At the farmhouse,

"Raaam, don't leave. Stay for some time!" Zoya said, clinging to Ram once they are inside the house.

"Sorry, I can't stay Zoya." Ram said, drawing himself from her grip.

"Why? Why do you always distance yourself from me? I told you that I like you Ram." Zoya said in her slightly drunken state. Ram sighed in disbelief.

"Stop the nonsense Zoya. Since you requested a lot, I agreed to come with you for dinner for the last time that is it. Nothing more than that." Ram said.

"Why don't you stay here for tonight Ram? Let's have some fun." Zoya winked, grazing her finger along his jawline. She is trying to seduce him with her beauty.

"What are you doing? You are not in your senses Zoya!" Ram distanced himself from her.

"I am very well aware of what I am doing, Ram. Just relax." Zoya said, wrapping her hands around his neck. She leaned forward to kiss him.

"What's wrong with you? I don't have any feelings for you Zoya, try to understand." Said Ram removing her hands from him.

"Ram." Zoya trailed off when Ram stopped her talking further.

"I am leaving Zoya." Ram stormed out of the room without giving her time to speak anything.

Zoya clearly pissed off with his behavior. How much ever she tried to get close to him, he did not pay any heed to her. She threw the flower vase on the floor not able to hold back her anger. Her plan did not work again; he is not falling for her in any way.

Ram came back to the entrance gate to check whether Priya's car was still around or not.

Yes, he is well aware of Priya's presence in the restaurant itself.

He waited until Priya left the place before he drove back home following her car without her knowledge.

He felt so ashamed of his own behavior to portray himself as if he is cheating on his wife. He felt so low of himself for doing all these to just to distance themselves for time being.

Ram exhaled deeply thinking this is not the end of his plan. He prepared himself mentally to execute his next part of the plan.

"Sorry Priya, I have to do this." Ram wiped his tears away.

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Priya stepped out of the car and marched inside the KM furiously after dropping Romila. She is completely pissed off with Ram and waiting impatiently for him to return home after he is done with whatever he must be doing right now.

Time seemed to stop and it was difficult for Priya to maintain a calm composure. Never ever, she was this frustrated or hurt in her entire life. She walked back and forth in the room fidgeting with her pallu.

Priya stopped in her tracks when Ram entered the bedroom. Priya stood facing him crossing her arms looking directly at him.

Ram stole glances from her while placing his coat on the hanger. He inhaled sharply preparing himself to be strong enough to face her.

He stood facing her while her eyes asked him plenty of questions running inside her brain.

"Where did you go at this time? I asked you not to leave the house at any cost." His voice shrill in the room startling her. She was shocked to see his audacity and shut her eyes in anguish for a moment.

"I think I should be the one asking this question, don't you think so?" Priya fired back in a stern tone.

"I told you not to step out of the house but you never listen to my words. You always do as per your wish; I am fed up with you Priya." She flinched her face when he yelled at her in a high pitch tone.

"Why were you following me? Don't you trust me?" Ram fired at her.

"What else do you expect me to do? Moreover, you are talking about trust even after lying to me all these days giving false excuses, wow. Do you have a slightest idea how I am feeling when you are deliberately avoiding me? I know that you might be already aware of my every move but I really wanted to know the reason why you are avoiding me these days. That's why I followed you not because I don't trust you." Her eyes welled up with tears threatening to fall anytime.

Ram did not know what to reply but composed himself quickly saying, "You want to know the reason right? I am done with you Priya and I want to separate from you. Anyway there is nothing between us so it's better to free ourselves from this relationship, do you understand?" He declared hiding his actual emotions.

Priya's heart shattered hearing his talk. He remained silent for a few seconds before handing over an envelope to her.

"What is it?" Priya asked.

"Flight ticket." Ram replied plainly.

"But why?" Priya asked, confused and irritated at the same time.

"You have a flight tomorrow. Everything is arranged, you don't need to bother about anything." Said Ram in a choked voice trying to hold back himself.

