Author Pov
After Rathores left Romano Mansion
Alaana remembered something and went towards Roman.
"Brother, you told that this locket is rare and made for only us siblings right? There are no other copies of it in the world right?" Alaana asked showing her locket. Everyone's ears perked when she asked that question.
Ales nodded.
"Then what the same locket that lady was wearing? How come she has our family heirloom?" She asked.
"WHAT?!" Her brothers exclaimed except Ales who was pale in his place!
In Rathore Mansion
Elder Rathores were sitting in the living room tensed, while the 3 ladies amd Sakshi went in Home Temple to pray. Aditi and Aishu were standing outside and waiting her brothers.
Salvatore's phone pinged with message.
He looked to see who is it. It was Ales. He read the msg and was relieved in the first part, but then frowned.
"Who is it Mr.Romano?" Vikram asked.
"Please call me, Salvatore. And it was Ales. They are all safe and your kids left to come here. The girl and baby are with them too." All in the room became happy hearing him.
"Rakhi, Rakhi!" Vikrant called her.
"Ji hukum." She asked coming.
"Go and tell maasa bhabhima and Niharika that kids are coming. Ruhanika and gudiya are with them." He said to which she bowed and left the room happily to tell them about the news.
"But..." Salvatore trailed.
"But what Mr.Romano?" It was Vikram.
"Ales and others are coming too." He said.
"Oh, it's fine. We can all have dinner together." Adhiraj said.
"I think there must be some other reason that they are coming." Salvatore said.
"Well, then we will find out once they are here." Vikrant said. Salvatore nodded.
All were now eagerly waiting inside.
All their heads turned when they saw Ruhanika and Abheer entering followed by the other 3 and Abhaya in Abheer's arms.
Sakshi immediately ran towards her sobbing. She hugged her tightly before pulling back.
"Tuze kuch hua toh nahi na, tu thik toh hai n......" That's when her gaze fell on her burst lip and handprints on her swollen cheeks.
"Ye...yeh cho...chot kaisi? Un logo ne kiya kya?" Sakshi asked sniffing while lightly touching her cheeks.
(Nothing happened to you right, you're fine na....)
(Wh..at is this br..uise? Do th..ose men...?)
Ruhanika smiled at her concern, and said holding her hand,
"It's nothing, dont worry. Don't cry.
And how did this happen?" She said wiping her tears. Her own eyes were teary when she looked at Sakshi's wrapped forehead.
"It happened when they pushed me. But, it's not paining, don't worry." She said smiling with teary eyes. While seeing their both tears, 2 hearts were aching there.
If you know you know😼😼! !
Sakshi moved aside when all the others came there.
Everyone hugged her one by one, finally relieved that she is back in front of them in one piece. (😅)
While she saw that there was one other man too in between them.
They all sat in the living room. While Abheer kept Abhaya in her living room swing as she slept on the way back home.
But the moment they sat down Romano siblings entered which made the younger clan frown as they didn't know they were coming too.
While Ruhanika was tensed a little as these people are still strangers to her and her kidnapper was asking for their help.
"You here? I didn't know you were with us too." Abheer asked Alessandro.
"Actually I want to meet your friend Ruhanika." Alessandro seemed a little anxious. Abheer frowned, but then remembered about something, so he moved aside giving him the way.
"Did something happened Ales?" Salvatore asked.
"One minute dad." He said making him frown.
All stood up.
Ruhanika stood up tensed as he was coming towards her.
He stood in front of her.
"Can I s...see your lock..et?" He asked with a hesitation.
Ruhanika was baffled with his question. First coz how come he knows she was wearing a locket? And second was why was he asking about it? What he has to do with it?
Plus, that locket is still the symbol of someone that makes her vulnerable!!
"Why? What do you have to do with it?" She asked clutching that locket which was hidden behind her pallu.
"Please, just once. I'm not taking it. I just want to see it." He requested.
Ruhanika hesitantly pulled it out making Romano shock except for Alaana as she already saw it.
"I..t was my friend's! Where is he?" Alessandro asked with quivering voice.
He was feeling emotional thinking that finally he will meet his friend who he was searching for the last 3 months, secretly!!
"Friend?" Ruhanika frowned. Ales nodded at her.
"You might be misunderstanding him with someone. This was my hu...husband's." Ruhanika said.
"It was Abhay's, Abhay Thakur! Is he your husband? Where is he? I want to meet him." Alessandro asked with desperation.
