Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sale Sahab please let me meet Rani Sahiba.Please its been.."

Gripping his throat Arnav gritted.

"You think i will let you be near her after what you did.Huh?"

Jerking him away from himself he pointed his finger towards him.

"Last day" He smirked "Today is the last day of your imprisonment as well as hers.When I will be done with her at the end of this day she will be there where I want her! And after that.." he laughed wickedly "You can have her as I have already had my share of her!"

Shyam stared at him with shock.

"Arnav don't do this.I swear you will regret this big time.Please listen what happened it wasn't anybody's fault but one big misunderstanding..Even..."

"Misunderstanding" Arnav bellowed "JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He curled his palms "It was the freaking truth which I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears bloody bastard!"

"Sometimes what we see or hear isn't all true Arnav." He sighed "If you are choosing to ignore the truth than its your mistake and yours this mistake will never let you live once you will finally realize the truth and I am afraid that day is not faraway"

Arnav was about to go when Shyam's next words startled him,had him rooted to the spot.

"Have you ever thought sale sahab that if she had loved me than why would she marry you? You very well know that I loved her and if I had ever found out an even a single bit of that kind of love in her eyes than I wouldn't have married Rani Sahiba!"

Arnav stood shocked as first bit of doubt, a very minute one entered his mind and penetrated into his heart...He closed his eyes.

And than all came back.

His Di cries,her screams and than her pale face lying in the hospital room.

Chote he...he..said he lov..loved her...

He left the room without glancing back.

Ignoring the logic yet again he left the basement of his farmhouse where he has kept Shyam since months.

If only he had listened to his heart then maybe he would have prevented an innocent soul from breaking who was going to face another heartbreak and pain just because of him...for which he would never be able to forgive himself his entire life..

Never is the key word!

Khushi entered RM clutching the reports tightly.

She was scared of his reaction.

How would he take this news?

Will he be happy for even a fraction of a second?

She entered the living room and a surprising sight greeted her.

He was home and that too in afternoon.

WHY?

She gulped painfully as last time he came home early, he had brought that girl into the house whom he...

She closed her eyes as tears gathered there.The memory of their kiss was still fresh in her mind and as much as she tried to forget that, it resurface every time and with it come the pain and hurt ten folds.

She sniffed and her eyes shoot up startled when she felt his hands on her cheeks.

"Tum theek ho?(Are you okay?)" she heard him asking softly.

She didn't answer instead she stared at him shocked.

The reports she was clutching fell to the ground as he covered her mouth with his for a soft, tender kiss.

He hadn't had kissed her this tenderly in ages than what changed today?

Maybe he realized his mistake.

Maybe he wanted to mend it all.

If that's the case than she would definitely give him the chance to rectify his mistakes.She would look past the last six months and she would forgive him too for whatever torture he put her through.She mused and as her hurt came back shredding her to pieces she threw herself in his arms and sobbed clutching him for her dear life..

"It...It hurts Arnavji..It really hurts..." She sobbed the words out.

"Don't worry you will be free of all today" She heard him say.

If she hadn't been this vulnerable she would not have been this clueless of what was awaiting her.

If she hadn't been in the need of comfort than she would have understood the meaning behind his words.

If she hadn't been this naive she may have saved herself from the pain and heart wrenching revelation that would change her life forever.

As he carried her to the room she buried her face in his neck sniffling loving the comfort she was getting after months of pain.

He closed the door with his foot and put her down once he reached the middle of the room.

Khushi looked at him tearfully with all the love but if only the man himself wasn't blind with the dark shades of hate and revenge he would have seen himself in her eyes.

Than she remembered that she need to tell him about her pregnancy.

She smiled as she thought he would be happy with the news and they would start a new life with their baby.

If only she wasn't that innocent!

"Arnavji uh.."

She saw him smirk and looked down nervously.

Does he already know? Is that why he changed? She mused.

"Bolo Khushi.."

"I..I..am p-pregnant Arnavji."

She saw him stiff in his position and then in an instant his face hardened and she saw the same man who has hurt her million times.

She waited for him to speak with bated breath but when he did she wished he hadn't.

"Whose child is this Khushi?"

She felt like dying right there and then, once and for all!

"W-What?" she cried out painfully as the meaning of his words sank in.

How could he even think that let alone say it?

"It..Its y-yours obviously. Ours." She rasped out.Rage bubbling inside her coupling with hurt as her tears made their way down her cheeks..

He grapped her shoulders, his eyes red with anger..

"Don't you dare relate me with that scoundrel's blood!"

"Of whom you are talking and for devi maiyya's sake please don't say that which you will regret later" she yelled furiously.

"Shyam! I am talking about him.The result of both of your enjoyment is now nourishing inside your.."

