Can you mend my broken heart?

Akira stared at him in disbelief.

She wanted to scream and shout and loathe him for having such horrendous thought even creeping inside his head, but she couldn't find the words, neither she could borrow the vowels.

Repelled by his sheer shameless audacity to speak out with his uncultured mouth, she got up in an instant and started walking towards the door.

"I thought you were ready to do anything for him".

She paused and turned back and gave a final glance at the man, unable to believe that creatures like him even existed. She opened her mouth to speak but then she restrained herself as she didn't know what verbal cataclysm she would bring upon.

"That's all you got then?", remarked Sebastian and smirked as he saw her going again towards the door.

"I cannot give you something, which is not mine", saying that Akira walked back to the car.

As Katherine saw her coming back all dejected, she knew that it had not worked out. They silently drove back towards Katherine's place until Akira's phone buzzed.

It was a call from Vikram.

She didn't want to pick it up, but somehow something in her pushed her to do so.

"What now?"

"Will you listen to me just once?"

"It better be something that I want to hear".

"I do not know why you will even think that I will stoop so low as to kill someone Akira. I might have done things that I am not proud of, but I am not a killer. So please stop thinking so low of me."

"Ok, now that you are done speaking your mind, can I disconnect the call".

"No. Wait"

"I have called for a search party and I have booked the next flight for us to go to Brazil. I will try whatever is possible under my control, to help you find him. Pick your passport and some essentials and come to my house as soon as possible".

Saying that he disconnected the call.

All perplexed Akira stopped her car and looked at Katherine and said,

"I need to go now".

"You are going to trust him? Of all the people him?", Katherine asked all surprised.

"I can trust even the devil at this point. I will do anything to get in there and to find him Katherine", saying that Akira turned her car towards her home to get her stuff. She knew she was taking the red line at this point, but she had no other way to go.

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Immediately after reaching Manaus, both Vikrama and Akira set out for the confluence point, along with a team of deep divers, search men, and a few locals. They split themselves into two teams and started searching upstream and downstream from the waterfall. The team of divers went inside water in search of any sort of clue that could lead them ahead.

Since morning Akira had been walking around in search of him, without having any food or water. No matter how many times Vikram asked her to hydrate, she didn't listen. She had become like a robot whose mission was to find Raymond and she didn't want to accept anything other than it.

The diver group lead came out of the water and said,

"There is no clue, we didn't find a thing. We went far till the water mixes deep with the Amazon, but still, we got nothing".

The final ray of hope that was keeping her heart away from darkness also got reflected back. Absentmindedly she started walking away from the entire group, along the pebbled path, but then she came to an abrupt halt.

She bent down and picked up something.

A curious Vikram came close to her.

"What is it".

She opened her palm and showed the Ganesha idol that she had given to Raymond.

Tears started stinging her eyes.

"He was supposed to protect him !!!".