George went out of the room. He was unable to walk properly. Each step was heavy. For the first time in his life he felt like he was confessing to someone. He could feel the presence of someone in the corredore. Unable to breath properly. There was nothing clear in front of him.
“George, did you done it?”
“What?”
George despirately asked to John.
“George, we need to stop that machine, or the process of making it. We are here to do that.”
George was still silent.
“George, please tell something.”
This time it was Kevine.
“John… Kevine…, You people need to understand that we people are at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“Wha…. What do you mean?”
“Yes, do you know who is actually the brain behind it? Do you know why we are here? It’s not our plan?”
“Then who is behind all these?”
John was so curious to know it.
“He is behind…….”
Suddenly Lucifer came to there like an unwanted guest. He had that wicked smile on his face, and was looking sharply at George.
“So you people are in the right place at the right time, right?”
There was only silence. No one had answer for that question. Moreover the question wasn’t clear for either John or Kevine.
“Nothing… Boys, he had told me that he knew you guys. He is my friend. I am glat to meet him, and he is here for the first time. So today is special for me.”
Something wasn’t still clear. Lucifer was able to see a puzzled expression on each face.
“What do you think, John?”
“Nothing… I am very glad to see him also.”
Lucifer turned around and walked away along with George. He stopped for a while and whispered.
“This indeed is a special day.”
For John, the whole scene looks like a puzzle. But he was even unable to understand it. Both of them simply stared at Lucifer.
Lucifer and George entered into the dining room. They sat at the opposite edges of the table. Katherine was just entering into the room. George turned towards her. Lucifer was keenly watching George. His vision was already blurred with tears. He, George was almost unable to control his emotions. He felt like he is going to explode. But, he just can’t do that being a “dead” one. But, Katherine too became doubtful about the unusual sequence of expressions on the face of a stranger. She sat near Lucifer, and John and Kevine also joined them.
“What do you say, Mr. James?”
“What?”
George couldn’t understand that question so easily. In fact, he realised that he himself forgot about his false identity in the lab.
“Nothing, just asking you.”
George could clearly see something hidden under that question. He looked at Katherine.
“Your daughter is beautiful. She looks like an angel.”
“Thank you for your complement.”
Katherine said in a soft tone.
“Thank you for your compliment, my friend. You are meeting her for the first time, right? She is like her mother, and you knew Eva”
Lucifer completed his sentence rubbing the edge of the knife.
“Yeah, I know. I…..”
George couldn’t complete his sentence. His tone was trembling.
“Katherine, can you come here?”
George asked looking at Lucifer. She looked at Lucifer and he gave silent permission. She gently moved towards him. George placed his right arm over his head. He holds her face in his palms. Kissed on her forehead, a silent message to a daughter. She could notice that he was almost going to cry. She couldn’t look away from his face. She just felt that he is not just a stranger in her life. Slowly walked towards Lucifer. The atmosphere was becoming more tensed.
In the afternoon they were spending some time in the garden. John, Kevin and Katherine were playing some music instruments. The frozen garden wasn’t that beautiful. George and Lucifer were sitting on the bench.
“Shone, those boys are not a part of our story. Please let them go.”
George could break the silence by his request.
“Don’t call me like that. It is not as you said. You are the one who had made this story. You made all of us as a character in this. It is not me, but you pulled them into this story.”
“Please, please…. They are innocent. “
He pleaded in a low tone.
“Yeah, they are. I don’t want to hurt them also. Do you know what makes one cruel?”
“No…..”
George was even unable to think about that question for the second time.
“It is an injustice. I don’t want to do something like that to them. And all war or revenge need not be for justice, but it could be for someone who suffered from injustice. Whatever the result be. I am not an angel from heaven to do as you wish. You can’t stop me.”
Lucifer snapped the wooden log in his hand after telling this. Two soldiers quickly covered George’s face and dragged him towards the truck. George wanted to say goodbye to his daughter, but he felt himself like a dead one and was unable to resist. Convoy moved out of the compound with some loud noise breaking the calmness of the dark blanket. The only thing remained there were some incomplete words
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