0 Celsius: To thaw a frozen heart novel Chapter 26

3 days have passed and there is no trace of her.

I have contracted top of the investigation teams but it felt like Sapphire Brown vanished from the surface of the earth.

"You bloody get paid for this work !! I want her within next 24 hours if not get ready to loose your job!"

Cutting the call I threw the phone on the couch and tried to calm myself.

The dread feeling in my heart was escalating each day and my mind again and again took me back to her.

The file in front of me had all that they could get on her.

Her house address...her work address.

The club told that she left the same day I met her...her house or should I say a single small room was locked since last 3 days and no one knew where she was.

An idea came to my mind and I grabbed the car keys and made my way towards her address.

Anything I can get on her would be enough.

The locality I reached was at the outskirts of the city...my car couldn't go ahead and I had to park it behind.

This was the most dangerous area to live in with murders and rapes a very common scene.

Thinking that Saph lived here made me wonder just how difficult her life would be.

I reached the address to see a room with broken wooden frame and smell of garbage making it difficult to even breathe.

Breaking the lock I made my way inside to be welcomed with a small room with an old box TV..one single bed and a wall covered with hundreds of pictures.

I moved closer to examine them and what I saw made me freeze with shock.

There were our pictures from those times when we were together.

Some were my alone while others were of us together.

Each picture had a happy memory and I smiled remembering that time.

My hands automatically lingered on her smiling face

How beautiful she looked .

But then a picture caught my eye that made me stop.

It was a latest one with me and Andrea hand in hand smiling at the camera.

Was she trying to explain herself that I have moved on with Andrea.

Looking around I ransacked all the racks and drawers but didn't found much.

Finally when I was going to leave after taking some of her photos along with me my eyes locked on something lying under the pillow.

Pulling it out it was a beautiful diary.

A very elegant design covered the book cover and the words written on the first page filled my heart with nostalgia and longlines.

"Personal diary of Aurora Sapphire Brown"

Flipping through the pages of the diary at once my eyes saw how her handwriting changed from a kid to an adult...as the dates and years passed with a flip my hand stopped on her last entry ......

Date 27th Feb

Time :2 am

I can't sleep again ...

The medicines are of no use when his eyes haunt my nights...

Those cold eyes were again looking at me with hate...

Hate is nothing new. I am used to it now...but his hate matters

His every word and every look matters.

But diary you know what the best part was?

He protected me!!

He stood in front of me when another man looked at me...

And his touch was enough to make my day.

The bruise on my arm he left is a token of his touch and I can still feel his strong grip on me.

I know you must be thinking I am crazy cherishing a bruise like it was a hickey but diary you don't know what all love can make you do.

Especially when it is a long lost one and has no future.

He is expensive...I know.......I am rubbish under his feet...but when he touches me he changes this rubbish into gold.

Well that's enough I won't bore you with his talks again like I do every night

I will tell you something else...