Priya gave him a puzzled look, as she has no idea what is running in his bloody mind. He seemed to go crazy after the accident.

"Oh! Everything is very well planned already. Care to explain to me what is going on in your mind?" Priya yelled at him and a pool of tears started forming in her kholed eyes.

"You can't stay with me anymore and you are free from this relationship from this very moment." It was difficult for him to utter such words but he said to her stealing glances from her. He cursed himself mentally for causing her pain, he never wanted to be the reason for her tears, but he is right now.

Priya's mind went blank with his response.

"Oh let me guess. These arrangements are the compensation for the days I spent with you." She asked, wiping away her tears.

"Priya, you need to leave me." Ram said, not meeting her gaze.

"Look into my eyes and tell me the same thing." Priya demanded, grabbing his collar in her fists.

"Why are you scared to even look into my eyes Ram?" She asked again as his gaze fixed to the floor.

"Why are you trying to portray that you are cheating on me with Zoya. Let me tell you one thing very clearly, I know how much you love me and I trust that you cannot cheat on me ever. So stop trying those cheap tricks as those will have no impact on me." Priya started firmly looking directly at him.

"Please don't leave me Ram, I can't live without you and I know even you can't live without me then why are you doing this to us?" Priya asked, shaking him.

Gulping a lump down his throat, he started saying, "I don't owe you an explanation. Just leave me Priya." He said, distancing him while removing her hands from his collar.

Priya's heart shattered into pieces hearing his merciless words. Tears started flowing freely from her doe eyes gaping at him in utter shock.

"What did you just say? Leave you?" Priya asked, making sure what she heard was correct or not. Ram nodded his head slightly turning to the other side. His heart is crying inside and having a difficult time seeing her vulnerable state.

Priya turned him towards her, holding his arms near her elbow.

"Did you leave me when I pleaded with you to back off from marriage?"

"No, you didn't back off because you wanted to marry me at any cost irrespective of what I feel."

"Did you leave me when I said I hate you?"

"No, because you want to stay with me."

"Did you leave me when I said I don't love you?"

"No"

"Did you leave me when I didn't accept this marriage?"

"No"

"Did you leave me when I was not responding to your so-called love?"

"No" Priya shook her head in negation.

"It was all about you and your feelings and there is no importance to my feelings. Now that you realize this marriage is nothing, you are asking me to leave you so easily. How convenient are you Ram? How can you be so insensitive?" Priya's series of questions made him look at her blankly. Words failed to come out from his mouth.

"I never thought I would fall in love with anyone in my life and I did not expect someone to show care and love towards me as I was completely okay with whatever I had before. Then you came into my life and forced me into this marriage without my consent. Gradually in these 5 months of marriage, you made me realize the value of this marriage; you made me fall in love with you head over heels. I confessed my feelings to you but do not know what is bloody wrong with you since then you changed drastically. You failed me completely Ram." Her voice choked while saying this in between her sobbing.

"You used me for satisfying your own ego. Once you feel like you succeeded, you are throwing me out of your life like garbage. What did I do that you are giving me this horrible punishment? I am telling you from the bottom of my heart that I am ready for everything Ram."

"You know what I don't fear of admitting that I love you. Yes I love you Ram and I really really do." Priya shouted, leaning her forehead on his chest wailing badly.

Priya felt humiliated when she did not get any response from him. She parted from him wiping her nonstop stream of tears panting heavily.

He looked at her guilty-ridden and gasped hearing her confession. "Priya... I..." Ram could not finish his words.

"I understood completely that you no longer need me in your life. You know what; you do not deserve my love anymore. I feel so ashamed of myself that I fell in love with a person like you. You are so mean and you are no more the same person whom I love the most; he lost somewhere. You betrayed me Mr Kapoor." Priya said, pointing a finger at him.

