Namaskaram 🙏

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Laksh who is sitting holding his head in the car thinking where Ragini could be suddenly realises something. He immediately starts the car gritting his teeth and drives as fast as he could. He applies sudden break making a screech sound. He gets down the car and runs inside baadi. He directly sprints into the Bose house.

Laksh: (shouts angrily) SWARA! Come out!

He shouts standing in the hall. Dida and Swara both come out of the room confused. Laksh just sprints to Swara and grasps her neck pushing her to the wall and strangles her neck.

Swara struggles in his clutches while Dida tries to get her out of his clutches.

Laksh: (with red shot eyes) Tell me where is Ragini?

He asks looking at her dangerously.

Swara: (struggling to breathe in his clutches) I... I... Don't know!

Laksh: (gripping her neck even more tight and pushing her to the wall more) Don't Lie! Tell me NOW!

Dida: Stop it Laksh! She has not gone out since two days as she is down with fever. We don't know where Ragini is.

Laksh keeps looking at Swara with red angry eyes. Swara nods yes with difficulty for Dida's words. He leaves her.

Laksh: If anything happens to my Ragini you will be dead in my hands. I just showed you trailer.

He warns her showing his finger and goes from there while Swara coughs and breathes with difficulty heavily. Once she is fine she looks at Dida and smirks. Dida also smirks at her and closes the door of the house. They both sit on the couch and happily watch TV.

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We see a dark room where Ragini is seen laying unconscious. Her limbs are tied and her mouth is also stuffed with cloth. She is laying on the floor. The whole room is filled with some dirty things and spider webs. And we also can see few rats moving in the room. It is stinking badly. It doesn't have any ventilation too.

Ragini slowly opens her eyes. Her eyes are blur and her head is bursting in pain. She felt pain in her limbs. She opens her eyes completely with difficulty. Once she get the clear view where she is her eyes widened. Seeing the dark, closed place her breath got struck. She started sweating. She looked around and spotted a cockroach which is near her. She tries to scream but she couldn't due to the cloth. She keeps making sounds while tears start flowing from her eyes. She felt the little light that is falling into the room through small holes is also fading. Her heart and mind started occupying the fear. She closed her eyes and Laksh's image came into her mind.

Ragini: (in mind) Laksh please save me.

She felt her breathing getting difficult. She keeps trying to cope with her breathe but when she realised the whole room turned completely dark her breathing automatically started getting heavy with the fear of the closed dark room. She kept breathing heavily and is trying hard not to close her eyes.

On the other side Laksh falls on the floor devasted in the hall of MM on not finding Ragini. Sanskar also enters inside being disappointed. All are sitting on the couch holding their heads. They have tried all the ways to find her. Dp connected one of his police friend too. But no they got nothing. Police are still searching for her. It's been almost six hours since Ragini has been missing.

Laksh: (covering his face with palms and tears flowing from his eyes) I am useless. I couldn't find you bacha. I am just useless.

Sanskar keeps his hand on his shoulder.

Laksh: I am useless bhai. Couldn't keep her safe. Nor I could find her. It's been six hours since she is missing and here I am sitting with no clue.

Sanskar doesn't even understand how to console him. Everybody is broken seeing him like that and also worried for Ragini. Dp is continuously pressuring Police to find her out. But nothing is working. All are feeling just helpless. They couldn't even try asking some friends as she has none except for SanSum.

Everybody are sitting and thinking about her when Laksh's phone rang. He looked at it. It showed unknown number. He ignored it but suddenly felt it might be about Ragini so he took the call. As soon as he heard from other side he fumed. He just ran out of the house. All looked at him confused. Sanskar and Aadarsh followed him.

Laksh reaches a place and looks around. He finds Dadi standing there. He runs to her.

Laksh: Dadi ma!

Dadi looks at him with teary eyes.

Dadi: I followed her and saw her coming to this old building. I eavesdropped their conversation and heard her asking them to stay till Ragini dies.

She cries. Laksh closes his eyes painfully.

Dadi: I couldn't go as they are many and immediately called you.

Laksh fists his hands and runs towards the house. He looks many men walking and guarding the house. He hides himself so that they don't see him. He finds one man coming that side and immediately gets ready to catch him. He holds him by closing his mouth and knocks him down. He does that to another two more members. There are only three more people. The other three get doubt not finding them. They all get alerted and start looking in all the directions. Laksh moves front and kicks one of the goon from back. He falls down and the other two attack him. Laksh kicks both of them also in their stomach. They fall down wincing.

Laksh runs inside searching for Ragini. He looks around to find many rooms.

