In a bid to save the man she loves, Amrit ends up making a deal with the uncompromising Kuwar Veer Pratap Singh. Bound by mutual weaknesses and wounds they hide from the world the two goes from unwilling pretenders to unlikely allies. Sometimes, it...
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Summary: "You are scaring me Veer." "Good."
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Randheer follows them to Shrighar under the pretext of monitoring estate accounts with Rani Ma's instructions.
He follows her thoughts like a constant weight and beside her Veer is tightly wound in fury.
Amrit fears for them both, for she would rather have neither's blood on other's hand.
But Veer is being driven to a inferno gradually, patience has never been one of his virtues and he had promised her in no uncertain terms that there will be consequences for not distancing herself from Randheer.
Now the entire ride to Shrighar is one tense encounter. Randheer sitting in the passenger seat tries to hold her eye, while Amrit feels the heat that radiates from Veer who is sitting beside her. Her fists are clenched, nails digging into flesh of her palms. Amrit wishes for godspeed.
"Sleep," Veer tells her abruptly. When she turns and meets his eye, he raises a brow over his flask.
Oh, he is drinking again.
Amrit adds one more fear to her list of possible worst case scenarios. Veer wipes his mouth and looks at her properly.
"You look like you are having a spell of motion sickness. Sleep it off Biwi sahab, I shall wake you up when we get there."
Amrit leans her head back on the headrest and looks sideways at him. The tone she uses, holds her words between them.
"Aap vaade se mukhar rahe hai, Kuwar sahab." She gives a pointed look at the flask. Veer takes one more deep swig pointedly and brings his head closer.
"Vaada nahi sauda Hua tha, biwi sahab. Aur na aap apni mohabbat se door gayi na hum apni Aadat se."
Amrit's heart skips a beat. Had he seen Randheer corner her after breakfast? Was it distrust that she saw in his eyes? Has she proved nothing, all this time they were together?
She watches him with such hurtful eyes that Veer draws a tortured breath through his teeth.
What did she want? She didn't go any further no matter how he pushed, nor would she allow him to come closer.
The torment of this dancing around each other was driving him mad. To top it off, his mother insisted on dangling that stinking fish of a secretary on his neck as well.
"So jaaiye," he says, trying to soften his tone. He doesn't wish to hurt her, but the thorns of his own conscience prick them both. "Hum naraz nahi hai aap se. So jaiye."
He raises the flask for another sip of bitterness to burn off the sour taste in his mouth. Amrit reaches out and holds it down. For that moment, she doesn't care if Randheer is watching them in the rearview mirror.
