Karan was continuously pacing in front of the sofa wondering what was taking them so long. He kept glaring at the clock and then the door. He took a pause in his stride to think,

"Don't even think about it!" Rishabh whispered a warning

"Kya?" Karan turned to him and asked innocently

"Mere paglu woh log aajayenge, tu apne khurafati dimaag mein yeh jo wahan janne ke ideas sooch raha hai nah woh mujhe dikh rahe hai... koi faida nahi hai! Yeh jo hamari maatashri baithi hai na..." he gestured towards Rakhee who was sitting with Kareena Bua on the sofa, with a slight tilt of his head, "Agar innhe paata chal gaiya na toh tujhe tere hi kamre mein bandh kar degi!"

Karan looked at his mother imagining Rakhee locking him in his room – it was very possible and with that his shoulders dropped in defeat, but he was still getting impatient. Just as he was about to express his irritation in words the doorbell rang causing everyone jumped up and look at the door with hope, everyone except Kareena who was still angry.

Sherlyn had found it almost impossible to calm an irate Mahira down when Rakhee had sent Sameer to collect the Arora's. She had subtly dragged her back to her room with a panicked Ramona silently following behind.

Sherlyn had let Mahira vent but had ultimately snapped at her when she had narrowly dodged a glass flower vase that Mahira had thrown towards her as she was venting her anger out.

"Pagal hogaiyi ho tum?" Sherlyn had screamed causing Mahira and Ramona to look at her shocked at the anger emanating from her.

"Mein pagal hoon? Mein? Pagal mein nahi hoon tum ho!" Mahira had snapped back

"Shut up Mahira!"

"What shut up huh? Tum ne toh kaha tha ke sab log Preeta se nafrat karenge lekin yahan toh Rakhee aunty ke saath saath aab Dadi ne bhi yeh maan liya hai ke Preeta Karan ki biwi hai! Aur woh Press wale mujhe galat kahe rahe hai!"

"Issme meri koi galti nahi hai! Are tumhe kisne kaha tha ke un photos ke saath Karan aur Preeta ki shadhi ke photos bhi bhejo?"

"Tumhe mein bewakoof lagti hoon kya? Meine tho sirf Preeta aur Prithvi ki sagai ki photos, aur uske Karan ki bahoon mein girne ke photos behjhi thi!"

The two women had looked like they would tear each other apart in their anger when Ramona had asked the million dollar question that had caused both Sherlyn and Mahira to look at her stunned.

"Lekin yeh photos badle kissne? Iss baat ka patta toh sirf hum teeno ko tha... toh yeh saab..."

There was silence for a few minutes where all three women contemplated on how the photos that implicated Preeta as being a characterless woman that was engaged to one man and was chasing after Karan Luthra whilst being engaged, had been change.

Suddenly Sherlyn had rushed to the room door and swung it open and rushed around the corner, not finding anything she had rushed towards the spare room opposite Mahira's which was being used by Ramona. She had moved the curtains, then checked in the bathroom and finally opened the cupboards still not finding anything.

"Yeh kya kar rahi ho tum?" Ramona had demanded an explanation as to why Sherlyn was searching her room.

"Koi to hai!" she declared

"What?" Ramona had looked around a little frightened at her cryptic reply

"Koi hai jo chup ke se humari baate sun raha tha... jise yeh pata tha ke hum Preeta ke saath kya karne wale hai! Ussi ne uss reporter se kahe ke woh photos badal diye honge!" she had spat in frustration.

Ramona and Mahira had looked at Sherlyn in shock, their faces had paled at the realisation that someone in the house knew what they were up to.

"Sherlyn... aaa. Aab hum kya kare?" Mahira had asked while she still looked around the room expecting to see someone.

"Kuch nahi!" Sherlyn had replied with an unusual calm

"What?"

"Ha Mahira abhi hum kuch nahi karenge warna pakre jayenge. Abhi hume neeche jana hoga aur aise behave karna hoga ke yeh saab humne nahi balke Preeta ne kiya hai! Hume bus yeh baat Kareena Aunty ke dimaag mein dalni hai ke Preeta ne yeh photos aur videos leak kiye hai taaki Karan majboor hojaye usse yahan lane keliye!"

"Lekin Sherlyn Preeta yahan aa gaiyegi, hume usse rokna hoga!"

"Oh come on Mahira, mein janti hoon uss larki ko woh nahi aaiyegi aur woh aana bhi chaahe toh uski woh Maa usse aane nahi deki! So relax and enjoy the show!" she laughed causing Mahira to smile.

Composing herself Sherlyn had left first instructing Mahira and Ramona to follow after ten minutes so no one would be suspicious that they were together.

"Mahira beta..."

"Ha Mom?" Mahira had replied as she reapplied her make-up

"Mujhe lagta hai ke hume wapas aapne ghar janna chaahiye..."

"Mom! Yeh aap kya kahe rahi hai?"

"Mahira beta..."

"No Mom iss baar kahe diya hai aagli baar asi baat sochna bhi maat!"

Ramona had seen a glint of madness behind her daughters words which began to scare her. Before she could think or say anything further Mahira's tone had changed and she smiled

"Come on Mom, Sherlyn ne kaha tha ke usske neech janne ke baad hum aajaye" with that she had moved towards the door. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath Ramona had followed Mahira.

The three women had definitely realised that there was someone in the house that was not only supporting but also helping Preeta but they weren't as smart as they thought. As soon as they left a shadow jumped back into Ramona's room through the window.

"Bade aaiye mujhe pakar ne wale!" the shadow laughed. It was a close call when Sherlyn reached the door of Mahira's room but the shadow was expecting it the minute they saw realisation cross Sherlyn's face. So rather than running and risking being caught, they had quietly moved into Ramona's room and jumped out of the window closing it so it looked like it was shut for when Sherlyn began searching the room!

"Lekin aab mujhe kuch aur karna parega... I will have to find another way to keep an eye on them otherwise they will find out who I am and I won't be able to thwart their plans!

Taking out their phone the shadow texted someone and then pocketing their phone discretely made their way out of the room.