Dillagi (Infatuation)

Chapter 13B

Raat din jisse maanga tha duao'n mai

Dekho aa gor se kahin mai wahi toh nahi

Stumbling in her steps she got up whimpering, taking her cell.She clumsily dialed her friends all the while feeling her heartbeat slowing, clenching painfully.

"La!!" She sobbed as soon as Lara picked up.

"La, the plane... he...can't...I.."Khushi sobs grew louder as her mind went completely blank and she didn't know what to do now.She wanted to run but her feet seemed to have been frozen, she wanted to burn the whole world if he won't be in it.She wanted to stop her own breaths if he won't be breathing anymore.But her senses were blocked.All she could do was cry louder and louder as Lara shouted for her to calm down and tell her what happened.

When Khushi couldn't do anything except crying and saying incoherent words, Lara herself cut the call asking her to stay put till she reach her home but Khushi didn't even hear any of it.All of a sudden, she started running to the door and pulling it open ran to the elevator and pressed its button several times in hurry.

"No. Nothing.can...happen...t-to ...him.." She wailed out while putting pressure on the button.

The door of the escalator opened and she raised her wet lashes and a hoarse cry left her seeing the person inside it.Her heart skipped a beat or two before her knees gave away and she fell to the ground in the middle of the door with her face in her hands and sobbed loudly.

"You are his weakness. You just have to learn how to utilize it for your advantage.Fearing him would not let you take down a man like my son, Arnav Singh Raizada.If you want to defeat him, all you have to do is use his love for you as your weapon.A weapon with which you can conquer your fear as well."

This was what his father would've said to Khushi if only he had had been alive at that time and he was sure he would've convinced Khushi to give him a chance.Ever since he figured it out, he had been living in an abyss.In a hell hole which was sucking him in with every passing second. That deadly ache in him came out as a venom for Khushi and he took the decision which he never thought he would.He declared his marriage with Lavanya in just a month just to show Khushi that he was moving on with the hope that maybe it would make her feel something for him.Jealousy perhaps.Maybe she would regret losing him.But no, she congratulated him instead and scarred him some more with her words.

"I can't understand why are you angry with me? What did I do? I am trying to maintain a decent relationship with you even after all that you did and.."

Decent? Like friends? Like hell he would agree to that!

"What is your problem? Why are you rude all the time? Particularly with me?" She gritted.

If only she knew but she never tried to understand him and it pricked him so much that he blurted out whatever came in his mind to hurt her come what may.But by now she knew how to get back at him.

"Leaving you was the best decision I ever made. Nobody can live with a mean and arrogant man like you. I pity Lavanya."

He felt like shaking her, kissing her hard to punish her for rejoicing over her freedom but he kept his emotions in check by tightening his jaws and pursed his lips before saying calmly.