With Love, xxxx. by Varshitha Kancharla (top e book reader TXT) 📕

Enjoying the icy breeze on their skin, most of the people where roaming on the road in the beautiful streets of Rome. The starry sky and the bright moon added the beauty to the dark night. After a busy day, people were spending their time with their families and the walls of the houses echoed Italian words and people’s laughter. Almost every house was lit up with joy and happiness except a huge building. 

The room which was located on the top floor in the building, looked dark as the lights were not turned on. The only light that was making things visible was the beam of light of the moon that shined the room through window. An angry man sat on a chair infront of the glass door that connected the room to the balcony from where the sky was clearly visible. 

His furrowed brow and his clenched jaw as well as his clenched fist was evident to tell that the man was furious and his eyes, tired face was evident of his restlessness. Looking outside of the glass door, he kept smoking. The entire room was occupied with smoke. There were three burnt cigarettes along with their ashes in the ashtray. 

The door of the room was slightly opened by another man from outside. As soon as he stepped inside of the room, the smoke filled his nostrils. He turned on the light and walked near the chair. He spoke “Ryan!” 

Ryan turned his head a bit sideways which showed he was listening. He hummed as response. 

“We got a clue.” 

Hearing those words, he stood from the chair. He placed his cigarette between his fingers and let out a sigh frustratingly. He then shouted “Another clue that waste our time? It’s been many days, Neil. Still we didn’t find anything. It’s fucking making me restless.” 

“Ryan! We are almost correct this time. But...” Neil stopped saying and shifted his gaze away from Ryan. 

“But what?” Ryan asked.

“We have to go there.” 

Ryan put his palms on the back of his head and looked at the ceiling. He shut his eyes tightly recalling the city where he stayed many days before. The roads, the mansion, the incident that made him restless and especially Kathleen streaked his mind within a second. 

“We already checked everything there.” Ryan said without looking at Neil. 

“Ryan! A person looked suspicious. I think he is the one. He is more than suspicious. If we decide to bring him here, anything could happen before he reach here. So it’s better to give him a surprise attack and if there’s someone behind him who stays in that city, then we can kill everyone at one go. I’m not sure our men alone can handle. They would literally kill him before getting the information.” 

When he left for Rome, he decided to not go anywhere near Kathleen or the place where she stays. But fate was playing a cruel game. It was making him do the things opposite to the ones he thought. 

Though Ryan was not ready to go there again, he nodded listening to Neil. He pointed his cigarette that was placed between his fingers to Neil and spoke “We go there. Do our work and return. No change of plan.”

“Yeah! No changing of plans. We must start. I’ve arranged everything.”

“I’ll be there in few minutes.” 

Neil then strolled out of the room. Though it was late night they didn’t care. Ryan took out his gun from the desk drawer and tucked it in his belt. He put on his coat over his black shirt and started walking out. 

From the moment he left the city, he was trying to forget her but all his attempts were miserably failing. He decided to walk so far from her that even his shadow wouldn’t touch her but he was stepping to go near her. The voices in his head were screaming for some unknown reason which was so hard to decipher what and why they were screaming. Because of happiness as he was going near her or screaming to stop him going there. Everything in his mind was chaotic. 

Ryan and Neil took their seats in their private plane. Ryan couldn’t stop thinking about her. He kept his look out of the window pondering her. It’s been many days since he left. He tried to erase her from his thoughts but as much as he tried the memories kept hitting him so hard. If everything went accordingly then she would be in his arms. Though Neil was telling various things, Ryan couldn’t concentrate on anything. 

“Ryan!” Neil patted Ryan’s hand which made him come out of his thoughts. 

Ryan hummed as a response to his friend. 

“We go. Do our works and return. Any change of plan?” Neil asked as he noticed Ryan was thinking about Kathleen. 

Ryan nodded his head as no. “There’s no change of plan. We are not going to see anyone.” Ryan said reminiscing Kathleen. 

Neil said “I didn’t ask whether we are going to see someone.” 

Ryan became silent hearing him. Ryan’s mind kept wandering to the day he saw her. How he admired her and did the things he never expected. While thinking about them, a flare of joy hit his heart but he didn’t show it in any form of smile. His cold expression remained still. But his expression turned angry and clenched his jaw suddenly as soon as he remembered the day when he thought to meet her. 

Past 

With the thought of meeting Kathleen the next day, Ryan couldn’t sleep properly. He kept thinking about her and how would she react after she knew about him? All the thoughts made him sleepless. When he tried to sleep, her beautiful face kept flashing in front of him. He kept reading the letter which he thought to give by himself to her, again and again. 

After many hours of struggle, he drifted into sleep. He woke up the next day hearing Neil’s shouts. 

“Ryan! Ryan! Wake up.” 

Ryan slowly opened his eyes to notice the time. He noticed it as 6 and he spoke in his hoarse voice still lying on bed “What happened Neil? Why did you wake me this early? It’s just 6. I told her to meet me at 9.30.” 

“Ryan! It’s... it’s...” Neil’s voice was sad and unusual.