“ Good Morning sir... ”

“ Good Morning Mr. Goenka, ”

“ Have a nice day sir, ”

“ Good morrrrrrningggg sir ummmm...”

A girl pinched the girl who who just wished while yawning, she immediately straightened herself however, he wasn't giving attention to anyone and kept walking up to his cabin.

“ Somebody please tell the boss that today is Sunday, why the hell has he called us here, ” the girl pouted whereas another girl glared at her, giving her warning to shut up,

“ Sshh, I heard that Mr. Goenka's mood is not good today, so better to shut your mouth close, ”

“ Shut my mouth close? I CANCELLED MY DATE TODAY OKAY? ” the girl yelled at her whereas another employee joined them.

“ You are complaining because you cancelled your date and there I'm, I had been promising my wife that this Sunday, I will definitely go to watch Captain America's civil war movie with her, now you see, it seems like a civil war is going to be initiated in my home, ” he said with unhappy expression whereas the two girls laughed meanwhile, the first girl who was the receptionist shouted,

“ Oh shitt.. ”

“ What happened? ” the other two asked,

“ I forgot to inform him something, ” she said as she rushed to Mr. Goenka, he was still outside his cabin when she caught him.

“ Mr. Goenka, ” she called him and he stopped,

“ I forgot to tell you something, ” she said,

“ What is it? ” he asked.

“ Actually, five days ago, when you were out of the city, a woman had called here, she said she was your maid.. ”

“ What?? What did she say? ” he asked excitedly while she continued

“ She didn't say anything, she just wanted to talk to you, she said she was urgently in need of you, by her voice she seemed to be in some kind of pain or injury, ” she said with confused voice while his expression darkened, he knew that five days ago she was stabbed by robbers.

It means she called for his help but he wasn't there when she badly needed him. He left her alone, how terrible her condition would be.

“ AND WHY THE HELL I'M KNOWING THIS NOW?? ” he shouted at her, meanwhile, all the employees became silent and started looking in this direction.

It was so unusual to everyone because Mr. Goenka was a kind of man who rarely loose his temper but what did happen just now that he lost his temper on his receptionist and the girl seemed to be in shock after seeing that cold expression on him.

“ Y.. you were out of the city.. ” she Stuttered

“ SO WHAT?? WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME? ”

he shouted again whereas the girl swallowed her saliva, it wasn't her fault, after all receiving such type of call was not so unexpected. There were many girls who pranked by calling here randomly and saying that they are Mr. Goenka's gf. Many girls even claim that they are pregnant for his child so as to grab his attention to their shits. As a receptionist she knew very clearly what call need to be forward, what not. But this time, she too was confused whether it was real or fake, she even tried to talk to the lady but the woman herself had hung up. What could she do now?

After giving her a ice cold look, he entered his cabin, and dialed a number,

“ Hey Kartik, I don't care where you are but I want you to immediately show your ass here.. ” he said coldly at phone.

“ Hey bro chill!! This expression doesn't suit to you, okay, be in your calm aura and tell me what happened? ” a man from the other side said with extremely calm voice as if it was very usual for him to hear Krish like this.

“ She is missing? ” he said

“ Who is missing? ” Kartik asked with confused voice.

“ That woman.. ” he said while bitting his lips.

“ Oh, okay... By the way who is that woman? ”

“ You.. ” he bit his lips and then took a long breath and said

“ The woman we brought from Assam, remember? ” he said with comparatively calm voice whereas Kartik shouted loudly on the phone,

“ What!! Your wife is missing? ”

Krish pursed his lips and said, “ Please tell me that you aren't sitting with Madam Rashmi or Aliya or anyone related to me, ”

“ Don't worry, I'm out of the city now, ” replied Kartik while Krish took a sigh of relief.

“ Come back, I need your help, ” said Krish.

“ Hmm, okay I'm coming tomorrow, ”

As soon as he hang up his phone, someone knocked at the door.

“ Come in ” said Krish and a man entered..

“ Sir, myself Pratik Patel, I'm an artist, Naksh sir would have talked to you about me, ”

The artist introduced himself and soon started drawing a sketch according to Krish's description. At the end, Krish finally received his wife's pic that was exactly like her. He forwarded his portray to Naksh and ordered him to find out the whereabouts of this woman in twenty four hours.

“ Will you come out from you so called CEO attitude and tell me what happened? ” an irritated Kartik yelled because he was waiting for Krish to spit out something whereas he was sitting on his moving chair and was busy with his thoughts.

‘ Was she having an affair with someone?’

‘ Did she run away with her lover? ’

‘ How dare she cheat on me!! ’

“ Are you telling me saying anything or I go? ” said Kartik while pursing his lips.

“ What do you think? Where can she go? ” Krish finally spoke while Kartik sighed,

“ If you would be a normal man, you would have already figured it out, ” Kartik mocked.

“ What do you mean?” said Krish as he raised his eyebrows.

“ Come on man, where does a woman go when she fights with her husband? ” said Kartik, trying to make him understand but Krish still looked confused and asked, “ Where?? ”

“ Ohh, you really lack social knowledge, to her parent's home, of course, a woman rush to her parent's home whenever she fights with her husband, see how easy it was.. ” Kartik said proudly where as Krish looked at him angrily.

