Sara got up with going towards the window. As she didn't have the strength to face Ashley when she would reveal the sin that she had performed with the last person she would have ever imagined.

"...first thing...I did not reconcile with Edward...and second..." Sara was finding it so difficult to tell those words to Ashley who would question her bestie's sense of maturity.

"...Sweetie...please tell...you are scaring me now!!" Ashley pleaded her to tell as she felt her blood pressure raising with the suspense.

"...I lost it...with...*tsk*..." as Sara said it Ashley jumped from the bed and ran to grab her shoulders with the widest of her smile, slightly understanding. But the next moment, she suspected on Sara being drunk and had a one-night stand maybe with a stranger. That would be bad, real bad.

"...ok sweetie...its fine...but...we hope it's someone we know...and not a complete stranger...right?!" as her scared self now wanted to know the one person with whom her bestie had lost her virginity, Sara strayed her eyes and turned with twisting and turning her fingers.

"...it's not...a stranger...you know him..." she turned to make Ashley think of the possibility of the person that she knew from the lot of common people.

"...Michael?!!..." Ashley so wanted Sara to negate that stupid's name.

"...No!!...sheesh...you know he is...how can?..." Sara slumped down on the bed with getting disgusted by the name itself.

"...then who?...I know it is not Edward...or Ram sir...but then who?" as Ashley rubbed her chin to remember any other person, Sara hid her face with mumbling his name.

Ashley tsked with cupping her pouty sad face asking the name. Sara removed her hands with biting her lower lips "...Mr. ...*exhales deeply*...Joshi..."

To which Ashley twisted her face on which was this particular 'Mr. Joshi'.

"...the one...from Passione hotel?!!...Is it?!!..." Upon asking Sara nodded her head with a shameful glare at Ashley who started to negate her affirmation on being with the probable middle-aged billionaire for her passionate night. With Sara's little nod, Ashley's eyes widened with covering her open mouth.

"...NO!!!...the snorty billionaire!!!...when did you meet him?...and how did you guys ended up...doing@#$#@%#...what the hell are you talking about, girl?!!...how did you become so dumb?!!...you had kept yourself safe...only to end up with that...bitchy, snorty billionaire...who perhaps might be married with a sweet wife and ten kids?!!...for all we know!!...you know this the dumbest thing that you have performed so far!!!" Ashley rubbed her hot head as she couldn't believe her smart bestie do something stupid like this.

"...Ashley?!!" as Sara tried to caught hold of her hands, Ashley jolted it out with glaring at her.

"...I know!!...ok!!!...its dumb!!...but?!!...I was down!!...and that stupid Edward?!!...was popping in and out of my vision...I was going crazy!!...I had no one there!!...and Mr. Joshi?!!...he?!!...well?!!...*holding her hands*...I felt...the first time...someone knew what I wanted...exactly what I wanted...and he gave it to me...with no questions asked...he didn't judge me...he didn't ask anything...*exhales deeply*...

...he?!!...he made me?!!...feel special...like ...really special...and you are right!!...maybe he has a wife...and kids!!...but...I don't care!!!...I really don't!!...I wanted this...this care, this unquestionable pamper, this unknown love...this passion!!...and I got it...and I don't care...really Ashley!!...I just don't...for me...being there...in that moment...and releasing myself...from all that bondage!!...was enough!!...it made me free!!...I am free!!...Ashley...finally free!!!...*sniffs*..." Sara wept as Ashley hugged her tightly smiling to finally have her light headed after her long turmoil.

Ashley just caressed her hairs who rested her calm head on her shoulders whispering "...and now I can breathe...with no remorse...whatsoever...I can now be the one that I want to be...not what others want me to be..."

"...I will do what I want to do...Ashley?...I can now live the life that I want...finally..." As Sara held her hands towards her heart with her genuine smile, Ashley saw a new confident Sara and not the timid 'I-will-do-as-you-say' Sara.

As the bestie hugged, Ashley thanked Mr. Joshi to at the least help her friend in her heartbreak. Ashley was the best gift that Sara got after her accident. Rashmi's strict demeanour didn't go well even with Ashley who knew the claustrophobic condition of Sara in the Naik Villa. This moment Ashley knew that Sara would require her bestie, she didn't judge Sara but stood with her.

Mumbai

Barve family

Radhika Barve was crying silently as she caressed Prathibha aka Pia's photo and glanced around her room that was spik and span.

Radhika had instructed the maids to always keep the room clean as Pia would have wanted.

"...Ma?!!..." as Priyanka walked inside the room, she glanced around the room while brushing her siblings belongings which were kept as it was before the incident.

Radhika wiped her tears, on getting another set of lecture from her elder strict daughter. But instead, Priyanka just sat beside Radhika and hugged her whispering "...I miss her too, Ma..." pecking the side of her hair.

"...I know...that she is not...Priya?!!...did Hardik say anything about..." as Radhika asked about the phone call that she overheard while passing through Priyanka's room the other night.

Priyanka pursed her lips replying that she would very soon.

The daughter tried to pacify the mother who direly missed her Pia, quite more in the recent period.

