(Before Khushi reached the steel mill)

Guest House

Arvind sighed staring at Arnav blindfolded, "I wish I didn't had to do this with you my son. But what to do? You provoked me to take this step and teach you a lesson in the cruelest way possible. If you had got engaged to Meera that day and saved my friendship with Rahul, nothing of this would have happened. Do you even realize it? But no, you made me feel embarrassed, humiliated and insulted that night in front of all those guests, I faced that humiliation.. I lost a friend and business partner like Rahul .. all that because of you. And to make it worse, instead of getting a high class woman home as my daughter in law, you walk out of home to live with that Vihaan's ex fiancee, like seriously Arnav? What happened to your choice? See I had to get myself involved in this mess because of you.. otherwise I won't even talk to or even look at these third class people."

"Can you stop repeating the same thing like a radio to me? I'm getting bored now.. please entertain me!" Arnav complained.

Arvind laughed, staring at Arnav in disbelief, "Oh boy.. You're still trying to act smart with me even when I defeated you so badly. Koi baat nahi (Not a problem).. My son wants entertainment, I'll definitely provide you that but.." he got up from his chair and walked to open the curtains of the french windows, "First let me open the curtains.. it's too dark here."

"By the way, I finally got an entry in your guest house.. Do you remember that you said this is a no entry place for me?" Arnav asked.

Arvind's fingers halted as he got alerted by Arnav's question, he turned back to Arnav looking at him suspiciously as he thought to himself, "How does he know that he's in my guest house? He was blindfolded on his way to this house."

"Maybe those idiot bodyguards let this information escape from their mouths," he brushed off his thoughts, shaking his head while walking to the computer desk.

"Yeah, finally you got an entry here kiddo," Arvind said sarcastically, not looking at Arnav as he was engrossed in his computer.

"It's here you practice your illegal activities with your partners such as money laundering, right?"

Arvind's heart skipped a beat as he realized the amount of information Arnav has about his activities, however, he turned his face to Arnav with a sweet sarcastic smile on his face, "Nahi beta.. this is only a simple guest house for my guests."

"Yeah right," Arnav said.

"Let's stop talking about my guest house. You wanted entertainment right? So here it is.. I've put an interesting movie for you to watch now," Arvind smirked as walked to Arnav, standing behind him, he removed the piece of cloth from his eyes.

Arnav blinked few times adjusting to the light emanating from the moon through the open french windows. He looked up at his father, who signaled him to look at the computer, following his father's gaze, he saw the live audio-visual footage of the steel mill where Vihaan was talking to a priest and Payal was tied to a chair, crying helplessly.

"You'll watch your Sherni getting married to another man live tonight. Isn't it a movie material with real emotions and feelings attached to it?" Arvind giggled, taking his seat back to watch the live footage with Arnav.

When Khushi reached the steel mill, Arnav watched her conversation with Vihaan. He chuckled to himself when he saw Khushi wearing his clothes and flopped Vihaan's plan to make her wear red saree for him.

Arvind didn't like to see Arnav tasting this small victory, he kept impatiently waiting for Vihaan to stop wasting time by talking to Khushi and force her to get married to him soon so that this chapter ends once and for all in their lives.

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At the steel mill..

"Come baby.. let's get married!" Vihaan extended his hand for Khushi to hold, "The auspicious time is getting over.. so we need to hurry up now. And if you don't listen to me, then you already know what I'm going to do with Payal, right? So be a good baby girl and obey me Khushi."

The priest was waiting for them at the small mandap set up while Payal was watching the scene hoping for a miracle to save her and Khushi from this devil man, Vihaan.

"The auspicious time is getting over for you.. because an inauspicious time will start soon in your life and will prevail till you pay for your every sin Mr. Vihaan!" Khushi smirked, whistling continuously.

