Fierce

It was half past one when Kanishk Khurana came out of the skyscraper with a big wide grin plastered on his super handsome face. He had just secured the most important deal with a multinational company and was eager to celebrate. But his happy face fell when a call shattered all his hopes for celebration. It was a call from his maternal grandfather who had ordered him to complete a task. A task which needed him to save a girl from gangsters who was running from them for the last two days. He had to rescue her and bring her back with him. And, it wasn’t a request it was an order; as his grandfather liked to order around as a military General and even if he was his grandson he was unable to refuse his order.

He was really dejected to hear this order. He didn’t understand why his grandfather wanted him to personally rescue a girl when he could have send someone from his troops to do that for him. And how could he, The Great CEO of Khurana Corporation, go to personally rescue a girl about whom he didn’t have any information?

Just when his brain was surging with countless questions, his phone vibrated showing an unread message. He opened the message and the girls details were sent by his grandfather. The details were as follows:

Appearance: Wearing a tribal dress

Identification: Ask her the following question:

"Who was hiding in the Pandora’s box?"

The answer is "A Lion".

If she answers correctly, tell her to show her Id. If her Id shows the name Alena Raizada then she is the one. Show your Id too for her to confirm.

Then leave the place immediately with her.

P.S. : Find her before evening, otherwise don’t you dare show your face to me!

"What kind of bullshit is this?" He was already puzzled as it is and this message added more to his complications. Her appearance didn’t have any photo but just a note saying she was dressed in tribal clothes. And he only has four hours! Was the old man testing his intelligence? "That damned oldie, huh!" he cursed.

But what else could he do? He was informed that his grandfather was in a bad health this days. He was going to visit him just after the deal was done. He respected this grandfather of his a lot. He was his closest keen after his parent’s death. He definitely wanted to visit him. He wanted to check on his health that was also the reason why he came to India other than for the business deal. Now that the old man had put forth such a “challenge”, he will definitely prove it to him that he was wrong about his capability.

He reread the message and analysed the situation. A location was also send with the message. It won’t take long for him to reach there. So without wasting any time he set off to the given location.

Kanishk Khurana reached the location that was reported to him. He alighted from the car and looked around. To his surprise there wasn’t a single soul around him. He was in the middle of a forest adjoining the city. He walked forward hoping to find any sign of a human present .

"How long would it take to find that girl here before evening?", the thought flashed through his mind. "No Kanishk ,no, you can’t be dispirited .You have to work hard." Another thought of encouragement passed through his mind.

As if answering his prayers ,he heard a commotion from somewhere near him. He looked around and saw a girl running and some goons chasing her. There were around ten of them chasing a single girl. He quickly hid behind the tree to see what was going on. The costume of the girl was the same as described. He was elated .It seemed to be much easier than he thought.

But he was not naïve to think that. In his life he has faced countless situations and knew better not to believe things from the surface. He looked at the scene and started to think how he could save the “damsel in distress”. The girl seemed to be quite witty though. She was smart enough to know where to hide and how to avoid the goons chasing her. He could see the whole scene unfolding before him as she was now standing facing his direction behind a huge tree trunk and the goons were behind her looking here and there searching for her.

“How come we are not able to get our hands on her even after two damn days? This damned bitch ! She sure knows how to hide. Find her quickly! We can’t go back empty handed. Or the boss will kill all of us!” One of the ruffian said.

" I will make sure to torture her properly before killing her with my own hands. She has to pay for everything that we had gone through because of her.” The one who seemed to be the leader spoke.

Kanishk Khurana was listening to this whole conversation from a distance. In the quite surroundings it was not hard to hear everything clearly. He turned to look at the girl which was also listening to their conversation cautiously. That was when he noticed how tired she looked and her clothes also looked dirty and tattered. Looking at her face he only had two words, "How ugly!" He thought in his mind. Her skin tone was very dark and there were freckles on her face. And maybe due to running for two days straight she even seemed to be exhausted. He couldn't decipher his grandfather's intention by sending him to save such an ugly woman. If it had been a beautiful girl, he could have guessed that his grandfather wanted to matchmake him, but he was confused now. But what could he do, he had to do this to be able to see his grandfather. He noticed that her dark black eyes were looking at the direction of the goons with extreme cautiousness.

Feeling someone staring at her she turned her head to find him staring at her. Their eyes locked and she was startled to see another person in front of her. But soon she regained her calm and the look in her eyes became fierce. She was definitely wary of his existence here. She wasn’t going to blindly look at him as her saviour. As if sensing her wariness, he put a finger on his mouth and made a gesture for her to not make any noise. But in his mind he was having different thoughts. ‘Shouldn’t she be grateful that someone has finally appeared to save her? Why was she so wary of him then?’

He shook all his thoughts out of his head and calmly turned to look at the direction of the hooligans. The leader had ordered them to split in groups of two and leaving behind two of them at the spot, everyone else dispersed in different directions. Now he could easily tackle the two and confirm her identity. He looked at his wristwatch. It was four in the evening. He didn’t have time fight with the hooligans so he could only distract them. So he picked up a pebble from the ground and threw it away in another direction. Due to this ,there was rustling of the leaves where the pebble fell and this successfully attracted the goons’ attention. They went in that direction thinking she might be there. Taking the cue he walked towards her in lighter steps and took her hand and walked with her to a secluded place from where they couldn’t be heard.

Surprisingly, when he held her hands, they were rough. 'Aren’t a woman’s hands supposed to be soft? Then why do they feel so rough?' As he was thinking all of this the woman quickly let go of his hand in displeasure and glared at him. Oh! he forgot that the woman looked rough herself.

After finding a safe place, before she could speak anything, he asked her the question with a cold face. "Who was hiding in the Pandora’s box?"

She was a bit puzzled but quickly regained her senses. So he was the person the old man had sent to save her. Thinking of this, her expression softened a little and she answered, "a lion".

Before he could ask her identification card she took it out from a small purse which was hanging on her skirt. He took it and examined it. It was indeed her. He read the name Alena Raizada and was shocked to see the photo on it. Then he looked back at the girl before him. He looked back and forth at her and the photo for quite a while. "Are you done?" She asked in a rather sarcastic tone. And he quickly handed her id back to her after confirming her features looked the same. He quickly regained his cold expression back, his disappointment could no longer be seen. He understood why no photo was attached to her information. Because even if it was he won’t be able to differentiate between the ugly girl before him and the extremely pretty girl in the photo.

He also showed her his id and after finally finding his target he started to lead her towards his car which was parked by the roadside.

"Catch them, don’t let her escape this time!” Just when Alena and Kanishk thought that the road was clear, they heard someone shouting from behind them. The goons had seen them.

Author’s note:

Hey dear readers, I am new to writing. This is my first book here and I hope you like it. My first language is not English so I hope if there are any mistakes please understand.

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