Others were confused as how Alessandro know Abhay, but Ruhanika's eyes widen remembering something.
"A...are you Sa...Sandro?" She asked making him nod immediately with a small smile.
"Yes, I'm. Where is he?" He asked.
A tear left Ruhanika's eye. She took out the locket and held in front of him.
"Yo...you're late!" She said tearing up.
"Huh?"
"He waited for you for so many years. He told me you both promised to meet again. But, you're too late. He left us." She said sobbing.
"What do you mean? Did he go somewhere? You don't worry, I'll wai....wait for him." He said with teary eyes, shaking his head which was suggesting the meaning of her words.
Ruhanika shook her head,
"No, he is very far from us. He won't come ever." She said sobbing.
Alessandro's face became blank hearing her. A tear left his eye on his memories.
Past
A nearly 6 year old boy was kidnapped from Italy and shipped to India by his kidnappers. He was so scared coz he didn't know who these guys are, why are they beating him, where are his parents?!
Yes, you all are correct.
It was young Alessandro when he was kidnapped from his school.
The kidnappers were actually child traffickers! They shipped him and many other his age children to India to make them beggars. He didn't know how many days have been passed since he was kept in that dirty godown. He was hungry too as the last time he ate something was his school lunch! They bit him too when he asked where he was and where were his parents. He was bruised and weak.
When he saw outside from the godown where he was kept, he saw that the environment, surrounding did not look like his home. He panicked and was too scared as where was he.
So, the first chance he got he escaped from there. But, to his bad luck the men saw him. Though he knew he was caught and was way too scared to go back to that place, knowing that there would be consequences, but he kept running hoping that at least someone would help him.
Such way he entered in the park. He fell while running twisting his ankle and looked back to see the 2 men smirking down at him,
"Now where will you go? You little piece of shit, now you will know what happens when you run that tiny little brain." One of the man said stepping on his tiny little fingers of his hand.
Ales whimpered in pain crying.
Suddenly they all heard a voice,
"Hey, who are you? Why are you troubling him?" It was Abhay who pushed the man freeing Ales's fingers.
He cutely glared at him trying to intimidate him.
The man smirked,
"Wow, we got a jackpot. Now, we can kidnap this boy too." The other man nodded.
One man picked up Ales who was silently crying in pain, not even making any effort to be free. He was too weak to even fight back. But, when Abhay saw that he moved towards the man and started hitting him with his little fists.
"Hey, leave him. You are bad guys. You were hurting him, leave him!" Abhay shouted hitting the man in his stomach, who groaned with the strength of his punches.
"You little shit! Wait I'll show you who we are!" His companion hissed grabbing Abhay by his arms. Abhay let out a scream in pain.
"Leave me, BABA! BABA!!" Abhay shouted for his father with whom he came to park on his weekend.
Virat Thakur!
Yes, you all are right! Then Commissioner of Police of Jaipur, Virat Thakur was his father!!
He immediately ran back in the park hearing his scream, when he went to get snacks from the car.
He saw 2 men holding 2 boys of which, one was Abhay.
He immediately ran and punched the man who was holding Abhay. The punch was so hard that man knocked out with the blow. The man holding Ales looked shit scared seeing the Police Chief there. He was about to run with Ales,
But before he could do so, Virat grabbed his collar making him halt.
"Kaha bhaag rahe ho?! Apne dost ki madat nahi karoge?" He asked with smirk.
(Where to?! Won't you help your friend? )
The man cowered saying,
"W...who? N...no sir, I'm not with him. You must have misu..nderstood som..ething."
Virat chuckled saying,
"After dealing with criminals for so many years, I can definitely see past someone's lies!" He said smirking but soon enough, it was turned into hard glare hearing Abhay.
"Baba, he stepped on this boy's fingers. Look, he is still crying in pain." Virat saw that the pain was not just due to stepping on fingers. Seeing the marks on his skin, he clearly understood that it was child abuse!
"Leave the boy right now, if you want to save your life!" He said with the cold voice making the man shiver. He immediately put Ales on the ground a little harshly, making Ales yell in pain.
Abhay's eyes turned teary seeing the boy of his age in so much pain. While Virat immediately held down the man who was about to run after dropping Ales on the floor.
He started choking him and pressed his one nerve which made him passed out.
Virat then looked at Abhay who was kneeling near Ales. He looked at his father with teary eyes.