Vihaan looked at her confused wondering why was she whistling all of sudden, before he could understand what happened to her, he was pushed from behind and due to the intensity of the push, he fell on the ground. He turned his face to see who was the person who dared to push him like that and got shocked to see Anjali standing there, looking at him with anger and determination in her eyes.

"Anjali this is your time now.. time to end all the fears, worries, nightmares that you went through the past few months because of him.. time to make this disgusting creature go through the same pain and fear he made you feel that day.. Go for it!" Khushi said giving Anjali the support she needed to leave all her fears behind and face the man who tried to violate her dignity because he couldn't handle her rejection.

Khushi blinked her eyes with a smile. An assuring smile giving Anjali permission to do whatever she felt like to Vihaan tonight.

Anjali nodded her head slightly with a determined smile.

As Khushi and Anjali exchanged supportive looks, Vihaan took the opportunity to get to his feet, but before he could succeed, Khushi alerted Anjali, who quickly lifted her foot and stomped it on his chest, forcing his back to hit the ground with a thud again. Vihaan groaned in pain, looking at Anjali angrily, "You stupid woman.. I treated you with love and care always.. now I'll show you what I can do to you.. You want to hit me ahn! Now I'll show you what a strong man like me can do to you."

Saying this, he held Anjali's ankle and twisted it aggressively, causing Anjali to yelp in pain as she tried to free her leg from his tight hold.

Khushi walked towards him determinedly, gritting her teeth angrily and clenching her fists tightly, she kicked him in the balls twice. Vihaan screamed at the top of his lungs, feeling an indescribable painful sensation in between his legs. He remembered feeling the same pain when Arnav kicked him, but being kicked by Khushi there was much more painful than Arnav's. And when he shut his eyes tightly, crying in pain, Arnav's words echoed in mind, 'Lionesses are smaller but more agile than males.'

Khushi then sat on her knees, near him, holding him by the collar of his sherwani, she forced him to raise his head and face her, "What do you think you can do to us you coward? You can only think of using your man's strength to touch women against their wish. But not anymore.. because tonight we will show our strength.. a woman's strength! And trust me, this is just a trailer Vihaan.. You have no idea how much we're going to make you shed tears of blood tonight."

Vihaan gulped, staring at Khushi's fierce and determined hazel eyes, he opened his dry mouth, trying to bring words out of his mouth but he was unable to due to the fear that made place in his heart by seeing such a ferocious side of Khushi. Staring at the entrance door of the factory as his last hope to save his life, he mustered courage and started shouting to call the bodyguards that were outside the factory, "Guards.. Guards.. Koi hai.. Please save meee... Guards.. Guards.. Pandit ji.. save me.."

The priest who was still in shock, hearing Vihaan calling him for help, widened his eyes and quickly gathered his things to escape that place.

Fortunately for Vihaan, he informed Arvind's men of what was happening to Vihaan inside the factory and how they plan got ruined now.

The moment Arvind's men rushed inside the factory, Vihaan took a sigh of relief with a small smile, he looked back at Khushi, "Now I'll make you, your sister and Anjali shed tears of blood tonight. My men are here. They'll teach you a lesson now Khushi Kumari Gupta!"

Khushi looked at the seven men approaching them, then back at Vihaan smirking, "Let's see!"

Khushi and Anjali started whistling again continuously, making Vihaan wonder who they are calling now and where they are coming from inside the factory as he and Arvind's men personally checked and confirmed that the place was empty and clean for them to perform their plan without being disturbed.

Soon his curiosity ended, as a group of women from his neighborhood came running furiously with anger and determination in their eyes, each of them holding different scraps metals in their hands as weapons, from a secret passage towards him.

The women, including Lavanya, Riya, Garima, Buaji, Anjali's mother-in-law, walked towards the seven men kept for Vihaan's security, and brutally attacked them with their scraps metals, hitting them and forcing them to drop their guns on the ground. The men started to fight with them as well to save themselves turning to steel mill into a battlefield.

