The day seemed to be long for everyone. Aarav's statements crushed mohan and meena mercilessly and ragini- rather than getting shocked she became numb not knowing how to react the situation. Aarav , who was born to be a nemisis, didn't even know how he was punishing his own people but the fate had written in such a way which was pronounced by King Sahil.

Amarnath was leaning against his chair and replaying the conversation in his mind again and again.

"Why would you want to be away from your parents, aarav? They would be very much worried and sad for staying away from you. And, I can't see my mohan in pain."Amarnath pleased.

"They won't be sad for long, Mr.Rathore. Leave it aside for now, Mr.Rathore. And, I have much more important things to discuss about. First of all, when Atharv, I mean chachu's son , is already trained and step in the chief position, why does your rival aim me? Is it because chachu is your adopted son?"Aarav's question shocked both mohan and amarnath meanwhile meena couldn't accept the way her son sidelined their feelings. His pleasing eyes to not send him with amarnath flashed in her eyes.

"Or is it because of your desire to get your blood in that head position?"Aarav continued.

"Mr.Rathore? Mr.Rathore?"Aarav spelled twice.

"I am ... here."Amarnath said then continued,"I had that desire but not anymore.."

"The point is that you had the desire and resultant was added to my family's problems ,Mr.Rathore.(sighed heavily) And, I heard that you took my family with you as the truth about your relationship with my father got exposed. Is that true?"Aarav asked.

"Yes, It's true."Amarnath said.

"How could you use my father's helpless state again, Mr.Rathore?"Aarav's accusation and the anger which he withheld in the question , wasn't able to understand by anyone there.

"To whom I am asking, you always played with my father's emotion and made him helpless for your own benefits."Aarav voice held hatred and disgust which provoked mohan.

Before he could step in, Meena held his hands and signed to not interrupt the conversation. Mohan looked at her questioningly.

"I did that only one time that too I wanted to keep you safe."Amarnath refused the claim.

"Then, you should have taken my whole family at that time. But you didn't. If I am likely to fall in danger, then the same applies to my family also. I wonder how my family was differed than me, Mr.Rathore."Aarav said in a sarcastic voice.

"I didn't take mohan at that time because my mohan didn't like the way I live. Rather compelling him , I thought to look after him from far and taking you with me could reduce the risks."Amarnath said while trying to keep his patience. All he wanted love from his own grandson and tried to understand him so that he could make aarav understand about his action but he didn't know that aarav prejudiced about him and that wouldn't change easily.

"So, you did that out of love. But whatever I heard about your world didn't tell me the same, Mr.Rathore. Enemies always try to make you feel weak. Even If they couldn't succeed, they will try to leave atleast the minimum damage. Well! I will directly jump into my wishes."Aarav paused for a second then continued.

"Erase my existence in the world; in my family."Aarav said.

"What are you speaking?"Amarnath asked.

"Lie to my family that I am dead. Train me in everyway possible so that I can take your position. Till that happens, held your grip on that position tightly for me, Mr.Rathore."Aarav expressed his wishes.

"That position is a curse, aarav. You will never able to live in peace. Listen me, please come back."Amarnath pleased.

"As long as my family is living in peace, I don't care about anything, Mr.Rathore."Aarav refused.

"How could you think that mohan or your mother will leave peacefully after hearing the news of your fake death?And..."Amarnath sentence held in the middle as aarav interrupted,"In First they will fell broken and grieve for my death. They may lose their smile even but still my brother and sister left. For them, they will bury all of their grieves deep inside their heart and with time passes, it eventually gets faded and finally the happy memories would be left on my name. "

The statement rekindled a lot of memories inside amarnath as these were his words once upon a time. The words which he used to persuade aditya , was kept infront of him before and a fear kept sow in his heart after a long time. A lot of question put before amarnath and the most critical one was, how much the boy know about him and those words were intentional or casually spoken.

