Pain is all, she feels and understands in the silent dark room, grovels on the hard floor without showing any movement, she freezes like all else was stopped; only tears were streaming down from her deep black eyes, her loose lengths were messy and cover her face, the mouth was completely dry and lips become a chap, as because of continuing sobbing her eyes were swollen, a sore groan was escaped through her dry lips; as the vision of occurrence in the torture room came into her mind.

“How …. She was cruelly beaten by Lady guard……”

“How…. her clothes were torn”

“How…. to strip her and forcefully lie down her on the ice block……..”

“How…. they torture her with sharp needles and a long leather whip...”, it made her shiver down into the spine and tears were runaway from her eyes.

 During the whole incident in the torture room, Jiya notices that Virat only desires to prove the allegation of Traitor on her; he only wants the person name involved in the bombast planning, which she doesn’t know, as she is innocent. She was so hurt that without knowing the complete truth, he humiliate and torture her very mercilessly.

“I Hate you…….”, she murmurs herself while thinking about Virat.

Jiya got out of her trance of thoughts when she heard a loud thud sound of the metal door flew open and hit the wall beside it, her breath hitch when the Sandhyaji along with two other Junior Lady Guards step into a prison cell.

Jiya's eyes overflowing with tears and snapped up her iris toward the Sandhyaji and again looking down; A concern and pity appeared in Sandhyaji's orbs when she looks at Jiya’s condition but her conscience know that she has to follow the order given by Virat, “ Giving you one last chance………. Accept your crime………… and tell the names…”, Sandhyaji said in a cold and hard tone as she was tried to hide her concern for Jiya.

But this time, not a single word comes out from Jiya’s mouth in her defense, as she just continuing staring at the floor with a cold face.

“ Are you didn’t listening……. What I said to you…….”, Sandhyaji raise her voice.

“ If You don’t say anything………….  The level of torture will be increased on you………  you might even die….. Confess the crime……”, Sandhyaji shouted at Jiya in a cold tone while giving stress to her last words.

Jiya looks towards Sandhyaji with her moist eyes and bit her lips to stop her sobbing, shook her head in negative on accepting the false allegation on her.

“Then….. Okay……  after this torture, you might not be alive anymore……..”, Shandyaji said in a low tone, “Bring her to the Refrigerating Chamber…… Right now……”, Sandhyaji commands her Junior Lady guards who were standing at the door in a loud voice.

Taking the menacing steps, the two Junior lady guards came towards Jiya, gripping her both arms roughly, they jerked her body up and take her into the Refrigerating Chamber. Jiya trembles in fear when Junior's Lady guards bring her into the Refregrating Chamber, throw her on the base of the chamber with harsh force, and before closing the door of the chamber, Sandhyaji asked Jiya in a calm tone, “Do you still consider yourself an innocent……..”, to which Jiya does not respond, but only looks with her teary eyes towards Sandhyaji like she wants to say “Yes, I’m innocent………… I’m not a Traitor…….. Please ……..Believe me………”.

Sandhyaji seeing, no response from Jiya, closed the door of the Refrigerating Chamber while locking up Jiya in the Chamber and press the button to decrease the temperature of the Chamber. Jiya was locked up inside the Chamber, after a few minutes she started shivering as the cold starts growing in the Chamber, her entire body stiffening due to cold, her breath becomes harder, the flow rate of blood in her veins were slowed down, as oxygen level was also decreased with decreasing in temperature of the Chamber. Her body gets totally numb and black spots appearing in her visions, she closes her eyes, a teary drop falls from her right eye and darkness absorbs her.

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With repentance in his heart and anger on himself, Virat drove to the Army Prison, “How….How ……..  can I act so irresponsibly……! Just do not let her dominate my mind ……… without knowing her full truth………. I declared her a Traitor……… brutally tortured her…… make her starving and dehydrated…….. and now………I order to increase the level of torture on her……… O, God…….. How can be I so careless…?”, he said in his subconscious mind, while running one hand through his hair and dialed the landline number of Army Prison again and again as it was disconnected every time; and the personal phone was not allowed inside to any Guards of Army Prison, as its rule of Army Prison, “Why………. This call is disconnected every time………… O, God………..I hope she is fine…… Otherwise, I will never forgive myself….”, He utter subconsciously.

In a while, Virat reaches Army Prison, parks his Willeys Jeep in a parking lot behind the Army Prison, he jumped out of the Willeys Jeep before moving inside and rushed to Jiya’s cell, his eyes widen when he doesn’t found her there.

 “Guards…………Guards…….”, Virat growled loudly in a hard tone.

On hearing Virat roars, another Junior Lady Guard appears in front of him, “Yes Sir…….. any order for us………”, she said in a calm voice.

“Where is the girl…?…. Who was kept here…….. Where is Sandhyaji…. and Why the phone was disconnected whenever I call here ….”, Virat roar in a fuming tone as he becomes restless on not founding Jiya there.

“I’m sorry, Sir…………. But to the technical issues…….. there are problems with the landline……. And Sandhya madam took the girl to the Refrigerating Chamber …….”, Junior Lady  Guard said in a low tone.

“What?……. Refrigerating Chamber……”, Virat was stunned at hearing the name of  Refragrating Chamber and rushed towards that direction.

  “Stop………. Stop that…….”, Virat comes running toward the Chamber and orders in a loud tone.

Sandhyaji and the other two Lady Guards looked at Virat with questioning eyes, “What happened, Sir…. We did ……What you order us…!”, Sandhyaji said in a low tone.

 “ I know about it………. Sandjyaji……. But………… Right Now.. Stop the process of the Refrigerating Chamber …. That girl is innocent……….”, as soon as when Virat declared that, Sandhyaji got stunned and switch off the Refrigerating process and Open the door of the Chamber.   

 As when Virat step inside the Chamber, What he saw was horrible…., She was curled in a tiny ball lying on the base of the Chamber, Virat froze at his place, his jaw drop as his iris saw her in that condition, soon when he came to his sense, he marched toward her leaned down on his knees and hold her, “Wake up………. Hey…….Jiya…….Please….Just Wake up…….”, He said in his husky voice with a worried tone as he pats on her cheek.  

But Jiya shows no movement, she was lying like a lifeless body which shook the Virat out of his core. He carefully picked up her in his arms in a bridal style, took her to his Willey Jeep, rested her head on the seat, and rushed toward the Army Hospital.

As soon as Virat reached the hospital, he came out from the Jeep, carried Jiya in his arms, and enter the hospital, two nurses came in the emergency gate with a stretcher, Virat laid Jiya on that and nurses took her to ICU lying her on the bed, one of a nurse was weeping her blood, there were many cuts on her hand and legs, a cut on the corner of her lips and her eyelids, finger marks on her cheek, her entire face was swollen, the bruise was on her wrist and her back, the lashes marks, and cut are visible on her body;  a while Doctor enters inside the ICU, started cheeking her pulses and examine her.

Virat massaged his temple while sitting down outside the door of the ICU, “What I have done….  She is innocent…….. and I torture her so brutally…….. I didn’t believe her….. When every time she screamed out that……… She is innocent……. O, God……Please Don’t let anything bad happen to her…….”, Virat utter subconsciously.

“ What If something happens to her………No…..No…….”, as a thought came in Virat’s mind, a lone tear escaped from his eye.

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