Part 28

"Shashi Babua, you shouldn't have let the two of them to fly away, you never know what mishap our sanka Devi would bring down on them , awww, my leg , Hai re nandakishore..." Madhumati couldn't make out if she should worry about her leg or her nieces in the new city.

"Jiji, you don't worry they both will look out for each other and I trust Payalia to keep everything under control, you just concentrate on making yourself better." Shashi smiled in return to his sister's continuous rants from the past two hours.

"Ye lo Nandakishore, I forgot something very important yesterday when I got injured there was this boy who helped us in going to the clinic and in reaching home, otherwise it would have been difficult for the girls to take care of it." Madhumati remembered after looking at the slip of paper with a name and number on it, which was placed alongside her medicines.

"I think it would look good if we called him and thanked him. I couldn't even thank the boy as I was in pain. What do you say Shashi?" she looked at her brother with questioning eyes.

"Ok Jiji as you say, let me call him.."

"There is no need for you to take the trouble Uncle Ji, I'm here.." before Shashi could make a call he heard a voice from behind with a smile on his face it was the same person from the previous day whom his sister recognised.

"Arey Babua , Long live , we were just talking about you, come have a seat, Garima please bring a glass of water" Madhumati was pleasantly surprised.

"Ji namaste, how are you feeling today?" he said before pulling a chair towards the bed.

In the next few minutes introductions were done. Shashi Gupta could see how within a few minutes the man has made a good impression on the female members of his house, he understood why his sister was very much attracted to the person, he tried to converse in between with a single word answers as he was not much comfortable with this man's over friendly behaviour.

"Maybe you could stay here, that is if you like it? what is your opinion Shashi?" her sister was looking at him expectantly and he cursed himself for not paying much attention to their talks.

"Huh?"

"I'm saying babua can stay as a tenant with us in the room upstairs, it is unoccupied, and he is in search of a room." going by the expression of the lady it was confirmed that she has decided and was only asking her brother to support her decision.

Shashi was unable to make out if he should nod his head in approval or denial, a man staying under the same roof as his unmarried daughters, for sure it is not advisable, will the history repeat itself? but how to deny his sister's demands, she looked genuinely happy in the presence of the man.

"Sure, we can think about that option" he hoped his sister could understand his dilemma and not promise the man.

"I think uncle Ji is not comfortable with this.." the man spoke with a tinge of disappointment in his voice.

"No, no Nandakishore, nothing like that, don't mind him, you can shift here whenever you would like to." his sister has passed the ultimatum hence it was decided that the man named SHYAM would be staying under the same roof as them.

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Four of them couldn't find much time to relax once they reached the city. Back-to-back meetings kept them occupied for most part of the day but they were happy though with the results.

Two days had passed and Arnav couldn't find a single moment alone to have a word with Khushi but he felt everything was back to normal as Khushi wasn't avoiding him anymore. So he passed his feelings of discomfort as an fleeting distraction and went back happily to work on his company's progress, there is no way a middle class girl like her could make him, THE GREAT ASR doubt himself. The girl was nowhere the reason to all his dreams or sleepless nights it was just his work and his momentary distraction. It was decided to let the girl of the hook.

With Akash it was an entirely different story, he could sense the tension between his brother and PA reducing which made him relax a bit and concentrate on his love life. He had sleepless nights and n number of plans and excuses ready to jump in at any moment where he senses twitch in the face muscles of his brother or better an occurrence of frown but nothing of that sort has happened.

Maybe some credit goes to Aman too who was there in the city one day before them and mostly beside Arnav.

Everything was sorted out related to work so he hoped the next day being Sunday and their flight is scheduled at night so may be he could grab some lone moments with Payal, may be they could make some good memories outside office too, may be he could get a chance to hold her hand or better kiss? hold on hold on they still haven't even started calling each other on first name basis and here he was dreaming of kissing his lady love? He decided to take some action before he was left only with dreams for the rest of his life.

Aman could see Khushi had improved a lot and ASR's temper had gone down a notch, Akash was performing well in his new role and Payal made sure her work always spoke in favour of her. He just hoped this continues and ASR's limitless calls to him would be reduced to a bare minimum.

Khushi decided there is no way she could avoid Arnav for ever as he is her boss and made peace with it, she would think only about work and nothing else, she wouldn't look at his face or his intimidating eyes, problem solved, they have come far, they made truce and worked on it to achieve the work balance without bringing out each other's demons outside so she can't destroy it. At any given time they would stay at a minimum of ten feet distance to avoid any physical or mental harm to each other.

Payal was happy, she is not actively remembering her ex-fiance, on work front she is getting good opportunities to learn more, her higher-up was understanding, there are little hiccups between Khushi and ASR but still it is under control, there are smiles on the elders face at home after so long with fingers crossed she hoped their life stays like this forever.

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"Anjali bitiya may be you should take a break with all that vrat's, pooja's. You already have a loving husband to share life with, why are you still pestering devimayya?" Manorama whispered into Anjali's ears, as they sat in the satsang.

"Mami, yes I'm happy with my life but I want chotte to experience the same and all these are for him only." she replied in return.

Our darlings have made some decisions but what is devimayya's decision?

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