Tears rolled down from his cheeks, as he stood helpless. He desperately wanted to hear her confession but his stepfamily left no stone unturned to ruin the special moments of his life. He felt so defeated and repentant for his own stupidity of distancing himself from his love. He should have considered how dejected and hurtful she could feel because of his wrong decisions.

"I wish I could have died in the accident itself. Yes, I prefer dying than seeing this behavior of yours." Priya screamed her lungs out. Her anguish has no bounds.

"Priyaaa!" Ram raised her hand to hit her. She shut her eyes in anticipation of getting a tight slap on her cheek.

Ram panting heavily and stopped his hand midway before touching her cheeks.

"Why did you stop? Hit me. This pain would nowhere be equal to the pain that I am enduring because of you right now." Priya's voice choked in between her sobbing.

Ram stood helpless hanging his head down.

"Okay fine, I am leaving this place as per your wish but I am not going where you want me to go. I will vanish from here and will never ever show my face to you again. Stay happy in your life like the way you wanted. I am leaving right now and thanks for everything Mr Kapoor. I will never forget what you did to me and thanks for making me so strong. I will go somewhere far from here and will not let you know about my presence. Goodbye Mr Ram Kapoor." Priya's voice sent chills in his spine and his heart skipped a few beats hearing her words.

Priya paused for a moment and continued.

"I now realize why you did not want to announce our marriage even after I confessed to you. You wanted to throw me out of your life." Priya smirked and started packing her stuff to leave the house immediately.

Controlling her muffled cries, she took out her clothes from the wardrobe one by one dumping them in a bag carelessly. His heart rate is increasing by each passing second; he cannot let her go away from him.

"Where are you going?" He asked, holding her wrist.

"None of your business." Saying this she withdrew her wrist from his hold and continued with her packing.

"Answer me Priya." He asked in a bit of a loud voice.

"I don't owe you an explanation." She gave him the taste of his own medicine.

He turned her around pinning to the wardrobe angrily. She could not succeed in her futile attempts to shrug off his hand.

"Don't make me mad." He said, strongly holding her by shoulders.

"Aah! You are hurting me Ram. Leave me and let me go." Priya winced in pain when he tightly gripped on her shoulders.

"First tell me where are you going?" Ram asked, loosening his grip on her shoulders.

She shut her eyes tightly when he crushed her body caging in between him and the wardrobe door.

"Move away from me." She said, pushing him away with all her strength. He stumbled to stand on his feet.

Priya started moving towards the door with her luggage.

Ram was quick enough to get hold of the bag stopping her to move forward.

"What are you doing? Leave my bag." She yelled.

"No, you are not going anywhere." He yelled back.

"I am leaving this house right now." She stated strongly trying to pull her bag from his tight hold.

"Okay fine. Keep this with you. I am leaving anyway and you cannot stop me." She moved out of the room leaving the bag in his hands.

Ram felt restless finding difficulty in breathing. He dropped the bad from his hand in shock and his head was throbbing against his skull. He felt void and a myriad of emotions hit him badly.

Loud thundering broke his trance, gathering himself back; he sprinted out of the room descending the steps as quickly as possible.

Ram's phone flashed with Vikram's number. He ignored his back-to-back rings before finally picking up the call.

"Vikram, Can't talk right now." Ram said, after picking up the call.

"Ram, it's urgent. Here me out once. We have the complete details of the spy installed by Sid and we are almost there to catch them. His location is near your house so just be with Priya, don't let her go anywhere and we can sort out the things very soon." Vikram said in one breathe, as he is already aware of Ram's plan of sending Priya somewhere else.

"Thanks Vikram. Will talk to you later, bye." Ram hung up the call and stormed out of the house in search of Priya.

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"Open the gate." Priya demanded the security at the main entrance gate fully drenched in the rain.

"But Madam." Security trailed off seeing the angry glare from Priya.

"I said open the gate." Priya glared at him.

Without having any option, the security guard opened the gate for her.

