The next day Nandini reached office and while coming towards her desk , her eyes fell on Manik's desk which was empty. Not that he was late , but he was not supposed to be officially present for 15 days or till the final decision is been taken.

She felt bad recalling what happened yesterday and how worried Manik was because of all this. His tensed face , his angry yet worried eyes was coming in front of her.

Just when she was recalling all this while staring at his desk , Cabir from the other side noticed this. He stood there silently and after thinking for a while Nandini's chain of thoughts came to a pause and she noticed Cabir looking at her.

Both didn't say anything. Nandini looked down for a moment but the next moment , she spoke up , "don't worry Cabir , your friend will be back very soon."

Cabir took a deep sigh and nooded his head with a reply , "I hope so..!". With that he returned to his seat and Nandini too started off with her work.
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At Manik's place :-
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"Buddy tu tension mat le.. I am sure you will find a way out..!" Dhruv said to Manik who was dugged into his laptop sitting on bed in order to find out something and Dhruv lying on his stomach beside him.

"Kaise Dhurv ..? How..?? Since morning I am trying to figure out something but all in vain..!! I just don't know wht to do. !" Manik replied shutting the flap of his laptop and holding his head in his hands.

 "Buddy buddy.. Relax Haan.." Dhruv sat up and removed his hands from his head. "Tu itne tension mein to kuch nhi kr paayega , first of all stop getting stressed, Aur phir wo ladki ; Kya naam hai uska .?" Dhruv tried to recall her name .

"Nandini..!!" Manik replied .

"yes Nandini woh bhi iss matter mein involve hai na to don't worry she will defiantly help you out." Dhurv tried to calm him down.

"Arre buddy she's already so stressed out in her life and I don't wanna trouble her more." Manik replied leaning back on bed with the support of his hands , closing his eyes.

"Stressed out..?? But buddy Cabir said ki she hardly talks to anyone and you are saying she's stressed out..?? Do you know her that well Kya..??" Dhruv said frowning his head.

Manik suddenly opened his eyes and realised what he said.

"Nahi .. Wo actually .. Yaar buddy this is my problem , fine ki she took a stand for me and got me 15 days to prove myself but buddy I can't just sit and relax right..?? I need to sort my mess on my own..right..??"

Manik tried to convince him which he successfully did. Dhurv relaxed him and told him to take a break for which they both went to the balcony and stood there.
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Evening time , after the office got over , in the parking lot :-

Nandini was standing in front of a car taking the support of the bonnet , folding her arms across her chest.

"Nandini ... Hi.." Danish , the owner of the car in front of which she was standing , greeted her in a confused look. Nandini did not responded to his greeting and started the conversation standing still in that position , facing him straight into his eyes.

"I need to talk to you." Nandini said to him.

"Haan bolo na Kya hua..??" Danish said to her.

"I really don't know if you remember it or not but humari team ki success party ke 1-2 din pehle I found you on Manik's desk doing something on his system. I asked you also but you said nothing. What were you exactly doing there ?" Nandini asked him .

"What you talking about Nandini mujhe Kuch yaad nahi." He said nervously.

She smirked on his statement and said "as excepted Danish ; really. You know I would be really glad to tell you or rather inform you that you suffer from short term memory loss and I suggest you to please see a doctor." Nandini said sarcastically.

Danish nervously looked here and there.

"Waise tum doctor ko Milo ya na milo that is none of my concern , I actually wanted to talk to you about yourself Mr. Danish Shekhar ..( taking a pause )... or should I say ...(again took a pause)... Mr. Danish Saxsena.!!!" . Danish was shocked .

"Kya hua apna hi naam sun kar shock lag gaya.?? Strange..!!!". Nandini said looking straight into his eyes , folding her arms across her chest.

"What are you saying, saxena nahi Nandini you are mistaken it's not saxena it's Shekhar ." Danish said stammering.

"Come on Danish don't try to fool me, you also know that I am not mistaken . You are Danish Saxsena and not Danish Shekhar" .

Nandini said loud in anger. Both looked at each other. "Danny ...!!!! Harshad's younger brother right..??" Nandini said and Danish in shock looked at her.
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Flashback-
yesterday night while Nandini and Navya were checking facebook then suddenly Nandini came across a post that was liked by one of her colleague which was of Danish. Both were surprised to see the picture.