"And, for you, your desire is going to be fulfilled soon, Mr.Rathore. Finally you will get what you want; your blood line would rule the world which you created and saved all this time. Are you agreeing to my wishes, Mr.Rathore?"Aarav asked.

"I agree."Amarnath said in a lifeless voice and then cut the call.

"Papa, our aaru isn't like that. He can never be like that."Mohan spoke rather to himself.

Amarnath looked at mohan and meena.

"I am scared to hear more words from him which may eventually lead me to agree with his words. Moreover, I can't hold him back from his decision. But, you can do meena. I will get him here by anyhow. Please hold him back."Amarnath pleased his daughter-in-law.

"It's all my mistake. I should have concentrated on him . I should have asked him the reason when I saw him troubled. I ..."Mohan paused and held his head.

Meena stood in silent as she didn't come out of shock.

"maa..."Ragini's choking voice distracted everyone.

"Our aaru might have witnessed how lakshya threatened me for marriage. And, The knife with which I stabbed lakshya, was presented by aarav."Ragini's body started to shake uncontrollably.

Without a second late, meena embraced her daughter and caressed her head. All the people who were present in the room , were lost in their thought about the boy.

"I never thought my desire would bring such a disaster in my family."Amarnath regretted for his decision but it was much late. The desire already gained hatred from his own grandsons. Siddhiveena and vrushali appeared in the room.

"what sin I did to earn hatred of my own grandsons?"A thought rooted deep inside amarnath's mind.

"What sin didn't you commit in your life time?"His conscience retorted him.

"Maa, that old man looks very pitiful. Did he really commit anything wrong to earn hatred from his own family?"Vrushali asked Siddhi veena.

"He did. He kept away his own son even gave pain to him at a point."Siddhiveena replied.

"But, his son left on his own will."Vrushali stated.

"Human body may get destroyed not their soul, vrushali. Whatever they did, good or bad, they will get reward or punishment. In his previous life, he lived as a loyal minister to his nation. He was also a good friend. He never betrayed anyone outside but he presented pain to his own son. He refused to see his son's feelings. Thus, in this life, his own family will always stay away from him or even it stays with him, he has to bear their hatred or fear."Siddhi veena told.

"But... does he have to bear this throughout his life?"Vrushali pitied.

"He has to bear until he gets forgiveness from his son of previous life."Siddhi veena answered.

"How could the son from his previous life forgive him now?Vrushali asked being confused.

"His son from previous life is also reincarnated."Siddhiveena said.

"Maa, tell me who he is. I will tell him to forgive this old man."Vrushali said. Siddhiveena smiled at vrushali's innocence.

"Forgiveness can't be earned by persuading, vrushali. When one forgives another, they let go all the hatred which they had for that person. And, earning forgiveness isn't easy, vrushali. People may act like forgiving sometimes but they never let go their hard feelings ." Siddhiveena explained for which vrushali nodded her head then both disappeared in thin air

***

The moon was shining than its usual. Swara persuaded ragini and her parents to come to temple with her as she saw them very much disturbed and always in thought after she came back from ayub khan's house. She left the house along with ayub khan on his insistence after hearing aarav's refusal to return. She didn't want to leave but ayub khan persuaded her by telling that giving privacy to their family. She wondered why everyone looked like an outsider in all of sudden. Wondering what could have happened in the mean time, she also silently continued her travel towards the temple.

Meanwhile, Sanskar was travelling to a temple along with whole family in a car while atharv was following them from a far in his bike. The raid in all of his places- his office, house, and even in aman's house, was over and they got nothing as he thought. His sudden raise in the business field wasn't easy. Though he worked hard, his surname helped him in a lot of places especially it came about trust. Still, the name of Durgaprasad backed him but he never suspected such a ridiculous guess would come out. He was much disturbed with that claim on first place. And, His Ex PA Aman raised his tension with his claims.

At Evening,

"Sir, I hardly hide these documents from the officers' view."Aman said and put a bunch of files in front of sanskar.

"Which documents these are?"Sanskar asked while taking a file in his hand and started to going through it.

