Flashback continues...

"...don't?!!...Rush!!...don't you dare?...mention that bastard!!...that coward left Pia in the flame...with those wolves!!...and you are telling me...to make her remember that...ruthless bastards!!...no way!!...this arson would have harmed her physically?!!...but it also came a blessing...a blessing to make her forget...the trauma...her life...will not be all hunky-dory for all I care...but without your Harish?...she has a better future...

...and I will make sure that she will...have ...a GODAMN GOOD LIFE!!...and don't you dare interfere in it...or I will make sure that Harish doesn't see the light of day!!...mind it, Rashmi!!!...I mean it!!" warning her, a teary-eyed Abhishek went to give his approval for the medicines which the doctor had prescribed for Pia.

Rashmi was getting angry and frustrated the way her husband didn't care about anyone else but Pia.

She knew that Abhishek had felt the brotherly love for her, ever since he saw the way Pia was head over heels for Harish and the way she sacrificed her everything for the man. Even her life.

From that day onwards, Pia got a new face, a new life, a new name – Sarojini aka Sara by her Jiju Abhishek Naik.

Rashmi could only abide by the restrictions kept by Abhishek when it came to Pia. She knew that it came from a place of good will but with Pia losing her memory about Harish tensed her.

She had promised Harish that she would make his and Pia's love story, with them happy together for eternity.

But the promise for a happy ending was getting failed by her, making Rashmi vulnerable to the calling of the situation which demanded for the speedy recovery of Pia.

She would think of reviving the silent memory of Harish in Pia slowly and steadily, without the knowledge of her good deed to Abhishek.

Since then, it was a fight against time and hope for Rashmi to make her Sara become Harish's Pia.

End of flashback

Hardik held her hand and nodded consoling that he would side with her in any decision that Rashmi had taken for the love birds. Rashmi was however careful to not disclose the crucial fact of Sara being Pia to Hardik. He was her best friend but some things were left to be untold.

After some time, Hardik suggested to visit an old temple which Hemant had told him about, making Rashmi agree to it with a sense of peace which would help her to gather her thoughts.

Deshpande Mansion

Nithya was tearing up on hearing the broken voice of her darling Parvati over the phone, with consoling her that everything will fall in place.

As she kept the phone, Nithya looked over the wall clock which timed 11, her insulin. She sided her robe to soften the already pierced part of her thigh and jabbed the injection with the right amount of the medications.

As she kept the injection away and saw that the vial was empty; making her search for the next sealed vial of the diabetes insulin. It was over.

Nithya sighed calling up Nived who had gone to the market for the grocery shopping. He didn't pick the call, making her tsk and thought to go get the medications and even have some fresh air after so long.

Staying in the mansion was making her restless and her head bursting with the stress that seems to not leave her.

The temple premises

Hardik was telling Rashmi about their train timings that would leave after an hour, to which Rashmi thought to buy some sweets for Sara.

"...Sarojini?!...how come you never told me about her, Rush?" as Hardik asked the now terrified Rashmi who looked for a fib to hid her big secret.

She had told him about Pia's survival story but not the fact that Sarojini aka Sara was Pia.

"...um...yeah...she studied in Paris...so when we went there...she stayed with us...yeah..." as she was able to form her lie, Hardik chuckled and asked if he could meet her sister.

Rashmi nodded with an unknown fear and thought to not drag the issue more.

Around a mile away from the sweet shop, Nithya was waiting for the chemist to hand over the medicines and tried to hid her face with the veil over her head.

Thud!

"...oops!...sorry Mam!...hope you are not hurt?!!" as the man apologised while trying to gather the tripped Nithya, she smiled and looked over the person helping her. Hardik Joshi.

Her blue eyes widened and she backed with a shiver to which Rashmi got puzzled at her actions.

Nithya forgot for a fact that she had a new face which would not be recognised even by her own mother, if she was alive.

But her conscious self, gulped and ran off from the duo who looked at each other with a questionable gaze at the terrified woman.

Rashmi was not taking her creased gaze from the running woman and thought to follow her with her instinct taking over her mind.

"...Rush?!" as Hardik followed her who didn't listen to the man with not taking her eyes from the woman Nithya.

"...Rush?!" as Hardik asked her who scavenge the lone dead end which made her breathless with Hardik catching hold of her with his questions.

"...Hardik?!!...we need to find her...!!" as Rashmi suggested Hardik caught hold of her arms who seem to run off again.

