Shantivan..
"Anjali bitiya go and see who's at the door.." Nani said and continued her chat with Mami.

Anjali nodded, but Khushi came there and offered help, "I will see who's it Di.."

Anjali smiled and nodded at her. Khushi went to open the door.

"Aman ji tum.. Where were you all for these years? Why did you just disappear like that?" Khushi asked gasping in shock after seeing him in front of her.

"Yes me.. Main ASR ke sath hi tha London main (I was with ASR in London)" Aman said with small smile.

"That means you went with him on marriage day?" Khushi asked.

"Hmm.. Can I get inside? I'm very tired actually.." Aman said ignoring her question.

"Yes sure.." Khushi moved away giving him space to enter, "HP ji please come here to take his bags.."

"No one told us that you were coming.. Will you wait in the living room till I get your room cleaned with HP ji?" Khushi asked politely.

"Yeah.. No problem.. Is ASR home?" Aman asked looking around trying to spot his boss.

"No, he left an hour ago.." Khushi said and Aman nodded his head and went towards the living room greeting the rest of the family.

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At School..

"Papa ish vely handshome in leal life, light?" Aashi asked her brother sitting on bench with him during break.

"What handshome? I'm mole handshome than him.. That'sh why youl fliends, Ruhi, Kiya and Shanaya can't shtop clinging to me evelytime.." Avish said frowning at his sister.

"Light.. Whoshe shon (son) ale you aftel all?" Aashi said sarcastically.

"Amma ish alsho vely beautiful!" Avish glared at her.

"That'sh why I'm beautiful! Boysh ale handshome like Papa!" Aashi argued.

"Fine.. He'sh handshome and shmells good pelfume too!" Avish sighed in defeat.

"Yesh.. he shmells good! You should tly that pelfume Papa ushes ok?" Aashi smiled brightly.

"Oh hello gill .. You sheem to be vely eagel to folgive Papa!" Avish raised his brows at her.

"Papa hai woh humale.. I know he did mishtake with Amma and we should give him punishment but that doeshn't mean I hate him.. I don't hate him.. Amma shaid it'sh alsho becaushe of him that we ale in thish wolld (world).. I alwaysh wish my palents to leunite (reunite) and we live again happily with each othel.. Amma's happinessh lies in both of ush and Papa too.." Aashi said with moist eyes.

"I don't hate Papa too Aashi.. It's jusht I'm angly with him fol leaving Amma alone fol all theshe yeals.. I can't shtand teals in hel eyes and you know that.. it hults me light hele.." he pointed to his heart.

Aashi nodded and hugged her brother who hugged her back tightly.

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Gupta house..

"Payal go inside your room and stay with Buaji please. I'm talking with him.." Garima said.

"Now even you don't have time for me Amma?" Payal asked in disbelief.

"It's nothing like that.." Garima nodded sideways.

"Fine I'll leave then.. As it seems everything related to Khushi only matters to you now.." she glanced angrily at Arnav, "Nowadays also you just ask about Avish and Aashi, seems like you don't care about my son, Ayaan at all.."

Payal left from there angrily and Garima sighed in disbelief thinking what's wrong with Payal.

She sat beside Arnav again waiting for him to continue.

"I think you should talk with Payal otherwise the blame of this will go to Khushi also.." Arnav said.

"No, let it be.. I will talk later with her.. Now tell me what happened next?" Garima asked.

Arnav nodded his head.

Flashback
Arnav stood staring deep down the cliff, all his moments spent with Khushi were running on his mind.

"I'm doing wrong with you once again Khushi.. You will hate me after this but I've no option left with me.. Neither I will be able to bring myself to marry you after all that Dadi made me listen.. nor I will be able to live without you now.. Ma's son is screaming inside me to give justice to her and let her soul rest in peace and Khushi's husband wants to marry you and give you the life you deserve .. Yesterday you trusted me and let me make you my wife in all senses.. and today I'm abandoning you.. Trust me, there's no one I hate more than myself in this life for doing this with you.. again! First I choose Lavanya over you, then Di over you and Now Ma.. It's not your fault Khushi.. it's all my fault.."

He shut his eyes tightly and took a step forward to jump off the cliff and end his miserable life when a laughter sound made him stop on his track.

He turned behind and found his uncle laughing cruelly at him, the same uncle who threw them out of their mansion and snatched their property leaving them homeless after his parents suicide.

"You.." Arnav frowned.

"Yes me.. after a long time we're talking like this face to face!" Arvind said.

"What are you doing here?" Arnav asked.

"Today is my nephew marriage so I thought to give you my blessings but when I went to your marriage hall you weren't there and poor your wife and family are waiting for you.. then I remembered, oh yes.. How can he be here when me and my mother already planned how to stop him from coming to his marriage?" Arvind smirked.

"You.."

