Excerpt from SHE "Achilles Heel"

“I won’t lie to you Joe, theatre is just a hobby, and I can’t
be as dedicated to anything as you are.” Rhea replied with a
smile. “It simply amazes me”, she added.
Her honesty and easy manner had impressed Joe. Whenever
he looked at her, he saw her smiling or laughing at some joke
with the crew or actually cracking that joke. When Rhea was
on stage, she showed full interest in her character. What Joe
desired was devotion but he was ready to trade her jubilant
presence with her feeble effort to become Miya.
“You believe that life shouldn’t be taken seriously, right?”
Joe asked.
Rhea just nodded and the effortless grin reappeared.
“Doesn’t work”, Joe replied. He was getting attracted to the
simplicity of Rhea’s existence but some invisible bonds pulled
him back.
“What makes you say that?” Rhea asked. She could almost
see Joe’s effort to be happy, he laughed with her during the
rehearsals, playfully ignored her mistakes but when she looked
at him otherwise as he managed certain other things, she saw
a cloud of gloom over his head.
“There are three things that make a man—Money, Fame
and Power,” Joe said.
“You don’t get either unless you strive for it.”
Rhea waited for him to continue but he didn’t, as if he had
revealed a bit too much and regretted it now.
“You’re famous,” Rhea counted on her fingers even as Joe
looked at her grimly, “your mansion is many people’s envy,
what else you need to be happy?” Rhea questioned when he
refused to speak further.
Joe just shrugged.
“What power?” Rhea asked reading his answer.
“Power to kill,” Joe replied and walked away.
...“Have you ever seen her eyes, Rhea?” Joe asked her.
Rhea just looked at him. She had no answer. She had seen
Anusha’s eyes, they were deadpan. Her eyes only came alive
when they enacted a scene on stage, otherwise they were void
of any emotion and if you looked deeper, you found calm sailing
through them.
“You see how calm they are?” Joe asked again. Rhea nodded
because she was afraid that if she didn’t reply, Joe would shake
her up for an answer. He looked hysterical.
“I want the power to kill that calm Rhea”, Joe said at last.
Rhea got her answer.
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