Laksh: (shouts loudly) RAGINIII!

Ragini who was about to lose consciousness jerks hearing his voice. Her eyes show the shine with teary eyes.

Ragini: (in mind) Laksh!

Laksh as if he heard he turned to the direction where that room is. He was about to run that side but again the goons come and attack him. Laksh starts fighting more angrily. When he is fighting with them Sanskar and Aadarsh come there along with Police. Police get hold of them while Laksh immediately runs towards the room.

Laksh: (shouts) RAGINIII!

Ragini who was again losing her conscious jerks and tries to shout. Those mild sounds were enough for Laksh. He starts breaking the door. Sanskar runs to him and helps him. Both of them together break the door. Laksh gets shocked to see the dark and stinky room. He immediately switches on the torch of his phone and looks around. He finds Ragini in a corner with tied limbs and stuffed mouth shivering with fear, sweating profusely and is ready to fall unconscious. He just runs to her. He immediately takes the stuffed cloth from her mouth. He then starts freeing her limbs. Laksh's eyes started flowing with tears.

Ragini: (whispers weakly) Laksh!

Laksh looks at her and hugs her tight crying keeping her in his embrace. But he suddenly felt the whole weight on him and breaks the hug. He gets shocked to see Ragini falling unconscious.

Laksh: (patting her cheeks) Bacha bacha open your eyes. Bacha please open!

He immediately takes her into his arms and runs outside. His eyes are still flowing.

Laksh: (running holding her in his arms) Bhai start the car.

Sanskar runs to start the car while Aadarsh is looking after the goons and police. Laksh enters the car with Ragini still in his arms. Sanskar starts the car. Laksh pats her cheeks but couldn't see any moment. He gets scared for few seconds. He slowly moves his hand near to nose and checks her breathing. He sighed immediately feeling her breath. He hugs her to his chest and keeps crying.

Laksh: Please wake up Bacha please! I am scared. Please wake up. If you are angry on me for not finding you early then punish me someother way. I am very sorry. Please wake up.

By then they reach the hospital. Laksh immediately runs holding Ragini in his arms into the hospital. He places her on the stretcher and is been taken to the ICU. When they reach ICU they see at Laksh who is not leaving her hand.

Sanskar: Lucky leave her hand.

Laksh shakes his head as no crying vigorously. Sanskar holds his hand and removes his hold forcefully from Ragini's hand. They take away Ragini inside while Laksh keeps stretching his hand as if trying to get hold of her hand. Sanskar turns Laksh forcefully and hugs him. Both of their eyes are flowing with tears. Laksh is crying vigorously while Sanskar is crying silently. For one she is his best friend because of whom he got his love while for other she is his life for whom he is living. Both are broken seeing her like that.

Laksh: Bhai ask her to come back to me. Please ask her not to leave me.

Sanskar: Hey pagal! She is just unconscious. She will be fine.

Laksh: (shaking his head) No bhai she is Claustrophobic and Nyctophobic. She was scared to hell bhai. I saw her feeling difficult to breathe too. I am scared.

He says hugging Sanskar even more tight. Sanskar closes his eyes painfully. He lets Laksh cry and keeps looking at the ICU waiting for some information from the doctor. After few minutes doctor comes out.

Sanskar: Lucky doctor!

Laksh breaks the hug immediately and looks at doctor.

Laksh: Doctor?

Doctor: She was highly stressed and scared. She also had breathing difficulty. But she is fine now. She is under sedatives and will be getting conscious after few more hours. Nothing to worry.

Laksh sits on the chair with thud keeping his face in his palms. He is taking deep breathes registering what doctor said.

Laksh: (to himself) She is fine. She is fine. My bacha is fine.

Sanskar's face also broke into smile. He thanks doctor and keeps his hand on Laksh's shoulder. Laksh looks at her.

Laksh: She is fine!

He says again. Sanskar nods yes with teary eyes.

Sanskar: I will inform others.

Laksh at once stands.

Laksh: Bhai I will come once I finish the incomplete work. You take care of Ragini.

Sanskar understood what he meant. Laksh moves from there. He takes the car and moves to baadi to see police already there. He moves to dadaji who was unaware of anything as Laksh didn't tell him. Dadi is also there.

Laksh: Dadaji Ragini is fine. Don't worry. You go to sleep. It's very late.

Dadaji gets relieved as Dadi told him everything. He nods to Laksh and about to go.

Laksh: Dadaji take dadi also inside. Let her stay till morning.

Dadaji gives a look to dadi while Dadi looks down. Dadaji nods and moves inside. Laksh signs Dadi to go and she goes inside. He then moves towards Bose house where Swara is doing her drama.

