"Our shadows
Are still dancing
Like spectres in
My dreams."

Suddenly receiving a new energy within himself, Vansh declares in a deep husky voice - "This time another wife will have no share of pain for her unfaithful husband's adultery! I may not have cheated on her but my feelings have been the cheaters here. So I'll do anything to help a woman in receiving her pride."

Then turning to Viraj, he asks in his baritone voice - "But, how will we expose that cunning vulture?..We must need a strong proof or have to know his weakness to reach the truth to everyone!"

Viraj smirks thinking his arrogant boss is coming back in form and looks at him winningly with those clever eyes.

........

Today Shivali is returning from her tour to Indonesia so Randhir has gone to receive her in airport. Seeing him all dashing and handsome after a couple of weeks, Shivali couldn't control her inner hormones and takes his thin petals in a passionate liplock at public place only.

But Randhir suddenly feels uncomfortable. Before it has been a mutual feeling but from the time he's come to meet that selfless emotions for his wife, he's getting hesitation. Oh..thinking of her only, he feels a sudden pain in heart..there she's alone handling his family with their little baby in her and here he's mercilessly cheating on her!?

But thinking of his age old revenge in mind, he keeps silence and accepts those poking pain in his heart.

His mind shows the logic in it ; it's good that he's already kept Shivali under his clutches. She's unaware of his dual life..she doesn't know the great buisness tycoon, Mr Randhir Reddy is already married and his darling wife is pregnant with his child. As he's set such a tracker in her phone that he controls those information to reach to her, as per his consent. Even all around her, he's set his men so that no outside source could supply her the truth.

But his heart goes heavy whenever he's to get close to her to make her apart from suspicion arising in her mind. He isn't liking this revenge plan now as he's too eager to openly announce his love for his wife to this whole world. He's dieing inside a thousand death feeling the sin he's doing over his wedded wife and unborn baby!

Meanwhile, Shivali herself has trapped inside a web where she's neither an identity nor any existence. She's dead before this whole world! Might be it's the karma she's tried to use an innocent person's love for his own gain and she herself is receiving the same!

However, they get apart when Shivali feels the disinterest of Randhir in this kiss. Shruging her shoulders, she move on from the airport, following the steps of her boyfriend.

After a hearty lunch around twelve, the couple enters into the drawing room to have some rest. She needs it for the physical exhaustion happened during the flight journey while he's tired in between the fights of mind and heart.

But seeing the daily newspaper on the teapoy, Shivali sets herself comfortable on the bean bag and takes the paper to go through the gossips in haste. But what she doesn't know her this one decision is going to introduce her with the bitter truth of her life!

In between, Randhir is thinking to finish his revenge plan soon so that he could dump Shivali to bring back his wife in a new farmhouse built by him in this city only. He's done many dirty things with another woman here so he'll never bring his darling here to throw disrespect on her.

But it seems destiny has other plan as with all those precautions and his tight security, someone has just done the work he's never imagined in his worst.

As soon as Shivali opens the front page, her eyes catch those black capital letters printed in the middle : CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DARLING HUSBAND OF THIS ERA FOR HIS UPCOMING BABY!

And to her horror, her only love..her boyfriend is framed under the headline with another woman! She looks minutely to find he's smiling..SMILING genuinely with a young woman wearing a red saree..even she's smiling with a hidden blush!

Suddenly she notices the girl is wearing sindoor on her forehead with a mangalsutra around her slender neck..a married woman! That means..he's all the while married to another woman..MARRIED!

She's cheated by her own lover in her own game! Suddenly her relaxed face gets replaced a red one and she throws the paper on a gloomy Randhir who's busy in  reminiscencing those beautiful days with his wife..WIFE..HIS PREGNANT WIFE!

Oh..how much he loves her! He just hopes to get her closer very soon but in middle his smile gets waned thinking what if she gets to know his black deed one day..would she forgive him..if not for him, then for their upcoming baby?

But all those harsh thinking gets turned into reality when a paper is thrown upon his face. And before he could recover this shock, he's dragged from his comfortable sitting position and slapped hard on his left cheek.

With a sudden anger, he looks at front to find Shivali is standing before with the same amount of anger in her eyes. But without reading her complaints in those painful orbs, Randhir chokes her throat in one hand while left hand holds her hair tightly at the back.

But suddenly feeling a pain in lower region, he leaves her to recover the sudden attack.

Meanwhile, Shivali screams like a mad bull - "How dare you, bastard! All this while you're cheating upon me with this whore .. (by showing the picture of his wife published in today's newspaper)."

Not thinking logically how the newspaper has reached to her hands, Randhir stands up angrily forgetting his pain. Slapping her hard on soft cheek, he answers - "You, slut..don't you dare to utter those words for MY WIFE! Otherwise, forget that you're alive as I'll turn the assumption as truth by killing you in real. What you think I'm interested in you that I'm cheating on my wife?....naah! I'm tolerating you for my own profit .. to avenge that Rai Singhania while you're enjoying my money and luxurious life..so never accuse me or my wife."

"Waah! What a nice plan..I mean marrying one girl while spending day and night with another one each and every day..do you think it's a sign of love?"

Randhir gets guilty for his act but regains his self esteem soon with the sarcasm showering from her voice - "You atleast don't teach me the lesson of love! I'm not like you to avenge an innocent person's love .. I've a solid reason to hate him but I'm not a cheater which you're implying. My marriage is an arranged one and like other arranged marriages, I've too fallen in love for my wife..and about cheating on you?

