Part 30 Another Plan
We left the Palace. The first thing I did was switch ON my mobile and keep its screen visible to Akash. Turning behind, I looked at Khushi who was sitting behind Akash's seat. She smiled at me biting her lip. I knew this was why she was hiding from the rearview mirror of Akash's car. She looked extremely cheerful... totally opposite to Akash who was distressed. His face told me that. I sat straight. He looked at me and smiled and I knew it was a plastered one.
"I can't believe you guys don't know about the private room," I said.
Akash looked at me and then at the road.
"How I failed to guess it...? Payal would have told me if something was there like a private room" I said and looked at Khushi.
"But, you know about it right? You would not have seen it in your palace... I mean, you knew your father and mother had the private room or not... yet, you were silent..."
Khushi raised her brows as she didn't know what to say... she didn't know what I expected her to say.
"If you don't like to be with me, you can say that straight, Khushi. I think this is why your mother wanted us to be separated. She knew you don't like this marriage, right? To support you only she should have kept us separately"
Now, Khushi understood what I wanted her to say.
"If she wanted to support me, why would she force me into this marriage?"
I pretended like, getting stuck.
"What do you mean?"
"You won't understand," Khushi said rigidly.
"Why won't I understand if you tell me? Don't I have the right to know what's there in your life? Or, do you want me to stay away from you?"
"No one has ever understood me so far. People think I intentionally conflict with Mrs. Gupta just because I don't like her"
"Don't you like her?"
"How would I like her if she always corners me in every simple thing? She forced me for this marriage... after the marriage, she keeps me away from my husband through the servant crew...and tracks me through them... she tracks not only your car but also mine"
I looked at Akash who gulped down hard.
"My car also has GPRS... but I didn't know she would do the same to you too"
"But why?"
"I said you won't understand"
"Then, you too should give your car back," I said.
"My car is now, in the Hotel Taj. I left it there as you called me urgently"
"No problem, I will send someone to do it"
Akash was silent. He didn't say anything regarding it.
That was when I got my father's call, as I expected. Without showing joy, I rolled my eyes groaning. Akash looked at my phone screen and then at me because it flashed *DAD*. I disconnected the call and Akash looked at me perplexed. He might have though I didn't want to attend the call as I was discussing something with Khushi. The next second, my father called me again and I again cut the call with the same annoyance. I put my mobile on silent mode. Akash saw him calling me again and again.
"I think your father wants to talk to you about something important," Akash said.
"He is irritating me a lot these days," I said irritatingly.
He looked at me frowning and I sighed. I looked at Khushi and said,
"Don't attend if he calls you. put it in silent mode"
Khushi smiled as she already switched it OFF.
We reached the Mini Palace. I guided Akash to park his car in the carriage. He did that without a question. He was not ready to question me for anything. But, Khushi looked at me questioningly. Akash would go back in a while. Then why did I want him to park his car in the carriage? I smirked at her, making her frown.
Now, I wanted to see what Akash would do. That was a TEST for him from my side. His ACTION on this matter was going to say who he was. He walked in. I clutched Khushi's wrist and stopped her. She looked at me raising her brows.
"Switch your mobile on and send me the list of servants whom you don't want to be here" I whispered.
She nodded OK with a bright smile. Taking her mobile, she turned it ON. I gestured for her to go with Akash. Khushi followed him while typing the list of names I asked for.
Akash saw Dolly in the living room. She was dumbfounded, seeing Akash with us. She didn't expect him to show up there.
"I want all the servants to be gathered here... now..." Akash ordered.
The servants who were in the living room scattered in all directions to bring their colleagues. Within a few minutes, all the servants of the Mini Palace gathered in front of him and formed a line decently. I saw a few servants coming from our room too. I understood they were working on Akash's order to shift Khushi's things from her private room to the main room.
Akash looked at Dolly and asked,
"Have you done what I said?"
"The work is going on, your Highness," Dolly said.
"Work is going on? Then what are you doing here?" His voice heated up.
"I..."
Cutting her,
"I asked YOU to do it... since when did you start ordering others? Who gave you the right to master others? Did you think I won't get to know what you are up to?" He shouted.