"The supporting documents which might have helped the officers to prove their claim."Aman answered. The documents which seemed so much authentic , was enough to arrest sanskar and initialize the process.

"And also investors and directors were kept ready to have a board meeting to demote you from the position of CEO."Aman added his information.

Sanskar tried to keep his composure and asked," who took these documents inside? And how did you know about this?"

"I know about these documents because I took the documents inside the organization."Aman said calmly then stood on his knees as Sanskar stood from his seat in shock.

"I was threatened constantly to do this. And, I was scared. I did it out of fear but later I realized that I can't live with guilt. I am sorry, sir."Aman apologized.

"I wish you should have told me about this before."Sanskar said.

"Even if I said, that's not going to make any changes sir. No one are much powerful than Rathores in this city even you. I don't know why they aimed on you. But, Please be careful, sir. And, Its my resignation letter."Aman said the stood up.

"You don't need to resign aman. You can go on long leave."Sanskar tried to not lose a loyal employee.

"I am resigning because you caught me and asked me to resign. Only this lie can save me sir."Aman said indirectly pointing out sanskar's state.

Sanskar relased a heavy breathe.

"Thanks aman for all the work you done for this organization and me. If you need any help, please contact me."Sanskar sounded mixture of robotic and genuine without knowing what kind of game his invisible opposition was playing.

Aman stepped forward but turned suddenly.

"Sir, please don't trust anyone easily here at any point. Anyone... even I ... could backstab you at anytime."Aman warned and without waiting for reply, he left.

"Why rathore want my down fall suddenly?"A thought pestered sanskar's mind and it ended with ayub khan's refusal for his and swara's marriage. But, his mind wasn't ready to just proceed with his doubt. He wanted to get it clarified. Before he could meet ayub khan, his family demanded his presence with them though durgaprasad tried to convince with his words. Sujata refused to acknowledge his words , demanded her son's presence with her then persuaded him to accompany her to temple.

Sanskar parked his car and all of his family members came out of the car. They walked towards the steps of the temple meanwhile Ragini and her family descended down from the stairs and swara followed them behind their back while thinking about them. Siddhiveena and vrushali appeared there in the sky.

As the distance between both of the families reduces, the locket in Parvati's neck glittered as moon.

"Janaki!"Parvati whispered while her eyes glanced at her surrounding and fixed at ragini.

"Ragini!"Parvati murmured and the necklace increased its glittering as the distance was getting reduced.

At that time, Ragini was very near to them and eventually noticed maheshwari's presence. Both the families stood their place for a second by seeing the other while ragini stepped back by seeing durgaprasad maheshwari. The fear was evident in her eyes openly but soon turned into hatred which surprised Sanskar then he looked at swara. Both the families stood in the place for a minute while swara and sanskar were lost themselves in their world. Seeing each other after days , they tried to fill up their mind with each other's image. Sensing worries in sanskar eyes, swara stepped forward.

"I will wait for you but don't make me wait long."A voice whispered in their backgrounds.

"maa, we are getting late."Ragini said and broken the silence. Swara held her Ragini's hand and started to walk away meanwhile meena and mohan followed them. Parvati looked at the way ragini left and observed that the locket's glittering was getting reduced.

"Janaki!"Parvati's eyes widened at her realization.

"Janu!"Parvati whispered which eventually stopped swara at her track with unknown feelings in her heart. Warm feelings embraced her heart and she turned. Sensing Swara's motion, Ragini also turned and then looked at swara.

"Your daughter has to bear in heart wrenching pain which could be enough to drain out her life"Siddhiveena's voice ringed in her ears.

"Finally, I found you before no moon day."Parvati's thought gave her a bit of relaxation bit it didn't long. Ragini's white dress and the tears she shed on her marriage day haunted Parvati. Parvati walked towards ragini while breaking ragini's bangles in current life flashed in her eyes.