Vihaan gulped watching the strength and violent side of the women of his neighborhood, majority were housewives there, who he never thought would be capable of facing the professionally trained men of Arvind. He looked at Khushi gulping, "When.. wh-en did you plan all this Khushi?"

Khushi punched him on his face, "You'll get enough time to think about this when you'll spend the rest of your life behind the bars!"

Vihaan winced in pain, "Ahh.. I'll not.."

"Yes, you will!" Khushi and Anjali said at the same angrily. The two prepared themselves to show their Sherni side to Vihaan like the other women were taking care of Arvind's men.

"This is for trying to force yourself on me that night," Anjali said kicking him on his stomach.

"This is for using me to prove you moved on from Anjali and faking your love to me," Khushi stomped her feet on his thigh aggressively.

"This is for every sleepless night I spent scared of a monster like you.. for thinking that my life was not worth living for anymore.. for making feel scared, embarrassed and guilty of what you did to me.. for making me scared that the society would make my life a hell if they get to know you tried to violate my dignity, for ruining my marriage experience with the man I love.. " Anjali said with vengeful tears in her eyes kicking him again and again.

Vihaan was crying and screaming in pain, writhing on the floor.

Khushi went to pick up a metal pipe, she started hitting him, gritting her teeth angrily, "And this is for planning this forced marriage with me... for thinking you have the power to do whatever you want with me and I'll accept it obediently in fear of you. You made a big mistake Vihaan... a mistake of underestimating a woman's power! No matter how many evil deeds you commit, God will always send a mighty force that will eventually defeat and destroy a demonic creature like you once and for all. And the mighty force that will destroy you tonight are the women you thought were toys to play with their feelings and use them for your benefit.. and that's Me, Anjali, Riya, Payal, Amma, Buaji and all the women in your neighborhood who should be ashamed to live with a disgusting heartless demon among them."

Vihaan yelled on top of his lungs, begging with his hands and crying bitterly, "Aaaahhhh.. please stop.. stop Khushi.. please.. I beg you.. I'm sorry.. I'm.. ahhhh.. I'm really sorry.. I never wanted to do this.. Arnav's father forced me to do this otherwise he would kill me.. please Khushi.. please I beg you.. please spare my life.. I never wanted to harm you Khushi.. please.. I was forced to do this.. aaaaaahhhh.. please Khushi stop.. I was helpless.. please understand my situation.. I'm sorry.. please stop hitting ahh.. me.. stop.."

"It didn't seem you were forced to do this.. You were actually enjoying our helplessness," Anjali frowned, kicking his legs.

"I was.." Vihaan cried, "I was.. please stop you two.. I beg you.. please.. ye sab Arnav ki Dad kar raha hai.. main nahi (This is Arnav's Dad doing.. not mine).. he only kidnapped Arnav and hide him in his guest house and send me to marr-aah.. marry you to separate you two from.. each other.. I didn't.. do anything.. Khushi please.."

Meanwhile Garima and Buaji dropped their weapons on the floor, and ran to untie their Payal who was still tied to the chair. Their hugged Payal tightly, caressing her hair, crying and at the same thanking the Almighty that their daughter is safe and with them now. Payal was crying in their arms, sharing to Buaji and Garima, how Arvind's men barged in her room through the window and kidnapped her.

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Guest House

"What the hell is going on there?" Arvind was shocked by the sudden turn of events, he rose from his chair, looking at the battlefield the steel mill had become and how Khushi and all those women overpowered Vihaan and his men, failing badly in their plan.

"Sherni use teamwork to bring an animal down," Arnav smirked staring at his father, he tsk-ed, "I warned you before, but you laughed it off. You know Dad.. you should start taking me seriously when I say something, because I always mean it."

Arvind swallowed, but said nothing to Arnav. He kept his eyes fixed on the computer screen trying to understand how things had turned in Arnav's favor.