Dolly bowed down.
"We got to know what you are doing behind our back," He said furiously.
All the servants glanced at each other.
"What do you think of yourself? Are you a leader here? You made our Royal system a farce. Because of you, we bowed in front of our son-in-law, today"
Dolly looked at me shockingly and again looked down.
"You don't have to be here anymore. Pack your things..." Akash yelled.
Dolly looked at him shockingly.
"Do... what... I... said..." He said gritting his teeth.
She rushed to the servant quarters. I understood why Akash talked to Dolly after gathering all the servants. He didn't want anyone to make the same mistake again. I appreciated him inwardly.
Akash looked at me.
"Arnav, you are free to choose who should work for you," Akash said turning his tone soft.
I nodded okay. I saw their faces pale. I understood no one of them wanted to work for me. Who would like to work for a madman like me? Didn't they know what atrocity I would do? I smiled inwardly. Did I go overbroad?
"From here on, every servant of Mini Palace will do only what you and Khushi say" he added.
The servants should have known by now, what I would have done.
"Did you guys finish shifting Khushi's things to the main room?" Akash asked.
Those who were doing the work came forward.
"Almost finished, your Highness," one of them said.
"Finish it"
They again rushed upstairs.
"I will just come" Akash headed to our room to check it, I supposed.
He stopped and looked at Khushi. Understanding his gesture, Khushi walked with him. I stayed back in the living room as I understood, Akash wanted to talk to Khushi. I gave the much-needed space to the brother and sister.
I saw the servant list sent by Khushi. I saw Harina's name on the top of the list. I smiled. I looked at the servants.
"I will call the name, those should come to my left side,"
I started reading the names in REVERSE. I didn't want Mrs. Gupta to know Harini was our first preference. Harini was looking at me curiously. I read her name last. She came to my left side controlling her smile.
"Others can pack your stuff and go with Dolly MATHA," I said.
Now, the others became horrified because they had seen Akash's wrath. From here on, he would keep them in the BLOCK list. And, the servants working in our room were not on the list. They were Dolly's servants I supposed.
Rejected servants went to the servant quarters following Dolly to pack their things whereas others started doing their work as usual.
I looked at my watch and sat in the living room EXPECTING someone. I checked my mobile and saw seventeen missed calls from my father. I didn't know, what Mrs. Gupta spoke to my father that he was scared of her to this extent. Though I hate that woman for her selfishness I wanted to appreciate her foxiness. How brilliantly she fooled Shashi and Akash with her emotional dramas...! The much I know, it was not easy to tie men EMOTIONALLY because men would not think like women.
Mrs. Gupta should have been in SINGLE thinking of how to torture Khushi in the last ten years. How severe she had been in her mission...! To do that, she was performing her drama to Shashi and Akash in the last few years. It was not a simple thing. That meant she wouldn't be quite accepting this defeat. She would have become more devilish to knock Khushi down because Khushi had MY support now. She won't tolerate Khushi being in the safer hand. Didn't she know what I was up to? Dolly would have told her how I behaved with Khushi. So, Mrs. Gupta would have guessed I intentionally seeded suspiciousness in senior and junior Guptas' minds. She would be angry with me like hell. Let her be... then only, she would do something... she might make mistakes in anger because anyone's mind would not work properly in anger.
I again looked at my watch. Why it was taking time? My face lit up seeing the person I was waiting for.
Here... he came... my father. He shouted at me as usual.
"Chotte..."
Seeing him angry, all the servants left the living room immediately.
"Why didn't you attend my call? Do you know how many times I called you? You had cut my call while talking to me before I completed it. This is not done Chotte... I can't understand why you are not understanding the seriousness. You have no idea what Mrs. Gupta will do. You are always ready to do what she doesn't like. You let Khushi cook, you take her away from Delhi just to meet your friend, why not you obey Mrs. Gupta whom we need to save our business? We can't stand her anger... Your sister Payal is under her CUSTODY...and..." he got stuck, seeing an unexpected person at the Mini Palace... his son-in-law who came out of our room, hearing my father's blabber. Akash looked at him shockingly, hearing what he said.
To be continued...
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