21. Shocks

Six months later ~

ROOHI.

"Roohi! Roohi!" the door knocked and I went there and opened it.

"Rajveer is here." The helper said, I nodded and she left.

I went inside the room and went back towards the window.

"Roohi ma'am." I heard a familiar voice and I looked behind. "I tried to find out still no news. If he is alive or not. His house, his family. No one knows anything. But they have assumed that he is d-"

"Leave," I said to Mohan. He is a worker here. And does anything for money. And may even sew his mouth for money. That's why I believe that he can find anything. Anything about Rudram?

But he was just as worthless as anyone else.

I wiped the single tear that slid somehow from my eyes as I took my dupatta and left.

Rajveer.

The new man brother got for me to give me away for his benefit.

I passed through the maze room once again. While I stood for a second and looked inside. The brief moment inside wasn't that pleasant but it still was him here.

"Roohi!" I heard a voice as I looked up at the man. I took a deep breath. I nodded in greeting and he too nodded. "Let's go," he said, he asked for my hand and I slid it into his, not liking a single thing about interactions.

I need to survive in this war zone if I want to go back home.

"You look beautiful today," he said to me as I smiled at him. An empty smile.

"The maroon color suits you well," I said too, returning his words to him as a courtesy.

We went towards his car as he opened the door for me and I sat inside it and he went to the other side and sat too.

"I'm going to America for a month. After I will come back, our marriage ceremonies will begin," he said in the silence of the car as I nodded, forcing more on a smile that never came.

Rudram where are you?

How are you?

Please please come back and save me.

Please.

I felt his eyes on me as I didn't want to look at him too so I decided to just keep staring out of the car instead of him.

"I know about your past. And what happened? Is he still in your heart?"

He asked me and I looked at him with shock.

Why would he marry me? If he knows I'm probably a widow.

"Is he still in your heart?" he asked me again since I was not responding. And how can I?

How can I tell the man I'm going to marry in two months that I -

I can't.

"It's a matter of time before things will start to disappear. And everything will be fine, soon." I said to him and hoped for a favorable answer.

"You can love him. As long you want. I don't mind." he said as things were getting more tough to believe. "I can understand that you have been with him for four years. Six months won't do much. But just be honest with me. Whatever happens, stay true to me." he said I couldn't believe what he was saying.

How can I cheat on him with my emotions? If he is like this.

"Then honestly I don't want to marry you. I want to wait. Wait until he shows up. Wait until he comebacks to take me. Wait until everything will be okay. " I said to him as he smiled.

"We are heading to pre-register our marriage certificate and this is what you are telling me? You are too harsh," he said to me and I sunk in guilt.

"Sir, sorry for disturbing you but you have a problem." A man on his window said and I realized that car was stopped now.

We both came out of the car as his man told him. Something and he turned towards me. Looking astonished.

And I worried.

"What?" I asked as their look was scaring me right now.

He came to me as he looked at me.

"They submitted your documents and it says you are registered dead," he said as the floor beneath me escaped me. And I couldn't hold my mind.

Dead?

I'm alive and fine?

Who will register me dead?

"They say Roohi Shekhawat's death certificate has been issued. Years back," he said to me as I realized what this is about.

When he asked me to change my name.

He registered me dead.

When I was alive.

"Let's go back. We are going to cancel the registration. And register the marriage later." He said as I wasn't grasping the situation.

He took me towards the door and made me sit. As the car began.

We went inside the house and I saw my late father's advisor and his good friend sipping tea and chatting with brother.

"Come sit. " Rajveer said to me as I nodded and I went inside the living room.

"ROOHI!!" Uncle saw me and yelled loudly. His eyes widen with shock. As well as he came running to me, he grabbed my arms and looked at me closely.

He was sweating. And worried as well as astounded by my sight.

"You are alive!!" he again yelled at me as everyone else was now looking shocked with how he was behaving as well as I was shocked.

"I'm alive. Why...do...you... think -" I shuttered at my words as I looked at his face.

"If you are alive. Then why did your husband say you are dead?" he asked me "And then he - he -" he said as he fell on the ground. His hand was on his head. While he started to regret things and was murmuring loudly.

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