Chapter 53

Shourya's POV

She never said she loves me. She never said she cares for me. She never said I am everything to her, so how can she say this for him? How can I hear her praising some other man other than me? Not being able to hear that from her mouth, I shut her mouth by kissing her. I was feeling as if I was in heaven while tasting those pink lips, but she pushed me as if my touch burned her, and she slapped me. When she said she hates me, I felt a pang in my heart.

I can't kiss her; I can't touch her, but that idiot can kiss her. Why didn't she push him away from her and slap him the same way she pushed me when he was kissing her forehead? She never hugged me, but she can hug that idiot tightly. Dammit, I am her husband, not him.

Since I heard that Ritik's name, I am feeling like I heard that name somewhere, but where I heard it I don't remember because I've never met him before. Today only I met him, and I got to know that he is also a businessman, so maybe I heard his name through social media or maybe at business meetings, but how come he knows Khushi?

I sighed and went to the room, but Khushi was not there. I knocked on the bathroom door, but it was open.

Where is she now?

I went towards her old room. First, I thought to knock, but then I dropped that idea.

I slowly opened the door. She was sleeping on the bed with her tear-stained face. Her nose and cheeks became red due to crying. Her big eyelashes were still wet.

"It's all because of you" my subconscious accused me.

She was sleeping without food, nor even I had food, but I don't have an appetite to eat. What should I do?

I went to the kitchen and started maing pasta, which she taught me that day. After half an hour, it was done, so I put it on a plate and went towards her room.

"Khushi," I shook her lightly to wake her up. "Khushi," I again shook her.

She opened her eyes slowly, but when she saw me, she sat straight with a jolt. "What are you doing here? Go from here," she said angrily.

"Here, have this," I said and got up. "And ya, after finishing, come to our room to sleep."

"I don't want to have this. Take it back, and why are you calling its OUR room it's not 'our' it's only yours", she said rudely. "And by the way, you only said that you don't want to see my face. Then why are you calling me to sleep in YOUR room?"

She is testing my patience now. Can't she quietly come to sleep in our room? If she didn't come to sleep with me, then I would not be able to sleep. I can't sleep without cuddling with her.

"You will come to sleep in that room, and that is final," I said sternly.

She was glaring at me. "Just go from here. You can't always roam by ordering me. I'm not your servant. For god sake, leave me alone, at least for now. I am fed up with your mood swings, Shourya," she shouted at me joining her hands angrily. "I think you are suffering from bipolar disorder. You should visit a psychiatrist," She said, glaring at me.

I also became angry. "Ok sleep wherever you want. If you want, then go and sleep in the garden," I said, and I came into my room and laid in the bed.

The whole incident that happened today came to my mind. Why does Khushi love that Mr. Patel? What does he have that I don't? She said he cares for her, and I also care for her. She said he loves her, and I also love her.

Am I really in love with her?

Rahul's words started ringing in my ears....

"You love her, Shourya"

"The way you look at her, the way you get jealous when other men talk with her, the way you cares for her..through this I can tell that you love her."

" you don't like it when other men talk with Khushi..you feel jealous"

"Shourya, realise the true love, leave that Samaira. Realise what is true and what is fake before it's too late...don't throw a diamond out thinking it's a mere stone. Our fate has already been written by god, so accept what God has given you..otherwise, it will not take a single second for God to take away what he has gifted you with"

Maybe what Rahul said was true. Maybe I am in love with Khushi. A smile crept across my face. I am in love with Mrs. Khushi Shourya Kapoor, but that smile vanished thinking about Samaira.

But what about Samaira?

For the past three hours, I have been trying to sleep, but sleep is far away from me. I got up and went towards Khushi's room and slowly opened the door.

She is sleeping here peacefully, and here I couldn't even close my eyes for a second.

I slowly entered her room and lay beside her without making a sound.

Maybe now I will get a peaceful sleep.

Khushi's POV

I felt someone shaking me. I don't know when sleep came over me. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that the devil was standing there with a plate filled with pasta. Can't he just leave me alone for some time? He was calling me to sleep in "our" room. Why is he calling it's OUR, when it's only his? I don't have any right to his things. If he never considered me as his wife, then how can I have the right to his things?

After he left my room, I changed my clothes, which were still there in the cupboard, and went to sleep. I didn't have an appetite to eat. My stomach was full from today's incident and his words, so I slept without having food.

I am used to his presence beside me, but it's ok, let him sleep alone. I don't care.

Thinking about today's incident I don't know when I fell asleep.