"Ohoo don't force your scrap mind.. oh sorry.. mastermind to understand how this happened. Let me explain to you where you failed in your plan. See, I think as soon as Khushi got the call from Vihaan asking her to come to the steel mill, she might have gathered my family, the one you called a bunch of fools, and they might have thought of a plan before Khushi left. My family includes my younger brother Akash, who is also the CEO of that steel manufacturing company, he knows everything about his workplaces, including the secret entrance through which Anjali and those women entered the factory without getting noticed by your men."

Arvind took a sharp deep breath, closing his eyes momentarily, "That traitor.. I won't spare your son Vidhya this time."

"I will never let you harm my brother," Arnav glared at him.

Arvind turned to him frustratedly, "What will you do huh? You're tied up here with no one to save you. Don't forget that. How are you going to save your brother from me?"

"The movie isn't over yet.." Arnav chuckled mockingly at him.

"You're right," Arvind said with a devilish grin, "This movie isn't over yet... because I'm the main villain, not Vihaan. I am more powerful than all you bunch of fools. Now watch my next step, dear son. I will send more professionally trained men there to defeat those women who are celebrating their false victory. Just wait and watch Arnav... until now, I was being a good person and just sending that girl out of your life by marrying her to Vihaan, but now... I'm going to kill that girl. You will never see that girl again in your life."

Arnav tilted his head a bit, disinterested in Arvind's threats, he frowned a bit for being blocked of the computer screen by Arvind, "Can you step away from there for a while? The movie is getting to an interesting point now."

Arvind clutched his fist tightly, unwillingly stepped away from there as he took his phone to order his men to reach the steel mill asap. The moment he dialed a number on his finger, his fingers stopped as he heard a high loud siren sound of the police cars from the computer. His eyes widened as he immediately turned to the computer screen to check what happened, he got even more shocked watching the scene.

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At the steel mill..

After valiantly fighting Arvind's men and knocking them to the ground, all the women present at the steel mill gathered and marched towards Vihaan and lifted him up, while cursing him and spitting on him, they took him to the electric arc furnace used for steel melting. At that moment Vihaan lost his strength to scream or cry for any help or mercy from those women. He was slowly losing consciousness and Arnav's last words to him kept repeating in his mind:
'By the time you'll understand what Khushi is, she would have attacked you as her prey.'

Fortunately or unfortunately for him, the police arrived at that moment and ordered the ladies to spare his life and give Vihaan to them as they would handle the case from now onwards.

The ladies looked at Khushi waiting for her command, Khushi walked to Vihaan who was forced to stand by the women who held him by his arms, she grabbed his hair in her fist harshly, forcing him to hiss in pain as he tried to open his eyes to look at her, his face was covered with blood, his clothes torn, few bones broken.. he just felt so weak to process anything.. he was feeling that he would faint or die anytime soon.

"Next time, before laughing and casually saying to any girl that you want to celebrate suhagraat with her, remember this night.. this nightmare.." Khushi whispered, glaring dangerously at him.

Vihaan just bowed down to her accepting his defeat, losing his consciousness in the moment.

She then took a step back, blinking her eyes, giving the permission for the women to hand Vihaan over to the police officers.

The police officers urgently called the ambulance and others were inquiring the ladies what happened there.

Khushi noticed one of the police walk to a corner as he talked with someone over the phone. She already knew they might punish Vihaan for his crimes, but they wouldn't let Arvind's name escape in this situation. They would try their best to protect his name.

"Time to work on plan 2!" she muttered to herself, wiping the sweat beads on her forehead. She called Lavanya who came running to her.

"Lavanya you should call Akash and Shyam now. It's time for their entry," Khushi whispered to Lavanya. Lavanya nodded her head, she quickly sent a message to Akash to inform the same.

As planned, Akash and Shyam let a large crowd of reporters inside the steel mill to cover this breaking news and leak the important details related to this case, surprising the police officers who were not expecting media people at this time to reach there.

