DEAR DESTINY!

TRUTH

"What?" Everyone said out loud as Deva stood in the middle of the living room.

"Didn't save her? Siva was not even born when this insanity happened" CP scoffed.

"How do you think Siva knows where Arundathi was buried?" Deva asked.

"May be Arundathi told the story herself" Hima said.

"But if Arundathi wanted to tell about what happened she'd have done it long ago" Rudra stated.

"She knows everything because she was there. She was there when Arundathi was killed" Deva said making everyone frown.

"Are you saying about time travel?" Mahi asked with an impossible look.

"No way! Don't tell me it's reincarnation" Pallavi said making everyone look at him.

"Deva looks like his great grandfather and Mahi looks like Arundathi and Siva...holy God" Gaurika trailed off.

"Do you know how your great aunt died?" Deva asked sitting on the couch.

CP shook his head and looked at his father who said "She was murdered here".

"By the time Mahadeva Raayala returned home from London his elder BROTHER was murdered by his sister in law so he ordered a search party to find Arundathi to make sure she'd not hurt anyone especially his three months old nephew who's next in line to the throne but unfortunately he didn't find her instead the royal guards found Sivatmika Devi who was murdered by his sister in law" Deva narrated the actual story.

"That's what the great uncle meant when he said he saw two brothers. One was married and his wife was pregnant that is Arundathi and her husband was the King" Mahi concluded recalling back to the Satyanarayana vrataham day after CP and Hima's wedding.

"So after Arundathi killed her husband and tried killing her own child, Mahadeva Raayala had to become the next King since grandfather was only three months old baby and...and... you became his father" Rudra pieces back the story.

VR's cane fell down as he sat down on one of the couches with a thud making everyone look at him as he teared up looking at Deva "That's why you never married" making Deva shake his head smiling at his grandfather in this lifetime.

"You were the centre of my life. There's a next King for our bloodline to move further. I didn't see a need to marry when I saw you growing up" Deva said making everyone tear up looking between VR and Deva.

"Everytime the loyal families or the other six royal families came to meet you they tried setting you up for marriage but you always denied saying that I can't have a mother. But it was a lie wasn't it?" VR asked.

Deva sighed and walked towards VR and got down on his knees opposite to him chuckling "It was partly truth".

"The real reason was because you lost her wasn't it?" VR said making everyone confused while he answered all the questions he had or anyone had or has "That's why you let Siva do whatever she always wanted. That's why you stopped me from sending her back to her home after the interview. That's why you never loved...Mahi".

Everyone looked at Deva as if he was a wonder while Deva smiled sadly "Sivatmika died trying to save your mother. She died because I ordered the guards to kill on sight which eventually led to her death too. I couldn't live with it. Killing that one person who trusted me with her life because she loved me. But you were the reason I lived and pieced back our empire. You were my hope to live" which made VR control his raising sobs as Deva continued "I always knew who I was and what I wanted. And this time I thought I would plan out everything well but seems like destiny always ruins my plans" making VR hold Deva's hands tightly.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry...."  VR continuosly said.

"It's not your fault" Deva said "We can't change the past. All we have now is the present" as he hugged VR.

"So you are Arundathi and Siva's killer too?" CP asked making Deva shake his head.

"No! I did order to kill on sight but first I wanted to listen what she had to say and then kill her infront of my people but she escaped and we found Sivatmika's body assuming that Arundathi killed her." Deva said.

"But turns out it wasn't her who killed Siva because Arundathi was killed too" Narsimha Raayala said.

"But how did you know Siva tried saving Arundathi?" Gaurika asked.

"Siva told me herself before she passed out" Deva reminded them thinking back to Siva's words towards Mahi.

"So Siva has seen the killer. We need to ask who it is" Pallavi said.

"Well even if Princess Sivatmika knows who the killer was he is not here and supposed to be dead by now" Prem pointed out the important thing.

"Yes! But he's here somewhere" SP said making everyone look at him as if he's gone mad.

"If Siva and Deva were reincarnated then he must have been too" CP concluded.

"That's why Arundathi's part of her soul came back to the living realm" SP said.

"You lost us" Arjun said.

"According to what our ancestors wrote in books a ghost roams on the living realm because it has some deepest desires to be fulfilled or the darkest revenge but Arundathi never disturbed Raayala family until a few years back. That means a part of her soul apparantly the part which is so desperate for revenge came to life when her killer must have been reincarnated" Narsimha Raayala explained.

"Seems like all those stupid books I've read out loud helped you out" SP said to Narsimha Raayala who rolled his eyes.

"So we know the killer has been reborn but how do we trace him?" Mahi asked.

Just then they heard a loud crash from upstairs making them turn to stairs and heard anklets sounds before they saw Siva walking downstairs making everyone widen their eyes.