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My sleep was disturbed when morning sun rays fell on my face through the window. I yawned and rubbed my eyes. I tried to get up, but I felt something heavy on my stomach. I looked beside me. Shourya was sleeping soundly by keeping his hand on my stomach, and his one leg was entangled with mine. How dare he come to sleep with me after what he did yesterday? I slowly freed myself from him without disturbing his sleep and got up.

I took the jar that was filled with water and threw that water on his face. He got up with a jolt.

"What the hell is this?" He yelled, wiping his face with his hands.

"That is water," I said, smirking at him.

He gave me an angry glare. "I can see that, but why the hell did you throw water on me?"

"Why the hell did you come to sleep here with me?" I asked, glaring at him back.

"Actu-actually, I wa-was not able to sleep with-without you," he said, looking everywhere but at me.

Bipolar

"Get up NOW and go from here," I said, going to the bathroom.

I came out of the bathroom and saw Shourya was not there. I sighed in relief and went downstairs to prepare breakfast. From today onwards, I have to stay home. I will surely get bored.

I prepared breakfast and had it without waiting for Shourya. It's been fifteen minutes now and still he didn't come to have his breakfast. Maybe he went to the office, but so early??

I sat down to watch TV. I was scrolling through the channels when my phone rang. 'Saira'

Maybe she is calling to ask why I didn't come to the office today. I swiped up to receive the call, "Hello, Saira."

"Hey, where are you today?"

"I am at home."

"Why? What happened to you? Are you ok?" She asked with worry.

"Saira, I think you are the only one who didn't get this news. Shou- Mr. Kapoor fired me from work," I replied.

"What? And why did he do that?" She almost shouted.

"He-" I was about to tell her the reason when something came to mind to ask her. "Saira listen, yesterday did Shou- I mean, Mr. Kapoor personally ask you to call me in his cabin?" I asked her.

"Why..what happened?"

"Just tell me, Saira. Did he personally ask you?" I asked again.

"No, Khushi. When I was going into Zanvil's cabin, Mr. Kapoor's girlfriend Samaira met me on the way, so she told me to call you in Shourya's cabin immediately because he wanted to talk with you about something important."

"What?" so Samaira did that??..but why?

"Yes, Khushi, she told me that Shourya sir is calling you. Now tell me what happened."

"When I went to meet him in his cabin, he was not there," I told her.

"So what happened?"

God, she is not understanding. So, I explained everything to her about that presentation incident.

"So that's the reason he fired you from work?" She asked.

"Hmm."

"But Khushi, how did Mr. Ishaan Agarwal get our presentation?"

"That's the same thing I am thinking. I don't know how he got that presentation. When you came into my cabin, I was working on my laptop. I don't know who entered my cabin when I left to meet Sho- Mr. Kapoor." I still doubt Samaira, but I don't have any proofs. Without proof I can't accuse her. If I tell Shourya, he will not believe me. What if he asks me for proof?

"I will try to find out," she said.

Someone rang the doorbell. Maybe Jenny.

"Someone is ringing the doorbell. I will call you later. Bye."

"Ok, bye," I cut the call and went to open the door.

"Good morning, Jenny," I greeted her.

"Good morning. Today you didn't go to the office." She asked, entering inside.

"No, I got fired from work," I told her and sat on the couch. She also came and sat beside me.

"Why?" She asked with a worried tone.

I told her about that whole incident that happened in the office.

She was shocked. "Oh my god, how can he steal someone's hard work?"

"Yes, Jenny. Because of him, we lost that deal."

"Oh don't be sad, Khushi. Everything will be alright. God will make justice" she said while side hugging me.

I think I should tell everything to Ritik, but what will I tell him? If he comes to know about Samaira being Shourya's girlfriend, then he will surely kill him. His first impression on Shourya was not good, and if I tell him this, he will bury him alive, and I very well know angry Ritik.

Should I talk with Rahul about my doubts about Samaira? If I tell him, would he believe me? I think at least for once I should try to tell him.

I took my mobile and dialed his number. He is not receiving the call. Maybe he is in the meeting.

After one and a half hour, again I dialed his number again.

He received. "Hel-"

"Hello, Rahul, I wanted to tell you something. I don't know if you believe me or not, but I want to tell you this..." I told him everything about Samaira that Saira told me. There was total silence. I was waiting for him to say something.

"Ohh, so now you are putting your blame on Samaira."

"Shourya," my voice came out more like a whisper. I was shocked to hear Shourya's voice.

Did I dial Shourya's number by mistake?

I checked the number. It was Rahul's,  then what Shourya is doing with his mobile.