The police tried to stop them from filming or interviewing anyone there, but the huge crowd of reporters did not hear them and began asking the women present to share what happened in the factory. Garima and Buaji shared how Payal was kidnapped by Arvind's men, Anjali and Riya told the truth about Vihaan and what he had done to them in the past, the other ladies told how they thought Vihaan was a good boy but he became an evil man who did despicable deeds, and last Khushi revealed that it was the king of the Lucknow royal family, Arvind, who kidnapped his own son and sent Vihaan to forcibly marry her so he could separate them. She told reporters she has proof of everything she is saying as there are cameras installed at the factory that have covered live everything that happened there, including Vihaan confessing to his crimes and Arvind being the person behind it all.

The officers exchanged a worried look with each other. They knew now that there is evidence and through the media, the viewers of the news channels will find out, they will demand justice to be done and there was a pressure on them to maintain the good name of the police department in their city as well.

Akash and Shyam walked to the police officers and said that they're ready to cooperate with the police and give every information they have against Vihaan and Arvind to them. The police officer looked at Akash shocked for a minute that he was admitting his own father did all this.

After talking to the police, Shyam and Akash ran to the family (Khushi, Anjali, Shyam's mother and Lavanya). They shared a group hug emotionally and smiling in relief to have succeeded in their part of the plan.

"Now the rest will be handled by the Monster Mastermind!" Khushi said. After all, he was the mastermind in this game from the beginning till the end.

Payal, Garima and Buaji approached Khushi to talk to her and thank her for saving Payal's life. Payal looked at Khushi crying feeling guilty for accusing her when she was innocent in all this, "Khushi.. I.. I'm so sorry.. and thank.. you for coming here to save me."

"Khushi bitiya please forgive us.. We never thought Vihaan would turn to be a man like this," Garima said, joining her hands, crying heavily.

"Haan Titaliya.. today you saved our Payalia's life even after everything we said to you.. You indeed have a big heart.." Buaji said guiltily.

"I'm glad now truth is out but that doesn't mean I'll forget everything so easily and forgive you all. It will take time.. time for my wounds to heal as well. And Jiji you should thank your mother and your Buaji for saving you, not me. I didn't came here for you, I came here to catch Vihaan," Khushi said expressionlessly. When she finished talking to them, she walked back to her family (Akash, Anjali, Lavanya and Shyam) again.

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Guest House

"This is not possible.." Arvind whispered in disbelief after watching the live footage of what occurred in the steel mill, he wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, hurriedly dialing a number on his phone, he impatiently waited for the police commissioner to pick up his call and only received a polite denial of help from the police commissioner, "It's too late my friend.. this news is spreading like wildfire.. I can't do anything to help you."

"Interesting movie. It's a hit for sure.. but something is missing for it to be a blockbuster movie," Arnav said with an intensely intimidating tone that made Arvind shudder as he knew he was next target. He never thought there would be a day in his life that would make him afraid of his own son.

He silently turned to Arnav and walked to occupy his chair again, he bowed his head down, intertwining his fingers as he smiled weakly.. a smile that described his defeat at that moment.

"You knew it all from the start.. You were behind all this.. It's wasn't my men who kidnapped you.. You got yourself kidnapped, right?" Arvind chuckled softly as realization dawned upon him.

"Right.. When I left Sheesh Mahal, I was wondering where you kept Vihaan when I noticed my bodyguard constantly looking towards your bedroom balcony while talking on the phone. When I followed your gaze, I found you there too with your phone and making signs to him. That's when I got your plan. And then I realized that your plan was really good, but for me, not for you. I knew that by kidnapping me, you would send me to your guest house and Vihaan would leave the guest house to carry out your plan for which you kept him here for so long waiting for the right opportunity... which means Vihaan would be bereft of his security and that would make it easier to catch him and send him behind bars. And you brought me to your secret no-entry zone for me, this is the place that has all the evidence of your criminal activities and now the evidence that you kept Vihaan here for weeks, you were the one who sent him to kidnap Payal and threaten Khushi to forcefully marry him and you were the one who bought my bodyguards and ordered them to kidnap me. I needed all this evidence to send you behind the bars Daddy... and now, I have it! The police commissioner can't help you now either because before going to my car, I called Khushi and informed her that she should be alert for anything that might happen at that moment and they needed to call the reporters to broadcast everything on the news channels as a way to leave the police officers with no option but to arrest you and Vihaan."

