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       Sanskar knew he shouldn't have walked away like that ,yet after finally voicing out the truth he was hiding from ,he had get away from her .

         She was his wife for few days and he is going to lose her soon . It didn't matter he promised to set her free ,it didn't matter he knows she didn't love him ,it didn't matter the marriage was forced on them .

             All the mattered to him was they were married and will go on their separate ways soon. When he heard the footsteps ,he braced for Keerthi words . And yet disappointed that it wasn't swara who came in search of him .

           " I stopped her from coming , don't blame this one her " Keerthi voice greeted him .

          " I don't blame her for anything " he answered back truthfully ,the fact she didn't fall in love with him meant he didn't deserve her love but he never faulted her for the very same .

         " Should I remind it was you gave her the divorce papers ,and you who signed it first ,it was your choice to set her free instead of fighting for her Sanskar " Keerthi words always remained rational and yet he didn't feel comforted by those words .

          When he finally made his way back the room and apologized for leaving earlier ,his employees who had become a part of his family accepted him without any more words spoken on the said topic.

             Then only he found the courage to look at her , and the hurt he had seen in her face made him worry a bit before approaching her .

          " Are you fine ?" she asked as he walked and stood beside her .

           " I will be " he answered back counting the day before he could establish the distance between them.

        " I am sorry Sanskar ,I didn't come here to hurt you . I will go now " she spoke up and turns to leave when he found himself speaking up again, this time offering to drive her back home .

        On the drive back he wished they could find anything to talk about instead of the silence but it was hard for him to form words and for some reason she decided to not speak either .

         It was only when he reached her street ,he saw lucky car parked outside and he tried to rein in his anger at his cousin but when he saw swara face it was pale than before that he found himself speaking up .

        " I will speak to him Swara " he spoke up trying to lessen her worries .

      "  It okay Sanskar ,as long as I stay inside this doesn't bother me " she answered back . Yet their choice was taken away when lucky walked before his car .

            " Why are you coming with Bhai " lucky question was directed at swara but it was Sanskar who answered him .

             " It none of your business lucky , don't bother swara" Sanskar spoke up and he knew laksh won't stop just by his words and yet he didn't know how to make him stop bothering swara either .

              " It you who is trying to keep us apart ah Bhai , I apologized for my actions didn't I ,but if you come between us I will forget you are my Bhai ,everything happened because of you or did you forget that " Laksh voice rang with anger that swara knew she was causing a rift again between them .

            " Laksh , I have told us there is no us and don't you dare blame it on Sanskar . And whom I see or don't see is my decision and you have no say in it , Let go Sanskar " she answered back and held sanskar hand as she dragged him inside her house .

          It had become a habit to walk together and she forgot that they no longer live in an same house and when it dawned on her ,she let go of his hand. 

      " I am sorry I forgot " she stammered as she realized what she just did .

       " Sometimes I go home and call out your name thinking you were still there as well , it happens " he answered back and swara realized it was the same for her .

      She wakes up hoping to find him only to be disappointed when she stares at her room ,she calls out his name at sometimes as well forgetting her surrounding . 

             " Go inside Swara " his voice broke her out of her thought .  And she nodded as she stepped inside her house and yet turned back to see him walking away .

        Then she remembered that he would be soon moving to Mumbai and her heart hurt . She was being unfair to him by trying to hold on to his friendship . 

              As she entered the house ,she came face to face with ragini ,and she wish the sister confrontation didn't have to happen now of all the time .

        " I am happy that he is hurt just like me ." with that vague statement she went back to her room and Swara was shaken up by her words .

   
         The fact she caused him hurt was bothering her as she went back to sleep that night . Her conscious made her aware of all the words she said to him in anger .

             The fact he decided to give her divorce even before she asked meant her words after their marriage only meant her actions have made him believe it what she wanted from him .

               She knew signing the papers was the right thing to do but she also wondered why she got upset thinking about it .

               A brief knock made her aware of her mom presence. She tried to quickly wipe her tears before her mother noted it .

           " Shona come and eat " her mom invite did distract her as she joined her family for dinner , the silence was deafening as ragini continued glaring at her .

              The hatred from ragini eyes made her regret not eating in her room , she didn't regret reuniting her parents but wondered the price she had to pay for it .

               She destroyed her sister life though it was because of her sister  actions ,it didn't make her happy and then there was him .

                She used him to reunite her parents and then abandoned him as if he didn't matter when the truth was far from it . She cares about him a lot but she didn't love him .

                
                   Even after laksh ,she wanted to marry for love ,and the same applies for staying in a marriage as well . By the time the dinner was over ,she returned back to her room to find a text from unknown number .

               " Hi ,this is keerthi .Stole the number from his phone . Do you mind if we meet privately  tomorrow ?" the text surprised her and yet made her curious as she typed in her acceptance and keerthi sent back the time and location of the meet . 

           The next day swara reached a hour early then mentioned ,escaping her house felt good . She drank her cup of coffee and waited for Keerthi arrival .

          As the time passed she wondered what could be the reason for the meet and when Keerthi stepped in she anxious as well as worried about it  .

        " Sorry I am late ,the merger issues take lot of my time " Keerthi words greeted her as she took the seat opposite to her and swara waited till she ordered for herself .

           " You must be wondering why I wanted to talk to you , do you know Sanskar is planning to move to Mumbai " Keerthi asked and Swara could only nod her head in answer.

           
           " After Kavi  death , the sanskar I knew vanished and I will always be grateful to you for bringing him back and now I worry that he might go back to being a robot " Keerthi voice barely made its way to Swara mind .  As she was still reeling from the shock the person before her knew kavita .

            " I want to help him move on and I need you help " Keerthi finished speaking and finally swara answered back .

            " What can I do ? I will do anything in my power if it helps him " Swara answered back wondering what was going on in Keerthi mind .

             " I want you to work in karma  as you were aware our accountant retired and when I did background checks on you before I came across your qualification . " Keerthi words echoed what she wanted as well .

            " It is unfair to Sanskar " swara  answered back since it was the reason she gave up applying for the job .

         " Yes it is , when Kavita died he couldn't face her death ,he was forever locked in having revenge and now if he didn't face your divorce head on I worry it might break him " Keerthi answered and swara realized she knew him better than her .

              " Do you think seeing me everyday would help him move on " Swara asked as it puzzled her .

          " It might hurt him for the first few days , but you need to be in touch with him in some way other wise he would believe he lost you  as a friend forever ,who knows maybe this will help him move on  " Keerthi words reassured her and since sanskar would move away in two months according to keerthi . She was willing to give it a try .

       Keerthi waited till swara left before relaxing. The whole time she was anxious that her facade will crack and she will be caught in her lie . She knew seeing Swara everyday is the worst thing for sanskar but she also knew it will keep him from digging again into kavita death .

     Swara was his distraction and Keerthi was holding everything from falling apart by sheer will and if  sanskar stumbled upon the truth then she was worried about the consequence of his actions .

            Swara had put a halt to his revenge once and she hoped she can do it again because sometime the truth needs to stay hidden .

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Nita