OS : Silver Lining

I've written a short one shot...pls do read and lv comments. Thanks !! Hv a great day !! There is truly no show like chhal !! Abs mindblowing concept.

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She stared up from her magazine to look at the tall figure sitting on the chaise and flipping channels.

It had been three months since she was in his life...3 months since she was aditi...and 3 months since her entire life was gone for a toss !! Not in a million years had she imagined herself in a situation like this. Had someone told her 3 months ago that she wouldn't be in delhi, wouldn't be with rishi, wouldn't be neha she would have thought that person was definitely snuffing some substance !!!

But here she was...in the palace that was the home of the jaiswals...in a sprawling bedroom that was aditi's and in love with a person who wasn't her husband !

Kabir Jaiswal...the man she was in love with. He was a man of few words, but the few that he used were impactful !! She had hated him when she first met him, she thought he was a tyrrant, a blackmailer, a criminal, a murderer. He had forced her to play aditi for gaining her property ! He had used rishi to get her things. She hated him so much for that. She had cursed him each night and had vowed to get back at him. But all that had changed.

When rishi's truth had first been revealed to her she was broken ! Despite not signing the papers, kabir had let her go since he hadn't figured a way out of the wedding. He had promised her he'd never cross the line with her and had delivered on that. An hour before the wedding, dressed in all the finery befitting a royal bride neha sat contemplating how to take her own life. A life without rishi was unimaginable ! Worse was being wedded to kabir jaiswal...as she sat staring at herself in the mirror...she heard a noise. Kabir had walked in thru the french windows. Dressed in a deep burgundy bandh gala suit he looked everybit the rajput he was. A rajput who had come to deliver on his word. He had clasped her hand and as she struggled, he jusT looked at her and said...I have and will always love aditi. You are not mine, you belong to someone else, and today I will return you to your true destiny. I hope you will forgive me for the pain I have caused, trust me when I say that I hated every bit of it, and only my deepest predicament could hv forced me to agree to something like this. Maybe one day you will understand.

With these words he had proceeded to lead her out of the room. A short drive later they arrived at the same ruins which she had rchd when trying to escape from the party ! 'Rishi will be here in a few minutes, there is money and a car awaiting you at the other end of this fort. You are free to go where you want.all I leave you with is, please take care of yourself and be careful of who you trust.'

He led her to a raised platform, and with a last bow he took leave. She had so many questions, why had he suddenly left her, what was the speech in the room about...had he let go of the 900 crores. Was this also a plan ?

The sound of a car brought her back to her senses. She ran to the direction kabir had pointed with only rishi on her mind. She saw him standing against a white SUV, with the door open. She broke into a sprint and with tears running down her cheek embraced him.

'Rishi I'm so glad you are okay, did they hurt you too much ? Was it unbearable ? M so sorry that I got you into so much trouble ! If it weren't for me you'd never have seen this day. Oh m so sorry ! '

She was hugging him and sobbing uncontrollably. Her joy and relief knew no bounds. Finally she was with rishi. It was at this moment that she realized that he wasn't hugging her back. He was talking to himself.

' One crore ! One freaking crore...kabir jaiswal has left one crore'

Puzzled neha questioned rishi...one crore ? What ? Where

Nehaa we r rich, beyond our dreams...free to live the life we want with the comforts we want. One crore ! Do you know what this means !!

He made her sit in the car and started to drive. She was still reeling from all the emotions she was feeling. And all rishi was doing was talking about the one crore.

'Rishi, the money is not ours to keep. Its blood money. Kabir jaiswal is a murderer. We need no part of his money. Let's just donate it.'

The car came to a screeching halt. Rishi was looking at her incredulously !!

' You think I'd let all my hardwork and plan go to a waste ? Heck had you stayed and signed his papers, who knows he'd probably have given us much more ! But no...you wanted to be a stick in the mud...so what if you had to marry him ! Atleast he was paying for it ! And now you want me to give this back too ?'

Neha couldn't believe her ears. She sputtered and choked unable to say anything.

Rishi went on to reveal how kabir had met him for the first time in a mall. He had asked for his help so that neha could impersonate aditi nd get her murderer out in the open. He didn't want aditi's fortune to fall in the wrong hands...

But rishi knew that neha would never agree. He masterminded the entire kidnap plan and used kabir's need cleverly to his advantage. His only mistake was not knowing how much aditi was worth else he would hv asked for a bigger cut ! Anyway he had a new house in delhi, this car and this crore for now ! And she wanted him to give it all up ?? She must be joking !! He started to drive again !!

Neha felt the ground shake and was swept by a wave of nausea. Her rishi had so cruelly used her love and played with her emotions only for money. He made another desperate man take the fall for his evil plans ! Oh how she had misjudged this man ! She had wanted to spend her entire life with him ! How could she hv been so wrong !!!

'Rishi...this is wrong. There is still time, give up the money. We don't need it. We can be happy in our small world, we don't need this.'

She felt herself unceremoniously pushed out of the speeding car...and his voice as he yelled...' I don't need you !'

She tumbled down the snow covered slopes and just before the blackout only one image flashed in front of her eyes... A pair of blue grey eyes !!

As she opened her eyes, she heard the steady beep of a monitor, she could hear the faint ticking of a clock, she noticed tubes running through her and a hand clasping hers. The owner of the hand was sleeping with his head on her bed and face away from her. But she knew who it was...she knew it was him. Inexplicably she knew it was him. It was kabir.

The next week had been a blur for her ! She had cried for two days on kabirs shoulders ! He hadn't said a word, he stood silent, being her rock. She tried apologizing to him when he beat her to it saying his first words in 2 days. He apologized for the drama, for the pain he caused her, for hiding the truth. He apologized for putting her life in danger, for trusting that rishi wouldn't cause her harm, for leaving her alone with such a man. He had left her amazed at the change in his demeanor ! This was not the kabir she knew, this was a warm caring man who knew the difference between right and wrong. Again she had judged him so wrongly, believing on face value !

Her 5th day in the hospital she had tried suggesting tht she go back to delhi. He gave her a glare that silenced her. He had said he wasn't letting her out of his sight and she could do whatever about it !

That was 2 months ago. Neha had come back to the jaiswal house as aditi. She was welcomed and pampered by the house members again who were still unaware of her true identity. She slowly became a part of their family.

And kabir slowly became a part of hers.

Inspector dushyant, her erstwhile reason of worry had become their friend. He had found her in the snow and called kabir. Kabir had told him all that had transpired and they had decided that to snare aditi and arya uncle's killers it was important to carry on the charade of neha being aditi. He had become a big brother like she never had !!

Kabir was still the perfect gentleman, he never overstepped his boundry nor did he ever harm her. She sometimes wondered how had he put on the face of a ruthless killer when in reality he wouldn't swat a fly !

His warmth, his dedication for his family, his protective streak for her and his undying love for aditi had made neha fall hook line and sinker for this man.

She was in love with him. Kabir Jaiswal..

A man she would always love but never have.

It hadn't taken her long to realize this was her one true love. Unrequited forever but true !

3 months ago had someone told her this...she would have laughed !!

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