"Arnav.. Arnav.. Ratna's Chote! We just have to use your mother's name and it would affect you badly.. Dekho Ma ka ladla is ready to even give on his life for her.." Arvind laughed.

"So you guys were trying to emotionally blackmail me into breaking my marriage with Khushi.." Arnav said as realization dawned upon him.

"Smart boy.." Arvind tried to caress Arnav's cheek who immediately slapped his hand away and shouted, "Why?"

"Revenge Arnav.. What you thought after throwing me out of Sheesh Mahal I would keep quiet and do nothing about the humiliation you made go through? When you kick me out of Sheesh Mahal that day only I vowed to myself that I will not rest in peace till I destroy you.. till I finish you off mercilessly.." Arvind said staring at Arnav with dark, filled with anger and revengeful eyes.

"Dadi helped you in this.." Arnav said.

"Of course she's my mother and she too wanted to destroy because you destroyed my life.." Arvind smirked.

"Then Garima aunty is not at fault.." Arnav said, "You both used her as pawn in your revenge game and used my past to make me break this marriage.. because you know that my past is my weakness.."

"Right.. bechari Garima.. she wasn't the woman your father was having an affair with.. she was the woman who suffered with your father's bad intentions with her.."Arvind said.

"Garima was actually the maid of our farm house.. your father met her once and lusted over her.. he was sure that like other girls, Garima would accept him easily too but she denied his approach because she knew he was married.. That angered him and on his frustration he tried to force himself on her but she got saved by Shashi, that time he was also servant in that house.. then she and Shashi wanted to file a complaint against your father.. so we both caught them on the way and tortured them on a deserted forest, we beat that Shashi till he fainted, then scared Garima threatening her that if she dares to open her mouth to police then we would kill her and Shashi too.. so scared of us, she kept quiet.." Arvind said.

Arnav shut his eyes disgusted after hearing Arvind sharing their bad deeds as if it's something normal.

"Your mother saw your father with another man, not Garima but since we recognized Garima, we thought to use her in our plan to revenge you.." Arvind said.

"And why you're telling me all this now? You know I still have time to reach in mandap and marry Khushi now.." Arnav asked unsure.

Arvind laughed evilly staring at him, "That's because I will make sure you never reach there.. I just wanted you to know the truth before You join your mother! I wanted you to feel helpless like now.. I wanted you to cry out of pain.. I wanted to destroy you completely before you die.. I want that Khushi and your family members to hate you so that no one feels pity of you and when I kill you everyone will think you left them and will hate you all their lives not even getting to know that you're no more.. I wanted you to be in this state Arnav.. where you want to run to reach Khushi but I won't let you!" Arvind gave him a crooked smile.

Arnav pushed him away with full force then ran from there but on his way, six goons came in front of him, surrounding him in circle.

Arnav tried to escape them, but they started beating him on Arvind's command.

"Finish him off!" Arvind ordered and sat on a big stone watching Arnav being thrown from one goon to another and being beaten up mercilessly by them.

After playing with Arnav's body, beating, punching, kicking and what not. They threw him to the ground and one goon took a iron rod walking angrily towards Arnav.

Arnav's eyes were closing slowly, his lips and forehead were bleeding, and his jaws hurt like hell. His shirt was covered with his blood and he wasn't feeling his legs moving at all, it seemed they were fractured. Still his heart was keeping him awake, he had to reach in mandap and tell Khushi everything. He had to reach there for her..

He tried to stand when the goon hit him brutally over the head with the iron rod causing him to lose consciousness, his last whisper, "Khu.....shi.."

"Just burn him alive.. do it fast we have to kill him before anyone reaches here and find us out.." Arvind shouted to his men.

Another goon rushed to get petrol and showered Arnav's body with it before lighting the match and threw it on Arnav's back and the fire spread quickly on his back burning his skin.

"ASR..." Aman shouted on top of his voice seeing his boss, his friend's body getting burnt on fire.

He ran as fast as he could, taking out his suit and shirt on the way and reached Arnav's body covering his back with the clothes to put out the fire.

Arvind and his men quickly escaped from there, while Aman was crying bitterly watching Arnav's state.

With difficulty but determination to save Arnav's life, he lifted Arnav and wrapped his arm around Arnav's waist pulling him till his car.

He drove his way to hospital but noticed a car following them through the rear mirror.

"ASR's life is in danger here.. This car is following me since so long.. If I take him to hospital then they might attack him again.." Aman thought in his mind, so he drive faster than he could and stopped the car on a deserted area then called his private jet to land there.

He took his clothes from the bag, and tied it around Arnav's wound to stop the bleeding.

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Lucknow..

In few hours, they reached in Lucknow away from Arnav's enemies eyes and Aman took Arnav quickly to the nearest hospital.

Arnav had to be operated since he had many fractures on his body and the head injury because he was beaten by an iron rod there.

One day later, Arnav gained consciousness and doctor told Aman that Arnav is paralyzed waist down.

