"Khushi.. Khushi why are you crying? What are you doing here?" she felt someone patted her back.
Khushi looked up with teary eyes only to find Lavanya acting like worried for her. She glared disgustingly at Lavanya.
Khushi stood up angrily facing Lavanya, "Stop acting Lavanya.. It doesn't suit you!"
Lavanya looked at her startled and stammered: You already know.. about me and ASR?.. You heard our conversation in the terrace?
Khushi looked away with tears flowing from her eyes.
"And you saw the video also?" Lavanya said glancing at the phone on the floor playing that video.
"Why did you do this to me?" Khushi asked crying.
"Look Khushi.. I did what ASR asked me to.. I simply love him and I can do anything for him.." Lavanya said pressing her lips sadly.
"What does that mean?" Khushi asked.
Lavanya faced her back to Khushi and smiled evilly, she composed herself and turned serious, "Khushi you're thinking that I came in between you and ASR.. but that's not the truth. The truth is that YOU came in between us.. We already love each other even before you came in our lives.."
"That's not true!" Khushi whispered.
"It is!" Lavanya said confidently, "By staying all this time with ASR, you must have known by now that he doesn't accept defeat at any cost.. and you're the first girl in his life that dared to fight against him, you're that girl who didn't accept to bend to him.. and this made him take this step to destroy you.."
"Remember when that building collapsed and you were there.. ASR thought he finally won and you lost the challenge to him, you would bring your resignation letter and accept defeat to him. But no, you came there and decided to continue working in AR which infuriated him because this would mark his defeat to you.. then he talked with me and shared his plan to destroy you once and for all. The plan was to make you fall in love with him and then.. on your marriage day, he would ditch you.. he wouldn't appear on the marriage day.. he would break your heart mercilessly that you would find difficult to even live here.."
Khushi held the pillar for support, she shut her eyes tightly crying out loud, "Nahin.. this is not true.. yeh sach nahin hai.. it's not possible.. Arnav ji aise nahin hai (Arnav is not like that)"
"It is true Khushi!" Lavanya gritted her teeth, "I'm at least being good with you and informing you all this before it gets too late.. I never liked you and that's why I accepted ASR to go on with this plan.. We made you feel like I'm the villain in your love story with him but in reality he was always with me.. but now as a woman like you I'm telling you should leave from here, leave before ASR destroys you completely!"
Khushi shook her head crying terribly.
Lavanya was losing her patience, "You still don't believe in me! Fine.. The day I sent roses bouquet to his home but he didn't disclose about our relationship to his family because you were there Khushi, he made you believe that we are just friends to make his way easy with you, then he started acting like he hates me and was suddenly behaving good with you, didn't you find it strange? ASR, your rude and arrogant boss who makes your life a hell suddenly changed with no proper reason! He started caring for you and your family.. he started treating you like differently from other employees.. He started taking you to his home and introduced you to his family.. He even managed to convince Mami to let Payal marry Akash.. All this sweet little stuff was to win your heart Khushi.. and you fell in his traps so easily.. And ASR doesn't waste time, once he saw you were falling for him, he quickly proposed you to be his girlfriend.. and then engagement! Why do you think he is in so hurry to make you his? Because he wants to get rid of you quickly also.. He is badly waiting to revenge you and destroy you for daring to act brave in front of him.. for not accepting defeat to him.. He wanted to win at any cost by hook or by crook.. He's ASR and he wouldn't accept defeat ever by a middle class girl like you.."
