Twist?- Redux story

Woh...

Shivaay who was about to give a heartfelt thank you speech to daksh, froze for a second on seeing .....

Shivaay felt like a 1000V shock on seeing... daksh's hand which was hiding prinku's mouth playfully.

"Da...da..daksh" stammered shivaay while everyone looked at him confused.

"Yeah shivaay, what happened?" asked daksh.

"This ring... its...?" stammered shivaay while focussing on Daksh's face and his ring.

"My ring shivaay. 22carat gold with moon stone ring...priyanka gave it to me... you never told him?" asked daksh looking at prinku.

"Haan bhaiyya... i gave this ring to daksh on our 3rd Valentine's day..i have already told you right? You forgot is it? Its a rare designer piece, i got it specially designed for him remember?" Said prinku looking at shivaay.

" haan... haan... i now remember... i can now see that... that... this ring is very very precious" said shivaay while daksh looked at him quizzically

"Kuch problem hai kya shivaay?" asked daksh subtly . "no daksh. Now no problem would be there at all. Main hoon na..." said shivaay and immediately left the place.

"Why do i feel shivaay is behaving weird? Something is wrong, i have got to be careful" murmered daksh's mind voice.

Before sometime,

"Mr. Oberoi, what exactly is in your mind? You interrupt my roka, you make me wear the engagement ring you are supposed to put on Tia, you say you need 100 kg laddoo but didnt send even a single packet out. Yes, i saw all those boxes lying in your study room. you make me work extra hours , you interfere in every moment am supposed to be with nikhil. And this kangan ... this is my roka shagun. What is this doing in your room? Nikhil's family were anxious and annoyed if i had sold the kangan to get the ring which you had put in my hand by mistake.What exactly is your problem? What do you think you are doing?are you spoiling my rishta?" screamed annika

"You are asking me what i am doing? Wait... what exactly are you doing? Aren't you doing the same for prinku? " yelled shivaay with a suddenly thought of excuse.

He really didn't have a solid reason for sabotaging her rishta. All he had was the urge to throw away nikhil and to make her eternally his. He had all intentions of doing that, but never a proper reason.

"Mr. Oberoi, whatever i am doing. Am doing it for prinku's goodness. Woh insaan prinku ke liye theek nahi. He is not a good person... but nikhil is a good..."

Seeing annika begin praising nikhil Shivaay snapped saying "Oh come on annika... you dont even know if he loves you or not. You don't even know him properly. How do you even trust a guy who didn't commit to you for so long , kept taking money from you but suddenly came to make engagement? Is he even dependable? How can he take so long for engagement? Its unfair he had a chance for so long... How can you even think he is good? Am sure he is not good for you..."

Annika froze on hearing him speak. Shivaay slowly realised what he had been speaking

"Mr. Oberoi, how do you know these things about Nikhil and me?"

"Uh..."

"Mr. Shivaay singh oberoi how do you know these things about nikhil and me? How do you know? Why do you know?" asked annika grabbing shivaay by his coat.

Regaining his emotions and a reason shivaay said " I had a feeling he was not good for you and so i gathered information about him. Why does it even matter... you clearly dont belong with that jerk.. you belong with.."

But before he could finish annika pushed him back.

"How could you ? How could you? Have you been really sabotaging my engagement on purpose?"

"Isn't that exactly what you are doing to my sister?" snapped shivaay

" am doing it because its daksh and..."

" and daksh had proved himself good, again and again... then why were you doing it?"

" because i know he is bad... because i felt it was him. Because he himself had threatened me and pushed himself on me even in this same mansion... i know i couldn't prove it you by evidence... but feelings dont fail mr.oberoi. This is the truth. I know he is bad news. Payal knows he is bad news. But unfortunately none would help me in proving this to you. That doesn't mean am lying. And why should nikhil even come into picture here? Is this what you were challenging to me? Destroying my wedding and getting my family insulted? How could you fall so low? I never thought you would.. " gulped a teary annika and left the place while shivaay stood reeling into what she said.

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"Annika had been harassed in oberoi mansion? Right when she is near me?" fumed shivaay while his muscles tightened.

"Khanna i want cctv footages of all the halls and corridors in oberoi mansion and i want it immediately" fumed shivaay.

"Sir... footages" said khanna handing over the tab to him.

"How come i see only a scared annika and not anyone else? Has she been hallucinating? No... wait a second" shivaay's eyes froze on seeing the tab screen

He saw someone strangulating annika from behind by keeping a firm hand on her mouth from behind a pillar. Two firm huge hands which seemed familiar. However hard he tried, shivaay couldn't focus on his face.

Only thing which was visible was a huge moonstone ring which the offender had in his hands.

Rather frustrated on seeing that she had been vulnerable right under his nose , shivaay broke the tab .

"I promise you annika. Whoever this ring belongs to... am not gonna leave them live in peace" swore shivaay.

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"Daksh... that bastard... i would not leave him alive.." screamed shivaay's inner sides after realising that the ring belonged to Daksh.

"Khanna ... do as i say... and no one else should know this... ok?" Said shivaay, took khanna into confidence and whispered in his ears.

"But sir..."

"No buts khanna... will you or wont you? This is of atmost importance and i dont want any mishap in this ok? I don't want payal anywhere near her home by the time we reach there. Did you call him?" Asked shivaay firing out orders while khanna ji nodded.

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