The youngsters looked at each other seeing the ever calm Manohar hyperventilating in anger which they have never witnessed before.

Mami was glaring at the woman who looked down with a look of remorse on her face.

And Garima was looking pale as a ghost seeing Aditi and she turned around not wanting to be seen.

Arnav immediately understood this wasn't a child's conversation and whispered something into Anaisha's eyes and she nodded and smiled at him.

He then motioned HP and he moved upstairs with Anaisha and his brothers.

"You have some nerve coming here after everything you have done. " Mami exclaimed in anger.

"I am dying Manu. " Aditi revealed.

"Then greet the devil for me when you get to hell. " Manohar replied and the youngsters were astonished hearing him speak like that but they knew for sure this woman deserves it.

"Papa who is she? " Akash asked and Aditi looked at him.

"She was the woman I and Ratna wanted your father to marry. " Nani replied and all attention turned to her. "But he rejected her for Manu and I and Ratna did everything to try to break your parent up so that she will marry your father but it always failed. "

"What did you and Maa do? " Arnav asked because for years he never comprehended the dislike his uncle had for his mother and but now he was speculating it might have been something horrendous for his uncle and aunt to react like that.

"Chiku forget it. " Mami said as he moved closer to him and held his hand.

"No Mami..... Not today, I have always found it weird that uncle threw glares at maa each time we gathered for a family function and now I know this woman, my mother and Nani had done something really bad to warrant this kind of reaction from my calm uncle..... Enough of covering up for this family Mami....... Please tell me the truth. " Arnav yelled and Mami looked at Manohar who nodded but she shook her head as they both had promised to bury that secret so that he and Anjali won't get hurt.

"They have the right to know the true face of my sister and mother..... Enough is enough Manu. "

Mami glared at Manohar and shook her head but Manohar dismissed her and she shut her eyes realizing he was about to reveal it.

"Your mother, maa and she tried to have Manu gang-raped. "

Everyone was stunned by the revelation and Nani looked down ashamed as the past flashed before her eyes.

"Luckily for us, the goons they hired to do such a heinous act to Manu knew her because she had paid for the medical bills for the mother of one of the goons and they had revealed this to us....... We confronted them but they denied it until the goons arrived and exposed them...... It was the reason we left for Delhi........ Years passed by and we thought they regret what happened but when Manu was pregnant with Akash, Maa called us back and we thought she will apologise for what happened in the past but I come home to her and Ratna asking to leave Manu and take Akash away from her after he is born and marry Aditi because now that I was getting rich, she is not of my status...... I was angry and left back to Delhi cutting touch with her until they finally called  later that Aditi has finally gone to London for good and they were ready to  accept Manu and Akash."

Arnav couldn't believe his kind-hearted mother was a hypocritical woman but then he stopped when he remembered what her mini her in the form of Anjali had done and still play virtuous.

Arnav turned to Nani who was crying seeing the disgusted look everyone was throwing at her.

"I know you and Manu hate me but I have a confession to make another secret to reveal to you. " Aditi said looking at Manohar and Mami who scowled at her.
"I didn't leave because I wanted to...... Ratna made me leave after she discovered I had fibroid and my womb had to be removed. " Aditi chuckled sadly as her eyes shimmered with unshed tears. "Our plan of making me pregnant immediately you left Manu failed and she deemed me useless....... She asked me to move on with my life as if she and your mother didn't persuade me not to marry and I turned down countless alliances all because of them and my blind obsession to have you.....
They didn't accept Akash and Manu because they wanted to but it was because I couldn't have kids and just like that I became disposable........ So out of anger, I committed the most despicable crime." Aditi cried remembering what she did.

"What did you do? " Khushi asked Aditi sniffed and her bodyguard gave her a handkerchief and she blew her nose.

"I was so angry and blamed the child Manu was carrying and I started stalking her and Manohar for a perfect opportunity to strike against them and it come when Manu went into labour and was taken to the hospital while Manohar was in Dubai for business and Manu passed out of exhaustion in the labour room." Aditi looked remorsefully at Mami who held on to her husband as a surge of fear hit her. "I took that opportunity and swap your real son with Akash. "

Everyone was shocked to hear a crying Aditi confess and Mami and Manohar stumbled backwards but Arnav, Khushi and Maithili were fast enough to hold onto them.

"I gave your son up for adoption and made you raise an orphan as yours....... Akash's real mother had him out of wedlock and died the same day as your real son was born...... I did it out of anger and it didn't end there....... I spent the next fifteen years after that stalking all of you and knew about Arvind Malik's affair....... I wanted your sister to pay for leading me on and her obsession with Arvind was the perfect way to destroy her and what better way than to expose his infidelity that too on the wedding day of their daughter...... I was the one who paid one of his mistresses who was angry at him for abandoning her to expose Arvind and the rest you all know. "

Aditi's confession shook the foundation of the Raizada Mansion as the truth was finally revealed.

Mami was crying hearing that her real son was somewhere else and seeing the paleness of Akash, it broke her heart because she knew how prideful Akash was of his name and now it didn't belong to him but an unknown man his age.

