HEEDING TO THE SOUL

Chapter 22: Two Opposite Sides

A few months later..

Madhav came back from his shoots, exhausted..

Meera sighed as she saw how sleepy he was..

She somehow forced him to sit on the chair and got his plate, only to see him sleeping on the table..

She smiled slightly and shook him..

Madhav mumbled in sleep:"Sone do na Dada..."

Meera's eyes welled up..she knew why this happened..

After the heart attack, Mihir had made sure she would take a lot of rest..

He didn't let anyone stay up for Madhav, except himself..

Everytime Madhav came late from shoots, Mihir would be standing at the door, dragging to the table and feeding him food with scoldings and love..

Madhav had become so used to that, that he was missing these moments so much..

Meera wiped her tears and caressed Madhav's hair...

Madhav looked up as he realised:"Oh...mumma.. sorry vo.."

Meera shook her head and pointed at the plate:"Kha le baccha"

Madhav could see the exhaustion in her eyes and sighed, he pushed back his sadness and fatigue and took the plate, eating quietly..

He wanted just one news about Mihir, his overthinking was messing his mind with bad thoughts..

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Jay kept himself busy at the hospital, taking night shifts deliberately..

Mahi was doing the same..Mishu had become happy again, but there were several times she missed Mihir and got sad..

Anu had to always distract her mind from Mihir's thoughts..

He was himself worried about Mihir, but seeing Madhav's dampened mood, he often pushed his worries back to help his friend..

The business was going very well, and even Meera had got herself employed..just to stay active and distracted from bad thoughts about her son..she was doing her favourite work, teaching students at an orphanage, for free..

Madhav had taken up several scripts only to stay busy...he used to talk to Radhika on video call..

He kept texting Krish about update on Mihir, but got no hope from there..

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Mihir sighed and gave one more cup to the officer..

He was hearing muffled voices of the Chinese soldiers, he could make out they were talking about Indo Chinese borders, that too about a war..

Mihir pretended to make the snack they had asked for, as he heard closer...

The button recorder was capturing all that he could hear, maybe even more, and sending it over to Shirin who was working on the computer, sitting in the room they lived in..

Aryan was showing different Chinese costumes to the customers, but his side attention was on the soldiers roaming around..

Mihir noticed someone staring at them, he didn't look at him directly..

He continued his work..

They had enough information on the attack, but the problem was, they didn't have the name of the main person..

Ashok and Krish had told them that it was enough, and even when Mihir denied, Ashok had called them back tonight, leaving the undercover mission safely..