Dream and Destiny:The Saga of Love, Faith and Betrayal. *Editing*

Chapter Seven

For a week randhir, totally concentrated on 'RainDeer' enterprises, rather than on his own company. But whenever the name sanyukta came to her mind, he felt stifled, there was a memory, hidden deep inside the mild folds of his brain, struggling hard to burst out of him, making him free. But that never happened, whenever he pondered over the name and his connection to it, either he ended up with a mild headache or with a distraction—having sex with ishika. But somewhere deep down his heart, he knew that he had a strong bond threaded with the name. With the person too. May be!

Another week later, on a random morning, Mr.Shekawat walked into Randhir's cabin when he was dictating something to ishika.

"Hi dad" randhir brightened, waving off to ishika to leave the cabin. Ishika, irritated by the way randhir treats her like a whore, except for the times he needs her in his bed, left the cabin, grunting.

Randhir watched ishika leave and then turned to his dad. "Dad! Why don't we start a construction company on our own" randhir pushed his laptop towards harsh with a presentation playing on and stood up. "As you see, the real estate is on boom and the construction companies are in demand. Doing good business. Then why don't we start one. We'll hire every one, right from architects to janitors! And then we'll supply them to real estate developers. We'll do good dad. What say" he said resting his right butt cheek on to the table and staring at harsh. Harsh was skimming through the slides on randhir's laptop, nodding periodically. Randhir was waiting for a reply.

"But beta what is the need now? We're doing well this way. Aren't we?" harsh looked up at his son. Randhir got to his feet and walked to his chair "we're doing good even in Shimla, then why did we came this far!" he sat down in his chair, leaning back steepling with his elbows resting on the arm rests of his chair. Harsh seemed pensive but spoke after a second.

"lekin beta we're suffering losses now. I don't think it's a better idea to ride on 2 boats at a time" harsh opined.

"Don't you trust me dad?" randhir shot. Harsh was tongue tied. Randhir was looking deep into his father's eyes for answers. Harsh was silent for a moment and spoke "alright. Go ahead".

the same evil smirk that appeared on his face when he read the article about 'raindeer enterprises' in the newspaper a fortnight ago at the roadside kiosk, reappeared on randhir's face, when he heard his father saying yes to his proposal. "Get ready to warm my bed sanyukta! You've badly messed with a freaky ruthless monster" he continued to smirk.

In a fortnight, the shekawat's laid the first stone for their construction company and the news was hot cake.

Couple of days after this, a lanky man walked into Randhir's office.

"Hey buddy" he said opening the door of his cabin and peeping inside it. Randhir, startled by the anomalous addressing in the business environment, looked up from his laptop screen only to see a man standing in front of him smiling from ear to ear.

"Parth bhai!" his eyes twinkled, he got to his feet and rushed to him. He engulfed him in a tight hug. Parth hugged him back and they sat in the couch near the window, bubbling with joy of seeing each other after a decade!

Parth was 4 years elder to randhir and they were class mates in grade ten. That happened because; parth had a very twisted life.

Parth hailed from a penurious kin from one of the slums of Mumbai, their family had moved to Delhi long back, his father, after doing several odd jobs, ended up as a servant in Mr. Agarwal's house, to support his family and parth's education. Everything went normal till Mr.Agarwal's son; one day hit another elder servant, out of his arrogance, with his cricket bat. The old man, unable to take the blow had died instantly. Being rich, Mr.Agarwal had done everything to save his son. He persuaded parth's father to make parth take his son's place and he'd shower them with wads of currency. When parth's father denied, Mr.Agarwal, played the cards slowly and tactfully, threatening to destroy his family. That made parth's dad to agree for Mr.Agarwal's plan finally.