Into The Shadows by Aayush Borulkar (smart ebook reader txt) 📗

Then they picked up the dead body lying in the garden and put it inside the refrigerator.

“Now me and Richa will get going, and you guys stay put here,” said Abhimanyu wiping the sweat off his face.

“We will get through this, mate. We did nothing wrong. This was just a bad night,” said Nishant trying to boost the morale.

Abhimanyu put the two men in the car’s trunk, and Vivek was on the back seat. All the three men lay unconscious in the car. Richa and Abhimanyu got in the car and sped off as everyone stood at the door, watching them go.

“There is a government hospital on the outskirts of the town, and we will leave them a few metres away from the hospital and leave,” said Abhimanyu as Richa drove the car. “We will take the bypass so that we don’t get noticed by the patrolling cops,” he added. Richa just nodded as she drove, flinching now and then.

“Hey, we got this okay. We got this,” said Abhimanyu trying to boost her confidence.

They drove within the speed limits to avoid getting noticed by the police. The car jumped a bit on a speed breaker as they entered the jungle road bypass, making Vivek’s body fall onto the car’s floor.

“Please slow down, Richa! There was a speed breaker,” Abhimanyu exclaimed

“I am sorry, I am just too nervous to be driving right now,” she said.

They were driving on a deserted bypass road with dense jungle on both sides. The only source of light was the full moon that poured its light on this road which was otherwise engulfed by darkness. Abhimanyu heard something move in the backseat. He turned quickly but found Vivek still unconscious on the floor and nothing unusual. He turned back on his seat.

Just as he was turning back, a pair of hands swiftly caught his neck tightly! This sudden movement startled Richa, and she lost control of the steering wheel and turned it to the extreme right. The car swirled on the road and entered straight into the jungle, rammed into a huge tree. Due to the impact of the collision, Richa banged her forehead on the steering wheel, falling unconscious. Abhimanyu hit the dashboard board hard, and Vivek was flung onto the front glass, cracking it.

After a few moments, Vivek came back to consciousness with his head spinning and bleeding. He saw that both Abhimanyu and Richa were unconscious, so he took the metal showpiece, which was on the dashboard, and broke the half-broken glass completely. He then gradually crawled his way out on the car’s bonnet with glass pieces piercing his body on his way out. He slid over the bonnet and fell on the ground. He stood up using every ounce of energy left in him. As soon as he stood up, he felt a sharp, piercing pain in this left leg with blood pouring out of the bullet wound. He couldn’t move that left leg, so he dragged the leg and limped forward sluggishly, with all his might.

He had managed to cover a small distance when he felt two hands, grabbing him from behind and swinging him back towards the car. Vivek fell on the ground in front of the car as he saw Abhimanyu walk towards him with blood trickling down his forehead and nose. Panting hard, he picked up Vivek with his collar and slammed him on the bonnet of the car. He was about to land a punch on him, when Vivek tackled him with all his might, pinning him to a tree. Abhimanyu raised his elbow and hit Vivek’s backbone hard, partially cracking it. The pain made Vivek loosen his grip, letting Abhimanyu take full advantage of the situation.

In the car, Richa was slowly gaining consciousness. As she raised up her head from the steering wheel, she had a blurry vision. She was trying to see what was happening, but all she could see was a faint, blurry outline of two figures brawling it out in front of the car. She opened the door slowly and crawled her way out, moaning in agony, a big piece of glass sticking out of her shoulder. She was on her four limbs battling her pain when…BAAM! A loud noise of gunshot was heard and one of the two figures fell on the ground with a loud thud. Richa felt as if someone had zapped her out of her sleep as she saw Vivek fall to the ground with a bullet in his head. Her head was now spinning out of control. She tried to move forward, but her body failed her.

“Everything is alright. I had to do that. We will sort this out,” said Abhimanyu walking up to her. Richa fell unconscious on the ground. Abhimanyu had to get rid of this body. But what about the other two, he thought. He realized that he could not follow the plan anymore. Everything had now spiralled out of control. There was no going back from here.

So he opened the trunk and of the car and pulled out both the unconscious men. He then pulled out the tools from the car that Vivek had brought along with him to dispose the dead body. He then started digging a giant pit. He toiled hard at it for two hours and finally succeeded in completing it. Richa still lay unconscious in the car.

He towered over both the men and shot them in their head with his father’s gun. He then rolled all the three dead bodies one by one into the pit with all the strength he could muster.

He then covered the dead bodies with the soil. After he was done, he trudged his way back to the car and tried starting the car, but the car made a roaring sound and turned off. He tried repeatedly, but without luck. So he stepped out of the car again. He pulled out Richa too. He tried putting as many