Flashback

"Khushi listen to me carefully. I found out where my father kept Vihaan, he is at my father's guest house. My dad bought my bodyguards and these guys are probably going to take me to that guest house because it's the secret location of their criminal activities. Now, I don't know what Vihaan is really planning to do once I'm kidnapped. But one thing is for sure, whatever they have planned, they will only execute it tonight... so you have to be prepared for everything, ok my Sherni. I trust you and I know you will be able to defeat Vihaan without me. And second, don't forget to call the reporters because if the police officers supports my dad, they'll never let his name out in public in this situation. Third and last thing, ask Aman to buy my father's guesthouse security team now. I'll send you the address of his guest house."

"Arnav.."

"Hmm.."

"I told you don't go to Sheesh Mahal.. I wasn't feeling good about this."

"Stop crying Khushi. I need to you to be strong and my partner in this. And do you know why am I allowing these traitors to kidnap me? It's because I trust You, Akash, Aman, Anjali completely. I know you guys are my team, my family. You'll be able to handle everything while I'm at the other side dealing with my father."

"And I'll not disappoint you Arnav.."

"That's like my Sherni!"

Flashback ends.

Arvind looked up at him, he smiled a little, "You're indeed my son. That's what I never wanted to lose you to your mother. I knew you are my precious belonging, if only we had a better father-son bonding, we could have achieved great things in life together."

"Wrong.. main apni Ma ka beta hoon.. a middle class woman's son.. a middle class woman's brother.. and soon going to be a middle class woman's husband!" Arnav looked coldy at his father, clutching the arms of his chair, "And it's because you took my mother's and Khushi's name out of your filthy mouth over and over again, even after I asked you not to, that I took this drastic step to teach you a lesson. If you hadn't poked your nose into my affairs, I wouldn't have done this to you. But being humiliated at that surprise engagement party wasn't enough for you to realize that I'm not that powerless, helpless boy you separated from his mother, I'm now a heartless shrewd businessman who harbors an immense hatred in his heart for his father and an incurable pain at not being able to see his mother's face for the last time and not being there to perform her last rites. In the past, you sent my mother out of my life, and now you wanted to do the same to Khushi. Did you think that this time I'll let you easily separate me from the woman I love? Did you think I would do nothing after you mocked my mother by calling her a middle-class woman, a maid? If you thought I'm just going to show my anger to you and then calm down, you were wrong Mr. Arvind Raizada. I swore to myself to do something worse to you the moment you mocked my mother and my Khushi. And what could be worse than taking everything you love the way you took my mother from me? After handing over all this evidence of your criminal activities to the police, you will be sent to prison. You will lose your Sheesh Mahal Palace, Your good name, status and reputation in society, Your high class friends, relatives and business associates will refuse to recognize their relationship with you and your wife, You will lose all your wealth and property, You will lose the power to rule others as if they are your slaves. You will lose the peaceful, comfortable, luxurious life you used to lead to spend your life in a place smaller than your servant's bedroom. This society will spit on a man like you who has done so much cruelty to his own son."

The moment Arvind started to imagine everything Arnav was saying that would happen to him now, he started panicking, shivering and his hand started trembling, he got up shouting and crying feeling helpless, "Noooooo.. Ye kabhi bhi nahi hoga.. main aisa hone nahi dunga (This will never happen.. I'll never let this happen). These police officers can't do anything to me.. because, yes..(wiping away his tears).. I will escape from here.. and you my son, it's you who help me escape from here."

Arnav shook his head with a mock smile, "You have time to try whatever you want to save yourself until the cops and reporters arrive. Go ahead."