Laksh: Arey arey officer don't be so rude to her. She was down with fever since last two days and didn't move out.

Swara nods yes vigorously.

Laksh: (sprints to her and holds her neck again) But you have the audacity to plan all these against my Ragini along with your dida.

Dida widens her eyes. Laksh looks at her with red shot eyes. He is glaring Dida while increasing his grip around Swara's neck. Swara is feeling hard ro breathe. Inspector and Aadarsh hold him back and pulls him away from her.

Laksh was again about to grab her neck but Aadarsh holds him.

Aadarsh: Lucky you will kill her.

Laksh: Yes bhai I want to kill her for making my Ragini like this. She suffered a lot there in that dark closed room. I will kill her.

Aadarsh pulls him back and stops him while Inspector along with lady officers take both Swara and Dida away.

Aadarsh: (leaving Laksh) Have you gone mad?

Laksh: (teary eyes) She would have left me forever if I was late bhai!

Aadarsh's eyes also turn teary. He hugs Laksh and consoles him.

Aadarsh: Shh... Calm down. Everything is fine now. Ragini is fine now. Swara and Dida are also punished. So all is well.

Laksh nods and breaks the hug.

Laksh: Let's go. I want to see her.

Aadarsh nods. They both move out.

Here in Gadodia house.

Dadaji: Tomorrow morning by the time I wake up I don't want to see your face.

Dadi: (teary eyes) Ji... Just one chance.

Dadaji: I am not a mahan like you to forgive a criminal. According to me supporting or suppressing a crime is also doing crime. So you are also a criminal. Because of you my Laadoo has to go through a lot. I feel disgusted.

Saying he just goes from there and closes the door of his room. Dadi sits on the couch and cries.

Aadarsh is driving the car while Laksh is looking outside.

Aadarsh: How did dadi come into the picture?

He asks while driving.

Laksh: She comes daily to see Ragini in the evening secretely. I have seen her few days ago. As she wasn't disturbing Ragini I kept quiet. May be keeping quiet at that time is correct that today Dadi was there when I was threatening Swara and she was keeping an eye on them. Swara was really down with fever but everything is done by Dida and planned by that Chudail. She used Ragini being Claustrophobic and Nyctophobic as an advantage. Good that Dadi was there and followed dida secretely and she immediately called me as she saw goons there. I can't imagine what would have happened if I am a bit more late. I will be always greatful to dadi for helping.

Laksh's eyes again turned teary. Aadarsh nods.

Laksh: How did you guys got me?

Aadarsh: Your phone GPS is connected to Sanskar's and mine phone.

Laksh: Damn! Why didn't I do it for Ragini's phone? If I did it earlier we would have reached her soon and she wouldn't be in hospital now. All because of me!

He punches the car. Car jerks.

Aadarsh: Lucky! Stop it.

Laksh sighs.

Laksh: Sorry bhai!

Aadarsh: Now everything is fine Lucky. Ragini needs you. Be strong.

Laksh nods. They reach hospital and Laksh rushes inside.

Sanskar: They are shifting her to normal ward we can go to see her.

Laksh sighs in relief.

Laksh: They are in jail. Thanks to goons who has immediately said their names without doing any dramas.

Sanskar feels relaxed. Aadarsh also comes there after parking the car.

Sanskar: Ma and all wanted to come and meet Ragini but I denied asking them to meet tomorrow. It's already midnight.

Laksh nods.

Laksh: You guys also go home. I will look after her.

Aadarsh: Once we see her, we will go.

Laksh nods. Soon Ragini is shifted to normal ward. All the three enter into the ward to see her unconscious. Laksh's eyes turn teary seeing her pale face. He closed his eyes remembering her beautiful smile and opened them determined of not letting that smile anytime from her face again. Once Sanskar and Aadarsh see her and went he sat beside her. He cupped her face and caressed her cheek.

Laksh: I am sorry bacha. I am very sorry for being late! Please forgive me.

He bends and kisses her forehead.

Laksh: Open your eyes soon bacha!

He says looking at her face. He holds her hand and keeps his head on the bed near her head while tears flowing in his eyes. He cries till his eyes shut being tired.

Precap: Last Part (Oye Oye don't go before reading the Author's note because I need your help. Pleaseeeeee help me guys 🥺 )

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So as this story is going to complete I am going to start a new story named "His Daughter's Mother"

I want a good, cute, beautiful name for Laksh's little daughter. Please suggest some names. I will select among them. Pleaseeeee guysssss!

Thank you for reading. Hope you liked it.

With Love
Dharani (Dhaరणि)