Best foot forward (completed)

5. Maar diya jaaye, ya...?

Title translation: Shall we slay you or... (leave you)?

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It was the next day that Arnav had gone to the hospital to meet Shyam. He had thought that after being in this state, he would show some remorse, and that would make getting confession out of him easy, but as they kutte ki doom tedhi (dog's tail can never be straight),

"Sale sahab finally you came to meet me alone. I wanted to talk to you from the moment I got to know you married Khushiji. You did it for revenge right? Because I already told you about the love I and kh-"

"don't even dare to complete that sentence, Shyam." Arnav thundered and resorted to calling him Shyam instead of jijai. "I had spared your life until Di's baby is born but you've crossed all limits. You tried to harm Di and misbehave with my wife, now if you as much as think about my khushi again I will ensure you forget your own name, have no doubt."

By then Anjali and Mamiji too came in. But after last night, there was a change in their approach, as Mamiji was observing Shyam apprehensively while Anjali's eyes did not show the same worry as yesterday and that scared Shyam. He had lost the battle with Arnav, but he won't lose Anjali, his golden goose.

"Rani saheba, what happened? Why do you look so pale today? Is your health, ok?" he feigned concern

"I am ok Shyamji." Anjali smiled weakly but then once glance at her brother, and she remembered their conversation from yesterday and she decided to ask her husband, hoping he would prove her Chote wrong. "Shyamji, di-did you know kh-khushiji from before? I ma-mean are you the sa-same man she was-" she could not complete the sentence but seeing Shyam's fallen face, her worst fears started coming true "Please shyamji, tell me the truth."

Shyam knew he was in deep trouble, and at this time only his shrewdness could save him. he decided to set a trap to accuse khushi instead...

"No Rani saheba, aap ko behlaya ja raha hain (you're being misled), in fact Khushiji is not a good character girl, she has been trying to seduce me since lo-"

"ENOUGH Shyam! NOT.A. WORD.MORE." Arnav shouted to effectively shut the filth Shyam was uttering, "Don't think that it's only about cheating on Di, you've harassed my wife, and worst is you tried murders. Our car's break failure, ether on di's saree and what not. So just shut up and count your days, as the moment you get discharged, you'll be arrested."

At this point, Shyam was as white as ghost, and turned to Anjali who was still there motionless,

"Please rani saheba trust me I didn't cheat on you, I never got engaged with Khushi, nor do I have anything to do with your car's breaks or ether on your saree or bring that venomous scorpion." he desperately pled and when Anjali gasped, he asked "What happened?"

"He never spoke about any scorpion Shyamji" Anjali answered and Shyam realized his game is over...

Everyone took few moments to let everything sink in when Shyam again whispered, "You still can't prove anything."

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Khushi too was at the same hospital, but she had refused to as much as see Shyam's face. She was only here to see if Arnav and Anjali got a confession out of Shyam, in any case she would go to police from here.

It was then, she spotted someone who could uplift her mood and give her strength even in his silence...her babuji. Immediately a smile formed on her lips as she ran to him, where Garima and buaji too had been standing near Shashi's wheelchair.

"Babuji! aap kaise hain (how are you)? I need you so much babuji. Please jaldi thik ho jaiye (get well soon)." she said with a mix of emotions, holding shashi's hands, who too had tears in his eyes at the sight of his darling daughter.