"Accept your mistake, Khushi. Simply don't accuse others of your mistake," he said cutting the call.

I felt like punching him.

I don't know when he will trust me or understand me.

I sighed and went to the kitchen to help Jenny.

When I was cutting the vegetables, suddenly something came my mind. I stopped cutting the veggies and washed my hands.

"Jenny, I am going to the office now," I told her.

"But you said you got fired."

"Yes, I will tell you everything after I get back," I said and ran upstairs to get ready.

I took a cab to go to the office.

I knocked on Rahul's cabin door, but there was no response.

"Hey, Khushi, you are here?" Saira was coming with some files.

"Hi, Saira, I have some work with Mr. Malhotra. Can you tell me where I can get him?" I asked hopefully.

"Yes, he is in Mr. Kapoor's cabin."

"Thank you so much." I thanked her and ran towards Shourya's cabin. I knocked at the door. When I heard him saying 'come in' I went inside.

"Khushi, what are you doing here?" Shourya asked me, raising his eyebrows.

"I want to talk with Rahul," I said, because I know there is no use in talking with Shourya about Samaira, but today I will prove to him that I didn't do anything.

"Khushi, what happened? Are you ok?" Rahul asked with concern.

I nodded. "I am fine, Rahul. Actually, I wanted to talk with you about something important."

"Yes, say," he said giving me his full attention. I looked at Shourya who was looking at me by narrowing his brows and was waiting for me to talk.

"Khushi, now don't tell that you have come to tell Rahul what you were blabbing on the phone," Shourya said rolling his eyes.

"I said I want to talk with Rahul. So, you keep your mouth zip," I said glaring at him and return I also got a glare from him.

I ignored him and looked at Rahul and told him everything that Saira told me. "Rahul, I have a doubt on Samaira." After telling everything I said.

"Do you have any proof?" Here comes Shourya's question. I knew he would ask this. Rahul was also looking at me.

"You want proof, right? Then let's see the yesturday's CCTV footage," I said confidently.

"Ok, let's go. If I find that cake face doll is behind all this, then I will kill her," Rahul said in anger.

Shourya, today I will show you the true colour of your Samaira.

We three of us went to check yesterday's CCTV footage.

"Varun, show us yesterday's CCTV footage of Khushi's cabin," Rahul said to Varun who was handling the security system.

"Yes, sir," he started the video.

Samaira you are gone today. I mentally told Samaira, but what shocked us was that the footage was only half.

"What the hell is this? Show us from starting!" Shourya shouted at Varun.

"Sir, It got deleted," he said being scared.

"How it happened?" Shourya shouted at him again.

"Sir, I don't know. Yesterday I got a call from Khushi. She said that you were calling me urgently in your cabin so I left to meet you, but you were not there in your cabin, so when I came back here, someone deleted the footage and turned off the cameras." Varun said with his trembling voice. Shourya and Rahul both were looking at me.

Why is he lying that I called him?

"Varun, why are you lying? I didn't call you. Speak the truth," I said in a stern tone. I was scared.

"I am not lying, Khushi. Yesterday you only called me saying sir is calling me in his cabin."

"For god sake, Varun stop lying. I didn't call you."

Why is he lying? I didn't call him. How can he lie?

"Varun, stop lying and tell us the truth I don't like a person who lies," Rahul said, glaring at him.

"Varun, tell the truth. Otherwise, you will be fired from work," Shourya warned him.

"Sir, believe me. I am not lying. If you want, you can check my mobile," Varun handed his mobile to Shourya.

Shourya was checking his phone, but later his angry gaze was on me. He showed me Varun's mobile call history in which my number was there.

I was beyond shocked. How can it be possible? If I didn't call him, then how come....God what's happening?

Here I thought I will prove my innocence today, but here all the proofs are against me. Thinking all this, tears formed in my eyes.

"Done?" Shourya said looking at me.

What should I do now? He still doubts me.

I looked at Rahul hoping he would believe me.

"Varun, we need a password to delete the footage, right?" Rahul asked him.

"Yes sir, but how that person deleted that footage that I don't know. Maybe that person must be knowing the password. I must say that person is very clever in this things," Varun said looking at Rahul.

"And what about you?" Shourya mocked glaring at him.

Varun bent his head low.

Rahul's mobile beeped with the message and smirked.

Now what happened to him?

"Let's go to Samaira's place," Rahul said.

"Rahul, we don't have any proof against her, so by going there we simply can't blame her," Shourya said looking at Rahul.

