"What are you talking about Bhavya?" Omkara asked slowly.

"How do you know about that!" Tej screamed.

"What Badepapa?" Shivaay whispered, praying to his Gods.

"That means...it's true?" Rudra asked, gulping softly.

"Wha..no..no, no, it's not true! She's lying!" Pinky screamed. "I told you Shivaay, this girl would-

"Oh wow, to cover up your sin, you are blaming me! As always!" Annika laughed. "How delightful! I expected nothing less than this."

"You!" Pinky screamed and charged towards Annika. Raising her hand, she almost slapped her when her wrist was seized strongly by someone, her knuckles slowly turning white by the sheer strength of the hand that held her.

"I dare you to touch her." Pinky looked up to see Gauri glaring at her, eyes inflamed with rebelliousness. Her whole body was shaking slightly with fury and if looks could kill, Pinky would have been ashes now. "Go ahead Mrs Pinky Singh Oberoi! Because if I see a single scratch on my sister, you will see the worst of me and believe me, I am dying to show you the worst side of me!"

"Gauri?" Omkara's voice wobbled as he saw his timid wife in an all new avatar. The coy girl had disappeared, instead of her there stood a new woman. Dressed so differently in a grey long gown dress and five inch heels. He gulped. Gone was the innocence which used to drip from her every pore, gone was the sweetness in her melodious voice. Her voice dripped venom now.

What in the world was happening?

"Sister?" Jhanvi said slowly, her face turning white.

"Take ten steps back." Gauri's voice thundered in the mansion and Pinky took herself back to her former position on wobbly legs.

"Annika, what is-

"Oh stop it! I don't have time for this! Pack your bags and leave." Annika grumbled loudly.

"We are not going anywhere! We don't believe you!" Rudra screamed. "I don't know why you are doing this but whatever you are doing is wrong! Bhavya, please call the Commissioner! But before that, arrest them!"

"Really?" Bhavya chuckled. "You are asking me to arrest my own sisters, in my own house? That's funny!"

As soon as Bhavya uttered these words, the world stopped for the people surrounding the three sisters, the floor slipped from under them as they realised what was happening, what had happened.

"You three..are sisters?" Shakti whispered.

"Bravo, you got it!" Annika said, clapping sarcastically.

"That..that means..it wasn't Veer or Swetlana doing..doing all that..but-

"No, no! They were doing it but on my orders!" Annika shrugged.

"What do you mean on your orders?" Omkara said. "Swetlana came in Mr Oberoi's life seven years ago!"

"And so did I. I sent her in your lives." Annika said as a matter of fact and walked towards the sofas, sitting leisurely.

"Sev..seven years?" Jhanvi whispered.

"Hmm, seven!" Gauri smirked.

"I sent her to break your family and gave her three years to work on it. I told her, she could target anyone. The men or the women. The elders or the youngsters. She chose the weakest man. Tej. She failed quite miserably in breaking you all apart but was still able to create those cracks. And it worked. Cracks in families are more harmful than a broken family because you live in the same house, around everyone but there's that palpable tension between all, that hatred walking through the corridors, that envy sitting on the windows, the jealousy wafting in the air, the anger seeping in the veins. The day I entered this mansion, I could feel each of it and the satisfaction, the joy it gave me to see you all break bit by bit, die little every day, I can't even explain! A drop of your tear was equal to a drop of my parent's blood. After all, I had promised a river of tears for you all!" Annika explained as the Oberois listened to the depth of her detailing.

"Then we realised, we had to spice it up! Enter Annika Di to target Shivaay. Take his weakest point and come to his attention. Leak the chip and become the Great Wall of Shivaay Singh Oberoi's target! And it happened quite easily I must say." Bhavya smirked.

"You..you leaked...the chip?" Shivaay whispered and Annika shrugged.

"And you kidnapped Sahil. Hisaab barabar?" Annika smiled.

"My brother almost killed himself because of you!" Shivaay screamed, his body shaking in wrath.

"Not because of us but because of that truth. Well, is it our fault that your brother can't handle a little bit of truth? Is it our fault that he speaks of how truth is the biggest but when the truth actually came knocking, he ran in the other direction? Is it our fault that his eyes can't handle what his lips say? Is it our fault that his heart can't handle what his mind supports?" Gauri said with crossed arms, looking at Omkara, who couldn't believe her.

His Gauri saying this? About him?

"Gauri!" Tej screamed.

"Don't you scream!" Bhavya shrieked at the top of her voice. "We can scream too." She said in a calm voice the next moment.

