Mafia's Girl

Part 33

Shehnaaz's P.O.V. 

I woke up very early the next morning and got up. I bathe and wore a nice suit before going downstairs and decorating a verenation plate. I sat and made a rakhi for Daksh. As the sun rose, he arrived and I looked at him with a happy smile. He looked at me surprised. "Happy Raksha Bandhan!" I said, smiling. "What was the need for all of this?" He asked. I rolled my eyes and held his hand. I made him sit on the sofa and kneeled on the floor in front of him. I began my rituals. I applied tilak for him and did his aarti. I rested the plate aside and took the rakhi from it. "Give me your hand," I said. He held out his hand and I tied the rakhi around his wrist. I feed him a chocolate since that was all I could have found in the kitchen on short notice and he took a piece and fed me back. He held my shoulders and made me stand up. "I am sorry, I don't have a gift to give you at the moment," he said with tears in his eyes. "It's okay. I got a brother, what's bigger than that?" I said. I hugged him tightly. "Your gift is on hold," he said, patting my back. "I can wait," I said. Our moment was broken when Sidharth cleared his throat behind us. We parted and I saw his eyes on Daksh's rakhi. He was up early also and all ready. "Sir, you are going to the office so early today?" Daksh asked. "I have an important meeting," he said. "With who? I don't know about any important meeting carded for this morning," Daksh said. "Do I have to tell you everything about my meetings?" Sidharth asked, somewhat irritated. "I just meant...." Daksh started but Sidharth started walking to the door saying, "Hurry up, I don't want to be late." "Sidharth," I said, stopping his footsteps. His back remained to my face as he stood silently. "Breakfast?" I asked. "I am not hungry. You eat," he said and left. I frowned and looked at Daksh. He smiled and said, "Don't worry. Sidharth sometimes become grumpy when he has early meetings. I'll see you later." I nodded and looked at him leaving behind Sidharth. I went and sat at the dining table alone. "Ma'am, should I serve breakfast?" A butler asked me. "No, it's okay. I'm not hungry," I said. 

Sidharth's P.O.V. 

I was touched seeing the newly formed bond between Shehnaaz and Daksh. Both of them lost their loved ones and people who experience the same things always understand each other well. I, however, have to keep a bit of a distance from Shehnaaz. As much as I am in love with her and want to be close to her, I am confused. A part of me wants to create beautiful memories of her before she leaves me and another part of me wants to stay away from her because these memories can hurt me a lot in the future. I know that I am confusing her as well. I can see her conflict with herself as she doesn't know who to choose between Aditya and I. I woke up early this morning and made up the excuse of having an important meeting only to avoid her but it hurt me like a dagger in my heart as I didn't even look at her face properly. "Sir," Daksh said, in the front seat, "Who are you meeting this morning?" "No one," I said. He looked back at me and asked, "Were you lying?" I took out my phone and looked down at it, going through my emails as I didn't want to answer his question. "Avoiding Shehnaaz isn't going to do anything sir. Listen to me and admit to her that you love her. It will be easier for both of you. Trust me, I have seen love for you in her eyes," he said. My heartbeat fastened at that. I felt butterflies in my stomach and my fingers trembled. My mind stuck on that and I wished in my heart that it could have been possible. "Stop your nonsensical talk," I said, sternly. We reached the office and I got out of the car. As I was entering, Shehnaaz's father was also entering the building. We both stopped and he looked on angrily at me. "Please," I said, allowing him inside first. He seemed more infuriated but entered nonetheless. He went into the employee's elevator as I entered mine. 

Reaching the floor, I went straight to my cabin. Daksh followed me inside. "I want a meeting with Anmol today. Make it happen," I said. "Yes sir," he said and left. There was a knock on my door and I said, "Come in." Shehnaaz's father came inside and I stood up. "You don't have to play decent and stand for me. I have heard that my daughter is staying in your house," he said and clapped his hands together, joining them together, "Please, let me leave this company. I have no courage to endure embarrassment because of that shameless girl anymore. I don't know what bad deeds I did to be the father of such a girl. She is living in a stranger man's house without wedding him." "Sir...." I started but he raised his hand to me. "I don't want to hear it. If you have to speak then go and tell that girl to die somewhere so that her father atleast can live in peace," he said. My blood boiled at his statement. Daksh was standing behind him, by the door, silently. Had he not been Shehnaaz's father, I would have chopped off his tongue for uttering such words about her. I swallowed my anger and said, "Such words from a father doesn't suit you." "That girl is not my daughter! She isn't my daughter. I did not raise my children with such values that she follows. My eldest daughter is getting married in a week and you don't know what I have to go through because of that girl. The kind of insults people on the streets, people in my building throw at me," he shouted. I was having enough hearing him insult my Shehnaaz now. "Listen, Mr. Gill, this is my office. If you have any personal enmity towards me, you have to take it outside my office. I am not the person to insult elders and you are Shehnaaz's father so my respect for her is keeping my words respectful until now but that doesn't mean that I can't stand up for her. I will not tolerate anyone speaking anything wrong about her and that is final. I can go to any lengths to protect her and that should have been your duty," I said, sternly while still trying to keep my words as respectful as I can. 

