Part 3
Gauri was shaking in fear and her whole body was sweating.. she could feel the sweat across her temple and her hands clutched on her dress tightly..
she looked here and there but couldn't see anything of smoke..
she coughed and tears rolled down from the corner of her eyes.. she coughed more..
"Omkara.." she wanted to scream for him.. but her voce was stuck in..
she saw him on the other side of the windows and her words and her fear got the voice..
"OMKARA!!!!!"
"OMKARAAA... BACHAO"..
tears were flowing down and everything was getting foggy for her..
could it be her first and last night in this house..
is she gonna die..
is he not gonna save her..
how is he gonna save her.
she was fighting with all the questions and suddenly she saw a huge fire ball coming to her and she fell back screaming and calling for her husband one last time..
"OMKAAARRRAAA..." she screamed out loud and it finally reached to her husband..
Om got up and found Gauri sitting on the bed.. panting hard and sweating..
her whole body was shivering with the fear..
he patted on her cheeks and made her look at himself..
"hey..!!"
as soon as Gauri saw him.. tears rolled down from her eyes..
"hum.. h.."
"aap.. bahar..."
she pointed towards random directions.."unhone.. aag.." and tears flew down from her already swollen and tired looking eyes..
Om nodded in yes.."it's ok.. i got you.. you are here.."
that's when Gauri realized that she was safe and she is sitting right in front of her husband..
all the fear of losing everything in a fraction of second.. a fear of not being able to see Om again..
a fear of not being able to cofess the truth to him.. made her tremble and she held his shirt with her shivering hands..
without saying anything.. without looking at him.. she leaned over him and very slowly buried her face in his chest..
she kept looking at blank.. but she could feel the variation in the wavelength of her heartbeat..
from panting to heavy breath to normal to relaxed..
she held the sleeves of his shirt in her small fists.. Om could feel that her hands were sweating due to fear..he just kept sitting there without looking at her..
she could sense the change in her each and every emotion.. how much afraid she was when she woke up.. but the relief she got after seeing Om in front of her.. now she was safe.. even if not in his arms then at least he was beside her.. she felt safe.. and a sigh escaped from her relieved heart..
Om didn't reciprocate but didn't pull her away either..
after a few minutes she closed her eyes.. took a deep breath and pulled herself back slowly..
she looked here and there and realized that she was in his room..
she remember each and every corner of this room very well.. "ye laye humein yahan.."..she thought..
"we need to talk.." Om said in a straight-forward manner..
Gauri looked at him and nodded in yes...she pushed her spread away with a slight pressure and hissed in pain..
"careful.." om said and immediately checked upon her arm..
before Gauri could look at her arm.. Om turned her face to another side..
"don't..." but Gauri did and her eyes turned moist..
90% of her arm was bandaged where at some places she could see a layer of ointment..
tears rolled down on her cheeks.. she never wanted him to see like that..
she covered her arm with the sheet and tried her best to not to look back at Om..
but Om made her turn and look at him..
"it's not your fault.. and i'll make sure.. the pain... it goes away.." as Gauri heard his voice of concern.. once again tears flew down on her soft cheeks..
"wait here.. i'll call mom.." saying that Om left from there...
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whole day passed..after everyone finished their dinner.. Rudra left for a walk.. Buaa Maa left to her room..
and before excusing herself, Jahnvi asked Gauri if she needed any help..
Gauri nodded in no..
Jahnvi asked her to wait for 2 min and she came back from her room with 4-5 paper bags..
"beta, ye cotton k kapde mangwaye the maine tumhare liye.. wash bhi ho gaye hai.."
"thank you maa.." Gauri replied.. to which Jahnvi felt overwhelmed..
"let's go.. i'll help you change your clothes.. you shouldn't move your arm much.."
"upar..." gauri looked away..
"what happened beta..?" Jahnvi asked..
"Omkara so rahe hai wahan.." Gauri said in a low voice..
"koi baat nahi.. mere room mein aa jao.." Jahnvi said..
after Jahnvi helped her changing her clothes..Gauri requested her if she can sleep in her room..
"par kya hua beta..?" Jahnvi asked..
