The lady with both hands behind her back standing near the dining table in the hall of house number B33, Granville Road, Bexley was completely unknown to Akshay.
She was cunningly smiling at him. The complete hall was lit only by the light of the candle burning on the table. Her shadow fell on the adjoining wall and was making the atmosphere scary. Akshay sensed danger in the atmosphere but still he went more near to the table cautiously and gathered courage to ask the lady, "I suppose this is Sophia's house. So may I ask where Sofia is?"
The lady was still holding her both hands behind her back. She replied, "No Mister. This is not Sofia's house! This is Amanda's house, and I am Amanda."
"But she sent me a message to come and meet her at the same address!", Akshay said after taking out his mobile phone and checking the message once again.
There was an awkward silence for a while.
And the lady suddenly started laughing said, "Ha ha ha! someone got scared! someone got scared! But you are a man, right?! Then, how can you be so cowardly?"
Akshay was not sure how to react.
Then Amanda quickly moved forward and raised her right hand from her back towards Akshay. He noticed that there was a sharp knife in her fist. She immediately attacked Akshay on his chest, but he quickly moved away and avoided the stab. In doing this, Akshay lost his balance and fell on a nearby sofa. She quickly ran to him and attacked him, but Akshay got up, and moved away quickly and the knife missed its target and the sofa was cut. Sponges came out.
"These sponges could have been my intestines if I had not moved quickly!", Akshay thought.
"Who are you lady? Why are you attacking me? Where is Sofia?", Akshay shouted.
"You love Sofia?", She asked with the knife in her hand. There were some blood stains on it. Akshay felt a little pain in his chest. He touched his hand on his chest and realized that the knife had caused a little injury to his chest.
"Yes Amanda, I love her but why you are concerned about it? Why should I be answerable to you?"
"Because I love her. Because she does not have permission to love any man. She has to love me only! She is part of our team now who don't need men. All men are deceptive. There is no need for women to depend on men for sexual pleasure. And for any other thing in the world! We know how to please ourselves! We women are self-dependent."
"What?? No! You can't do this to us. Please tell me where is Sofia? I think she must be here, in this house only!"
"Man! I know you have a wife in India. Still, you are after Sofia. You pervert! We will eliminate such men from earth. They don't deserve to live. Such men should die!"
Seeing the anger in her eyes and the revenge on her face, he got scared. He tried to punch her in her face, but she skipped it. Then he tried to hit her hand to loosen her grip on the knife but in vain! Then she attacked him with amplified vigor. Now the only option left with Akshay was to run because she was very agile in movements and seemed to know all combat techniques.
Then he quickly started running towards the door, but Amanda ran after him and stuck her legs in his legs and kicked him hard and knocked him down. The mobile phone from his hand fell down due to a jerk and creeped towards the fireplace and stopped there. But before this, he had quickly and secretively pressed keys on his mobile phone which would alert the police. Till the time Akshay could get momentum, she opened a drawer, took keys from it and locked the main door with it.
Akshay didn't attempt to get up and kept lying on the floor. He thought something in his mind, raised his hands up in defense and said, "Please! do not attack on me! I surrender! I will not harm you. But please do not harm me. Tell me where is Sofia? Tell me what happened? Just let me see my Sofia once. Then you can do whatever you want with me."
Akshay wanted to buy time till police arrive. He wanted to keep her engaged in talks somehow. She dropped her knife on the floor.
"There are some rules to follow in my team. Once someone joins my team, we never love men. Not allowed. But she met you. She was reluctant to meet you. Still, you never stopped following her. You succeeded in making her ready to have a relationship with you. One of my team members took photographs while you were kissing each other in the swimming pool on the hotel terrace!"
Akshay was horrified by hearing this.
Amanda continued, "Our team is made of all such women who are deceived by men. We all become lesbians. We meet men but only to break their hearts. It's a revenge. We meet men once and vanish. We send the photographs to the wives of men if they are married. I don't know your wife's number as of now. But I will find out. If someone like you come following to our houses, we finish them! Sofia is mine! She is different than my any other girls. I love her. I can't see her with any other man. I also can't allow her to meet any other woman!"
Akshay shouted, "Where is she?"
Sofia cunningly smiled and said, "Even after hearing all this, still you want to know where she is? She is there inside. I have locked her in one of the bedrooms on first floor! She seemed to be really in love with you. I sensed it because since when she returned after meeting you, her interest in me gradually decreased. I didn't like this! So, I hit her with belt and whip. Now her body has many red bruises. Her body is in such a condition that no man can ever think to love it! From her mobile phone, I sent you a message. And you rat, you fell into my trap!"
Akshay could not believe what he was hearing. He was sure that she was a psychopath. He could not imagine how Sofia's body must be looking like. His desire to have sex with her died immediately. He never would have thought that his desire to have his first ever extra marital affair will lead him to such a danger. Now he was remembering Richa's face. Arpit and Rohini's face! His family!
Akshay asked her with tears, "So is Sofia alive?"
She sarcastically said, "What do you think? Had she been able to bear all the whiplashes, she would have been alive by now. You want to check? Come with me! But one minute! She didn't make any movement since past few hours. Also, I saw her breathing was stopped. Does that mean she had died? If yes, then you can say Sofia is dead!"
Akshay couldn't bear her blabbering now.
She continued, "Whoever breaks the rules in our team, she has to face such severe punishment and pain! So now, what is the best punishment I can give the adulterous men like you?"
Saying this she looked at the fireplace. She took a glove and wore it. The she went to fireplace and took a burning piece of wood in her right hand and held it near his face. Its heat was unbearable. Akshay creeped away from her and tried to get up but she punched him down with her left hand. Now she had started moving the burning wood towards his genitals and said, "I will set your penis on fire!".
Then there was a knock on the door…
"We are police! We will break the door if not opened by the owner in 30 seconds!"
Hearing this, she quickly flung back the burning peace off wood back into fireplace and quickly reached the knife on the floor and picked it up. Holding knife in one hand she held Akshay in other hand and dragged him with her and reached the door and opened it with the key.
There were one male and three female police standing in front of the door. One female police were having gun in her hand pointing towards Amanda.
"Surrender or we will shoot you!"
"Before you shoot me, I will kill this Indian guy. He doesn't deserve to live. He is adulterous!"
"Who gave you the right to punish someone? There is a justice system, there are police to decide who can be punished and for what! There are laws which decide this and not psychopaths like you! We were already looking for the suspect who was doing serial killings. Please drop the knife or we will shoot you!"
Hearing this, Amanda filled with rage and in anger she hurt Akshay with her knife on his left shoulder.
Before she could attack him again, the policewoman shot her on her leg with a bullet.
She cried with pain and fell down. Other two policewomen applied handcuffs on her hands.
Akshay further told the policeman about the dead body of Sofia which must be inside one of the bedrooms. Police recovered the body. It had many bruises. Akshay was not able to look at it for more than 10 seconds.
All his libido died at that time.
That was the same body he had seen in swimming pool.
It was lifeless now!
