Amore è vita

Chapter 14

Sahiba was sitting in the car with her eyes staring at the world outside the car's window glass with her head resting on it. Angad saw her distressed face with tear marks on her cheeks and her quiet demeanour, he was observing her so keenly that he could feel herself getting a little uncomfortable which made him remove his glaze from her.

Sahiba was in her own chain of thoughts and the scene of tonight's party and that waiter getting accused came in front of her eyes again and again. She saw her father in place of that waiter and history getting repeated.

She was losing her breath and so she said, "Stop the car" which startled the rest of the people in the car but then when the car came to a stop, Angad saw Sahiba getting out of the car as if she was suffocating inside.

He went outside and saw her taking long breaths trying to calm down by her own but not succeeding well enough to do so. He thought of helping her so he took a water bottle from the car and offered her some water.

She was drinking the water so hurriedly that he thought her throat may have been aching by thirst since forever but this was the only was to handle a panic attack.

Sahiba's behaviour made Angad so curious about her past because Angad had seen the Sahiba who is fiery and ambitious but this Sahiba was so broken, sad, angry and disturbed that it made him think what would have happened.

His thoughts were broken when he found Sahiba sitting on the bench with her eyes closed and feeling the wind.

He wanted to talk to her but she said, "I just needed some fresh air, sorry about the delay." To which he replied, "No problem. Are you fine now?"

She just smiled sadly and said, "No but I will be. Don't think about this and I kindly request you to not say a word about this to anyone."

"Sure" he agreed.

They settled in the car again but this time Angad opened the window so that Sahiba could breathe which made her feel better.

Both went in their respective rooms after they arrived to the Brar mansion and her phone ringed which was seen by Angad. It read "mummy" but Sahiba didn't pick it up. The phone ringed two times more and she then disconnected the phone along with turning it on silent.

Sahiba was again sad due to the course of events happening again and again. She thought, 'Why am I not able to find peace?'

She turned to her heels again and went somewhere but Angad decided to follow because he was too shaken after he saw her condition today. He couldn't leave her alone even after wanting the same. He saw her sobbing sitting in front of Babaji's picture with her hands folded for praying.

She prayed for sometime and then went to her room for freshening up and took a long shower trying to reminisce her beautiful moments with her father.

She came out drying her hair and took her medications for the night which may have relieved her nerves before. Angad was looking at her intensely trying to observe her every move.

Angad took out his phone and asked his investigator to look into the history of the Monga family and find out if they had any problems in the past which may have affected the whole family.

He got a call again after an hour and the investigator told everything about Ajeet Monga and how he was accused of the crimes he never did and Sahiba witnessing her father in jail without any crime just because a rich woman tagged him as a thief.

He called his family to his room and told them this incident and about how Sahiba reacted to tonight's party incident. Daarji's doubts were now confirmed and he was feeling guilty about Sahiba's woes because he thought that he was also responsible for it somewhere and somehow.

Angad also told them how Sahiba handled the whole household with her money and contributing a huge share in the family's monetary side which were mostly Seerat's fashion and Keerat's gym expenses.

Keerat is an athlete and wrestler so she needed money for her supplements which were too pricy for her to buy it from the money she got from the federation so Sahiba contribute her hard earned money for her.

And of course, Seerat wished to become the beauty queen of India as she won the title of Ms. Punjab in a beauty contest so she also needed expensive clothes, jewellery which Sahiba purchased from her hard earned money.

The family was now guilty how they thought Sahiba was a gold digger and Angad was the one carrying most of the guilt in his gut because he had tagged her with so many titles of shame which she didn't deserve. He saw how she was begging in front of Babaji to save herself from this pain.

Angad was thinking about Sahiba's words again and again. He heard her many times saying that she despises richness and rich people and now he knew why she did so.

One accusation from a rich woman destroyed her father's reputation and tagged him as a thief in front of the world and she didn't even apologise for her mistake. Ajeet Monga had suffered financial loss being an excellent jewellery designer after that incident.

The Monga family was on streets and they had picked themselves up from that situation again trying to live their life with respect. Now Angad knew from where Sahiba's crafty side came from. It was her father who is an artist and she followed the same path as him.

And then Brar family decided that they will talk to Ajeet Monga and find out about Sahiba more because they knew nothing.

Everyone then went to their rooms to sleep except of one person. Angad was again shocked about the turned table and wished to find more about Sahiba's past and he knew exactly what he has to do next.