"No one cares about a dead person," he said, "Do you hear me? She is dead for our family. If you don't believe me, then you are welcome in my house anytime to see her picture hung up with a garland around it at all times." I felt as if the ground from under my feet had been pulled. I was beyond shock. I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth. "Consider this a warning, Mr. Gill, remove that the second you reach home otherwise the consequences won't be good," I said, trembling in anger. He scoffed at me and smirked. "What would you do?" He asked. "Daksh," I said, looking away from him. Daksh approached him and said, "Please, leave." He looked at me and smirked at finally getting at me. He left without another word and I approached my glass wall showing the city. My mind and anger was telling me to punch my hand into it and smash everything around me. "Throw him out of my office. Cancel the remaining of his notice but just get him out of my office. I want that man out of my office, Daksh. Today! Right now! Get him out!" I yelled. "Sir," he said, handing me the phone. I looked at Shehnaaz's name on the call. Daksh frowned at me indicating that she heard everything that her father said. I sighed and closed my eyes. I took the phone and held it to my ear. There was silence on the other side. "Shehnaaz...." I said but no response. I frowned and called out her name a few more times but there was no response. Panicked, I quickly ran out of my office and sped the car home on my own. I ran into the house shouting out, "Shehnaaz!!!" I ran up to her room frantically, tripping on the stairs a few times. I burst into her room to find it empty with her phone on the bed. I ran around the entire house and found her nowhere. Even the butlers didn't know where she was. I ran my hand through my hair and couldn't think properly. 

I confirmed that she wasn't in the house so she left to go somewhere. But where? Where can she go? I quickly called Aditya but his phone was off. I tried calling his mother but her phone was also off. I ran out of the house and went back to the old house she was previously at. It was locked up. Even her office was closed. I searched the cafe opposite the office but still didn't find her. Where can she go? I drove around the city looking for her but failed to see her. My panic was growing as I kept calling Aditya. I decided to check one last place with little hope of finding her there. I drove to the building her family resided in and ran up the stairs like a madman. I knocked on the door and her father opened the door. He had a long face seeing me. "You? How dare you come here?" He said. There were guests behind him in his house. On the wall was a picture of Shehnaaz's picture with a garland on it. My anger had no limits seeing that and I barged into the house, pushing him aside from the door. I pulled the garland off and began breaking it as he screamed at me to stop. "I warned you to remove this when you reached home," I said. "Otherwise? What will you do?" He asked. "Please, calm down," his wife said, trying to calm him down. "Tell your husband, if anything happens to my Shehnaaz, I won't hesitate in killing him," I said, pointing at him. "What happened to my daughter?" The mother asked, holding onto my blazer with tears streaming down her fear filled eyes, "Tell me, what happened to my daughter? Where is she?" "If you find her body, inform me, we will do her final rites. Even though we already pronounced her dead to the family, we will just carry out the rituals as a formality," he said. I had enough of him. I quickly pushed my hand inside my blazer to pull out my gun when my phone rang. 

I quickly answered it. "Sir, we found Shehnaaz," Daksh said. "Where?" I asked. "She's in a park here, she's in a bad condition," he said. "Send me the location, I'm coming," I said. I hung up the phone and looked at her father. "Thank your stars that you aren't dead with a bullet in your head at the moment. If you use a garland around this picture once more, I will...." I said but he cut me off asking, "What will you do?" "I will pay you another visit and it won't end like this one," I said. I looked at Shehnaaz's mother and said, "Knock some sense into your husband's head for his own sake." I left the house with his guests clearly terrified of whatever just happened. I went to the location that Daksh sent me and it was the same park I gave her my jacket before. She was sitting on the same bench and crying, uncontrollably. I felt relieved seeing her safe but I had to scold her for her stupid behaviour.

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