"Bab..a, look they hurt him so bad. He is still crying." Little Abhay didn't know exactly what they did, but looking at Ales he can clearly make out that he was hurt pretty bad.
Virat immediately picked Ales to his lap who hiss in pain due to contact with his wounds. He gently stroked his arm,
"Hey, don't worry beta. You will get all fine now. We will treat your wounds okay. You will feel better after that." He said a little softly to Ales who looked at him with teary eyes.
"It hu...rts. Please he...lp." Alessandro's voice came slow due to pain and weakness.
"Of course, beta. Don't worry. You will not be in pain anymore, hmm. For now, how about you close your eyes and rest. We will be here when you wake up, hmm?" Ales just complied to his words by closing eyes, already feeling a little dizzy. Soon, he was succumbed to darkness while Virat held him close in his arms. He immediately informed his ACP to come with team to arrest those men, who were at the spot within 10 min.
"Jai Hind sir!" ACP Daksh Rao saluted him.
"Jai Hind, Daksh. Arrest these men. I suspect that these are 2 of the men we are searching for so many days." Daksh was surprised hearing him.
"You mean those those men who are involved in child trafficking?" Virat nodded.
"Yes. Abhay spotted them hurting this child, when he must have ran away the first chance he got. So, wake them up and start with our treatment to know where they have kept other children. And do it asap, the other men might move the children when they found them missing." Daksh nodded and immediately went away saluting him.
Virat turned towards Abhay who was still standing there teary-eyed staring at Ales.
Virat smiled at his sweet child saying,
"Don't worry Abhi, he will be fine. Your maa will make him fine hmm."
"Yes baba. We should hurry him to maa. Com'on let's go." Abhay started pulling him towards their car making Virat chuckle.
He laid Ales on back seat where Abhay kept his head on his lap and moved towards driving seat and drove to home.
"Vidhi, Vidhi, where are you? Come fast!" Virat yelled for his wife Vidhi Thakur carrying Ales followed by Abhay.
She was a doctor and had her home clinic.
"Are baba coming, why are you shou...." Her eyes widen looking at a young boy in Virat's hand.
"Who is he? What happened to him?" Vidhi asked coming by his side while Virat laid the boy on the couch, who was sleeping due to exhaustion.
"I'll tell you, but can you please dress his wounds first?" Vidhi immediately nodded. She carried him in his arms going towards the guest room.
"He will be fine na baba?" Abhay asked holding his father's trousers.
Virat smiled picking him up,
"Yes baby. Don't worry. He will be all fine becoz of you. You protected him well from those bad men. I'm so proud of you for that!" He said kissing his cheeks making him smile.
"I did well?" He asked.
"Yes.Very well!" Abhay grinned and hugged his neck in happiness.
Few hours later
It was already night. Virat was at Police Station to investigate those goons while Vidhi was making dinner. Abhay was with Ales in the guest room waiting for him to wake up, doing his homework which is writing english alphabets.
Ales opened his eyes and found him on a comfortable bed. He remembered what happened before he slept and sat jerking up. Abhay startled suddenly seeing him sit, but then grinned going towards him.
"Hi. You woke up. Wait, let me give you water. Maa told me to give you water once you wake up and call her. Here." He handed him the glass which was on the nightstand, and ran out of the door shouting maasa happily.
Ales saw his leaving figure and sipped some water. Just in some moments he saw a lady entering wearing a saree which was first time he was seeing the attire.
She smiled at him lovingly before sitting in front of him and Abhay jumped on his other side sitting beside him.
"Hello beta. How are you feeling now?" She asked.
"Better." He said slowly making her nod.
"What is your name beta?" She asked him.
"Alessandro." He said giving only one word answer. But, she did not feel bad knowing where he is coming from.
"That's a verg nice name. I'm Vidhi Thakur." She introduced herself.
"And I'm Abhay Thakur." Abhay beamed happily.
Vidhi smiled at her energetic son.
"Come on it's dinner time. You must be hungry too right?" She said getting up. Alessandro hesitated but his stomach gave her a answer making her smile. He became a little embarrassed hearing his stomach grumble in hunger.
"Yes it is then. Come on, I have already set up the table." She said.
"Would you mind if I pick you up? You would not want to walk with this plaster." She said that's when he noticed there was a cast on his ankle and his bruises from before were all bandaged.
He tried to move his leg but pain shot in his body making him wince in tears.
She immediately held his leg stopping his movements.
