Play In Darkness (Eng/END)

20. The Beloved

"Oh, yes, you must be Miss Maya's father, well, please come in, gentlemen!"

Delisha invited Ajay and Boney to sit in the living room, which was furnished with a red sofa and a sandy yellow carpet. Delisha herself sat opposite them. "What a coincidence you have visited here, gentlemen!" exclaimed the woman with dignity. "I did receive instructions to contact you from Miss Maya, hmm, or now Mrs. Maya Star Tailes ...," she said indicating the truth of the rumors circulating.

Ajay and Boney looked at each other. "Let me introduce you, I am Marianne, the envoy from the CEO of Star Tailes to represent Mrs. Maya to get her business done." Delisha reached out and shook hands with the two men.

"Er, well, Miss ...."

"As you all know, gentlemen," Delisha interrupted. "The CEO of Devdas is very secretive about his personal life. He is a generous person, but when it comes to personal life, he has only one rule. Himself. Once Madame Maya enters his circle, Mr. Devdas doesn't like anything to make things difficult for him. I remind you, gentleman, you wouldn't want to trouble our CEO because ... he could make it possible for you to never get your feet on the ground anymore. And I'm not making that up, gentlemen. You don't have to go through it yourself to know that CEO Devdas never messes with anyone. Mrs. Maya belongs to Mr. Devdas Star Tailes and you should never bother her or even try to con.tact her again. "

The two men in front of her swallowed hard.

For God's sake, Maya just wanted people, including her father, to remember her as a successful actress and have a perfect life and become the wife of the most wanted man in the world. For years she built a career, not to go down in history to be one of the victims of cold-blooded murder under the guise of an angel. Especially if they find out what happened to her body, uhh, she can't live anymore in this world or the next life.

"So, this is it!" exclaimed Delisha while handing a folder in front of the men. "Mrs. Maya gave all her assets to her family. Mr. Devdas has already given her everything she wanted, so she doesn't need a penny of this treasure." In the folder, there are various certificates and other securities as well as Maya's handwriting stating the release of her ownership of all her assets. Land, apartments, cars, deposits, and several other valuable assets. "I think you can take care of the rest of your own."

Ajay and Boney looked at each other. It seems there is nothing they can do in that place anymore. "Hmm, okay, Miss," said Ajay as he took the folder, "if you do not mind, Miss, tell Maya, that I, as her father, am happy and wish her the best for her life. May she be happy with Devdas Star Tailes."

Maya, in Delisha's body, wanted to cry and embraced the man, but alas, her body was not hers. She just hitched a body. She is now an invisible spirit. If she appeared in front of her father and lawyers, these men would probably run helter-skelter. After all, it would reveal the secrets she was trying to cover up.

After the two men left, Delisha's body knelt on the floor and sobbed. Her face flushed red and tears rolled down her cheeks. The back of her hand wiped the tears over and over. A moment later Delisha stopped crying, frowned on her face, and straightened up.

"Are you satisfied using my body, Maya?" Delisha asked, staring coldly at Maya's spirit who was kneeling on the floor. The ghost cried black tears. Maya nodded quickly.

Delisha wiped the remaining tears on her own face then hurried towards the mirror with unsteady steps. She looked at her appearance. Mess after crying and getting drunk. She rarely drinks so that her body's tolerance for alcohol is very low. There was no way she'd driven home like this. "Looks like we can't go home tonight," she said.

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Delisha wakes up lay prone on Maya's bed. Her disheveled hair partially covered her vision. From behind the curtain, the sun was already bright.

"I never thought that in this apartment many spirits haunted her," muttered Maya, who was standing near the bed. She looked sadly at Delisha.

"So what? Did something happen?" Delisha asked as she turned around and rubbed her cheek because it seemed like she was drooling in her sleep.

"You're lucky I'm here to look after you," Maya said with her hands folded on her chest. "Some curious spirits tried to enter your body."

"Oh, yes?" Delisha said languidly, she sat in the middle of the bed with a sore head.

"You have to thank me. The ghost of Mrs. Ayodia had a hobby of allowing animals to lick her genitals, while Mr. Jaya likes to eat from garbage and Mrs. Lela likes to seduce single men. You can guess for yourself what will happen to you if they possess you."

"I don't need to thank you. You made me like this. You drank too much!" Delisha pointed at the belly dancer's ghost. "You also take advantage of my body. I've brought you out of the Golden Star, you should be grateful to me! Do you want to be a parasite in my body? You epiphyte!"

Maya stares with her mouth open holding her anger at her. "Ah! Uhh!" The ghost exclaimed in annoyance but chose not to say anything.