"That you leave on me, Shourya. Your so called girlfried is doing too much now," Rahul said gritting his teeth.

"Wait, sir," Varun said and made us stop on our tracks. "Sir, we can recover that deleted footage."

"Then whom you are waiting for? DO IT NOW," Shourya yelled at him.

God, please...please

What we saw made us freeze in our place, but it also brought joy to my heart.

I sighed in relief.

"Let's go," Rahul said by clenching his teeth, and Shourya was fuming in anger.

Writer's POV

They made their way to Samaira's place.

'Because of her, I am in this situation' Khushi was cursing her mentally.

The whole ride was filled with silence. Shourya was balling his hands. He was boiling in anger.

How he blamed and shouted at Khushi without believing her single word and how he trusted every single word that Ishaan told him was roaming in his mind. He was feeling more and more guilty by passing seconds.

After a few minutes, they reached her house.

Rahul rang the bell. After a few seconds Samaira opened the door. She was looking at them with a shocked expression. Khushi was feeling like killing her.

"Hey, baby," She said looking at Shourya, but he didn't react. "What are you people are doing here?" She asked looking at Rahul and Khushi.

"We are here to give you a surprise," Rahul said entering her house.

"And what surprise may I know?" She asked making a disgusting face at Rahul.

"Oh...so much eager to know huh? Not bad, " he said. "Ok then, tell us, for how much money you sold our company's presentation to that Ishaan?"

Hearing this question, all colours of her face faded away. "Wha-what presentation you are tal-talking about?" She asked with a shaky voice.

'Today you are gone, Samaira' Khushi smirk looking at Samaira's pale face.

"Samaira, why did you ask one of our employees saying I called Khushi when I didn't?" This time Shourya asked her. He was controlling himself not to choke her breath.

"Ba-baby, what are you saying? I didn't ask anyone. That douchebag is lying," she said pointing at Khushi.

It angered Khushi. She marched towards her and gave her a tight slap and grabbed her hair tightly making her wince in pain. "I am lying, huh? Stop acting as if you have not done anything. Everyone knows that you are the one who sold that presentation to that Ishaan. You were the one who called Varun from my phone," she shouted at her. Rahul and Shourya were shocked looking at this side of Khushi.

"How dare you slap me?" Samaira was about to slap her, but Shourya held her hand.

"Don't even dare!" He warned her.

"Baby," Samaira was more shocked. "Baby, I didn't do anything. She is lying."

"Thank god that she slapped you only once. If I was in her place then I would have slapped you ten times more," Rahul said throwing daggers at her.

"And we all know very well that who is lying and who is saying the truth, Samaira."

"I am not ly-lying," she said looking at Shourya. She was hoping that he would believe her lie and support her as always.

Khushi grabbed her arm. "Tell the truth, Samaira. We all came to know about your cheap act. You know, because of you I lost my job," she said. "Because of you no one trusts me. They doubt me, " she said looking at Shourya. His eyes softened, but Khushi ignored it.

"Leave me!" she shouted by freeing herself from Khushi's hold.

"You want to know the truth, right? Then yes, I did that," she shouted. Her fake tears were rolling down on her cheeks.

Flashback

When Rahul was asking about the presentation to Shourya, Samaira was listening to everything from outside. When Shourya said that the presentation was with Khushi, so Samaira thought it would be easy for her to steal that from her.

After meeting Shourya, she left his cabin. She looked in Khushi's cabin. Khushi was working on her laptop. Samaira was looking for a chance to steal her presentation, then her gaze fell on Rahul and Shourya, who were going out of the cabin.

When she was walking here and there thinking about how to steal that presentation from Khushi, she bumped into Saira, who was going into Zanvil's cabin in a hurry.

"I am so sorry, ma'am," Saira apologised.

"You bit-" Samaira was about to shout at her when she remembered seeing Saira with Khushi every time.

'Maybe she is that Khushi's friend' she thought.

"It's ok, please can you tell Khushi that Shourya is calling her? He was saying that he urgently wanted to talk with her. Actually, he asked me to call her, but I am getting late for work, so please do that favour for me?" Samaira asked her with a pleading tone.

"Of course, ma'am, I will tell her."

"Please go fast. Otherwise, you know him, right? Simply he will shout at her."

Saira nodded and ran towards Khushi's cabin because she didn't want Khushi to get scolded by Shourya because all employees know their boss has an anger issue.

Samaira was smirking in her mind.

Saira entered Khushi's cabin.

"Khushi, Shourya sir is calling you in to his cabin immediately. He wants to talk with you urgently," Saira told her in a hurry. She was also having a lot of work. So after telling this, she went towards Zanvil's cabin.