It was a picture posted by Danish of his and Harshad . Navya was shocked after seeing Harshad's picture while Nandini was shock to see Danish and Harshad together.

"How come these two are together...?" Nandini said in shock. "Tum kya ise janti ho..?? Navya asked.

"yes Navya this is Danish meri he team main hai." Saying this she clicked on Danish's profile and what she witnessed came as a shock.

Danish was Harshad's brother. "Harshad ka bhai ; tumhari team mein ..?? yeah coincidence hai ya kuch aur Navya asked. "I don't know Navya.." Nandini replied.

Both Nandini and Navya were clueless . While Navya was busy checking Danish's profile, Nandini was thinking something.

"God Navya ... Dannyyy...!!!!!" she almost shouted.

"Danny but woh to Harshad kaa..." and navya paused while saying . "Ek minute Danny ... Danish ... matlab dono Ek hi Hain matlab ki Harshad ka bhai tumhare saath Kaam karta hai or tumhe Pata bhi nahi...??" Navya was all confused .

"Baat yeh nahi hai ki Mujhe pata tha ya nahi , fact is ki company mein Danish apne real name se nahi hai Aur ..."

She paused while saying all this.

"Aur kya..??" Navya asked

"Aur yeh Navya , that I remember Danish doing something on Manik's system but when I asked him he refused that its just general. That time I ignored it but now I'm sure he was surely up to something and I have this doubt that all this is done by Danish only. He only send that mail.." Nandini said .

" but Nandu why will danish do this..?" Navya asked her. 

" I don't know but I am sure he is somewhere related to all this and now after knowing that he's Danny I cannot trust him a bit ...!!!" Nandini said loud in anger clenching her fist

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Flashback end
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Danish who till now was nervous. Stood freely sliding his hands in his trousers pocket , wearing his evil smile.

"Nice...!! Very nice..!! But you'll take this much time to recognise me , I didn't excepted that. What ..?? Some 10 months have passed since I'm here ; and you couldn't guess that this Danish is your old Danny..??" Danish said with an evil smirk on his face.

Nandini was fuming in anger but she kept quite. Danish was known as Danny amongst his friends and family. Nandini , till the time being with Harshad , never saw his pic and neither met him. They only had few talks over phone.

Nandini didn't wanted to raise the topic of her past so she directly asked him. "Why you did this.??" .

"To spoil you.!!" Danish said in full anger.

"Spoil me...?? But why..??" Nandini asked him releasing her hands from the fold.

"Cause you ditched my brother ... Damm it..!! Because of you , he suffered , I couldn't let you go so easily." Danish said pointing his finger towards her.

"I ditched him...?? Seriously ...?? Danish who so ever knows about me and Harshad , sab jaante hain that he ditched me that too upon my very own best friend. And you are saying just the opposite." Nandini tried to clear herself.

"Shut up Nandini... Don't even try to put your blame upon my brother. He told me everything. He did nothing. You were at fault, you left him." Danish shouted at her.

Nandini's anger was reaching another level.

"You know what Danish , I really don't care what your brother told you and I don't even need to give any explanation to you as well. Ho to tum Harshad ke hi bhai. Kameenapan to tum dono ke Khoon mein hai." Nandini replied to him with her big eyes filled with anger.

"Nandini.." Danish shouted and she smirked on his shout.

"You needed revenge from me , then why you targeted Manik..??" She asked coming straight to the point.

"Because I wanted his position , which was close to you. Jisse mujhe tumse revenge lene ka aacha chance mil jata." He explained in detail.

"For taking revenge from me... You are ready to put someone's career at stake..??" She asked.

"As If I care.." He replied turning his face around.

"But I won't let you do this" she replied with full confidence.

"Try me...!" He replied casually.

"I don't know ye sab tumne kaise kiya..? But i will prove it for sure. I had a doubt on you but thanks to you , it got confirmed. Now I can easily concentrate on proving him Innocent.." Nandini replied.

"All the best..!!" Danish said giving her his evil smirk with which Nandini left for there and soon left for home.