"Your phone keeps ringing too," said Maya later. Delisha took her cellphone from the bag which was lying on the sofa. There were 10 missed calls from the number 'who else if not' CEO of Xin India, Imdad Hussain. Delisha was thinking about what excuse to make when the cellphone in her hand vibrated. She cleared her throat a few times and then answered the phone.

"Yes, hello?"

The voice of a man immediately bombarded her with questions. "Marianne, where are you? What are you doing? Why didn't you pick up my phone? You didn't come home, why didn't you please let me know first? Auntie is very worried about you! You don't know how prone it is for women to walk alone in India." Sounds like it was the man who was worried about her, not Auntie.

Delisha hesitated to answer. Imdad and his men master IT, they can trace her whereabouts. Delisha couldn't lie. "Er ... I went drinking and seemed a little drunk, so I didn't dare to go home ...."

"Are you drunk ?!" Delisha felt like she had just been caught doing pervert by her father.

"I drank a little, I thought it would be dangerous if I drove ...."

"Where are you now?"

"At a friend's house ..."

"Tell me the address, I'll send someone there!"

Imdad sent people, not he himself to pick her up. Is the man busy? Ah, there was no way he could call if he was busy. It must be because the man is out of town. "Uhmm, no, I'm not drunk anymore, I'm going home alone. I'm an adult, Mr. Imdad, once in a while I could get drunk and stay at a friend's house, right?" Delisha cursed herself after saying that. How stupid does it sound? Like a teenager who is just learning to rebel.

For a moment, there was no reply. Delisha also didn't dare make a sound.

"Ooh ...," joked the man on the phone. "I just didn't expect you to have friends in India."

Delisha muttered cursing herself silently. "O-of course I have!" she replied curtly.

"Your friend, male or female? What's the name?" urged Imdad. The man was always curious.

"T-t-that's it! I'll hang up, I'll be home as soon as possible!" Delisha panicked by herself then immediately cut off the incoming call and tapped herself on the head with her cellphone.

"Your boyfriend?" asked Maya with narrowed eyes.

"Not!!" protested Delisha with a red face. She hurried to the bathroom.

"Hm? Something fishy."

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Meanwhile, in a villa room outside the city, Imdad Hussain is standing by the window staring at his cellphone screen which has just darkened. His shirt was outside the waist of his pants and the buttons were partially open showing his broad chest. A young woman with long, beautiful black hair with gray eyes wrapped in a white towel came out of the bathroom.

"What's the matter, Imdad?" the woman asked curiously to see the man who had just spent the night with her seemed glued to his cellphone.

Imdad keeps his cell phone in his trouser pocket. "Just a matter of work," replied Imdad, turning around to face the woman. "One of my employees is suddenly sick so someone has to replace him out of town." He walked over to the woman and cupped a beautiful face without any makeup on with his big hands. "Don't worry, mere jaan," he said again, looking into the woman's eyes. "Anything, it won't interfere with our togetherness." Then he crushed her rosy lips voraciously. The woman laughed with amusement when the towel fell to her feet and they hugged tightly.

At the same time in Devdas Star Tailes workroom at the Golden Star Hotel. The handsome young man looked frowned. He sat half-sprawled in the work chair and stared out the window. The sunlight from outside brightened the room. All night long he did not sleep, just sat there, waiting anxiously for the results of his men to find out the identity of Marianne Webster. Something about that woman unsettled him. It was as if it were a jet engine at full power and unlimited fuel, ready to launch, but not knowing where to go.

His eyes dragged sharply when a man named Sanjay who was his personal assistant entered the room and put a black leather folder in front of him. "This is the information we have on Miss Marianne Webster, sir!" he said, standing straight at the table.

Immediately Devdas opened the folder and his eyes moved swiftly to read the contents.

"Miss Marianne Webster arrived in India a week ago. She entered India through the Tibetan border. Before going to India, apparently, Miss Marianne went on a safari in the Himalayas," said Sanjay explaining things that were not listed in the file. "The first day in India she stayed at this hotel, but left suddenly because she did not feel comfortable with her room ... even destroyed things," he continued a little doubt, "but she compensated for the damage she's caused, even yesterday came again to eat at the restaurant in this hotel."

Devdas doesn't care about such trifles. He read her bio, her age, gender, height and weight, skin color, race, and eye color. Brown. He looked closely at the woman's passport photo. The dimples on her cheeks are formed even though she's just smiling in the photo. He only needed to look at her face, then he could imagine her smooth body and beautiful curves. He still remembered it like it was yesterday even though 250 years had passed. The first time he saw her was when the woman was soaking, half lying in the creek and the sun shone on her wet body, sparkling.