Ram came out of the house in search of Priya and got to know from the security guard that she just left.

He exhaled deeply and started searching for Priya here and there impatiently.

Seeing Priya alone walking in the rain on the almost empty road, a man approached blocking her way.

"Hey sexy lady, need company for tonight?" The man said scanning her body from head to toe licking his lips.

Priya felt disgusted with that person and hit him hard on his cheek taking him in shock.

That person felt humiliated seeing the reaction from Priya.

"Hey, how dare you slap me?" He asked angrily.

Before he could move towards her, he found someone nearing towards them so he left from there without wasting another second.

Ram sighed in relief when he found her little away from him but within his eyesight. He witnessed from little far that how his tigress slapped that person blocking her way.

Somehow, Ram managed to reach her huffing badly.

"Priya I am really sorry. Let me explain." Ram tried to hold her.

"Don't touch me, you have no right. Stay away from me." Priya stepped back showing her hand to him.

"Priyaaa! I am sorry. Please give me a chance to explain things to you." Ram pleaded with her.

"No. You had enough time for that; your time is up now." Said Priya wiping away her stained tears and controlling herself not to break down again.

Ram took a step towards her but she immediately stopped him in his tracks. "Don't come near me. Stop right there."

"Priya please." Ram pleaded through his moist filled eyes.

Soon both of them fully drenched in the rain, water droplets washed away her tears and mixed with a new pool of tears.

Ram is quick enough to catch her wrist to stop in her tracks when she was about to cross the empty road.

"Just leave my hand and let me go." Priya yelled at him.

"Priya, let's go home and discuss. Please I beg you." Ram pleaded with her.

"No. There is nothing to hear from you Ram. We are done already." Priya said, struggling to withdraw her hand from his tight grip.

"You have to hear me out Priya. Let's go home." Ram said strongly.

"No. I am not obliged or bound to you anymore. You lost your rights on me Ram. Go get a life." Priya retorted.

"I love you Priya. Please listen to me once. Trust me I am scared of losing you." Ram said finally.

Ram clearly understood that he could not stay away from her any longer. The fear of losing her trust and fear of losing her love killed him to the core.

"No I don't trust you anymore Ram. You betrayed my feelings. I hate you for this and I will not be able to forgive you ever." Priya broke down again.

"I am leaving; don't dare to stop me again." Priya shrugged off his hand and turned to leave.

The next second she felt a strong pull by him and in a split second, she felt his lips on hers. She grabbed his shirt collar to balance her stumbling.

Her anger knew no bounds at that very moment seeing his audacity.

"How dare he kiss me without permission? Was he not the one who stepped back when I wanted to kiss the previous day? I cannot let him do whatever comes to his mind." She thought in her mind.

She tried to push him hard but he made his grip tight on her petite frame. She started hitting on his chest a few times with her closed fist. He kissed her until eternity as if there is no tomorrow. His one hand is pressing on her waist and other on the back pulling more to him. Her wet saree is clinging to her body hugging her curves like a second skin.

He nibbled her lower lip and his tongue demanded to enter her mouth. For a moment, she forgot everything happened a while ago and started responding to the kiss. His tongue entered inside her mouth and their tongues mated together exploring each other. Their eyes still closed while their lips are moving in perfect synchrony.

Ram cupped her face and angled it for more access. They kissed each other passionately while he bit her lower lip not able to control the tension brewing inside him.

Priya felt his need on her stomach. Reality hit her head hard; Priya opened her eyes and was shocked with her own self for not being able to control her urge to kiss him back. She pushed him away from her.

"No, this shouldn't happen. I cannot go weak in front of him this time." She thought and pushed him away with all her strength.

"This can't happen. There is nothing in between us. It's over." Priya said to him strongly.

Ram was shocked to see her walking away from him. 

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P.S:

Hello people,

Hope you all enjoyed this update. Next part will be posted by Sunday/Monday.

Until We Meet Again,

Jo