TRAPPED (On Hold)

Chapter>20 Hatred and him.

"No...... No..... Don't......leave me..... Don't go......." Bihaan was murmuring restlessly in sleep.

Thapki, who was sleeping on the couch in the same room, was unable to hear him.

"No..n-n-no...." he grips the corner of his blankets in his grip.

Suddenly, someone enters in the room with a filled syringe. Thapki was unaware of everything, so was sleeping peacefully.

The person slowly, moves towards Bihaan, who was getting restless every minute. The person, then, sits near him and caresses his bandaged head. His face was sweaty and his breaths, uneven.

It was Mrs. Rathore.

She smiles in her own and was about to inject him, Thapki wakes up.

"You?" she was surprised. And the second moment, she notices Bihaan who was panicking. "Bihaan" she runs towards him and cups his face saying, "No one is leaving you"

"No.....don't....... Don't go......" he was being more restless. Suddenly she notices the syringe in her hand.

But Bihaan was getting more and more restless and was panicking and throwing his hands. So she ignores everything and concentrates on Bihaan.

He opens his eyes and jerks sitting up and crawls towards the head board.

"Bihaan.... What happened?" asks worried Thapki.

He was panicking. "No....no.... Call Arjun.... Call Dad..... I..... I want them...." he demands while panting.

"Bihaan... Listen to me" she tries to speak.

"Oh just shut up" he shouts. She remains silent. "Just stop destroying my life...... Okay.... You won.... And I lose.... Satisfied?" he asks with a hope in his eyes. She gets teary eyed. "Now please.... Please help me finding them....." he cries joining his hands. And then realises he was stuck with some drips and pipes in the nerves of his hands. He snatches those.

"Bihaan no" Thapki shouts.

"I want them back..... Please..... Please....." he cries joining his hands.

"Bihaan..... You need to rest.... Please stop these...."

"Mrs. Rathore" he crawls to the other side of the bed and holds her hand saying, "Please.... Please.... I'll do.... I'll do as you say..... Just bring them back...." as he was crying, he feels dizzy.

"Bihaan...." Thapki shouts and runs to hold him. "They had cut off his body in two parts...." he cries while head falls on her chest. She holds his body to not let him fall. He was weak and dizzy but never stopped murmuring.

"Doctor" she shouts and a doctor, who was appointed for Bihaan, rushes in the room. He helps Thapki in laying Bihaan down on bed. His eyes were trying to remain conscious but he was so weak. The doctor asks for the injection from Mrs. Rathore and she hesitantly gives it to the doctor. Meanwhile Thapki suspiciously keeps an eye on her.

She was about to go to Mrs. Rathore, but Bihaan holds her hand. "Don't...... Don't leave me....." he murmurs whispering. His unconscious eyes fixes at her and she keeps caressing his bandaged head. Slowly, as the injection effects, sleep grabs him and the grip of his hand on her wrist, loosens.

"Ma'am" a nurse interrupts as the doctor asks to fix the drips and pipes. Thapki, awkwardly removes her hand and let the nurse do her work.

After a while, both doctor and the nurse leaves and Mrs. Rathore was about to leave. When Thapki stops her saying, "Wait.... Mummy ji"

Mrs. Rathore turns to face her.

"What were you trying to do now?" Thapki asks.

Mrs. Rathore remains silent.

"Do you think that I can't figure you out?" she scolds. "Mrs. Rathore, at least for now.... Can we stop being selfish to him? Can we please be a wellwisher to him?"

"Well Shriya, I don't understand you..... I mean..... You wanted all your properties back isn't it? And then now, when you can get them so easily, then you want to so called support him!!!" Mrs. Rathore laughs.

"So easily?" she asks.

"Yes.... He's not in the state of mind to concentrate on these things.... So being a wife, you can easily take decisions about his business and properties!!!!!" she declares.

Thapki was so shocked to hear these selfishness of his own mother. But she remains silent.

"Think about it..... What if he dies? No one of us will be in trouble then! The world will know that he was not in a proper state of mind so he attempted suicide." Mrs. Rathore looks so excited about it that Thapki's jaw drops at her mentality.

"So now you understand I think! All you have to do is compel him to attempt suicide." she says holding Thapki's arms.

Thapki was so shocked to react. She never wanted to kill him. She just used to hate him. How can she even think of killing him?

"What happened?" asks an overexcited Mrs. Rathore, shaking her.

"Umm.... Ya.... Mrs. Rathore..... That was a nice idea but......" Thapki wanted to save his life anyhow.

"But?"

"But..... Bihaan is a very private person.... And both of us do not know about what's the exact investment of his company and where and how much.... Which can be obtained and which can not..... We need to know every detail. And he used to share these things with Mr. Rathore and Arjun." She shrugs.

"Ya actually.... You are right!" admits Mrs. Rathore.

"So.... We should wait until he gets back to normal life" says Thapki.

"No need to wait that much..... We have to wait until he's able to tell his secrets to you..."

"To me?" Thapki was confused. "You are forgetting that he hates me the most!!" says she.

"No I remember..... But this is the time.... He needs emotional support. Go to him, as much close as you can..... Make him build trust on you..... And at last.... Break him down" as Mrs. Rathore says all this, Thapki suspects the hatred in her eyes for him.

So much of hatred.

"Can I ask you something?" asks Thapki.

"Yes"

"Why do you hate him this much? I mean I have a reason to hate him...." she was feeling hard to speak. But continues, "He has..... He has destroyed my family's business"

"And he has destroyed my son's life."

"You mean.... Dhruv?"

"Yes..... He's an orphan" she grits in anger. "And he has replaced my son's career. His dad never loved him cause this orphan was always in the middle of them. My son should have been owning all the properties isn't it? But this orphan.... He has snatched all my son's rights and happiness." she grits staring angrily at the sleeping Bihaan.

Thapki comes in between and says, "I'll do it.... I'll go closer to him....as much as I can"