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Close Apart Chapter-23 “New Beginning” It was a fine evening; Aditya & Komal were in the same old spot which they’ve chosen quite a number of times now in quick successions. Having bites from their favorite cakes. When suddenly this topic came up. “Aditya!” “mm hm…” “Where are you?” “Right here! In front of you! Why did you ask?” “You seemed lost…” “Yeah you guessed right, nothing important, past stuff.” “Thinking about Amrita, aren’t you?” Aditya’s sigh gave Komal the answer she was looking for. “Do you know Aditya, why I often ask you to meet here instead of Pizza Hut?” “Why?” “Because that was the place where it all started, because that place is full of her memories. And I thought that may be changing the surroundings may help you to recover fast. Come-on Aditya, for how long will you bear this pain within you?” “Komal, tell me that even you’ve believed that she’s dead.” “You tell me Aditya, you enquired in each a

Close Apart Chapter-22 “Moment of truth” “Only one question… how?” Aditya said only these words as he took his seat in the van. “This could only be an act of God!” was Komal’s reply. Aditya tried hard to solve the riddle but he failed to come up with any answers. But then, Aditya was always a little weak in riddles. “Remember? There was a time when God called you…” “Yes! I do remember… is that??... But…” Manish came into the rescue “Let me explain. The time when I heard that the security guard was going to call Mr. Bakshi, I quickly analyzed the voice extract that Komal recorded in her recorder the day when she was taking his interview, from that I prepared a duplicate voice track which would imitate exactly Mr. Bakshi’s voice, though some flaws were there, but I was sure that it won’t matter over a phone line. But the main problem was how to insert this voice over the phone line that the guard will use! The trick includes hacking phone lines and would have take

Close Apart Chapter-21 “Night Out” “Are you sure you are going to do this?” “I have to! This is my last hope!” Aditya & Komal were still arguing on whether Aditya should take the risk or not “Don’t worry; I’ll be on the wireless terminal all the time.” Manish said in an assuring tone. “All you have to do is transmit the data. The rest will be taken care of.” “Why can’t I go in there? Even I can do the job!” “No Komal, the job is very tricky! Only I have a fighting chance to finish it before the time runs out!!” And so there Aditya was! In the middle of the night, standing outside the British council Building. His only link to the “safer world” was a Bluetooth headset through which he was in call with Manish. “O.K here we go!” An eerie voice spoke from the headset & Aditya approached the Security Guard. The Security Guard was certainly not prepared to see a well suited person at that time with a briefcase full of stuffs! “Excuse Me!” “Yes, I woul