NK's Apartment:

He caught her thighs, hooking her legs around him. Putting both his hands on the wall beside her, he trapped her between, kissing roughly.

Shoving his tongue deep down her throat, their bodies were moving back and forth, while she was running her hands through his hair, pulling them rather forcefully...

And that was too much for him as he left her suddenly.

"Bloody Hell Sheetal!!! How many times should I tell you to not pull my hair? I don't like it!!"

He threw her down, while Sheetal couldn't understand his cause of irritation.

Looking at his annoyance, Sheetal realized his blunder. "Sorry NK!!"

He gave her an irritated look, while she pursed het lips before continuing.

"Ok, just relax baby. Let's have a drink and then continue what we were doing!"

She said in her sultry voice.

NK just nodded while Sheetal went to make two Vodkas, and that's when he got the glimpse of the familiar SUV, in the parking area of his apartment, visible from the second floor window of this bedroom.

His nerves exploded. "Oh fucckkk!!!"

Khushi was coming towards his door.

NK started collecting Sheetal's things.

"What happened NK...."

"Sheetal, get out of my house! Make sure none of your traces to be here...I don't want K to have even the slightest of doubt."

He ran towards the bathroom.

"K...KKG is here?"
Sheetal asked him panicking.

"Just go, take the back door. NOW!!!"

NK said while he poured the whole bucket of water on himself.

'K will kill me if she comes to know that Sheetal was with me.' After all Khushi wasn't aware of this face of NK and that Sheetal was his fiancée.

Grabbing the bathrobe, NK ran out only to find Sheetal still there, putting things in her bag.

"Why are you still here?"

"NK, you won't sleep with her right?"

"Are you nuts Sheetal. At least realize the emergency!!!"

NK pushed her to the back door of kitchen while Sheetal was fuming on his insulting behavior.

'Will deal with him later!' Sheetal thought.

After making sure that everything is in place, NK opened the door on a frowning Khushi.

"K, what a great surprise! You weren't coming tonight!"

He opened the door wide getting no response from her while she came inside.

"Actually, I didn't talk to you properly in the morning so I thought to pay you a visit."

Khushi said, throwing her bag on the couch.

'Is she ready to spend her night here?'

NK had the disgusting thought, and he tried to come close to her only to be interrupted by her not-so-romantic question.

"Actually there is one more thing I want to discuss NK. Can you really prepare a fake Will of Papa?"

Now this irritated him.

After ruining his plan with Sheetal, Khushi was not even letting him touch her, as she distanced herself from him on the couch.

'She has her own motives of coming here.' He looked down THERE. 'Even my little bro has to endure that cold chilling water so late at night.'

Khushi was feeling awkward as NK didn't answer anything. She cleared her throat making him respond.

"Yeah, sure K. One of my friends is legal advisor. He will do it."

NK responded disinterestedly, as he grabbed a t-shirt from cloth stand.

"Ok, then bring him here tomorrow." Khushi seemed serious about it.

Frankly she wanted it as her buffer plan, if her plan of brainwashing Lavanya did not get successful.

"Just make sure that none knows about it."

Khushi added, making NK tried hard to not roll his eyes.

'If NK is ready to do it for me, then it will be more easy.'

Khushi smirked.

While NK tried to contact his legal advisor friend, Khushi walked to his kitchen, to get some water.

NK followed Khushi to get her the details, but the scene there rooted him to ground.

What the Fuh!

"Let me go KKG, else I will not hesitate to shoot you."

It was Sheetal, holding a pistol towards Khushi.

While NK was dumbfounded.

Hadn't he told Sheetal to go away, then why she was hiding here.

Now if she opened her mouth before Khushi he would be really in danger.

NK really had to so something.

"What are you doing in my home Miss Sheetal? In fact, how did you get inside?" NK tried to act, making Sheetal just scorn.

Well Sheetal was all prepared to go away, but before that, Khushi had seen her behind the kitchen platform. Finding no other option she had panicked and took help of her pistol.

Sheetal ignored NK, while focussing her nerves to Khushi.

"Let me go!"

Sheetal showed to be confident, trying to walk to the door still with pistol in hand, but Khushi had her own plans, as she made her fall by kicking under her lead leg.

Before Sheetal could understand what's happening, Khushi had pinned her to the ground and snatched the pistol away.

But NK couldn't let Sheetal open her mouth, so he had to save her.

He pulled Khushi to the side giving Sheetal an opportunity to escape, and she ran away from the front door.

While both Khushi and NK followed to the front door, her car had already  zoomed away.

Khushi was seething in anger by now.

"What did you do NK? I was about to catch her. She ran away due to your stupidity."

Khushi kicked the door, "What must be her motive to come to your home?"

Khushi was still oblivious to NK's intention.

"I'm sorry K. I was about to hold her. I was afraid she would hurt you."

Khushi just ignored him and didn't wait more for his rubbish talks. Grabbing her handbag she removed her phone.

'This Sheetal needs to be taken care of.'

