"Don't sleep! We have to check the presentation for the last time." Shahana shook Aryan hard.

"We have checked it at least a hundred times before. If you don't let me take rest now, I'll inject sedatives to you." he threatened.

"Fine. If anything goes wrong, you will be responsible!" she huffed and went to sleep as she was tired too.

There was pin drop silence in the mansion. Not a soul stirred in the darkness.

A car stopped a few meters away from MK Mansion. A masked person got down and scaled the walls of the mansion. He pin pointed a particular window and climbed into the room. The person made his way silently towards the bed but was surprised to not find the person he was searching there. He squinted his eyes to look in the darkness and found the small figure on the sofa. 

"See, you don't share the same bed even after so many days of your marriage. If not for the mistake of that idiots, you would have been mine today and we would have consummated our marriage long ago. Well, it's never too late to change anything. Once we are out of this city, no one will be able to trace us." he whispered while caressing the face of the person in front of him.

Without wasting any more time, he injected anesthesia to her and carried her out of the mansion to his car and drove away.

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Aryan woke up with a start. He had had a terrible nightmare. He calmed down finding himself in his room. His hind vision got the sight of the open door.

"As far as I remember, we had closed the door before sleeping." he frowned and turned towards the sofa only two find Shahana missing.

He wondered where she could have gone and went to search her inside the mansion but she was nowhere to be found. His worries multiplied when he found the main door ajar.

Aryan woke up the others and explained the situation to them.

"Where is bhooji?" Rhea asked suspiciously.

"She wasn't in our room and I didn't bother to find her in hurry."  Purab informed.

"If she is involved in Shahana's disappearance, we must act fast." Pragya commented.

They called the police and visited every place where Alia could have kept Shahana.

Soon it was morning yet they didn't find any trace of either Shahana or Alia. Ranbir and Prachi were controlling the restless Aryan with difficulty.

Someone rang the doorbell and Rhea went to answer it. She came back with the police inspector.

"We have some surprising updates for you." he declared drawing everyone's attention towards him. "We have been able to track Alia Mehra but the astonishing thing is that she is coming towards this location instead of fleeing away."

"May be she will try to act innocent." Prachi suggested.

All of them started to wait for Alia to arrive. After what seemed after an eternity, a car finally stopped before MK Mansion. Out of it emerged and helped someone to get down.

Everyone's jaws dropped to the ground when they saw Alia support in Shahana and bringing her in with utmost care.

"Stop acting stunned and help me take her to her room and I will narrate everything afterwards." Alia instructed.

Aryan helped her and once they were back downstairs, Alia was met by the questioning glanced of everyone.

"Don't worry the culprit it behind the bars. It was Bittu trying to kidnap Shahana but fortunately my sleep was disturbed and I saw him. Now, you must be wondering why I saved her and that too without informing anyone. To be honest, I was feeling guilty for the pastor few days. I have realized I was wrong in not accepting Shahana. If she is the happiness or my one and only dear son, I love her too. As for the second question, I acted on instinct and didn't have time to wake anyone up." she clarified.

No one was ready to believe her but her actions had spoken otherwise. Some where planning to keep an eye on her while there others were clueless what to do.

"Thank you so much mom." Aryan broke them silence.

"Anything for my son." she hugged him.

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"Are you sure you are feeling fine?" Purab enquired like an overprotective father.

"Yes. If you don't let me go for the presentation, all my hard work will be wasted." Shahana answered.

"Fine. Take care of yourselves." he allowed them to go.

Aryan and Shahana set out for PD Industries. When they reached the place, they where awestruck by the magnificient building. Upon entering the building they admired the proficiency of the workers. Everything was being carried out professionaly. It indicated that the owner was a well sorted and distinguished personality.

They enquired at the reception and were ushered into the meeting room where they were asked to wait soon they were joined by the owner of the company.

Arhana were very surprised to see Disha who in turn was equally shocked.

"I didn't know it was you. But, since you are interested to deal with my company, we will proceed the meeting in an official way." Disha said making the fact clear that she was not their aunt while in the office.

Aryan and Shahana nodded and started the presentation. At the end of it, Disha was in a moral trouble she knew that it was Purab's trick to try and get closer to her which made her want to deny the deal. On the other hand, the two youngsters had put in a lot of effort and it would be unfair to them, if she took a decision based on her past.

After a lot of contemplation, she decided that she couldn't hurt the sentiments of Aryan and Shahana, specially when their presentation was praiseworthy and accepted today be a partner in their business.