It was time for cleanup.

Karan wanted all the bodies to be moved and blood cleaned off the ground before he could let his family out. Karan ordered some gourmet food for all the men who had done a wonderful job at killing all the enemies.

As Karan sat in the hall, Rama came to him and told him that most of the cleanup was done and the ordered food had been delivered.

Karan was surprised as the cleanup was completed in less than an hour.

“These men know their job very well. Did you hire them?”

“No Boss, it was Sudhama. Only the lord knows where he went!” replied Rama.

Sudhama? Then these five guards are also your enemies!

Karan was confused, because he remembered very well that he had killed Sudhama, and that should have ended any problem that might arise from him.

What if Sudhama is still alive? And what if he is hiding in the shadows waiting for these five men to kill you and your family before he takes everything away from you?

Karan trusted his other self, if his other self thinks Sudhama is alive, maybe he is. Maybe he still intends to take everything away from me. What should he do now?

Karan thought about it for a minute, then his gaze fell on the delivered food and he had an idea.

“Rama, please ask the men to gather around the dining table. I want them to have these food as a token of my gratitude.”

Rama agreed, “Of course, Boss.”

“They will obviously get a bonus for their job today, this food is just the start,” said Karan.

Karan waited as the men sat around the dining table and began to munch at the food. They had kept their firearms in a corner so they could enjoy the food. Rama stood around them and had taken a piece of chicken from the bowl.

Karan walked over silently to where the weapons were kept. He took out an AK–47 quietly and checked that the magazine had bullets in it. He walked over slowly toward the men with the firearm hidden behind him.

“How do you like the food?”

The men turned to him and thanked him for the food and continued to eat, unaware of the danger they were in.

Karan took the firearm out in a swift motion and flooded the men with a rain of bullets. They were all dead before they could react. The dining table and the chairs they sat on was covered with their blood.

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Rama was shocked and shouted, “Are you mad?”

Rama must die too!

Within a second, Rama was on the floor with a bullet hole on his head.

***

Karan opened the lock and asked his wife to open the lock from the inside. The lock unlatched after a few seconds, and Mohini opened the door, she was visibly scared as she looked at Karan.

Karan didn’t have his shirt on him as it was bloody with Giri’s blood. He had cleaned himself as well as he could before getting to his family, but there was still some blood on his trousers.

“We need to leave now,” said Karan with the AK-47 in his left hand.

Mohini asked, “What happened? What were all those gunshots about? Why do you have an AK-47 in your hand?”

“I killed all our enemies. They planned to take everything away from me, now I took their life away,” said Karan with a wild smile on his face.

Gayatri and Gautam stood some distance away and they hugged each other too scared to move. Karan barged in and told them again to hurry up as they needed to leave.

“Where?” asked Mohini.

“We will get out to another part of the coast using the motorboat, we need to leave before Sudhama or the police arrive!”

I am sure Sudhama has more people with him. He is on his way to take everything away from you.

“I am not going to let that happen,” shouted Karan to himself.

Mohini and the kids were distressed to look at Karan acting strange with a firearm in his hand. But, they didn’t want to anger him when he was in this crazy state so they took their bags and rushed down. Mohini asked the kids to cover their eyes and focus only on the path as she saw the bloody dining table with several men dead.

Karan and his family got into the motorboat and they were on their way to wherever Karan wanted to go. Karan wanted to get to another part of the coast, away from this bloody mansion before Sudhama’s men arrived.

Go away before Sudhama comes. He has an army with him. He wants to kill you and your family!

Karan drove the motorboat north for almost an hour and took it back to land. Mohini and the kids were silent throughout the journey as it was almost like they didn’t recognise Karan anymore. He was speaking to himself throughout the journey.

After they landed, Karan got down first so he could help his family get down.

“Alright, get down, one by one.”

Mohini stood on the motorboat and she had the AK-47 in her hand, aimed at Karan.

“I am not going anywhere with you. I don’t want my kids around you. Tell me what happened or we are not coming anywhere with you,” said Mohini as her hands shook out of nervousness.

“I am doing this for all our safety,” replied Karan, troubled that his wife would aim a firearm at him.

“We are not going anywhere until you tell the truth”

“Sudhama is trying to kill us all. He has an army with him. I am saving you guys!”

What if she is with Sudhama too? What if she had you kill Giri because secretly she is working for Sudhama?

Karan was disturbed at what his other self was talking about.

What if she has been sleeping with Sudhama all this while and sketching with him to take everything from you?

Karan realized that his other self would never lie, so if he says all this then it must be true.

Karan was very quick in his movements as he pulled on Mohini’s hands and made her fall on the ground. Before she could do anything, he took the firearm away from her. Karan didn’t care that she was his wife of seventeen years and the mother of his two kids, in a blind rage, he shot her in the head.

Gayatri and Gautam who were still on the motorboat screamed in shock as they saw their mother hit the sand.

“Now, children, get down carefully, let me help you,” said Karan back to his calm demeanour.

Gayatri ran towards the back of the motorboat and turned on the motor and the boat went back into the ocean before Karan could grab onto the boat. Karan was scared of his children’s safety and he shouted out, “Gayatri, come back! It’s not safe!”

The motorboat went back further in full speed, and it was evident that Gayatri didn’t have a clear idea on how to use the boat’s handle. The boat took a U-turn after it went further into the sea and came back at full speed towards the shore. Gayatri and Gautam were crying and screaming as they had no idea how to slow down the boat or change its direction.

Karan shouted at them and felt very helpless as there was nothing he could do to help. He looked around, there was not a single person in the vicinity, except coconut trees all around him. Within seconds, the motorboat came back to the shore at full speed and hit a coconut tree and exploded.

Karan ran towards the explosion, but it was all over. Gayatri was still in the boat as the boat exploded. Gautam was thrown out of the boat and his head smashed into the coconut tree’s trunk. There was no way either of them could have survived.

Finally, Arjun’s curse came true. Karan had everything, but everything was taken away from him.