Mami looked back at Aditi angrily and bounced on her about to attack her but Arnav held her back as Manohar stood frozen in shock and unable to move.

"You witch....... How could do this to us?...... Didn't your think about the innocent children's lives you had destroyed?...... What was their fault in all this?..... My son, my boy is somewhere far away not knowing his identity and my Akash will never recover from this all because of your greed. " Mami cried out and turned and hugged Arnav.

"Your son is not far away from you. " Aditi revealed and Mami turned back to look at her. "He has always been close to you for the past ten years....... He is a man everyone will be so proud of because he grew up in the horrible orphanage system but made it out and went to the best school in the world and is now a respected man just like his boss and best friend. " Aditi looked at Arnav and it hit all of them and Mami gasped in shock as the realization hit her. "Yes...... Aman Mathur is your son. "

Immediately she was done, a smiling Aman entered the house with flowers in his hand.

He was perplexed seeing the family like this and uneasy seeing all eyes on him.

"Hi." He waved nervously at them.

Mami and Manohar moved closer to a confused Aman.

Mami cupped his face crying which confused him even move and he looked over to Arnav to find his eyes shimmering with unshed tears.

A crying Mami hugged him breaking his reverie and even though Aman was confused, he reciprocated and consoled Mami as Manohar looked on happily.

"It's okay Mami..... Let it all out..... I am here for you and I won't spare the ones responsible for your tears. " Aman exclaimed in anger as he stroked her hair looking at Akash which didn't go unnoticed but Akash was too shocked to react to his accusing glare but not Payal who knew Aman was capable of exposing Akash and now more than ever, his position in the family will be elevated as he is the real Raizada, not Akash.

Aman broke the hug and wiped Mami's tears and kissed her forehead.

"Mami you know I can't see you getting hurt, you are like a mother to me and I can't see tears in your eyes..... So now tell me who is responsible for your eyes and that of uncle and I will castigate them severely. " Aman looked dead serious and Mami pointed at Aditi.

"She switched my son with Akash and left him as an orphan." Mami cried out and Aman was shocked and turned to Aditi with a deadly glare.

Aditi shuddered in her wheelchair seeing his anger and he turned back to Mami and cupped her face in his hand.

"Don't worry mami...... I will find him and bring him home to you...... Trust me on this. "

Mami shook her head which baffled Aman.

"No need for that my son...... He had always been in front of me for the past ten years. " Mami said looking into his eyes and Aman who still hasn't caught on looked around.

"You are our son. " Manohar revealed and Aman's head snapped back to Manohar who was standing behind Mami and back to Mami.

"Yes you are our son and I don't need a DNA test to prove it...... Now I understand why I love you so much..... It's because you were our blood. " Mami cried out and cupped his face.

Aman took a step back with tears in his eyes looking shocked by the disclosure.

Mami looked confused and she moved closer together with Manohar but Aman run out of there shocking all of them.

Arnav followed him leaving a shattered Mami behind.

Manohar held on to his wife and she turned to face him.

"He doesn't want me...... He doesn't want me. " Mami kept on chanting and lost consciousness in the arms of Manohar who panicked and shook her crying.

Khushi immediately called for an ambulance and she and Maithili joined in their car following them.

Maithili was driving while Khushi was trying to call Arnav but he wasn't picking up.

Nani who was prevented by Manohar from going with them turned to Aditi in anger and tried to attack her but her bodyguard shoved her to the floor and no one helped her.

"How could you do this to my Ratna? " Nani cried out and Aditi looked at her in disgust.

"Wow..... Even after everything you only think of Ratna but why am I even surprised..... It has always been and will always be about Ratna and everything to do with Ratna....... Just like you who lost your precious Ratna as the punishment for her shameless act in which she involved me and I like a fool let her lead me on, I am also dying and have only four months to live...... In the end, we all got our punishment but yours will be worse because of your own biases...... I will be staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel..... If ever Manohar and Manu want me to pay for my sins, I am ready....... Roberto take me out of here. " Aditi ordered her bodyguard who nodded and wheeled her out of the mansion but not before throwing a disgusted glare at Garima and luckily for her, no one noticed

Nani turned to find an emotionless Akash and moved closer to him but Payal lifted her hand and stopped her.

"Don't come anywhere closer. "

She then helped Akash climb the stairs and they both disappeared leaving her and the Gupta women.

Unable to stand it anymore, Nani rushed to her room.

"Hey, Nandkishore..... What is this?...... Akash is not a Raizada?...... Our Payaliya's life is ruined...... As if Khushi wasn't enough now this. " Buaji exclaimed and looked at Garima who was lost in thought.

"I have to leave or else Aditi can expose me...... What if they find out Payal is Arvind's daughter, not Shashi and from what Khushi said the last time, she also knows Payal is not Shashi's daughter...... I  am doomed. " She thought and Buaji shook her out of her trance.

"Where are you lost? " Buaji asked and she walked away without answering. "Poor Garima, she is thinking about Payal and her stand in the family. "

Only if she knew it was the least of her problem.

To be continued.

Precap:

Double trouble.

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