Aman walked in the room with heavy heart and tears in his eyes watching his boss on hospital bed.

Arnav stare at him and tried to smile weakly, "You never give up on me right?"

Aman nodded sideways crying bitterly. After a long silence, he asked: Should I inform about this to Khushi bhabhi?

"No.. She won't be able to see me like this.. You know.. I'm not worth of her now.. but she's so selfless that if she sees me in this state she will forgive me and take care of me all her life.. I can't be this much selfish.. I can't let her spoil her life because of me.. I can't let her be with a man who is good as dead now.. I can't let her spoil her happiness to stay all life in serving me.." Arnav said as tears slipped from his eyes automatically, "Take me away.. Just take me away from here Aman.."

Aman cried and nodded his head, "As you say.."

Flashback ends..

"Then I went to London for further treatment of my paralysis.. It took me six years to recover from it.. once I was completely fine.. I wanted to come back just to ask forgiveness from you and Khushi.." Arnav said.

"You could have done that six years ago Arnav.. Why did you went to London without telling anything to us? To Khushi?" Garima asked shocked.

"If I asked sorry to your daughter six years back after that accident and if I ask sorry to her now that I'm fine.. What's the difference?" he asked with a smile playing on his lips.

"Six years back she would have forgiven you after seeing your state without thinking about herself and now she will not forgive you so easily and will think about herself, her self-respect, her life, her kids than you.." Garima replied realizing why he took such step.

"I didn't want her to forgive me out of pity.. I wanted her to forgive me when she feels like I deserve her forgiveness.. when she punishes me to her heart content.. then she comes in front of me and says Arnav I forgive you now.. That day I can die in peace.." Arnav said in hoarse voice. His eyes brimming with tears.

"If she forgives you then? Will you want her back in your life knowing about her marriage with NK?" Garima asked.

"If she forgives me then I will go back to London.. If she's happy with NK, then I'm happy for her.. At least he's giving her happiness that I could never give to her.. I saw today the happy family they're.. Avish and Aashi are cute and lovely kids.. I won't destroy her happiness this time.. I promise you that aunty.. I just want Khushi's forgiveness and nothing else now.. Of course it hurts me to watch her with another man other than me.. but I was responsible for all this na, so can't blame anyone other than myself for everything that happened in our lives.." Arnav said.

He wiped his tears from his cheeks, "These damn tears.. they just don't stop!"

Garima stare at him for a while, "Avish and Aashi are your kids!"

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Aman's room:

Aman sat on his bed staring at the pictures on album, "Your kids?"

"Hmm.." Khushi nodded her head and sat beside him pointing to Avish and Aashi's picture, "These two are my kids Avish and Aashi and this is Jiji's kid, Ayaan.."

"Where's their father?" Aman asked.

Khushi looked at him with wide eyes, then looked away: He has gone to work..

"Offo yeh ASR bhi na.. He just reached yesterday only and today set to work!" Aman shook his head in disbelief.

"Aman ji Arnav is no.."

"Shh.." Aman gestured her to keep silent, "You can lie to the whole world but not me.. Avish and Aashi are yours and ASR's kids and I'm pretty sure about what I'm saying.. after all I'm used to these detectives works bhabhi.. if I still want proofs then I can get the kids birth certificate, their school details or even a DNA test can help me reach the truth.." he smirked.

Khushi looked down and said nothing which clearly give a confirmation to Aman that Avish and Aashi are ASR's kids.

"The girl is exactly like you.. chubby, bubbly and cheerful girl.." Aman said smiling at Aashi's picture.

"Yeah.. but have diabetes like her father.." Khushi said.

"The boy.." Aman smirked seeing a miniature of ASR.

"Chote Laad governor.." Aman and Khushi said at the same time and burst out laughing.

"Is he like really ASR?" Aman asked amused.

"Yes.. he likes to order everything, he's very stubborn.. Aur attitude wise toh bilkul apne baap par gaye woh ladka (And attitude wise totally gone on his father that boy).. He's very protective and possessive about me.. and very intelligent too.. but he loves to gaze at stars just like me.." Khushi said.

"Khushi come here.." NK stood on the door calling her.

Khushi looked at Aman who blinked his eyes assuring her that she can go.

She walked to NK who took her to a corner on corridor, "Why are you being friendly with Aman? You know Aman is Arnav's friend and PA and you're telling him all the truth.. Now watch them take our kids away from us!"

"I'm angry and hurt with Arnav.. not with Aman.. He hasn't done anything bad to me then why should I treat him bad?" Khushi asked.

What's Arnav going to do now that he knows about his kids?

Keep sharing with me your POV.

Note: NK is not a villain in this story. He's just protective and possessive about the kids because he's the one who stayed with them and watch them grow up and had been a father figure for the kids. He considers Avish and Aashi as his kids now and is scared that Arnav might take them away from him and Khushi.