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“Tam hums manlam mam ornayi thikri dhani…gvanni,” he commanded with blazing eyes.

She was nearly naked with a savage on top of her. She could feel every bit of his threatening, hard, muscled form. She screamed again in panic and jerked her wrists hard, trying to free them from his hold.

But as she struggled against him, she felt his long, calloused fingers wrapping around her throat. And then, he began squeezing.

Her panic-widened eyes met with his cold, merciless grey eyes.

Oh God. I’m going to die in the hands of the demon.

That was the last thought she had before darkness took over completely.

CHAPTER 7

Thakvar mansion,

Singoor desert.

“When will he gain consciousness?” Shivay Thakvar asked the team of doctors who were checking on the man in the guest bedroom.

Nearly a day had passed by since Rahul was found tied to a horse that arrived near the holy land temple, where an important ceremony had been stalled. After delivering shocking news of Nandini getting kidnapped, Rahul lost consciousness.

“He has suffered severe shock and mild dehydration, Mr. Thakvar. He will wake up in a few hours.”

Shivay nodded, even though he felt dark frustration. He needed Rahul awake to find out in detail about what exactly had happened the previous morning and also how Nandini had received a call asking her to arrive to Singoor.

“Keep him monitored and let me or my brothers know when he is awake.”

“Yes, Mr. Thakvar.”

Shivay stepped out of the guest bedroom and went to the family room, where his two brothers were tracking the situation. All three of them had been up all night, trying to find out where their sister had been taken.

“What do you mean there is no satellite coverage even now?” Rishab Thakvar growled into the phone. “It’s been close to twenty-four damn hours! Get another damn satellite! Do whatever it takes, but I want to see and track the damn savages!”

Security was trying to get satellite image access to the northern part of Singoor.

“Has Rahul gained consciousness?” Nakul asked.

“Not yet,” Shivay replied to his youngest brother. “The doctors are monitoring him.”

Nakul looked frustrated. “We still have no idea where the Kabalis are holding Nandini in the north region,” he said. “The drones did not pick up any movement over the north region within a two-hundred-mile radius. We even ran thermal imaging over the north region a short while ago, and still nothing. It is as though the entire damn north Singoor is hidden.”

Shivay shook his head in understanding. “The north clan camps are hidden under the mountains. And most of the north clans are migrant ones that keep moving locations.”

When Shivay had come to Singoor, he had reached out to all the clans to build relationships. But the north clans were cut off from the rest of the Singoor clans due to the rocky, mountainous terrain and also because of the hostility they felt towards the other clans.

“But the Kabali clan was supposedly the most powerful clan in Singoor at one point. They should have a permanent location,” Nakul said.

Shivay had heard the same regarding how the Kabali clan was once a powerful clan despite being primitive in nature. “Ishani had mentioned that the Kabalis left their main location and had been on the move since the heirs got killed twenty years ago.”

Shivay’s wife Ishani had a large collection of books in the Thakvar mansion library that had notes about the Singoor desert history. There were entries until ten years ago of all the events that took place.

Ishani, Aadhya and Gauri were checking the books in the library to see if they can get a clue on where the Kabali clan’s possible location was.

“But even if the north clans live under mountains, our systems should have picked up something during the day,” Shivay said. “Those clans are known to ride horses across the desert. I doubt if all of them are hiding, fearing our retaliation. And even the tracker in Nandini’s bracelet isn’t working.”

“You are right,” said Rishab, joining the conversation. “Someone is jamming the satellite images over the north Singoor.”

There was momentary silence.

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