Arvind glared at him angrily, "You shouldn't have done this to me. I'm your father Arnav.. I did everything I could to give you this life, I gave you the privilege of being a Prince of a Royal Family. If you had gone to your mother, you would have become a man like that good for nothing Vihaan. You know that? You should be thankful to me for that."

"I was thankful to you Dad! I was.. but then you started to take my silence, my respect and my gratitude for granted. So you can't expect me to be quiet, can you? Remember when you informed about Meera and her father arrival and you requested to behave properly in front of them? Although I hate you, I did accept your request.. I maintained a good distance from your guests and talked politely whenever we used to bump into each other at home. But it's you who took advantage of my goodness and without my permission fixed my engagement with that girl. Now you can't expect me to smile and accept everything you want na? There's a limit for everything Dad!"

"I never realized I was raising a monster in my own house who would destroy his father like this.. I should have kicked you out of my life with your mother that time," Arvind said angrily.

He looked here and there for his weapon, finally spotting it on the computer table, hurriedly picked it up and walked over to Arnav, untying the ropes and releasing Arnav. Before Arnav could move, he pointed the gun at the back of his head: "Stand up now! Do everything I say, otherwise I'll shoot you.. believe me, I won't even think you are my son Arnav before shooting you...take my words seriously."

Arnav took his own time to get up from his chair, smiling and stretching his arms lazily, "Let's go!"

Arvind glared at him for showing attitude to him, he started shouting at Arnav to walk till the door of the room and open the door.

Arnav did as he said, as he took few steps ahead, Arvind stood behind him with his arm stretched pointing the gun to Arnav's head. He didn't realize when an heavy object was thrown from the side to his arm direction, as they heavy object came in contact with his arm, he hissed in pain and the gun slipped from his hand, falling on the floor. From the opposite side, came one of his security guard who picked the gun and pointed it to Arvind, his eyes widened in shock.

"What.. What are you doing? You fool.. You should attack him and not me.. I'm your boss, did you forgot that?" Arvind barked at him.

Arnav turned to face his father smirking, he kept his hands on pant pockets, "Tit for Tat! You bought my men to attack me and I bought your whole security team to attack you. Now they'll do everything I say."

Arvind could see apart from his men standing on either side pointing a gun in his direction, every other corner of his guest house had his, now Arnav's men holding their weapons to protect Arnav and waiting for his only word to act.

"What are You? When did you got time to think and execute all this?" Arvind's jaws dropped, staring at his own son in pure disbelief.

"When you were busy celebrating your self declared victory without studying anything about your opponent," Arnav shrugged.

The high loud siren of the police cars started to get audible to them as well as their message to Arvind through the use of megaphone, "Mr. Arvind Singh Raizada, release your son... and surrender to the police. I repeat... release your son... and surrender to the police or else we will have to take drastic measures against you."

"Chalo.. Time over.. Game over Dad.." Arnav said huskily with devil grin on his lips.

Arvind swallowed hard, his shoulder dropped and his head bowed down in defeat.

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Sheesh Mahal

Vidhya was horrified after watching the news channel, the fact that her husband's name got leaked in this fiasco and that the police left to his guest house to arrest him and release Arnav made her even more worried about her future in this city. She wouldn't be able to live in a place where people would badmouth her because of her husband's doing. She wouldn't tolerate being despised by people around her.

That's why she needed to escape from this palace as soon as possible and disappear from Lucknow. She hurriedly packed her bags, took money from the locker and expensive jewelries and pleaded her maid to take her to her village where no one would recognize her.

"I'm sorry Akash beta. I'll have to go away from you. Maybe God is punishing me for laughing at Arnav when his mother was taken far away from him."

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Guest House

An unusually terrifying - which causes a shiver to ran down one's spine - silence surrounded the guest house area.. the so called silence before the storm.

