"I spy you!" - 32

That sentence made Vasupradha feel guilty. ‘Now, come on Vasupradha, you have seen Pushpahaasa once. Doesn’t your heart always crave to see him, eager to touch him?’ chided her conscience.

She immediately stopped stepping on to the dangerous zone! After all, just to escape his influence that she tried to immerse in work and now she is going off to a smaller but picturesque city.

After bidding goodbye to Durjaya, Vasupradha got into the train. She took quite a good number of warm clothes since it was cold in the picturesque city. She reached by early morning. She opened her eyes and looked out of the window.

She had read about it, she had seen pictures, she had seen movies shot in the city, but the city looked lovelier and full of hopes.

She hailed a cab and gave the driver the address. While the cab traveled down the winding roads, she looked outside.

There was snow on some roof tops. But there was no snow on the roads. She saw some machines on the sides of roads and realized that these machines remove the snow from the roads and make them usable.

“Memsaab! This is the address you gave me” the cabbie said and pulled the cab in front of a house.

She peered at the number on the house and got down the cab. A cold wave hit her face. She felt very cold. It was just then that sun was rising. She did not see anyone early in the morning. She customarily glanced at the houses in the opposite lane.

She went inside the house and switched on the heater in the room. After a few minutes, the room became heated up. The Intelligence office had one good thing in it. When someone goes undercover somewhere, the whole set of documents, a comfortable home etc. are provided without any hassle.

She decided to have her own name, but only the first half. Vasu. Many documents proving her that she is Vasu had been provided and which she was carrying with her. She hit the pillow on the bed and suddenly she was transported into the world of sleep.

The sunlight had become quite bright when she woke up. She wondered for a moment where she was. Then in a jiffy she hurried to the hall and parted the heavy curtain covering the window and looked at the houses in the opposite row.

Which house was she supposed to watch?

She went to fetch her leather pouch and opened it. The documents provided by Padmanabha were there. She was going through the documents while keeping an eye on the three houses in the opposite row.

She need not have worried about checking the details of the house. From the house in the center came out a woman. Vasu did not have open the file to know who it is. It was the woman who told that her husband may be involved in some nefarious activities. Now, what’s her name?  Amruta!