Two days prior. On the island.. Just after the lights went out.

The whole island stood still for a few minutes before Srinivas cursed under his breath. His eyes darted around while moving towards Charan. He signaled Charan to follow him while his hand automatically went for his gun straps.

Srinivas and Charan made their way to the mansion with Charan holding Akira tightly in his arms.

They found Bharath snoring away in the living room. Charan woke him up and asked him to follow them while gesturing him to keep quiet.

Srinivas led them straight towards a dead end only for a door to open suddenly when he pressed on a particular brick on the wall beside. He stumbled around the lock for a second before the door opened to a huge hall.

Srinivas went in followed by the group..

The door automatically closed behind him and the whole hall lit up making everyone cringe from the sudden brightly lit room.

There was a separate monitoring station set up inside the room with other amenities.

Srinivas went inside and opened another room and came out strapped with some vests.

Charan handed Akira to Bharath and followed Srinivas.

"You guys stay here.. I will check out. Don't worry.. only I and your family member can open this door. SO, you guys should be safe here." Srinivas whispered to Charan not wanting to scare Akira.

"I am coming with you.." Charan said flatly.

Srinivas gave him a look as if he was going to protest.

"It's my family out there.." Charan said once again without really giving Srinivas the chance to refute.

Srinivas sighed and gave him a gun.

Charan held it comfortably this time.

In all these months, Charan had been training with Zack.. that was the only way he was able to keep himself from going crazy missing Shreya.. He trained intensely. So, he knew his way around a gun by now, and anyways he was combatly able even before.. but he had improved leaps and bound in these past few months.

The room was abled with a game console probably thanks to Shreya.. so, Srinivas let Bharath play with Akira to keep her occupied while Srinivas and Charan quietly exited the room.

Srinivas switched on his flashlight as he walked back up.

But before any of them could move another step, they heard a rustling sound right behind them and a few minutes later, Srinivas felt a gun barrel placed behind his head without really giving any chance to react. And Charan was pulled behind by slender arms.

Time stood still for a full one minute as no one spoke.. or even moved a muscle.

Unexpectedly, right that moment, the power came back on and the little girl with the gun widened her eyes considerably before she pulled down the gun.

Srinivas, at last, turned back and he sighed in relief when he saw the little girl.

The little girl's hands moved frantically as she gestured something in a sigh.

Charan had seen this girl around. She was the timid maid who never once talked. He always thought she was just shy but looking at things, Charan figured she was probably dumb or even deaf.

The gesturing went back and forth for a long while. After which, the little girl led them to the kitchen where the head maid lay down unconscious.

"Don't worry. She is just knocked out. This is Mary by the way. Shreya sent her undercover in case something happened to me. She is deaf and dumb but she can read lips. She oversaw the head maid talking to someone say she was going to blackmail Shreya."

Srinivas clarified before checking the surroundings.

"It seems, the maid still managed the trip the main power and cut off communication outside the island," Srinivas muttered after checking the phone beside the unconscious maid.

Mary gestured something again.

I switched on the backup generator..

After all, it is hard for her to move around without light.

Srinivas gestured something back.

"She must be working alone. Mary had run a check.. there is no one else out of bed till now. Charan, go and check on your parents and Preethi. We will be leaving in an hour if things get dicey. Lastest at, tomorrow at first light. I cannot bring the communication back up. Shreya must be freaking up.. we will go back home. Anyways the island is compromised. Mary will run another check within the mansion. I will check the outside." Srinivas fired away instructions after thoroughly going through the maid's phone. He then secured her with a rope before going out while Charan and Mary went ahead to do as they were bid.

Srinivas went out and checked. First things first, he went to the plane standing on the runaway and checked.

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And given their predicament without any means of communication with the outside world and not having any information on what was happening on the other side, he decided it was probably prudent to get back home.

Anyways, he and Mary can fly the plane without much trouble even though the weather was slightly stormy.

By the time they got back, everyone was gathered in the living room while Akira and Akil were sleeping on the couch.

Mary gestured that everything was fine.

Srinivas did not say anything. He took Charan to a corner and explained. He did not know how much his family knew and what he told them now.. All Srinivas knew was that, Charan was well informed about what is happening back home and that he had been there when Mary told them what happened.

And Shreya also instructed him not to hide anything from Charan when they left.

"I think it is best we return back home tomorrow morning. You guys get some sleep now.. I will keep an eye on things.. Expect for lack of communication, there seems to be no other danger as of now.. From start, it should have been their plan to just scare Shreya without really wasting much effort. So, it is better for us to get back even if there is no much danger.."

Charan did not say anything.. he just nodded his head.