France

Bordeaux hotel

As Taehyung enquired with the hotel where Sara and Abhishek teamed had stayed, he was in a fix to have missed them by 30 minutes.

As the agent tried to get their details from the reception using his official status, he could know only about Abhishek and teams departure to Paris.

Harish couldn't get over the fact that Sara would run off like a complete stranger who happened to have her first one-night stand. His fingers were rubbing each other with the man gritting his teeth while Taehyung watched over his master.

"...Sir...Abhishek has not reported to his office...and...perhaps...we can go to his house...?!" as the agent spelled his take on finding the missus, Harish low growled at him "...do I need to tell you that too, huh? soldier...get on with it? Find them...asap?!!"

His mind was doing a crazy somersault on the way Sara behaved. He did tell her that they would discuss the event in the morning.

But she had run away. This is all Abhishek's teachings. Coz he knew his Pia is not at all an escape.

Paris Airport

Sara was conversing with Ashley as Abhishek sat with Rashmi who was trying to pacify and sleep the baby.

"...babe...do call me when you reach your place...ok?...and if at all...do tell if you want me there...I will leave everything and rush to you...ok?" Ashley was caressing her hands who was nodding knowing that her bestie would always help her out in any dire situations.

How crazy or pathetic it would be?

"...Rashmi?...I need to take this call..." as Abhishek went to receive the call from Suga who had arranged for the family's stay in one of his safe house in Mumbai.

"...hello?...I know I am calling so abruptly...but I need your help...please don't judge me!!..." as a teary Rashmi told her best friend who chuckled at the way she didn't still realise the depth of their friendship, even after not in contact for so long.

"...don't worry...I will make sure that you will not face any danger...when I am involved...ok?...see you soon Rush?!" as the man kept the call with his long-lost bestie, he smiled knowing that his agents were so diligently doing their work.

The untimely demise of Rashmi's mother was a big chance for the friends to finally come together and crack this case. As it was going hap hazard with one part of the group trying to find the conniving Nithya and the other group trying to find the hidden Pia, it was a mad merry-go-round ride for all of them with not reaching anywhere.

With Sara's identity flashed by Harish and Taehyung (still unknown to the others, the agents and the family members), Namjoon, Suga and Hardik would require to brainstorm on knowing the reality of Nithya and the reason why she did such a cruel play on the innocent lovers.

Paris

Jin's kitchen

Seokjin was in a serious stance when his boss conveyed the message of an angry billionaire Joshi coming to barge in his little restaurant to look for his Pia. So, Jin prepared himself to deal with the billionaire his style.

"...geunyang oseyo, kosmul?!!...i WWH jin-i mueos-eul hal su issneunji boyeojulgeyo?...meosjin baji, heung!!" he murmured twisting the towel in his hands and smirked at finally able to cobbler the billionaire.

(* "...geunyang oseyo, kosmul?!!...i WWH jin-i mueos-eul hal su issneunji boyeojulgeyo?...meosjin baji, heung!!" - "...just you come, snorty?!!...i will show what this WWH Jin can do?...fancy pants, humph!!" in Korean language).

He then called his reinforcement Jimin to handle the snorty Harish if at all he would try to manhandle him or his employees with his billionaire status.

Hotel Passione

Reception area

"...Simone?...get me John and tell him that I would be in the seventh floor, seminar hall for the Company party arranged by the hotel.

After her brief venture with the guests and pacifying their needs on refreshments or taking care of them, Ashley went to the lone corner to have a talk with Sara.

"...Babe?...hope everything is fine with the things around in your place...I am sorry I couldn't come along with you...you know my state..." as she was trying to pacify the sad voicing Sara who was probably trying to unpack her stuff in her room like contraption in the new mansion that Abhishek had briefly bought for his small family.

He did manage to have enough maids and servants to help out the ladies in and around the city while keeping with the rituals for Rashmi's mother's last rites.

Ashley kept the call with a big heart on not able to pacify the sad looking Sara who didn't have the time to express herself with her first time with a total stranger of a billionaire.

Mumbai

Abhishek new mansion

"...Sweetie?!...come along...lunch is ready, honey?!!" as Abhishek entered her room, Sara was tried with the jet lag and then keeping her stuffs in the room in a tidy manner. She was clean freak.

"...honey?...why don't you take the help of the maids...isn't it the reason I hired them, huh?" he caressed her hair who tsked replying that they were already helping out in keeping the mansion and making the outsiders feel at home. 

"...how is Tai?!!...I don't know how should I approach her?...I mean I myself in a fix...with finding out that I have a brother and a mother whom I never met...?!...Jiju...this is all...not able to go around with my head right now!!..." Sara went over the balcony of her room while rubbing her splitting forehead.

Abhishek brushed her shoulders consoling "...don't worry honey?...you know the...*sighs*...particular incident did leave you with a short amnesia...you know...leaving with very few memories of yourself...and particularly about your family...so yeah...it will take time, honey!!"

"...I hope so, Jiju...think I will go outside the garden...I need some fresh air..." Sara sighed with holding Abhishek's hands who smiled and nodded on approving her claustrophobic nature. 

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