Her long hair was wet, the hair strands were submerged in water, and moved with the river flow. Her knees were sticking out of the water, as were half of her chest. "Who are you there and why are you peeking at me bathing, you pervert birdman !!" scolds the woman and makes Devdas who is perched on a tree trunk jutting to the river fall into the water. Devdas at that time took the form of a human in white clothes with gold and silver ornaments and large white wings on his shoulders, too shocked that he forgot to fly and defy the earth's gravity.

"Y-y-you ... can see me?" asked Devdas in surprise. He was half-standing on one knee in the water. He didn't know if he had ever set foot on the ground. It was the first time he remembered because for the first time he met those beautiful brown eyes. The first time a human eye looked back into his. The first time he saw a human who could see him.

"Of course, I can see you," said the woman, and her soft voice sank into his soul. "I have very unique eyes." The first time a woman has spoken to him. The woman crawled over to him and her hands reached out for his face. "You are very handsome and radiant," said the woman, full of admiration examining his face.

It was the first time a human had touched her face in such a way and the human was a woman, her soft fingertips tracing his face made Devdas' body feel a sensation that had never been felt before. As before he had never noticed whether he had a heart or not, this time he could feel a strong pounding from deep within his chest.

The woman's gaze moved to the wings on his back. "You are not of this world," muttered the woman. "Where did you come from?"

"And he's working in Xin India, as the company's new accountant." Sanjay's words broke Devdas' reverie. He glared at the man. "Xin India ??"

"Yes, that is very true, sir. Xin India, chief executive officer Imdad Hussain."

“s**t! Why does it have to be Imdad Hussain again ?! " Devdas clenched his fists so that his nails dug into his palms. The sound of fists hitting the table made Sanjay gasp and shudder nervously. He had never seen his boss so scary because of a woman.

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After showering and having a modest breakfast at Maya's apartment, Delisha heads to the ND City hospital to visit Vijay. She was grateful that the man was getting better even though he was still on the IV because he was still healing. The doctor who treated him said the man could go home tomorrow. There he meets Sunil, Vijay's partner. Sunil is worried about taking on missions alone because he is used to working with Vijay.

"How about I accompany you, Mr. Sunil?" said Delisha.

"No, Marianne-ji!" said Sunil and Vijay simultaneously. "You're an envoy from Central Xin, we don't want to trouble you ...."

Delisha was flabbergasted "What? Because I came from Xin Central so you guys prefer me to hang on my feet, right?"

"It's not that, Marianne-ji. The mission this time is too easy anyway."

"What ?? Because it's easy so you don't want me to step in? You underestimate me, huh? Have you forgotten, my position here as Mr. Imdad's Personal Assistant, so I have the right to make decisions just like your CEO."

Vijay and Sunil looked at each other and then gave Delisha a resigned look. "Haan, Marianne-ji. Very well then. You will go with me."

Delisha nodded with satisfaction. "Well, what are we going to do this time?"

"We'll do a reconnaissance."

"Oh ... Who?"

"Mr. Imdad, Marianne-ji. We will stake out Mr. Imdad's date."

******

Delisha arrived at Imdad Hussain's residence and took out two large suitcases from the car. The suitcase contains Maya's belongings that the ghost wants to take with her. The ghost thinks who knows she will wear fancy dresses if necessary. Maybe she meant that when she was unconscious, the ghost woman wanted to have a good time. Seriously!

Delisha's mood took a drastic turn for the worse after hearing the mission she was about to carry out. Date? The man apparently liked to have fun and flirted even though he was a CEO.

She packed things in the room, put some field suits in her backpack as well as some other items. She paused for a moment to go over the items she had to bring to the field. She feels one thing is missing. Weapons.

Delisha remembered when in Imdad Hussain's study, something felt odd in the room. Without wasting any time he went to the study and paid close attention to the condition of the room. Her suspicions fell on the large bookshelf in the room. There is a secret lever on the shelf that allows you to slide the bookshelf. The bookshelf slides to reveal a metal door with a secret code panel.

As a human of the future, Delisha has qualified knowledge about keys and all kinds of security technology devices. She opened her cell phone. Her cell phone is a model from the past, but the inner device is made in 2034. She puts the phone close to the code panel and the application system detects the passcode of the secret booth. In just a few seconds, the work of the cell phone displays a 7 digit number and when she enters the code the booth opens. Various weapons are neatly arranged in it. Delisha took the few she needed and she grinned while sharpening a dagger.

"Fhufhufufuhuhu ...," Delisha's evil laugh. Huh, Imdad Hussain, I'll peel you to your bone marrow!

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