*SLAP*

"ENOUGH!!!" she screamed as her breathing rugged.

Arnav touched the cheek where she just had slapped him and a mad glint formed in his being..

"How dare you whore!" He yelled as he crashed her to his chest causing her to wince in pain.

As Khushi was struggling to get out of his grip she remembered something.

"How do you know Shyamji?"

He smirked as he left her.

"What you thought that you both will never be caught? Huh? But I am Arnav Singh Raizada and I know everything!" he turned around and closed his eyes "I know both Shyam and...and A-Anjali" his voice cracked at the end.

Her eyes widened."You know Anjaliji? But how? Is she related to you? Is Shyam related to you" she asked as her head starting spinning with confusions and plethora of thoughts.

"SHE IS MY SISTER!" He turned to her and grasped her shoulders and she was shocked to see tears in his eyes "And that bastard was her husband!"

As realization dawned on her she stared at him shocked.

"So you..you are Anjaliji's C..Chote?"

He closed his eyes at the word 'Chote'..He was craving to hear that for so long But...

He clenched his jaws as thoughts of taking revenge from his sister's destroyer overpowered his sanity.

He came just behind her and a cry escaped her lips as he clutched her stomach tighter and crashed her back to his front.

"Yes she is my sister and I am her Chote!" he said as he rested his chin on her shoulder and pressed her tummy more.

"Ahh Arnavji l-leave m-my baby" she cried out as cramps shot through her stomach.

"Just like this." he whispered in her ears maniacally.

"She was crying that day in the hospital just like this but" he grew more berserk as he turned her to him pressing her fully to him "But doctors couldn't do anything and her" he leaned in and bit her neck roughly and she yelped in pain.

"--and HER BABY DIED!" He yelled at the top of his voice on her face freezing her in her spot.

"What?" she asked startled

She was feeling dizzy as his words hit her like a boulder.

But she didn't get the time to ponder more as now he had her pressed against a wall.

"Yes, you heard it right! She lost her baby and then she.." he cupped her nape vigorously and Khushi who was already shaking due to sobs and fear struggled to get free "..Then she went silent.." Khushi stilled as her eyes widened.

Her lips trembled as she asked "Did she...she..die?" and as the words left her mouth she regretted them...very badly.

His eyes grew red and she felt scared of what will he do next?

She yelped as he grabbed her wrist and whirled her to the center of the room.

She felt blood at the corner of her mouth due to the sudden impact of his hard hand.

He had slapped her!

"I knew it. I knew that is exactly what you wanted.My Di to be dead" She bobbed her head in negative vigorously.

"But you didn't know that her brother is still alive and if you had thoughts to kill her then your plan has actually backfired because I saved her and she will be fine.Soon." he gritted the words out in admist of her cries as he again gripped her from the back clutching her tummy.

"Arnavji w-whatever you are thinking is wrong.I never wanted anything bad for Anjaliji. Infact.."She sobbed as another wave of pain hit her belly.

"TO HELL WITH YOUR FACTS!!!" he bellowed silencing her "My Di...she suffered major nervous breakdown and..she went into coma.." coming infront of her he pointed his finger at her "JUST BECAUSE OF YOU!"

She didn't know how to make him understand? How to tell him that he had got that all wrong! He was hating her for the the reasons which didn't exist at the first place!

He was punishing her for the mistake which she never did!

He was living in a mere illusion!

He wants to destroy her for a mere misunderstanding! She laughed inwardly..So her life was being ruined by the man she loved for what? A mere misconception!

She was about to say something when his next words froze her,

"Thats why I married you!" he smirked as he continued "I planned to make you fall in love for days and wherever we met whatever I did with you was preplanned.." He laughed."--by me!" he finished pointing towards himself with a snide smirk.

"But you...you said you l-love me.."

Laughing he asked

"Do you still think that what I said was true? You aren't ready to let go of your facade of innocence yet."

She felt as if sharp needles pierced through her heart.

"But I..I loved you truly.." She murmured hoarsely but he heard it clearly.

"That's what I wanted. For you to love me." he smirked "So that my task could get much easier and trust me it wasn't that difficult because I knew what type of a girl you are who easily went from one guy to another in a span of few days" pinning her to the cupboard he gritted "Just like you moved from Shyam to me."

"Nahi. Ahh!" she winced as a jolt of unbearable pain shot through her stomach as he pressed himself on her.

"Arnavji please...ahh...I..I need to go to a doctor...Ahh..Our...baby.."

"SHUT UP!!! JUST SHUT UP!!! Let that bloody thing die."