"What did I do to my janaki? How could I do?"Parvati asked herself in her heart and her heart started to burn in pain as she remembered how she took Queen Ragini devi's life as prey for the revenge of her daughter janiki's miserable ending , which eventually led ragini to annihilate herself in the previous birth. The invisible glittering locket slowly turned into rope and choked her for breathe while the guilt and regret burnt her heart .

"I curse that Rudra will also be incarnated and feel how I felt. His daughter also will be threatened and get forcefelly married without his knowledge. Even the way of death which helped my daughter to escape from durgaprasad wouldn't help her. And, when the truth get revealed, how I stood worried about my daughter, He will also stand the same and at last he will eventually experience the feeling of losing his child."Her curse ringed in her ears clearly which made her slip on her way.

"Dadi!"Ragini rushed meanwhile maheshwari's also rushed towards parvati.

"Shona! Take water from our car."Ragini commanded and took parvati's head in her lap.

"Dadi maa!Dadi maa"Ragini patted on parvati's cheeks meanwhile maheshwari's called parvati with their relationship names. None of the voices except ragini reached parvati eyes.

Parvati's eyes fixed at ragini meanwhile swara arrived with water bottle. Swara sprinkled water on parvati's face then fed her water a bit while massaging parvati's chest . Parvati swallowed the water which gave her a bit of consciousness . With huge difficulty, Parvati joined her palms.

"Forgive me..."Her eyes started to close and then her hand fell down without any strength. Swara immediately checked parvati's pulse.

"Sanskar, take dadi maa in your hand and get her in your car, soon."Swara hurried. Sanskar took parvati in his hand and put her in his car. Swara got inside and supported parvati's head on her lap leaving ragini in shock. Maheshwari's got inside the car quickly and left towards the hospital.

"Papa, follow them, please."Ragini asked as she felt worried for parvati in her heart.

"Rago?"Mohan sounded questioning about ragini's request.

Siddhi veena looked at the appearing figure before her. Parvati's soul appeared in front of her in the sky and looked at her family.

"Do you find who your daughter is?"Siddhiveena asked.

Parvati soul pointed ragini which made siddhiveena smile.

"She isn't , Parvati. The person who stood next to her, gave the water to free you from all the strings of life ; with whose single touch you felt relieved and got the moment of strength to ask forgiveness and on whose lap, you got moment of peace."Siddhiveena reminded and pointed swara.

"Swara!"Parvati's soul remembered the free sprited princess of tanishkant and mahishmati whom she loathed and plotted to kill during her pregnancy time in her previous birth.

"Swara is your daughter, Parvati. Do you know why couldn't you identify her? Think parvati"Siddhiveena paused and glanced at Parvati's soul.

"Could you remember what curse you put on Swara?"Siddhiveena asked. Parvati's soul stood silently and stared swara. While she raised her hand in the direction of swara with teary eyes , siddhiveena snapped her fingers. Being immobilized suddenly, parvati stood thoughtless for a second and then pleased siddhiveena through her eyes.

"When you had a chance to stop everything, you stood silently. Like that, now also stand silently and see whatever happens."Siddhiveena muttered without mercy and disappeared in thin air.

At the hospital ,

Sanskar and his family along with swara ran behind the stretcher in which parvati laid on. Doctors took parvati for treatment inside while the remaining ones stood out with tensed face.

"Dadi will get back to normal soon."Swara assured through her words. A kind of warmth was felt by sanskar. Though he wasn't close to his granny, he couldn't help himself from worrying about her state. With the thanking eyes, Sanskar held Swara's palm in his hands.

"Swara!"A Mild voice echoed inside and swara instantly turned as she recognized the voice. Annapurna and Durgaprasad recognized swara's presence but ragini's presence took over their attention.

"Rago!"Swara marched towards her with an intent to take her away from maheshwari's eyesight.

"why are you after my family? what kind of wrong we did?"Annapurna's words echoed before swara reach ragini.

"Annu!Maa!"Sujata and vividha tried to interfere but Annapurna didn't give any heed.

