Peace In the Chaos (On Hold)

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"Maa, please, you need to tell him to stop. It will serve no purpose," Sanya implored with a sense of urgency that was unfamiliar to her until now. She was ready to plead if it meant finding some relief from the intense emotions that gripped her.

"No, Sanya. This is the right thing, and I think we are late in doing so. It should have been done the very next day," Preeti asserted, convinced that taking action against Neil was the only appropriate response to his behavior. In her eyes, he deserved everything that was coming to him and more.

Sanya, attempting to reason with Preeti, argued, "But this will only bring back the attention which he worked so hard to divert." However, Preethi dismissed her concerns with a shake of her head, no longer interested in Sanya's pleas. To Preethi, Sanya's arguments seemed irrelevant and unnecessary.

"No, Sanya, this is what is right. And if the attention I know will be drawn here, it would serve the good," Preethi maintained, resolute in her belief that their course of action was just and necessary.

Feeling defeated by Preethi's unyielding position, Sanya turned to her father-in-law for support. "Papa, please think this through once, with a cool head, before jumping to any conclusions," she urged, hoping he might be more open to discussion. But her hopes were quickly dashed when it became clear that he, too, believed that what was happening was correct.

"Siddhant, let's talk first, yeah?" Sanya said, trying to physically prevent him from making a call by holding onto his arm. When he turned to her with a gaze filled with rage, she cowered, scared by the intensity in his eyes, and took a step back, deciding to abandon her efforts as they seemed futile.

Gurmeet's revelation had merely been the catalyst for the decisive action that was about to unfold. Siddhant, fueled by anger and determination, wasted no time in calling Mr. Gupta, instructing him to proceed with filing an FIR against Neil. The charges included violence against Sanya and an attempt at sexual harassment. Siddhant did not stop there; he also mentioned the signed papers from the victims in Neil's office, accusing him of attempted sexual assault in the workplace. The legal machinery was set in motion, and there was no turning back from the path they had chosen.

"Yes, that would be perfect. Okay. I am ready to ambush him with the late night arrest and soon his attempt to thrash and flail his hands and legs to get out of that place but not able to succeed." Sanya would have claimed him to the evil twin of the Siddhant she has known, had she not been with him the whole evening before they reached this point. In the almost two months and more of marriage never has she once seen him even go an octave higher while speaking, thus when he spoke so menacingly about someone, she couldn't help but shiver at it. She was scared of him and she did not like that feeling. 

"Of course, that will be the first thing I will do tomorrow. Yeah. I will let my secretary intimate those girls about it and I guess than we are good to go. He doesn't have much too serve, to save his pathetic self." he chuckled, and Sanya was sure it sounded devilish.  

"Is it settled, son?"  his father asked as soon as he was off the phone.

"Yes Papa, it is. Just some formalities left and that is it."

"I still think Siddhant this should have been our next day action where we remain silent." Preethi spoke. Siddhant nodded agreeing with her.

"I do too, Maa. But we were not ready with the needful to have ourselves strong. Now we are. If we would have done that there would have been more questions, and we wouldn't have had the answers with the evidence, but now we do and we are in the clear." Siddhant explained, other nodded in understanding, but none said anything to not do so. Sanya wasn't someone to support such acts as of Neil's but she was not some normal person anymore, she was the wife of the most influential person of the state, and one of the influential persons of the country, who was known for his humbleness and clean reputation with nothing that could tarnish it, but with her emergence on the seen the situations were changing but in the negative direction where the cameras and mics were still trained on him but with the accusatory questions and not congratulatory wishes. Her presence was harming him and in that moment of vulnerability her step mother's words felt right. "You are just a disaster, no matter where you go all you bring is ominous energy with you." She was probably right about her.