Heart wrenching adoartion Part-37

I sat motionless, absolutely stumped to stillness by this sudden revelation.  My head spun in whirling vortex! A cruel, ill-famous Mafia was behind my khushi to kill her! I couldn’t digest it.

“But how? Why? Surely he..he wouldn’t I mean...”I didn’t know what to say and flabbergasted statement barely made any sense.

“Are you sure khushi?I mean surely he wouldn’t want authorities to chase after him when he  just got released?” Akash wailed. He looked so pitiably desperate and frightened, which was reflected on Aman and Anvesh’s faces too as they sat silently, lips gnashed together.

“ I remember each and every part of that horrendous nightmare! I couldn’t possible forget it at least in this life!” Khushi said grimly, her voice chocked.

“I thought he’ll be punished for what he did to my parents and numerous those who were killed because of his ruthless greed for money, but I was so wrong and now that he’s out, he’s not gonna spare me!” Khushi moaned, burying her face in her hands.

I leaned weakly against the iron body of the merry-go-round staring helplessly at khushi. Even the possibility of hearing that khushi might be hurt when I can feel her safe in my arms was unbearably agonizing!

“But why did he kill your parents khushi?” Aman enquired.

“Because my dad made him lose his million bucks!” Khushi said bitterly, her face veneered by a mask of absolute loathing.

“Huh?”

“My dad was the M.D. of Greenboroue Company ,a high-profile arms and weapons manufacturing company in the U.S. He was a law-abiding, honest citizen and knew his responsibility as the M.D. of one of the top Arms Manufacturing countries of the world."

" Hence, he strictly did business with the government of various countries, to provide them weapons to defend their motherland. He always engaged in lawful business, and encouraged his employees to do so too!” Khushi trailed off, her eyes glassy with unshed tears.

“But one day he got whiff of corruption and infiltration in his company and he hired some detectives to look into the matter. The revelations were drastic! It employed high-profile scheming! The weapons that were manufactured in his company, some of which were so dangerous so as to annihilate an entire city, the size of Vegas in seconds, were being smuggled to Syria, Egypt and all those countries which have been seeing a lot of political tussle lately."

" My dad was beyond horrified to say the least! The company that he had nurtured with his honesty was the cause of death of lakhs of innocent people!” Khushi croaked, her voice reminiscing the horrors of her past, while we sat around her in a hypnotic silence.

“He himself delved into the investigation with renewed vigour! He so desperately wanted to bring to book all those monsters who had allowed merciless killing of all those innocent, guileless people! The more he got into the bottom of the thing, the more appalling the matters came out!"

"My dad got to know about the involvement of one of his Manager in the whole scandal, that Merelyn Miranda you heard about in the news. He was the one who along with Zachary Pilaster contacted and traded with the militants and minted millions through his illicit business. Some other names also came out in that scam, the names of well-known senators and people belonging to white-collored, high class societies!” 

“It wasn’t easy to round on those plutocrats, what with their endless wealth and power. So my dad began gathering proofs of this debauchery and when he had enough to prove their felony, he contacted someone in the senate. I don’t exactly who he/she was, but my dad seemed to trust that person.”Khushi gazed unseeingly into the space and I tightened my grip on her.

“But that’s when things started to spiral downhill. Apparently, the senator whom my dad had entrusted with the information and proofs, informed him that somehow the information had gotten leaked and the Mafia had gotten to know what my dad was planning to do!"

" Zachary Pilaster tried to buy my dad by offering a huge amount but obviously my dad refused. He would rather die than betray the nation and be the cause of brazen bloodshed and that’s what happened in the end.” Khushi sighed, tears trickling down her cheek.

“I was in Florida when that Mafia’s men caught up with me parents. I had gone on a trip to NASA Space centre from my school. That day I was chatting with my Mom on skype...she was sitting in the little parlor, just beside the living room, overlooking our garden. It was my and mom’s favourite place in the house!..."

" It was separated from the living room with a laminated glass, so that you could clearly see out what was happening in the living room, but you couldn’t see in from the other side of the glass.”Khushi trailed off, her voice ,melancholic and despite not knowing anything about her past, I had a foreboding of the oncoming disaster.

“I clearly saw them torture and murder my parents in front of me, hear every word that they uttered, but they didn’t know that, not until my horrified scream broke through the numbness that enveloped me!”Khushi chocked.

“I was the eye-witness of the entire catastrophic event which changed my life forever...and so they knew and therefore sought to kill me too. I was placed under witness protection programme for a half a year, until I gave the statement in the court to get them convicted. I had heard Zachary Pilaster being proclaimed as the kingpin behind the entire debacle from the mouth of those filth murderers, hence I got him convicted too!”Khushi rasped, her hands balled up into fists.

“All the perpetrators of the crime and the swindlers who were engaged in that smuggling scam were jailed because of the proof my dad had gathered. He had given it to his lawyer-friend, Mr. Sebastian Williams for safekeeping, because he knew of the threat to his life."

" But even after those criminals were jailed, several of the Mafia’s men were at large, so Sebastian Uncle advised me to leave the U.S.A, for I was still in danger of getting killed. Therefore, I came here to live with Masaji(Uncle), Masiji(Aunt) and Payal di!”Khushi concluded in the stunned silence and then let go off her last vestige of control as she let out all her anguish and pain in my embrace!