She texted needful to Akash, her handman. He would be helpful.

"K, trust me. I didn't know how she got inside. I am sure she had some motive. Maybe she wanted some secret about our next Fashion event."

Khushi was still busy with her phone, while NK was continuing, following her towards her SUV.

"I know NK. I was doubting her since last few days. We'll know soon."

She said now looking at the pistol in her hand...which she put in the car safe.

While NK panicked hearing it. 'How much she knows about Sheetal.'

._._._.

Next day
Arnav's Cabin

Arnav was busy in analysing the data.

The stressed assets were to be strategically managed.

After Lavanya's nod to marriage his one responsibility was over.

Although he was anxious about her feelings but time will repair everything. Now he didn't have to worry for Lavanya.

Or so he thought....

Just then, the cabin door flanged open and Khushi marched inside.

"Gupta, do I need to remind you 'Manners and Etiquettes'? Barging into others' cabin without permission!"

Arnav gave her a light earful, although his eyes still at his laptop screen. "Or already considered me as your husband!!!"

"How dare you?" Khushi was fuming. "Why did you do that with NK!"

Early morning she had got the notification from the HR department that NK to be transferred to the Goa branch.

"Did you forget I am the chairman! Not answerable to you."

"You did it because NK was on my side right?"

"Hmm...your side! Helping you to forge and falsify your own father's Will!"

Khushi was not expecting this straight answer.

'How did he come to know?'

She guarded her expressions.

Arnav was pleased to see her all flustered. His Intelligencer was giving him proper information about those breachers, including Sheetal.

Just yesterday night, he had got some interesting points.

Along with the information of NK's involvement with Sheetal, he also came to know about the secret planning between NK and Khushi.

So he had made some special arrangements for both NK and Sheetal.

It was just formality that NK was shown to be transferred. While the reality was something else....

Arnav smirked.

"So you have started spying on me!"

Khushi tried to change her embarrassment, by accusing him.

"When your to-be-wife is too smart, one has to be careful!"

Arnav retorted back, now looking at her.

"Wife... my foot!"

Khushi was annoyed as she pushed the Gerbera Daisies kept on the table.

The cabin echoed with the heart-rending currrrk as the glass vase met the floor, it's pieces all crumbled, while she had already marched out of his cabin.

Arnav saw her retreating back, after a very brutal disassembly of the expensive vase.

'If I marry this woman, soon my life will also be broken like this.'

He sighed, looking at the disheveled state of his cabin.

._._._.

Turning her heels out of the cabin, Khushi was enraged.

After she had come back from NK's flat last night, she had tried to contact him to enquire about Sheetal.

But he was unreachable.

Instead Akash had called her back last night.

"KKG, Sheetal is working for someone. She has been involved  with the rival company's shareholders."

Not a shock for Khushi.

"Akash, find out everything about that Sheetal Khanna. Also keep tab on Arnav Singh Raizada. Maybe Sheetal is with him."

She had commanded Akash- the best agent of one of the top Intelligence agencies... and one of the old associates of AR.

Even her Papa had taken Akash's help many times...

._._._.

When Shyam saw a fuming Khushi coming out of Arnav's cabin, he was momentarily shocked.

After the drama at Gupta Sadan two days ago, he hadn't expected both of them to even look at each other's face...

'Maybe something serious!' Shyam thought.

Just yesterday Arnav had met him.

"I am sorry jeejaji, for Khushi's behavior."

Arnav was very mad at Khushi for insulting Shyam in study.

"Chhote, it's not your mistake." Shyam had brushed away his apology.

It was a 10-year old animosity, between Shyam and Khushi, that Arnav was ignorant of...but he seemed curious.

"Khushi had fallen in one-sided love with me!"

Shyam wanted to keep Arnav aware of it,  when they are obliged to get married...so he shared the information.

That was a shock to Arnav.

Ten years ago?

Khushi was just 18, and it was the time of Shyam and his Di-Anjali's marriage.

"She was taking a summer internship in the G&R. We used to meet daily."

Shyam had elaborated how it all started.

That time Khushi had taken Shyam's friendly behavior as love, while in reality, he was just being kind to Shashi Sir's daughter.

"She had proposed me, but I had declined it politely."

But Khushi had held Anjali Raizada responsible for her heart-break... and that increased the wedge between Khushi and the Raizada clan further more.

Arnav was listening intently till now.

"Did Di know...about Khushi's feelings towards you?"

"Of course. Rani Sahiba had understood, as Khushi's conduct towards me had changed suddenly."

Shyam still had that nickname for his wife.

Arnav was still in uncertainty,"Di didn't object!"

"Chhote, any relationship is based on trust, and your Di trusts me, that my LOVE is only for her!"

Shyam had clarified to Arnav.

"Well, Khushi was a kid for us that time, a teenager!"

After that incident Khushi had distanced herself from them. She hadn't attended even their marriage. Her behavior becoming more bitter and rude.

'The last bolt in the coffin indeed'.

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