of betrayal

Chapter 2: Revenge

Third Person POV:

Erica was outside Samara mansion “The Paradise”, which was fully guarded, 2 guards were on front gates and 2 outside her door and 8 were inside gate all of them with loaded guns in their hands, her mansion was away from city and was covered with big lawn from all four sides, only way to get in was rooftop which was next to impossible except a way Erica knew, In Past when Erica attended a party at samara mansion she coincidently found these way when she was trying to search for ladies room, Behind her mansion there was an old drainage pipeline which was closed few years back due to new renovation, Its one end opens at a manhole few meters away from her mansion and another end lead straight inside and old bathroom which was now used as Storeroom in samara mansion, Erica made her way towards manhole which was situated at few meter away from mansion and crawl inside it, these pipeline was empty and dark, in less than 10 min Erica and was inside Samara’s mansion, she got out from the opening in store room and made her way to its door , but it was locked from outside, Erica looked around to find something to open lock when she analysed it and realised that it was a "privacy handles" on door, which can be open with something flat instrument, Erica look around in storeroom and found an screwdriver in old tool kit, she grabbed it and Push it straight through as far as she can, and started twisting it when finally she caught a groove and the lock clicks open, Erica , peek outside and to her luck no one was there, Erica knew Samara will be on second floor in her bedroom , it was complete dark, only source of light for Erica was moonlight shining from big windows, it was almost 3.00 am the devil hour, Erica was about to go out when her eyes fell on baseball bat in one of old box inside store room she grabbed it and took opportunity to carefully move up to second floor, once Erica was standing outside her room she quietly opened her door and saw Samara sleeping  peacefully in her bed, Erica’s hold on base ball bat tighten upon seeing samara’s face. Samara was sleeping there in her shorts and opened hairs, her fair complexion was glowing in moon light she was looking nothing less than a sleeping beauty, but image that was running in Erica mind of her was nothing less than of a demon of, Erica was taking slow step towards her bed just like a hunter watching its prey, memories of earlier day were rolling in her mind like a flashback of a movie, finally when Erica was near her bed she looked at samara’s calm sleeping face and all the words that doctor informed her happened to mike started ringing her mind, Erica started boiling in anger, her eyes turned red and got reckless her brother broken face was flashing in front of her eyes. Erica grabbed that opportunity and hit samara on leg with baseball bat with all her force making her woke up screaming in pain but before her scream could eco Erica pulled her comforter on her face and stuck it in her mouth, samara tried push her away but Erica hit her again on her arms, Samara was wincing in pain but Erica showed no mercy on her she hit her many more time on her hand and legs,head , Erica was beating samara like an mad women, her once white bed was now turning red due to samara’s blood, after couple of minutes samara was now lying like a lifeless body on her bed , her body was not moving and her eyes were fixed on Erica she was trying to say something but was unable due to unbearable pain that erica just gave her, samara was injured however her face was still showing hint of rage, erica looked into samara eyes with more rage and picked up near by phone and called Fire fighter and ambulance, samara was watching her but was unable to say understand erica’s action, Erica made her way out of samara room and to kitchen and pulled out all gas pipes within few minute her mansion was filled with methane gas , Erica took lighter from kitchen counter and went to same store room, she lit a cardboard box nearby and made her way out through same underground way she came in. Within couple of second there was huge blast in kitchen, which made guards standing outside alert, Erica heard it when she was running inside pipeline towards manhole. Once Erica came out of manhole looked at the massive fire in front of her eyes, there was no expression on her face, fire flames around mansion were reflecting in her eyes which looked like fire that was burning inside her. After 20 more minutes she saw ambulance and fire fighter parking infront and getting towards samara mansion that’s when erica turned her back and start walking away . She came to her apartment and packed her and mike essentials and left straight to hospital. She cleared hospital bills and got mike and left with him, Sonia was also orphan like them, So she too joined and left with them. Erica took a flight to England and all three of them got on it, once landed in England they checked in a hotel for a day and later Erica made an arrangement for them in far away lresidence where they stayed for complete 2 month, Mike took his treatment secretly in local hospital and after two month they took a private cab to Australia. In these past two month lot’s had changed, samara’s mansion ‘THE PARADICE’ which used to stand in all its glory on mountain hill in New York was now like a ‘HUNTED HOUSE’ its once white and royal golden colour was now pitch black, samara was safe but brutally injured she was not much harmed by fire but beating she received from Erica she was hospitalised and under treatment. All her body guards were dead as per news all of them were target by some gang attack , samara’s was from a reputed family of Singh who has many rivals due to these fire set by Erica was also considered as a rival attack  and was a hottest news of New York. As the culprit was still loose Singh family was completely reckless. Erica’s eyes were fixed on TV Screen of department store watching news while standing in queue where Samara’s father interview Mr.Vikram Singh was going on “The one who are responsible for my daughter condition should be scare because once I find them....they will curse the day they were born”  hunger for revenge was visible in his eyes.