The huge doors of Arvind's guest house opened alerting the police officers, the reporters, Khushi, Aman, Akash, Anjali, Shyam, Lavanya, Guptas, the neighbor women and everyone that stop by to curiously watch what was going on there.

It was almost midnight, so the headlights of the police cars, the torches used by the police and some of the reporters and the flashlight of the phones used by the rest of the people present there were all flashing and focused in direction of the entrance door of Arvind's guest house as they waited in anticipation to see what's going to appear in front of them now.

"Looks like Arvind is ready to surrender to the police," everyone whispered among themselves.

The police officers took their positions, pointing their arms in direction of the door and the reporters and the camera men also started approaching to record this moment.

Khushi clutched Arnav's shirt near her chest and closed her eyes, praying for him.

She opened her eyes few seconds after when she heard everyone gasping in shock. Following everyone's gaze, her eyes met a sight that made her feel goosebumps all over her body.

(Imagine this background sound playing in this sequence)

There was Arnav at the door in all his glory under the spotlight, his hand tightly gripping a heavy iron chain that bound his father's feet, who was lying on the floor almost unconscious, his face covered in blood.

"My prayers will always be with you beta.. whether I'm with you or not," Ratna caressed her little boy's face for the last time, sobbing while making an effort to smile at him, to cherish the last moment she has with him, she might never see his face again due to his cruel father.

Arnav began to drag his father cold-heartedly by the chain tied to his feet, his eyes cold as ice, still burning like fire as he took each heavy and steady step towards the gate, to send his father to his fate.

While being ruthlessly dragged on the ground by Arnav, Arvind remembered the time he did the same to Ratna, Arnav's mother, he kicked her out of his house like this.

"Stop this emotional drama fool woman.. get the hell out of my house now," Arvind grabbed Ratna by her hair harshly as he pulled her away from Arnav who tried to reach his mother but was blocked by his security guards. Arvind pushed Ratna aggressively, she fell on the floor crying in pain. He held her by her feet and started dragging her out of the palace.

The whole army of security guards came behind Arnav, following him expressionlessly as he continued to take Arvind towards the huge gate.

"Maaaaaaaaa," little Arnav screamed, crying loudly, watching his mother being tortured by his father but he could do nothing to save her.

Finally reaching at the gate, Arnav sat on his knees, staring intently at his father, "Agar tumne phir kabhi meri Ma ke baare mein bura bola.. to is din ko yaad karna. Voh is duniya mein nahi hai, par uska beta abhi bhi zinda hai Arvind Singh Raizada. Also since I'm always thankful for the things you did for me, here is my thanks for movie entertainment. Movie verdict: All Time Blockbuster!" (If you ever speak badly about my mother again, then remember this day. She's not in this world anymore, but her son is still alive)."

He grabbed his father by his hair, clutching his hair tightly in his rough hands while forcing him to stand on his feet, Arvind yelped in pain, somehow he managed to get on his feet and was getting dragged by Arnav outside the gate.

The police officers were asking him not to do anything to Arvind and hand him over to the police.

Arnav pushed Arvind towards the police officers who caught him before he could fall on the ground, "He should spend his whole life in jail paying for his crimes. All the evidence against him is in this guest house."

The police officers handcuffed Arvind and took him to the car, while other police officers remained in the guest house to confiscate Arvind's belongings that served as evidence in this case.

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Arnav looked up at the dark sky, there was one bright star twinkling. A lone tear escaped his eyes as he thought to himself, "I hope your soul rest in peace now Ma."

The next minute, he felt a warm and calming sensation engulfing his soul, he looked down to see that it was Khushi, the gift his mother had sent him on earth to end all his pains and miseries, who hugged him tightly.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and dropped a kiss on her head, "I'm proud of you.. I love you Khushi."

"I love you too Arnav," Khushi whispered, she smiles a little with tears rolling down her cheeks.

The End..

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The story ends here.. and there will an epilogue to show what happened in their lives after this night.

Hope you'll enjoyed reading this part.