“ And do you still remember that she belongs to a nomad group who doesn't have any home, they kept roaming throughout the year, maybe they are here today and would be in the south next month, how would she know where her people were? More importantly, she was illiterate, she didn't have money, she wasn't used to our life style, how could she find out their location and would travel to her tribe, it's impossible for her, ”

“ Umm.. I didn't think about it, oh by the way, why are you so worried about her, do you know according to a survey ninety percent husbands want their wives to disappear but it never happens, you should be proud that you are the luckiest one who is experiencing this, hehe, ” said Kartik while grabbing Krish's coffee mug. Krish glared at him while he gulped, “ Oops sorry, bad joke!! ”

“ By the way this coffee's taste is as bitter as you, ” he added

“ I'm concerned about other things too.. ” said Krish and explained everything to him that happened with him in past three days then added,

“ Don't you think it's strange, she was illiterate but she wrote a letter to me and in Hindi, she even read newspaper add and called a maid. How could it be possible? ”

“ Will you stop calling her illiterate for once? Come on man, you ruined her innocence and still talking so rudely about her, don't you have any conscience, huh, ” said Kartik while his expression darkened,

“ I didn't ruin her innocence, I didn't do anything to her, in fact, I was the victim of everything, ” Krish shouted while Kartik looked at him with stunned eyes, “ What do you mean? ”

“ I once had doubt whether I really had sex with her that night or not, and therefore I checked her body... ” he paused,

“ And...? ” Kartik asked impatiently.

“ She was virgin ”

“ Whattt!!!! ” Kartik blurted out in shock.

“ It means, that night nothing happened between you two and that woman knew about it, still she didn't speak up, how vicious she is, when did you know about it? ” he asked in rage, however, he soon calm down and said

“ It's not her fault, maybe she would be afraid that time that her people would not believe her and her reputation would be doomed, girl's reputation is different from men and they care much about this, that girl must be scared that time, ” added Kartik while Krish sighed, seeing his only friend taking side of an unknown woman instead of feeling pity for him.

“ I found it long time ago, ” said Krish.

“ Oh by the way, you said that your wife didn't ask money from you yet she was living well and even maintaining your home, how is it possible? Was she working somewhere? Maybe we can get some clue from her working place, ” asked Kartik while Krish looked at him coldly, he suppressed his anger and said while pursing his lips,

“ Where could she work when she didn't have any identity card, and not to mention that she was ill.. umm, you know what.. ”

“ Oh yeah yeah, she was illiterate, I get it, then there is only one possibility.. ” said Kartik while thinking something deeply. Krish looked at him with deep eyes and asked impatiently

“ What? ”

“ She was having affair with someone, ” said Kartik whereas Krish clenched his fists in anger, he grabbed a file lying on his desk and threw on Katik's face

“ What nonsense are you spitting out? ”

“ Oh come on, bro, why are you feeling so jealous, it's not like you have any interest in her. You yourself think how could she have money when you weren't giving it to her? And what's more, she was married to you for two years yet you didn't touch her, women also has sexual need, if she wasn't getting it from you, of course, she would fulfill it from someone else, ”

“ Get out.. ”

“ What.. I just speak the fact, you just can't cage a woman without doing anything.... ”

“ I said get out, I don't need your help.. ”

“ Okay, okay, I'm not saying anything, is that fine? ” Kartik apologized, only then Krish calm down.

“ Then, what do you think? From where you will start? ” asked Kartik with serious tone.

“ I have prepared her portray and asked Naksh to find her whereabouts, ” said Krish while holding a file in his hands, Kartik chuckled.

“ What?? You busied your man to find a girl with a drawing? There are billions of people in this country and you are finding a girl with no identity and no clue. Even if your men are the best, they won't be able to find a single clue about her, not even in a month, I'm telling you it's impossible.... ”

“ Sir, we found her.. ”

Kartik's words were still stuck in his throat meanwhile Naksh barged in holding a file in his hand. Krish stood up excitedly whereas Kartik chuckled, he couldn't believe that this man had just proved his words wrong.

“ Are you a man or a computer? ” he murmured while looking into the file Naksh was holding whereas Naksh started scratching his head as he looked confused of his words. He then pointed a name to Krish and said,

“ Sir, the portray you have given us, we matched it from the registration data of Kuki tribes and it got matched with this girl name, Abha.. ”

“ Abha.. Yes, that's her name. I remember it now, ”

Krish said excitedly while Kartik looked at him with stunned eyes..

“ Don't tell me that you had forgotten your w... ” Kartik paused as Krish started coughing hinting him to not speak up by giving him a cold glare.

“...your maid's name. You are such a jerk, ah, poor girl, ” he patted Krish's back while pursing his lips.

“ What else do you find about her? ” asked Krish.

“ Sir, as you said, she is not the daughter of kuki's headman. She was a daughter of a normal man and the most important thing is that she died two years ago.. ” said Naksh while both Krish and Kartik were stunned. They glanced at each other, meanwhile, Kartik said with frowned eyes,

“ H.. Have you ever checked your w.. I mean your maid's shadow before? ” he stuttered as he gulped.

“ I have heard that ghost or spirit doesn't have shadows, ” he added while Krish glared at him

“ What nonsense, are you sure about it? ” Krish asked Naksh while he nodded

“ See, her death is recorded here, ” said Naksh while both Kartik and Krish saw it carefully. It was two days before the marriage date of Krish with that girl.

How could it be possible? He was living with a girl who was already dead. If Abha has dead two days before their marriage then who was the girl living with him and with the same face? Was she a ghost?