AbhiRa 2.0 ~ Kaisi Teri Khudgarzi (On hold- indefinitely)

Chapter 8

Dedicated to roohdariyaann_ for reaching out on my Instagram and asking me when I update the next at a point I had absolutely no plans of writing😂

Warning: Keep tissue boxes ready, super emotional chapter ahead 🤧

Word Count : 1409 words

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"Abhimanyu?"

"Haan, Akshu?" Saying this, Abhi had turned around swiftly with that hopeful look on his face thinking that maybe - just maybe - his Akshu might've forgiven him or all of this was just a bad dream but all his hopes had come crashing down when he saw those hurt and emotionless eyes staring back at him.

"Thank you Dr. Abhimanyu Birla meri jaan bachane ke liye. Aapke iss ehsaan ko main hmesha yaad rakhoongi... On another note, ab hmaara hisaab barabar, maine aapki jaan bachane ke liye ek saal pehle wo sb kiya tha, aapne uske liye thankful hona toh kya, ulta mere saare efforts ko disrespect kiya... Pr ab aapne meri jaan bachane ke liye apne licence ko khatre mein daala toh... Hmaara hisaab barabar... Ab aap jaa skte hain."

Flashback:

Akshara had been drifting in and out of consciousness due to the anesthesia when she caught bits and pieces of the conversation between Abhimanyu and the chief of investigation, Mr. Singhal.

"Dr. Birla, congratulations on the successful surgery. The staff did tell me it was a difficult and sensitive one but I am surprised that you were ready to put your license, your practice, your reputation at stake for this surgery?"

"Mr. Singhal, this woman I saved here is way more precious than any other thing in my life. For her I can even give away my life, my practice, my job is nothing in front of it."

Akshara had felt a bittersweet pain once she had made sense of the conversation. She had wanted to cry on realising he was ready to sacrifice his passion, his first love for her but she had also wanted to cry at the injustice he had made her suffer by calling her sacrifice as selfish and for her own motives when he was ready to do the same for her.

Flashback ends.

Abhimanyu had looked at her in shock after listening to her cold words and how she knew about the license threat but then the gravity of her words sunk in. He had felt heartbreak over and over again all this while but all that pain had nothing on the way his heart had just now shattered into pieces and all those pieces were killing him bit by bit.

दर्द शामिल है,
तेरी बेरुखी का लहू में ऐसे,
बहता है शीशे सी, किरचों सी चुभता है,
नब्ज़ कट भी जाती है कभी,
कभी मर भी जाता हूँ |

( Translation :
The pain of your indifference is included in the blood like this,
Flows like glass, stings like splinters,
Sometimes the pulse is also cut,
Sometimes I die. )

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Akshara had vented out all her pain, anger and hurt at Abhimanyu in the heat of the moment but lying there all alone, on that cold hospital bed, in that colourless hospital room, having all those tubes and machines attached to her, she had never felt more pained, more hurt, more... alone.