"Stop mere bacche. Don't move. I will pick you up. You are not to pressure your twisted ankle for some days." She said making him nod. She smiled at him and picked him up in her arms.
They moved outside the room and headed to dining room while Abhay happily bouced on the way holding her pallu.
Virat entered when they were heading to dining room which was beside kitchen.
He saw the boy in his wife's arms.
He smiled a little at him coming towards them,
"How are you now? Do you feel okay?"
Ales just nodded. The man has an intimidating personality just like his father.
"You go feshen up. I'm serving till then." Virat nodded moving towards their bedroom.
She sat him on the chair and Abhay sat beside him smiling at him. He wanted to talk with the boy and make him his friend.
She served them the dinner and by the time she was done Virat came too.
They all started eating but Ales had no idea how to eat the food. When Virat and Vishi noticed his food was still untouched, Virat asked.
"What happened beta? Why are you not eating?"
"I don't know how to." He replied looking down fidgeting with his fingers.
"Silly me, I should've understood by your name that you're not Indian. Let me feed you hmm." Vidhi replied who was sitting on his other side.
Ales didn't say anything, while she started mixing dal with rice on his plate.
She put the morsel in front on his mouth making him eat it. She was feeding by her hands.
"Maa me too." Abhay said seeing her feeding him.
She smiled at fed him too.
After few bites Ales's eyes started filling with tears and a sob left his mouth.
Vidhi and Virat looked at him worried not knowing why he started crying.
"Why are you crying dear?" She asked him.
"I want my mamma. Where is she? Did something happen to her? Where is my dadda? Will you please take me to them? Will you help me find them?" He asked looking at her crying. Vidhi's eyes soften a little and she sat him on her lap. He immediately hugged her crying more. After sometime, he pulled and she wiped his tears.
"Of course, we will help you. You will meet your mamma again. Don't worry hmm. But till we find her and your dad, you have to stay here hmm. You will, right?" He nodded in answer looking at her.
"Good boy. Now no more cryings. Let's finish food hmm." She said feeding him. Abhay too started talking to him to distract him. Though he mostly didn't reply, Abhay was succeeded in distracting him.
Virat and Vidhi were in his bedroom till Ales slept. But Ales pretended to be slept so that they can immediately leave the room. They left after sometime and Ales opened his eyes once he heard the door close.
Later that night, Abhay sneaked in his room to sleep with his blanket and his elephant stuff toy.
Ales saw the door opened and looked to see grinning Abhay.
"Hii."
"Hello." Ales meekly answered.
"I came here to sleep with you. Can I?" Though Abhay wanted that he decided to ask him first. Ales nodded in bit of a time thinking that this was his home and he can do whatever he wants just the he would do in his home.
Abhay grinned and climbed on the other side and placed his stuff toy in between them.
"Why didn't you sleep yet?" Abhay asked laying beside.
"Not sleepy." He said not looking at him.
"Hmm. Then what should we do? I'm not sleepy too." He said thinking.
Ales didn't reply anything.
"Idea? Should we play snake and ladders? I have the board." He asked. Ales nodded not having any other option to pass time.
"Okay. You wait I'll bring the board." He happily went to his room and brought the game. They played some matches laughing and enjoying until Ales saw Abhay sleeping with head down. He gently layed him on the pillow and kept the board on the nightstand laying beside him.
Alessandro Pov
I am finally free from those bad men. And glad too that Mr.Virat found me. He and his wife promised me to make me meet my family again. Till then I'm going to stay with them.
And here I made a friend too. His name is Abhay. At first, I was a little shy to talk with him, but his excited nature ease me up. We played till late until he slept while playing.
I just hope now I will be with my family once again. I miss mamma! I miss dadda! I miss my brothers! Will they worried that I'm gone for so long? Will they be finding me? I hope they do and find me sooner!
Heyyy people....I know I know, I said I'll not be updating, yet here I am!! But I'm telling you, STUDIES SUCKSS!!!
I for the fact know I'm gonna fail🙄! So why put so efforts in failing😁!
And my parents' pressure is just cherry on the top... all the time I feel like my head is gonna burst any moment now!!
So I wrote this chp for you guys....only this one for now, next is still in process!!
Maybe I can update, but my updates will be irregular till October!
Anyway thank you hearing my rant!😽😸
The locket mystery is finally out... my goodness, Abhay is really an important character in the story!!
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One more chp on Italians and then we are done with them (mostly in this story😉😉)
Yeah... so vote and comment....
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