Sweet Revenge

7. Devil in Hell

While Anuj went to freshen up, bapuji made Anu privy to how exactly had Anuj come to reside in Shah house.

"When I, GK and yaadon ki baarat returned from our religious trip, we came to know that Anuj was living in a hotel for the past few days. Apparently there had been a short circuit at the house, and Anuj could have been seriously injured too".

Anupama gasped at this information. How could he not tell her that? And here she was pouting about his lack of attention towards her!!

Baapuji continued," Luckily, Anuj was out of the house then. But he decided to renovate the entire wiring and reinforce the security, and therefore moved to live in a hotel. How could I let him live in the hotel?! He is family too".

Anupama nodded at that but eyed the man sitting at the table with bewilderment. She only had one question in her mind- And vanraj shah complied with bapuji's order/demand without drama??!! Impossible!! Like pigs could fly! Hah!

Anupama shook her head then. "Baapuji, koi tamasha nahi hua aapke iss faisle par?

Bapuji smiled amused at that, “Hua thapar vesa nahi jaisa tum soch rahi ho”

Flashback

“Why will that Anuj live with us?” Leela repeated, offended by her husband’s decision.

“I stand by my decision. And I will entertain no further discussions”, Hasmukh proclaimed,folding his hands behind his back.

“But—

“Let it be, baa”. It was Vanraj who stopped Leela. Leela looked at her son bewildered. Hasmukh looked at him as if he had misheard.

“GKis bapuji’s friend and this is bapuji’s house. And we can easily house one more person. Ghar chota hai toh kya hua, dil toh bada hai na”, And Vanraj smiled.

Leela agreed as expected, but was greatly confused by this drastic change.Nonetheless, as long as her son was fine, she could put up with that anuj for a few days too.

 Vanraj felt that back of his head burn. He could overhear the duo talking, and realized that Anupama was staring at him, shocked. He gritted his teeth then. As if he allowed that Snake into his house, willingly!

Raising his downcast eyes then, he found Anuj leaning leisurely against the pillar as he waved at him, before giving hima face splitting grin.

Insane B@stard. Vanraj cursed with his eyes.

Anuj smirked and his lips moved too.Vanraj’s face went red as he deciphered them.

Anuj whistled as he moved to talk to Anu and bapuji, sparing a side glance at Vanraj. Fateechar.

Anupama bombarded the man with questions as soon as she saw him and he smiled through her scoldings, happy to have her back in front of his eyes. Oh, how he had missed her!

“Scoldings aside, will you allow me to have some lunch too?” Anuj asked pointing towards the table where everyone had seated themselves save for them and Kinjal who was picking up the casserole to serve.