11 Months later:

Sonia is busy arranging paper napkin on order counter, she is looking little tensed today. Erica herself is collecting empty plates from nearby table “Babe is everything fine with you?” Erica asked stopping in-between her way to kitchen while still holding dirty dishes try in her hand “Yeah...Ya i am fine,why what happened” Sonia siad little amused “Nothing i was just talking to you about our movie plan tonight you me and mikey, what movie you choose, i asked you trice but you seemed completely lost” Erica replied with concern in her voice “No nothing i am just trying to focus Onnn....thes..these..napkins how to arrange these napkins..” Sonia replied “Ohk i was thinking we can go to Sally’s pizza after movie, what say? ” Erica asked with smile “Sound’s good to me” Sonia replied “Good let’s get these done and then we can leave early” Erica said and headed towards kitchen, Sonia only nodded with smile on her. Erica and Sonia were now working in “Meadow cafe” from past 8 months , It was almost 4.00 pm when their manager came with worried face “Sonia i need you to make a quick run to deliver 70 packages of “vegan meal box” to phantom studio now” manger said hurriedly “WHAT Now...?? , PHANTOM STUDIO...? it will take me at least hour to deliver and my shift ends at 4.00 pm” Sonia said quickly “I Know that ,but it’s a big order” Manager replied, Erica was watching whole situation from far  “I’ll Do it “ Erica hoped it “I Can cover for her” Erica added “You will?” manager asked “ yeah i can do that , you can wait for me at our apartment ill meet you there” Erica replied ”Okay..” Sonia said, manager quickly collected all packages and loaded in Erica’s scooty box, she wore her helmet and made her way to phantom studio. It was around 6.00 pm when Erica headed back after delivering last order for the day, from distance she saw few black car parked outside ‘Meadows cafe’ along with some bodyguards , she parked her scooty and headed inside cafe ignoring bodyguards only to find it empty except one person, Someone was sitting on middle table inside cafe , his back was facing towards Erica , one can tell by his posture that he must have done lot of workout because his back was perfectly V shaped and his white shirt was showing all his back muscles, his black blazer was neatly kept on table in front of him and he was sipping his coffee, aroma of his coffee was lingered in air it was freshly brewed coffee one can tell that by its smell. Erica didn’t notice that she was staring at him until he kept his cup down and stood up on his place. Erica flinched a bit when she was him turning to face her, Erica’s breath got hitched in her throat when she recognised the person standing in front of her. Within few second Sweat beads formed on her fore head, layer after layers of sweat filled with fear started forming inside her body, her heartbeat accelerated, her mind gave up at that second and she started at him without a single blink. He was walking towards Erica with slow steps and curling up his white shirt sleeves at same time, in just less them 3 sec he was standing at one foot distance of Erica , his dark brown eyes were pierced into her black ones ,she was feeling his hot breath on her face “Samrat...” was only word left her mouth before she found herself lying on floor due to strong forced which was landed on her left cheek ,it brought her out of her trance, Standing straight samrat looked at her lying figure on floor and saw blood oozing out of Erica lip , Samrat saw her struggle to get up and kicked her twice in stomach ,A loud scream escaped her mouth and she fell on face , Samrat was staring at Erica with murderous look in his eyes, Erica winced in pain and curled up in ball on floor holding her stomach, tears were rolling down out of her eyes adding to her pain, she found blood stain on floor and notice her lips were torn at corner , blood was oozing out of it , her once caramel face was now black and blue, Samrat grabbed her black hairs from back and pulled her up only to throw her on nearby glass frame, breaking it and allowing its pieces to pierce her skin on face and neck, Erica didn’t bother to get up after these impact ,she was brutally injured , Erica was on verge of fainting when Samrat pulled her up through her arm and start dragging her out of cafe . Her legs gave up completely she wasn’t able hold herself on her feet anymore and struggle to keep balance but Samrat ignored her condition and pulled her out of cafe with him, one of his guard opened door of his car, Samrat pushed Erica on back seat and get inside with her. Erica was now laying half unconscious on window.