"Pray Sheharzaad, my eyes won't settle at you before the date changes," he straightened himself not before giving a peck at her forehead.
"Will you stand by your words?" she asked, "will you let me go if you weren't able to catch me?"
"I will," he replied and took off his wrist watch before passing it to her.
"You will need it. Now start your hunt," he said and left.
....
There was this wrist watch on which she had her eyes on since the moment she came into her hiding place. Just an hour was left for the clock to turn to 12. The place which the guard had told her about, she had been hiding there. The hotel was too big that it would take almost a week if you were to go and search through each and every nook of it. And no signs of anyone finding her appeared until now. An hour was lef
