Mahal

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Sakshi is about to answer Ranvijay's questions, but

"look yourself Vijay bhai, I'm standing infront of you" they both heard and turned, Sakshi saw Ekant standing smiling at them, while Rajveer's smile vanished at his sentence.

" Ekant!" Ranvijay face lit up.
" Vijay bhai, won't you hug me" Ekant said opening his arms.

Ranvijay started to take his steps towards Ekant, while Sakshi is about to go behind him but she got stumbled by the mat.
Before Rajveer can move, Ranvijay unable to see where he is heading, collided with Pillar, and winced
" ah!"
Ekant is shocked witnessing it,
" Vijay bhai! What is this!" He gasped and quickly walked to Him and held him by shoulders.
" I'm okay, tell me where are you all these years, why you didn't even wrote letter " Ranvijay said blinking his eyes.
Sakshi and Rajveer walked to them.

" first tell me, what is all this" Ekant demanded realizing Ranvijay had become blind, which caused him immense shock.
" leave it, first let me see how you look now, fully grown up" Ranvijay said and started caressing Ekant's face with his fingers, understanding his facial features.
" you're indeed handsome Eku!" He said and patted on his cheek.
Ekant unable to control more broke out into tears.
Ranvijay pulled him in a hug and patted his back, " calm down, it won't look good, if some see a police man crying!"
He tried to cheer up.
" okay, how this all happened! " Ekant demanded.

" let's sit and talk" Ranvijay said and narrated everything starting from factory's fire accident to Mrinali's today's chaos.
" so she is the one who made you blind, I won't let her escape.
Do we have any proof that she caused your accident bhai" Ekant asked, they all nodded in no,
" still I will get her punished for what she had done!" He said firmly.

" Eku, so from today you are staying with us here, in Mahal" Ranvijay Announced.
But Ekant denied, " bhai, I'm an officer I'm allotted with police quarters"
" no, you're back after so many years, I don't want to miss you.
You're staying that's it.
Rajveer go with him and get his things from his so called Police quarters" Ranvijay announced walking away.

" name sake police man, you can't win against bhai, even now" Sakshi mocked him.
" Saku! You are still not changed.
Use your brain more not your tongue" Ekant taunted her.
Before they get into verbal spat, Rajveer intervened, " It's seems you both are never aged mentally, still behaving like kids.
No one belive you both are same age "

" I'm leaving!" Sakshi stomped her feet and left.

" It's already late, we will get your things tomorrow, for today wear my clothes" he said to Ekant and took him to his room.

Meanwhile:

Ira is going through her small library.
" I'm sure it must be somewhere, here" she said carefully reading titles of each book.
Suddenly her eyes got on the title,
" Varnika "
She took the book into her hands and dusted it away,
Her eyes became wide seeing the cover page.