Maa ! Maa! .... a girl's voice , enchanting and sweet just like her nature , came echoing in the mansion , a mansion believed to be made by the ancestors , pure and old , engraved with gold and secerets , on the lazy morning of a winter day . People were awake and children of the house were getting ready.

"Syahi !! ,my daughter ,are you ready for the school? ,uncle Ravi will drop you at school ,i hope you won't say no . I and your father are supposed to go to a business trip , you understand right !!?" , came the voice of a beautiful lady in her early 30's asking her daughgter who was supposed to be 14 the coming week ....she was the eldest daughter in law of the house , sweet and caring were the synonyms of her persona , Ratan was her name .

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"No maa , i won't go with him "she defied "i want to go with you and papa", the young blood was rebellious indeed but had that soft gene of her mother which always made her a better version .  "If you say so then I will talk to your father ", if it would have been any other day Ratan would have asked Syahi to adhere strictly but today she was not in any energy to do so. 

Things in the haveli weren't as simple as it looked to the outside world , and being the eldest daughter in law of the family and the wife of the richest brother among all the three brothers of the family ,Ratan  knew she was in light to many of the things that were not appropriate maybe . She  belonged to a family of kings , she was the princess of gauravgarh, set in the industrial areas of Rajasthan , she was a princess well known  for her knowledge in business and finance . She got married to her childhood family friend Kaelash Aharya , the heir of the biggest hotel managing family , also the prince of sanyam, set in Rajasthan ,a place of nature  ,culture and heritage . 

Syahi was the sign of their love , struggle , and compassion . 

"kaelash ? , Syahi was asking if we could drop her to school , she never usually asks , I  think we should if you can adjust the meeting time . " looking at her husband with files she said , seeking for his answers , "yeah ! sure we can ", was all that he said , checking the same files again and again . "Ratan ?, did you see  the documents of our surya palace ? ,I  guess I am missing them while checking , have a look through it here ! ". Ratan was definitely not pleased by the information that she was getting now, somewhere she knew , she definitely knew something but didn't want to accept it , giving it one more chance in her mind before coming to conclusion .

Last night too she wanted to discuss this feeling with her husband but couldn't gather up the courage , the women she is and was known for her fast and wise decisions , was not able to decide this time to go for it or not last night . Now that things were going the way she was afraid of , she was sure enough now to tell it to her husband . 

"kaelash !? i need to tell you somethings , i feel they are right , but i am still not sure and i am afraid you won't believe me this time " , kaelash looked at her face and tried so hard to find emotions in her eyes and all that he was able to discover was fear , fear of something he was not able to guess , he definitely had never seen Ratan so bewildered before this . "is there something i don't know ?" he inquired . Ratan took a whiff of breath and continued " there is someone in the family kaelash , someone who wants to take somethings from us , things like our  life , memories and ....and our Syahi !?, I  know  I might sound so unsure right now but believe me I cannot be more sure than this ever in my life . Kaelash , last night too when we were not in the room , there was someone here , i know it . I am afraid , I fear about loosing syahi,  Kaelash , we cannot loose her "..........kaelash didn't know where this was heading too , all he knew was that his wife whom he trust blindly was afraid of his own  family.

Kaelash was not sure about what he should answer , all that he had were questions . "and i doubt Chandini and Ravi in this " , she said with a pause , now was the time when kaelash looked at his wife with a sudden reflection , he couldn't process out what she just said . She  was pointing out his youngest brother Ravi and his youngest sister Chandini on this , the two most important people in his life , his babies like siblings , grown up adults but to him they were still kids . The love he had for them was unbearable even to him , just a thought of them brought tears to his eyes , and these people were being blamed in something so low , so unexpected . 

"think gain before saying something like this Ratan , i hope you know who you are blaming to" the look on his face didn't show distrust on Ratan but a hope that he wanted to hold on to even till the last second of proving them innocent in this ."Not just again Kaelash , i have been thinking before speaking it to you since 3 years ",  now he knew , he knew he couldn't unbelieve it . The person he trust blindly was saying such things , and he has in all these years of their  marriage  and friendship , come to see that there could be times when the whole world could go wrong but Ratan couldn't .

"Maa....Papa !? .....are you not leaving me to school today ?" came the voice they worship . Kaelash hastily whipped his tears and Ratan corrected her posture , looking presentable enough to not make their daughter worry of any such things , things she was way  too young for , they believed . 

"Aaahaa yes ! little princess,  papa will get you to school today , alright ?", hugging his daughter Kaelash informed . 

MMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............UHH!! .......

" It was dream ! calm down ! it was a damn dream ",....she woke up to her most horrible dream ever , Syahi was in this since the day she left her home , her family , when she was just 15 . "It all feels like just yesterday   ", she said in a whimper , but she knew it wasn't just yesterday that everything just flipped up side down in her  life, everything  came crashing in front of her eyes and definitely that soul of  just 14 years , so protected , so kept hidden from bestiality , wasn't able to tolerate , it was five years since then , five damn years of fresh wound lingering all the way from her mind to heart and not even a bit of it bandaged yet . 

Syahi was 19 and a half now  , in this new place that the world called  America.  She was grown up to be a  wonderful , charming , enchanting , beautiful , and all the pretty words that couldn't define her enough, lady . Syahi got those eyes of her mother ,black,  big and intoxicating and  eye lashes like her father , fluttery ones . A figure like a swan , bright and untouched . 

One thing she didn't knew she had was the valor like her mother and mellowness like her father .All that she knew was that she was deprived of the love and care , she was fearful of the world leaving her alone like everyone in her past did , and she was sure to find the love here , she wanted it , because she thought she  needed it.

"Hmm ...hmm ..aah yes ! collect those papers from Mr. Grey's office and arrange them in  the custody file of Simon Brew   ", packing the essentials in her bag , Syahi was busy commanding her assistant lawyer  in a case . Along being beautiful she was intelligent too , a hardworker and an example of determination and conscience , She was a criminal lawyer now  , took her immense hardships and resilience to achieve it at an absolute young age . 

"You both must have been proud of me today....... only if ......" , everyday when she looked at herself in the mirror , all that she could see was them , her parents standing by her side .All these years , she has tried so hard to keep her alive so that she could keep the last sign of her parents in this world , last of their legacy  . Her eyes fluttered and she tried hard to not close them cause if she did she knew she would end up crying for an hour and it was not the time to get late, lawyers ain't supposed to be late in court for hearing after all .

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