Samaira was looking at them from standing in the corner.

Khushi got up immediately and ran towards Shourya's.

Samaira entered Khushi's cabin. She became happy when she saw Khushi's laptop, which was already on, and that presentation, which was also open as she was working on it.

Samaira took out her pen drive and moved that file to her pen drive.

She put that pen drive in her purse, and then she saw Khushi's phone, which was beside her laptop.

Samaira took her phone and dialled Varun's name, which she had taken from one of the employees, but it was already saved on Khushi's phone.

She put her handkerchief on the phone. Varun received the call. "Hello,"

"Varun, Shourya sir is calling you urgently in his cabin. Please go fast," she said and cut the call.

'Today no one will be able to save you, Khushi' she thought.

Suddenly her phone started ringing. She saw the caller ID and smiled, then received the call. "Hello"

"Hey, have you done the work I have given you?" He asked

"Yes, I have that presentation with me, but now I have to delete the CCTV footage. Otherwise, they can catch us. I will call you later, bye," she said and cut the call hurriedly and left the cabin. She saw Varun coming out of the security room. She slowly entered and deleted the CCTV footage according to how her friend, who was a hacker, taught her to do that, and then turned off the cameras and immediately left from there.

"Bye bye Khushi baby..today you are dead in Shourya's hand," she thought, mentally smirking, thinking how Khushi will suffer.

Flashback ends

She went towards Shourya. "You know why I did that? It's because of you," she said, pointing at Shourya.

He gritted his teeth in anger. "Because of me?" There was confusion and anger on his face.

"Yes, because of you. Since she entered your life, you don't have time for me, but you have time for that witch. She has become more important to you than me. First, you allowed her to enter your life and then in your room. I even doubt that you are involved with her physically," She shouted at Shourya.

Khushi was stunned upon hearing that.

"What the hell, Samaira? So you sold our presentation for this?" He shouted.

She went near Shourya. "What happened to your promise that you made that day that you would never consider her your wife and that you would leave her and marry me? What happened to that promise, Shourya?"

"He never considered me his wife, Samaira," Khushi said in her mind.

She looked at Shourya. He was already looking at her with guilt. Tears formed in her eyes thinking about the fight they had when Shourya asked her to sign the divorce papers.

"Tell me what happened to that promise, huh? Since she came into your life, you have been ignoring me. You are spending your time with her instead of me. Since I asked you to divorce that gold digger, you were not even taking my calls properly and even stopped meeting me, so put her out of our lives, I had to do something," Samaira started shouting at him again.

"Shut up, just shut up!" He shouted back and grabbed her neck, slamming her against the wall. "You know what? You are the real gold-digger, not her. Because of all this, you sold our presentation to that Ishaan, huh? Actually, I am an idiot. I should have known your intention."

He left her neck. "You know what? You are free from this relationship. I don't want you in my life ever again," he said as if it didn't affect him. He was saying it as if he was also waiting to break up with her.

Khushi was shocked.

Did he really break up with her? Did he even love her?

"Baby, what are you saying? I really love you. I can't leave without you. I am sorry. I did that just to throw her out of our lives," Samaira said, taking his hands in hers and also glaring at Khushi.

He jerked away from her hand. "Don't touch me."

"By the way, Samaira, are you sure you did that only for Shourya and not for money or other reason?" Rahul asked, smirking at her.

Other reason??

"You shut up! I did that because of my love for Shourya," she shouted.

Rahul closed his ears with his fingers and started laughing. "Oh ho, Samaira, how much you are shouting. Ok, if you have done that for your so-called love for Shourya, then why didn't you give that presentation to Ishaan for free? Why did you take money from him?" He asked while folding his hands.

Shourya was also looking at her by narrowing his brows.

"Because I knew how much he worked hard to do the presentation," she said, looking everywhere but at them. She knew that her lies were caught.

Khushi laughed at her lies. "Really, Samaira? I must say, you are really good at acting and lying," she said, looking at her. "If you really respected his hardwork, then you would have never sold that presentation to that Ishaan."

"You, shut up!" She snapped at her.

"From now onwards, stay away from us," Shourya warned her.

"Baby, what are you saying?"

"What you heard," Rahul said, glaring at her. "Oh Samaira, I forgot that there is one more amazing surprise I have planned for you."

So finally, Samaira agreed that she sold that presentation to Ishaan...and Khushi is proved innocent.

Any guesses what surprise did Rahul plan for Samaira?

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