Then you also know you're not any holy woman to keep yourself alone for me! Don't I know what raasleela you've been performing in the beaches of Bali?"

Listening him, Shivali gulps hard when Randhir smirks winningly - "What happened? Now all those big words are lost in pit of ocean or you've nothing to say! For your kind information, I've set my men all around those persons whom I doubt."

Shivali lowers her eyes to know she's trapped well. She's never thought Randhir will come to know her true self this soon but now she must have to entangle herself from this well knit plan but how?

In between their collision, both the evils have been unable to notice the presence of viewers they've got!

But their trance gets broken with a shattered painful voice - "But you've forgot to set trackers for your loved ones, in this race..Mr Randhir Reddy!"

Randhir feels current passing through his body listening the sweetest voice he's ever known. With a shock, he looks at his left to notice those blank emotionless eyes. He's never thought that this day will come so soon. But her next words make him more guilty than he's already!

"Oh I'm sorry..I'm not included into the list of your loved ones."

He quickly corrects her and tries to get close to her - "I love you, darling! You know that..how much important you're to me you have no idea..my world resides in you."

With those words, he tries to cup her round face in his hold but before that he feels a strong slap on his left cheek and closes eyes to gulp this pain ; with teary eyes, he looks up to find those heated eyes of his amma ; that's when he notices his whole family to stand with her ; he smiles sadly and a soft chuckle comes out of his mouth..atleast his own family is there to support her when he himself has been busy in destroying their bright future.

........

With a strong black coffee, Vansh sits on the opposite chair to Viraj in his study room.

With the help of Viraj, he's been able to trap those cunning foxes. But inside he's feeling a burning pain..he's feeling the pain of that innocent girl who has been dreaming of a perfect future few minutes ago with her baby and husband..is all shattered now! He's destroyed such a beautiful scene for his own motive.

Feeling a hand on his shoulder, Vansh looks up to find a confident Viraj - "Believe me, sir..you've helped an innocent soul to get betrayed every day by her own husband! She must be devastated now but with the help of her in-laws, she'll pass this strong situation too. You've not destroyed her home but you've given her the independence to choose her self respect over a cheater husband."

Vansh smiles with the way Viraj is handling him these days. He remembers how with the help of Viraj, he's included his men in Randhir's security system and sent the real newspaper in time.

And by the help of that person sent to Randhir's house once by Viraj, they've brought his entire family with the name of surprise. It's surprise indeed but not the way they've imagined!

Then with a sigh, he looks at a smiling Viraj and utters those words he's never asked to any outsider yet - "Call me bhai from now on!"

"Wha..what?"

Poor Viraj..it seems he's not got what his arrogant boss is trying to imply.

"I'm saying..no..no..I'm ordering you to call me bhai from this instance!..in fact, practice now only."

Viraj gets shocked what's happened to this ever arrogant man..has he hit himself somewhere in memory of Riddhima bhabhi?

"I'm alright..neither I've hit my head anywhere nor I'm that arrogant now, you know!"

Viraj widens his eyes in shock and whispers in fear of getting caught - "Si..sir?"

"You're not that dumb to understand my words! Or you're..I'm only at fault to think you're an intelligent one?"

Viraj smiles happily with teary eyes - "Bhai..bhai!"

Vansh takes him in his embrace and speaks in taunt - "Now don't cry like an overdramatic heroine! It would be me to shed tears as I've lost the most precious gem in my life but see how I'm smiling in this pain also..then why will you cry? Always smile as there are very less people like you in this earth!"

Viraj couldn't capture the happiness in heart as his boss has just not only PRAISED him..rather he's accepted him as his brother also! It shows how much he's changed now.

........

A blurred image floats on the screen with a thin wane figure of a woman clad in a simple saree. Getting a seat on the waiting area, she starts to wait for her train when all of a sudden a nausea hits her. Quickly getting up, she starts going towards the washroom.

After puking out those shits of her system, she washes her mouth to notice how disastrous she looks! Her front hairline is so wide now that she could count the amount of hairs she's now! The thin line of sindoor on her forehead doesn't feel so beautiful once it's! Her raven black thick hairs against this holy sign once used to make her proud..but now!?

With the thought, she takes a turn to go to her previous place when unconsciously she hits one small figure and says with a sadness thinking she's hit the boy - "I'm sorry baby, have I hurted you too deep?"

But making her amused, the lady beside the boy has chirped in smiling - "Don't worry, didi! It's his nautanki to avoid the medicine..actually he's had fever so!"

Riddhima suddenly feels a pain with the mention of fever as she remembers of the time Siya used to throw tantrums for not eating medicines. And a lone tear escapes without her knowledge.

But suddenly she feels a soft touch on her eyes and looks down to find the little boy who's sending a toothless innocent smile to her.

But her pain gets double when he beams with broken words - "Maa!"

And then he starts to mutter some gibberish words, much to Riddhima's knowledge.

Seeing her in uncomfortable pain, the woman rebukes her baby - "See how you've made maasi sad..say sorry to her!"

........

Feeling a hand shaking her loudly, Riddhima gets up from her dream and moves at her side to face those big black orbs. Suddenly her gloomy mood gets cheerful with that adorable voice of her baby..her Shravan..her soul sister, Anushka's only baby!

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