"...Who?!!...that lady?!!...Rush?!!...why do we need to...?!!" as Hardik asked her who jolted out of his hold and ran off to look for the woman.

Rashmi held her hips on have missed the woman, and rubbed her forehead with getting the doubts on the woman being Nithya.

She didn't know why she thought her to be Nithya but the way the woman got petrified at Hardik, Rashmi had her doubts raised.

"...Care to...*breathes heavily*...explain...why you decided to...run a...marathon...in the middle of the street...huh?" as Hardik asked the confused but calculated Rashmi who was rubbing her lips with voicing.

"...Hardik...that woman...the one whom you bumped into...?...I think...she might be Nithya?!"

Hardik laughed heartily at her words and caught hold of his head with looking back at her who was having a serious stance.

"...you are kidding me...right?...Rush?...I told you...Suga had informed me about Nithya being in Dubai...then how come...she would be here?"

"...why not?...as you told...Suga informed about it...what three weeks back...so...isn't it possible for her to come back...to her hometown...and maybe?...Shit?!!" as Rashmi could align her thoughts about the possibility of Nithya being in her hometown mansion.

"...Hardik?...do you know where is Nithya's ancestral house...I mean the place where she had lived...before her marriage with Hemant uncle..." as Rashmi asked the buff man, Hardik thought over the address that he had a slight memory of.

"...yeah...its around 5 km...away from here...I guess..." to which Rashmi suggested to go and look for her over the mansion.

"...Rush?...we have our train in half an hour!!...we can't miss it!!..."

"...But Hardik?!!"

"...look Rush?!!...we can come later...and look for her...but not now...please...and moreover, Suga had set Hobi for the same with his trusty comrades...so don't worry!!...Ok?!" as Hardik requested her who tsked at the inability to go for their 'Nithya' hunt with Hardik's absence in the office with the ongoing Yogita case and even Rashmi being occupied with arranging for her brother's college admission.

It was not possible.

With a doubtful but determined mind, Rashmi thought to convey Namjoon about the woman in the Pune marketplace to be Nithya as per her intrusion.

Deshpande Mansion

Nithya was trying to catch her breaths as she locked the huge door of the mansion. Her limbs were shivering with the terror descending in her cold body.

Her eyes couldn't understand how did they come to know about her. She then went over the window and tried to see them through the crack of the glass. She got a relief when the pathway was vacant with only the stray dogs barking over.

'...did they follow me!?..." she murmured with her broken and breathless voice and started to move from one window to another.

She was able to relax when she find none of her old enemies in the vicinity.

"...did they recognise me?!!" saying so Nithya run her shivering hands over her pale face, totally forgetting that she had a new face. A face that was alien to even her own brother after her surgery.

It was only after Nived saw the dark black mole in the corner of her left eye that Nived was able to recognise his sister Nithya.

Her gaze then went over the table mirror that saw the new Nithya who had a new face, new body, new self – Feroza.

Her evil smile crossed her lips when she realised her foolishness on getting scared for no reason.

"...those idiots would never know that this con artist Feroza is...Nithya...the one that made their life a living hell...*laughing hysterically*..." her insanity would peak at drafting a new plan for torturing her victims, especially the Joshi family.

After a week

Abhishek New Mansion

Rashmi was smiling widely with the hearing the confirmation from the other side of the phone.

"...Tai?!...shall we go for shopping?!!...Baby Ryma needs her new clothes..." as Sara tickled the baby in her hands who giggled the loudest at her aunt.

"...Mhm...of course!...but before that...we need to decide your new wardrobe...too...hm?" caressing her chubby cheeks, Rashmi chuckled and moved to the kitchen area for the lunch preparation with the maid.

Sara was not able to understand her elder's words but shrugged it off with cradled the mumbling baby who loved to walk around the garden area with her favourite aunt.

In the evening as the sisters were on their shopping spree with Ryma blabbering loudly on seeing a huge crowd of the mall.

After an hour of relaxing shopping, Rashmi smiled as she went ahead to pay with Sara siting on the couch with the sleeping Ryma on her lap.

"...thanks...um...can you perhaps express my gratitude to your boss...if you can..." as Rashmi requested the manager, he smiled with writing down her message to the owner of the clothing brand 'Prathi Fashion'.

She then took her sweethearts for a happy lunch in the restaurant as Abhishek was busy with his office work on call with his Paris law firm.

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