Kaash Mai Tumse...

Chapter 12A

Maire liye pyaar koi mayini nahi rakhta!

Apni zindagi k aik aik pal mai main kya kar raha hun,

ye mai achi tarah se janta hun!

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"Di!"

He came back furiously and went straight to his sister's room who was arranging her cupboard lost in thoughts from which she jerked hearing him.

"What is it?" She turned to him sternly.

"Where are the Guptas?" He asked straight forwardly with his jaws clenched tight.

Anjali scoffed.

"Whoa there Arnav. Are you concerned about the family who-"

"I am not concerned. I am furious Di. WHERE. ARE. THEY?"

"And why are you asking me this?"

"Because it was only to you I confessed that I'd finish it all once and for all and you knew if I had said then I would at any cost. Now that I could think of it, you asked me to think to gain some time to send them away didn't you?"

She shrugged boiling his nerves.

"Di!" He warned.

"It's late. Go and sleep."

"I am asking you to tell me where are they?" He yelled taking the vase from the bedside table and smashing it against the wall.

Anjali didn't even flinch.

"To whom are you showing this anger huh? Your sister first of all. Elder sister. I have seen these showdowns many a times for years from now. Do you seriously think it would work on me?"

Arnav walked to her with his anger subsiding a bit seeing her not budging.

"Di. Please." He gritted."Please tell me where that woman is? So that I can finish my score with her and start afresh with my Khushi."

"How would you start afresh with Khushi may I ask?"

"I will make up for everything I ever did to her?" He said as a matter of fact as if it was that easy.

"Does that include bringing back her mother too if she committed suicide after your revelation?"

He looked at her tongue tied.

"Listen to me very carefully Arnav Singh Raizada. If you hurt her mother then no matter how much you make up for the things you made her go through, nothing would suffice. Nothing at all."

He opened his mouth to argue but she didn't let him.

"And why are you even thinking of the possibility of her ever forgiving you at all?"

"Because I love her. And she.. she loves me too." He burst out exasperated.

"That's not enough. Not at all. Even Maa loved Papa. You very well know where it led her. If she had been alive you wouldn't have let her be near Papa at all and you are expecting Khushi to be with you, near you after putting her through hell? Why the diplomacy Arnav? Give yourself the same punishment you'd have given our father if you'd gotten a chance to make him pay for his sins."

"I. DON'T. CARE. I DON'T CARE IF I DON'T DESERVE HER FORGIVENESS BECAUSE TOO BAD I am going to get it by any means possible. And Di--" He faced her head on. "Do not compare me with that man ever again. I could be anyone but him. I didn't had any affair behind my wife's back. I didn't betray her. And certainly I didn't had an illegitimate child behind her back either."