"Annapurna ji!"Meena stepped inside the conversation but Ragini gestured negatively.

"Rago, let's go from here."Swara muttered and tried to drag her friend along with her.

" I just worried about the old lady whom asked forgiveness from me and collapsed on my lap. And I am not after anyone's family"Ragini stressed her words while staring at durgaprasad with rage.

"You seem to be forgot something."Durgaprasad threatened with hidden meaning in a calm voice which eventually confused mohan as he found that as a threat.

"We didn't forget anything, durgaprasad ji."Swara stood before ragini like a shield and held her hands. Not able to grasp the tension inbetween them, Maheshwari family ladies stood confused for a moment.

"Swara!"Sujata spelled in questioning tone by seeing traces of anger on swara's face.

"She didn't even change a bit or their triangle ."Siddhiveena sighed a bit by looking at swara then her eyes looked at ragini and durgaprasad.

At Rathore's villa,

Amarnath stared at his wife's portrait with the void eyes. His cellphone ringtone distracted and got his attention successfully.

"Raghu?"Amarnath thought by seeing the caller's name and attended the call.

"Papa!"Raghuvendhar's voice shook after a long time .

"Is everything fine?"Amarnath hoped for positive reply sidelining his unknown worrries.

"Aarav left us... Papa..."Raghuvendhar's voice was brokedown by seeing the hide out along with a part of forest in the tongue of fire from a far.

"Addu!"Raghuvendhar shouted as aditya stepped forward then held his hands in an instant.

"My aaru would be expecting me... my aaru..."Aditya's voice faded slowly as he passed out not able to digest the sudden loss of his own brother.

A Long tear escaped from amarnath's eyes as his memories were still fresh about the younger grandson.

Inside the forest near to rathore's hideout, Aarav and lakshya were laying on the ground unconsciously while the fire sparks were hovering around them away not able to touch them. Vrushali held in the middle and created the invisible beam around the trio and smiled at aarav. As aarav's face made her forget about the surrounding for a while, she stepped forward towards aarav. Slowly , Vrushali's appearance started to changed into Princess Kavya.

"Vrushali!"Siddhiveena's voice stopped vrushali in her path even the change in appearance.

"Maa!"Vrushali turned anxiously and then stared at aarav.

"He is alive, vrushali. And, with this energy beam, you can't save him for long time."Siddhiveena muttered softly then looked at laksh.

Lakshya opened his eyes slowly and saw the flames around him then his eyes fixed at the boy beside him.

"Aaru!"Lakshya whispered slowly and coughed a bit because of smoke . After a bit of struggle, lakshya stood and took the boy in his shoulder. Feeling uneasy because of his mask, Lakshya took off his silicon mask and threw it away aimlessly and then transferred the boy to his hand from his shoulder.

"I should save him! I should..."Lakshya told himself and started to run aimlessly with aarav in his hands. Siddhiveena's lips curved and shown a pitiful smile to everyone who could see her.

"Lakshya!"Parvati spelled by seeing her grandson from the air and stared him with painful eyes by seeing his struggle.

The clouds started to give away their precious pearls which it stored to the burning forest land. Not only sufficing hunger of fire, the rain cleansed lakshya's face also. Thunder struck at the far and it's sound awakened the unconscious boy but not fully. Sensing the movements in aarav's body, Lakshya felt relieved for a second and said to the boy,"We will reach the safe place soon, aaru."

"Ajju bhai"Aarav whispered slowly.

The lightning followed after the thunder, gave a small light for milliseconds and aarav saw lakshya's face for a moment. Wondering that as illusion, the boy laid on lakshya's hands thoughtlessly and even dozed off soon.

"I am relieved now."Rajat's soul murmured which eventually grabbed siddhiveena's attention. While she turning, Rajat's soul vanished in the air eventually started it's journey of afterlife. Siddhiveena looked at the dark sky once and then smiled.

A/N

Sorry friends for not updating for a long time and not replying. I am out of wattpad for a long time because of my  health problems. Sorry once again!