"Anyways, I entered your life and the rest is history." Annika shrugged.

"You got shot for me Annika." Shivaay said slowly. "You got shot-

"Big deal. Do you remember who shot me? Kamini. She was working with me, didn't I tell you?" Annika chuckled. "She was going to aim at you with Mahi but I paid her well enough to come to my side. Paid her to take Mrs Pinky Oberoi under her."

"Why? Choti Maa blackmailed you to leave and-

"I just wanted a break from this place, that's all." Annika shrugged. "I was getting so suffocated in here!"

"Then jump to Bareilly!" Bhavya said. "Everything was planned. Kaali Thakur was paid. And yes Omkara, Jhanvi Thakurain never died. She's still alive."

"We had planned to get Bhavya in Om's life but she was busy in a mission, so Gauri stepped in." Annika said.

"And Gauri in Rudra's but unfortunately, or fortunately for you, Soumya came out of nowhere and they got married out of the blue. We almost thought our plan was backfiring but being the super lovely and intelligent people you are, you all conveniently forgot about the marriage! And after your youngest bahu left for Australia after breaking up with her good-for-nothing husband, good for her actually, we got Bhavya here. We had no intention of setting her up with your little boy but the brat in him fell for her. He even, almost, managed to sabotage her relationship with her boyfriend Manav! Gate crashed their wedding and drama ensued. Luckily, Manav understood and they got engaged again! Their wedding is next month!" Annika said excitedly as Rudra looked at Bhavya, who was smiling and blushing away.

"How dare you?!" Kalyani Oberoi shouted, her voice shaking. "How dare you play with my family? How dare you target my sons and daughters-in-law? How dare you play with the feelings of my grandsons? How dare you insult the institution of marriage!?"

"First of all, how dare your sons and daughters-in-law deceive my parents? How dare they point a gun on them? How dare they snatch their hard work from them? How dare they kill them in cold blood?" Annika said menacingly, her voice smooth and calm. "And you are talking about the institution of marriage? How dare you insult the institution of marriage? Your youngest grandson is already married and you all are parading around making preparations for his next wedding? At least have the decency to apologize to a young girl whose name still has an Oberoi attached to it. Have the logic to get them divorced."

"And anyways, we did not insult any institution of any marriage because we were never legally married to your grandsons! Annika Di never let the marriage documents reach the court. Because if she did, the marriage would have been considered null and void." Gauri said.

"What?" Shivaay said, his throat as dry as the deserts.

"Yes, because she's already married to someone else. Married to the love of her life five years ago!" Bhavya shrugged.

"What?" Shivaay whispered. "Annika, we were married. We were together-

"We were never together Mr Oberoi. Do you know how many sleeping pills I had to give you to keep you under that illusion? It wasn't easy!" Annika said as she revelled in Shivaay's white face.

"And me." Gauri said. "Omkara never married me legally anyways. Just a few rounds around the fire, with no holy chants, no pandit, no mangalsutra and blood as sindoor! Really, you say that's a marriage? This is not a television drama, this is real life and to get married here, you have to sign certain papers. Which we never did! And Omkara, do you remember Arjun? You remember the hotel you came in to spy on me and found Gauri in the register? It was me. He really is my fiance." Gauri smirked.

They couldn't believe it. The three women who were supposed to be the pillars of their sons' strength, the pillars that were supposed to hold their family together turned out to be pillars of revenge. Instead of immense love for them, all they could see was deep disgust for them. Not even hatred. Plain disgust.

"Annika." Shivaay whispered. "You cannot do this. To me. To us!"

"Oh but I have. To you. And to your family. Do you remember Shivaay, when the chip of Swetlana and Tej Singh Oberoi was leaked and Omkara gulped those pills? Even the thought of him losing was enough to make you go mad against me, when you just had a doubt on me, you vowed to yourself that you will destroy me. You didn't care about my younger brother or his disability. Then how can you say this to me? I didn't have any doubt on your parents because I saw them killing my parents. I actually lost them forever. And I vowed to destroy you all." Annika said with determination.

"You could have just taken revenge from us, why did you target the feelings of our sons?" Shakti said slowly.

"You know what you all said to my parents before killing them? You said, we don't care that you have three children. They will bear the brunt of your stupidity. So I learned from you. And I will say I don't care that you have three children! They will bear the brunt of your sins." Annika said with a smile.

As the Kapoor sisters left, walking inside the Mansion, the Oberois knew they will.