Shyam innocently sipped on his wine smirking behind it seeing Khushi smiling at something Rudra said to her and the table belonging to the Raizada family was filled with different emotions from shock, anger, jealousy and confusion.

Akash, Payal and Nk saw staring at Khushi and the billionaire business man in shock and confusion because it looks like they had known each other for so long and Akash questioned Payal but she swore she didn't know Khushi had a boyfriend let alone a billionaire for one and Akash believed her.

Akash and Payal phone binged and they both stared at the screen to find a message from Nk from the WhatsApp group they three of them had created.

"𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕤 𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖....... 𝕊𝕙𝕪𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕥 𝕂𝕙𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕚 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℝ𝕦𝕕𝕣𝕒 𝕒𝕤 𝕚𝕗 𝕙𝕖 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝕚𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝕓𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕣𝕪....... 𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕗 𝕨𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕓𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕟 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕂𝕙𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕚?....... 𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕗 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕥 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕞𝕤? "

Payal and Akash knew Nk was right and they were asking the wrong questions and only Khushi could answer them but they were scared to approach her because they didn't want to scare her away from them incase she is in danger.

"Hello hi bye bye....... Pati Saree is the girlfriend of such a big shot? " Mami exclaimed breaking everyone's emotion.

"Everything is ruin Nani...... How will I tell the media she is my wife now...... My marriage to Khushi would have been the perfect opportunity to clean our image and now here that bastard is claiming my wife as his fiancee. " Arnav unintentionally confessed in anger and Akash, Nk, Anjali and Payal realised it all a plan.

"You bastard. " Akash whispered angrily not for the people surrounding them to hear. "I can't believe I use to admire you and it makes me sick to remember how I thought you were my hero...... Am happy Khushi found a real man who makes her smile than a puppet like you waiting on his di's instructions...... You better stay away from Khushi and let her live her life. "

"I totally agree with Akash. " Nk supported and Payal nodded in agreement with them.

Anjali was fuming hearing this and so was Arnav and Mami and Nani for the first time knew they were right so they kept quiet and seeing this Arnav looked like he was about to explode.

"Ladies and gentlemen thank you all for coming here today to celebrate my daughter in laws birthday with us....... Mohit and Mouni please join me on stage to cut the cake and begin the celebrations and I would also like RSR and Miss Gupta to join us on stage. " Ashish Malhotra the father of Mohit exclaimed proudly as Khushi and Rudra walked up on stage to join the family and the media was having a field day snapping pictures of Rudra and Khushi which made Arnav more anger and bellowed.

"Enough."

The hall went silent and Arnav stood up and matched to the stage and was about to grab Khushi when Rudra angrily stood in front of Khushi blocking his view and shielding Khushi from him.

"Mr Rathore move I need to speak to my wife aka your fiancee. "

Everyone started murmuring with others in shock at the words of Arnav.

"Mr Raizada I have tolerated you obsession with my fiancee but enough is enough...... I held back because her sister is married to your cousin but that doesn't give you the right to humiliate her like this....... Apologize and leave the stage now or else I won't hesitate to destroy you. " Rudra bellowed making Arnav flinch back scared.

"Mr Raizada,what nonsense is this....... I know you think just because women drool over you then that means everyone is crazy about you...... Please leave from here and stop ruining the party for us? " Ashish scolded and Arnav looked like a deer caught in headlights as everyone through disgusted look at him.

"Ladies and gentlemen. " They all turned hearing Anjali's voice.

She was holding a microphone standing smugly at the other side of the stage as all eyes were on her.

"I will like to introduce all of you to Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada the wife of my brother and a shameless whore who left my brother for a man richer than her husband and I know a lot of you think my brother is crazy but he is telling the truth.... This whore her is his wife and I will prove it. "

Anjali walked off the stage and towards Aman and Mr Roy who looked nervous but composed themselves and Khushi started crying in Rudra's arms and he rubbed her back and whispered to her.

"Don't worry happiness..... She is about to face the biggest humiliation of her life together with her family...... Today you will be a free woman. "

Khushi was surprised by his words but seeing the honesty in his eyes made her tears vanish and she smiled at him which he reciprocated and Arnav seeing this was seething with rage.

"Mr Roy..... Aman..... You were all witnesses to the elopement and she even signed the marriage certificate.... Come one tell them. " Anjali uttered confidently but what Mr Roy and Aman said shocked her.

"I was no such witness to a marriage between ASR and this lady here. " Mr Roy uttered looking honest after all he is a lawyer and knows how to make a lie seems true.

After Alex threatened to expose his corruption and bribery to win cases, he immediately switch sides because now Arnav  was no longer powerful as he was because of the recent scandal.

"Me too..... I never witnessed anything between them...... Why are you doing this Mrs Jha...... It's ASR who has always been obsessed with Khushi and she has always rejected him...... This pissed him off and she had made Miss Gupta's life a living hell when she worked at AR and a lot of the employees can confirm my story........ Come one Mrs Jha if Khushi is your brother's wife then why is she not being introduced to the media and public." Everyone started nodding and throwing disgusted look at the Raizadas especially Arnav. Get your brother psychological help instead of indulging his unhealthy obsession with Khushiji. "

The innocence and logic in Aman's words made everyone turn on Arnav and Anjali and they looked shocked.

Anjali shook her head claiming Aman and Mr Roy were lying.