"BAS!!! YOU HAVE SAID ENOUGH!! CHI! I despise the day I fell in love with you!! Hate is too a small word! YOU DISGUST ME!!! REMEMBER ONE THING MR.ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA that you wont ever live in peace in your life for doing this to me..to your baby...you will never sleep in peace...YOU WONT EVER GET A SINGLE HAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE EVER! YOU WILL CRAVE FOR COMFORT BUT THAT WONT COME EVER!" She finished breathing on his face as she clutched her belly after managing to create some distance between them.

"Great speech huh?" she looked up startled as he smirked "But baby tch tch I am in so much peace seeing your condition.Oh my your wish will go down in drain." He laughed "And after my last task I will feel like i am in heaven"

"L...Last t..task??" she trembled as he neared her.

Blowing on her face he leaned in towards her ears and her heart stopped hearing what he said next,

"Don't you want to know what my Di felt after she lost her child huh?"

Her breathing stilled as she saw his determination.

A motherly instinct swept throw her and her arms automatically went around her stomach as if trying to protect her unborn child from its own father.

Ache in her belly was pretty much still there.

"Please..Don't.." she pleaded him tearfully.

He smirked as he saw her arms going around her tummy.

"You love that thing so much?" he neared her as she pressed her face into the cupboards' lid distancing herself from him "Do you love that baby more than your Arnavji?" her startled eyes shoot up to his and she saw that he was serious..But she had seen so much colors of this man that she couldn't trust this man's face now, she knew its his another facade to hurt her.

"Yes" she answered firmly with quivering lips "I love my baby more than anyone...more than You!"

"Aww so much love.You got me really wondering for a second that you actually love that thing more than me" he turned her trembling form towards him gently and cupped her face "But I know that you love me more than anyone...more than that thing, right?" he said brushing his nose to hers breathing on her face.

Her breaths quickened as she opened her eyes to meet his and she knew that he had got her right...He knows!...He knew that...He knew what he mean to her! But what he didn't know, what she said was actually true!

Her love for him was dying into bits and pieces day by day.

But now she had him distracted she knew she had to escape him to safe her child from him, otherwise he could do anything to snatch her only hope for living!

But she didn't knew that this will lead to another heartbreak after which she wont be able to gather herself...not in the whole lifetime.

"Yes, I loved you more than anything Arnavji. But why couldn't you see it?" she cupped his cheeks "I gave my everything to you but you.." she took sharp intake of breath "..But you never understood me or trusted me...You were the only man in my life...Please trust me.."

He shrugged off her hands as she expected,

"I have seen your real face so don't you dare try to pursue me with that innocent look on your face"

"I am not trying to pursue you Arnavji" she sobbed "I am just stating the facts.Why don't you believe me? I...I loved only you and no one else...and I had seen the same love in your eyes too in the days before our marriage.."

She saw him still for a moment but when he spoke after few seconds, she was stumped.

"You thought I love you. Haha. What a joke.Want to know the truth.Then Listen i never loved you.I never will.I love someone else.She is my life"

Her eyes widened as her heart clenched.

"I always imagined her when I was with you" he leaned in "I imagined her when I hugged you, I imagined her when I kissed you and I imagined her when.."

"Stop...pl.eas.e stop!" she begged as she covered her ears.It was getting too much for her to hear.

He smirked enjoying more now.

Taking her both hands off her ears he locked them behind her back and completed his sentence "..I imagined her when I made love to you..." he saw her expressions going completely miserable "Actually it wasn't love making! It was just sex for me by the way and I loved fucking you everyday!"

Khushi paled.She felt her breathing stop as her inside chilled.

"And all this you know very well why I did! I don't regret anything and neither I will ever because a girl like you deserve only this! You disgust me Khushi Kumari Gupta.I hate you.I hate you like hell"

Saying this he gripped her wrist and dragged her with him.She was just blank now as if someone just sucked all the life out of her...

He reached the gate of RM where Ramo Kaka was standing.

The old man saw with tears as his Arnav baba threw Khushi bitiya out of the gate and ordered him.

"Listen man! Don't even think of helping her if you love your family.Now close all the gates of RM!"

She didn't knew where she was heading.

She was just dragging her feet where they would take her.

'You thought I love you. Haha. What a joke.Want to know the truth.Then Listen i never loved you.I never will.I love someone else.She is my life'

Her eyes were full of unshed tears and few tears made their way down her cheeks.

The path from where she passed had blood drops trailing behind her.

She didn't knew from where the blood was oozing out. In fact she didn't even knew that she was bleeding.

A sob escaped her throat.A gut wrenching sob.

'You disgust me Khushi Kumari Gupta. I hate you. I hate you like hell.'

Her sob grew louder and than she was sobbing clutching a fist full of her kameez.

She walked sobbing,shaking and staggering.

Then out of nowhere a truck came and a loud honk filled the road and than,

**CRASH**

A pool of blood could be seen around a body.

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