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Chapter 4 - A Face Which More Than Familiar

And then Harish saw someone standing between his eyes and the sun.

Squinting his eyes Harish adjusted his vision to a proper level from which he can clearly see his surrounding.

After some seconds when his vision finally got settled in he looked at the person whom he now found to be sitting near him.

As his vision went from down to up he saw that it is a woman who is sitting near him shielding him from the rays of the sun.

He saw the woman is wearing a blue color Punjabi suit and when his eyes gradually went up he saw the face of the woman.

A deep shock took over his face but after sometimes the shocked turned into the tears of joy with a smile on his face.

His trembling hand automatically started to move towards the face of the woman sitting before him to check if the woman sitting before him is real or just a mere Illusion.

The overwhelming joy and happiness coupled with the tears that are rolling out of his eyes made Harish unable to speak out a single word from his mouth.

The more he looked at the face before him the overwhelmed he has became but still he moved his hand towards the face of the woman.

And the moment his hand touched the face of the woman and sensation of touching a skin with his hand ran in his body made Harish completely overwhelmed with happiness.

Because the woman and the face which are present before the very eyes of Harish belongs to someone with whom Harish is very familiar.

Familiar will be the small word to describe relation between the woman and Harish because both of them are more than familiar with each other.

The face that Harish is seeing before his eyes are or none other than of his own wife who had died eighteen years ago when she had gone to fight against an asur.

With all of his emotions overflowing and overwhelming him the only words that came out of his mouth are, "Devika... Devika..."

The name of his dead wife came out of his mouth after he has seen the face of his wife once again before him.

The woman gave a very beautiful smile to Harish after hearing the name that came out of his mouth and with that the woman held the hand of Harish that is on her cheek.

Closing her eyes the woman felt the touch of Harish's hand on her cheek.

Seeing this scene Harish became happy as well and after a very few seconds the woman opened her eyes and let of go Harish's hand and then she used her fingers to wipe away the tears that were flowing out of Harish's eyes.

After wiping away his tears, the woman gave a very loving look to him and then she got up from the bed and started run slowly away from Harish while showing him a hand gesture to follow behind him.

After seeing that Harish called out, "Devika stop. Stop there for me. Devika stop there."

But the woman didn't paid any heed to his call and continued to run away from him while coming him towards her.

Seeing this Harish decided to follow behind his wife and catch her but the moment he tried to get out of the bed he felt a very strong force pulling his hand and before he could go out he fall on his back on the bed.

After he has fallen, he looked at his hand and saw a red color ribbon bound with his right hand very strongly which pulled him back onto the bed.

Harish tried to remove the ribbon from his hand but it was very strong and didn't broke down easily and this infuriated Harish very much.

While Harish was trying to cut off the ribbon, he felt a weight other than his on the bed and when he looked at place where the weight is he found that it was the same woman from before.

Giving a pitiful look to Harish, the woman said, "tsk... tsk... tsk... you can't even go out of the bed and you want to chase after me. What a pity on you ?"

These words of the woman woke up the sleeping anger inside Harish which fired up his eyes and then in the next second Harish grabbed the neck of the woman and said, "You are not my wife. You are not my Devika. Tell me who are you ? What this place is ? And why have you tied me up here ? Tell me."

These questions and awaken anger of Harish brought an evil smile on the face of the woman who giving a cunning look said, "It's really hard to fool someone like you Harish Mittal."

Harish: "Tell me who are you ?"

Asking this question Harish tightened his grip around the neck of the woman who is still smiling in her evil smile but then in the next second the woman just moved her eyes a little and with that she phased through the hand and then the body of Harish.

This scene shocked Harish very deeply as he saw the woman passing through his and body which made him believe that this woman might be some kind of demonic or asuric entity.

Passing through his body the woman appeared behind his back and put her hand on the neck of Harish and brought her mouth near his ear and said, "I like you and this ribbon in your hand is your final thread of life. If this breaks down then you will die."

Horror and fear gripped the heart of Harish as he heard this revelation about himself and this red ribbon tied to his hand.

Moving her face closer to Harish, the woman said, "Don't worry as long as you agree with me I will not let you die. I like you."

Anxiety and confusion coupled with horror and fear of death gripped the heart and mind of Harish as his desire to live is in a struggling phase.

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