She saw some of Mami and Nani's friends who taunted them because of Arnav eloping and rushed up to them begging them to reveal the truth.

They all denied knowing that Khushi was Arnav's wife and supported Aman's allegations of Arnav being obsessed with Khushi.

"Akash is what your cousin saying true and that your sister in law is married to ASR? " One of the guest asked and the media was having a field day recording and taking pictures turned to Akash.

Akash stared at Khushi and Rudra and they both looked so angelic together and he turned to his brother who's eyes was pleading for him to tell the truth.

"Aman is absolutely right. " Akash uttered looking straight at Khushi with a smile on his face and Khushi was surprised hearing him. "He has always been obsessed with Khushi from the beginning since they met in Lucknow...... If you all remembered a year ago a video of her crashing AR's show was telecasted of her falling in the arms of Arnav....... Well his obsession started from there and when Khushi rejected him, he paid the tv channel to make it look like she was trying to trap him. "

"Akash is absolutely right...... My sister was molested because of that video and that's why we had to leave Lucknow to come to Delhi. " Payal went ahead and revealed all that Arnav put Khushi through while she was working at AR and how Anjali and Mami blackmailed Khushi to train Lavanya to be the perfect Raizada bahu.

All the revelations cemented the idea that Arnav was mentally ill.

"You did this..... You paid them to deny that Khushi is my sister in law. " Anjali accused Rudra glaring at him.

"Anjali is right...... MR Rathore whatever she had made you believe about Arnav is wrong and you paying them to lie is not the right thing. " Mouni defended Anjali and Arnav.

Ashish glared at his daughter in law in anger and was about to lash out at her when a voice stopped him.

"I love you much Mohit. " Anjali's voice echoed in the room and everyone turned to the screen in front of the stage and it was video of Anjali making out in the study of Mohit wearing the same outfit both were having on now. "I love you too baby and I can't wait for our plan of framing Mouni for cheating to come true so that I can be with you and our princess and you also better come up with a good idea to get rid of your husband. " Mohit kissed Anjali again. "Don't worry I already have...... He is impotent and I will make everyone believe I was you and Mouni's surrogate to have a child because she is also barren and I as a good friend decided to donate egg to her for the two of you to have a child but unfortunately she cheated on you and so did my husband and in our grieve we started having feelings for each other. " Anjali started laughing hysterically and Mohit smashed his lips on hers as he began to undress her and the video ended.

Mohit and Anjali looked pale as ghosts and Mouni stared at her husband and her best friend in shock and tears cascaded down her cheeks at their betrayal.

The Malhotras knew the video wasn't fake because immediately Anjali arrived Mohit had dragged her away claiming she was helping him with Mouni's surprise birthday gift and none of them thought otherwise.

"Chi such a disgusting family you all except Akash are so shameless. " One of the guest said and before anyone could do anything they heard Anjali scream and turned to find Mouni on top of her slapping and hitting her.

Ashish dragged a hysterically crying Mouni off Anjali and hugged her as she cried.

Mohit tried to get closer to them but one glare from his father and he knew better not to attempt.

"I loved you like my own son even though you were the child from your late mother's first marriage to your abusive father....... I still accepted you as one of us and even burn bridges with most of my family members just to protect you...... You have three sister and how will you feel if someone did the same to them. " Mohit cried and bowed his head in shame especially seeing the disgusted look his little sisters were throwing at him. "Am happy your mother is not alive to witness this disgrace because she would have killed herself because of you....... From this day onwards you are dead to me and if anyone in this family keeps contact with you, they can also consider themselves dead to me...... Not take your whore and leave from here. "

Nani and Mami dragged a petrified Anjali away from the booing and disgusted look being thrown at them.

Arnav fisted his hand watching Khushi which didn't even have a look of remorse on her face but instead glared at him.

"You will pay dearly for this humiliation...... You wait and watch. " Arnav vowed and stormed out of there avoiding all the media and cameras in his face.

Ashish apologised to his guest and lead all of them out.

Khushi and Rudra with Shyam following them and they both stopped by Rudra's car.

"Khushi you are now free but you have to stay with Rudra because Arnav is now a wounded lion and is capable of hurting you really badly." Khushi nodded and asked what had happened.

Rudra revealed Nani's plan to use Mouni's party to pressure her to marry Arnav to save their reputation.

Shyam also revealed how he had threatened Aman and Mr Roy and now there was no evidence of their marriage and the CCTV footage at the temple has also been wiped out and destroyed.

"From now on you will be staying with me and will have twenty four hours protection whether you like it or not. " Rudra uttered sternly and Khushi nodded knowing it was for her own good.

"But what about the media..... They think you are my boyfriend and you are not.... What if they believe that I am indeed a gold digger and after your money? "

Rudra was angry at how she was defaming herself and Khushi saw it as Shyam smiled at them.

"Stop speaking disgustingly of yourself....... You need to cultivate a tough skin if you want to go ahead in life and I will help you do that and as for the media they won't dare say anything bad about you because they know you are now mine and won't dare mess with you. " Rudra said possessively which shocked Khushi and she blushed liking it.

Rudra smiled seeing her blush and Shyam cleared his throat to make them know he was there.

"Well I have to take my leave now because I have to put on a good show tonight. " Shyam winked at them and walked away and they left.

"Show time Shyam Manohar Jha. " Shyam smirked as he drove out.

To be continued.

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