Gauri nodded in no.. "wahan nahi.." she couldn't even word it out properly..
"Gauri, I understand.. i don't know why you got married.. aur jab tak tum log khud nahi bataoge.. i won't ask... but beta.. Om doesn't trust Svetlana.. "
"he wants you stay with him.. aur beta, wo risk nahi le sakta ab.."
Gauri nodded in yes and was about to leave..
"i'll take you there.." Jahnvi said but Gauri nodded in no..
Jahnvi called Ramesh and asked him to help Gauri to keep her bags in Om's room..
"i'll see you tomorrow.." Jahnvi said and Gauri nodded in yes..
"good night maa.." Gauri said before leaving..
"good night beta.." Jahnvi replied
Ramesh picked the bags and followed Gauri..
she wasn't sure if she should go to that room or not.. Omkara seemed to be upset today..
all the time while goign upstairs she was thinking about what Jahnvi told her in the morning..
that she only cleaned her wounds.. by the time servants brought her medicines it was late.. and it was only Om who did her bandages and have her medicines..
"ee sab nishan dekhe unhone...".. she thought and tears flew down from her eyes..
"oo ab aur bhi nafrat karenge humse..." the feeling of Om hating her now even more filled her heart with pain.. her eyes turned teary again and she felt weary..
"unhe aise nahi dekhne de sakte hum.." she decided and came into the room..
she switched on the lights and immediately switched it off.. then switched on the night lamp..
Om was sleeping on the bed who got disturbed as she switched on the main light and he turned to other side...
Ramesh kept her bags there itself..
"madam.. kuchh chahiye aapko.." he asked to which Gauri nodded in no..and thanked him..
after he left Gauri locked the door and walked towards Om..
she looked at his face in the dim light and her heart skipped a beat..
realizing how he didn't sleep last night and today he left early.. he didn't say anything on their way to hospital and back to home..later, he came home in the evening.. he was so tired that he slept without eating anything..
"inhe bhookh lagi hogi." she thought..
"Omkara.." she tried to wake him up but he was in deep sleep..
"neend bhi jaroori hai.." she thought..
she opened the closet where Chulbul used to keep his bedding..she pulled the bedding with one hand and set it up near closet itself as she had no strength to pick it up or pull it away..
she covered herself with a spread and was about to slip into it but she got up as she heard Om's phone ringing..
"hello.." she heard his voice. he was awake..
"yes inspector.." she heard him again..
"i will come right away.." he said after a long pause..
"ok.. i'll call him.." he replied to inspector after a pause..
"thank you inspector.." and he cut the call..
Om got up and stretched a bit.. he switched on the lamp realizing that it was really dark in the room while he slept in the evening..
"what time is it?"
he looked at his phone and his eyes got widened.. it was 11pm..
"where is she..?" he mumbled and switched on the light.. and that's when he saw her sitting on a bed near the closet.
"WHAT THE HELL!!!" he shouted which made Gauri shiver in fear..
he walked towards her with long dugs which made her stand up..
"kya time hua hai..?" he asked in anger..
"ji??"
"MAINE PUCCHHA TIME KYA HUA HAI??" he shouted...
"g..gy.. gyarah k kareeb.. sayad.." she replied in fear..
"dimga kharab hai tumhara..??" he was about to hold her from her shoulders which made her close her eyes in fear to which he immediately stopped before he could hurt her really bad..
"mujhe uthaya kyun nahi.. time nahi dikhta.. medicines nahi leni.. ye bandage nahi nikalni.." Om pointed towards her bandages and asked her in anger..
"doctor ne kya kaha tha suna nahi tha??"
"aap.. so rah.." before Gauri could complete her sentence.. she ssshhed herself seeing him rubbing his temple..and her words worked as a fuel in the fire..
"tumhe kuchh ho gaya.. to tumhare gaanv wale aakar dosh mere sar dalenge.."
"YAHIN CHAHTI HO KYA???"
"IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT.. HMMM??" Om roared..
"nahi.." she nodded in no and said in a barely audible voice..while tears dropped from her eyes..
"go there.." Om ordered her pointing towards the bed..
he almost fumed in anger when he saw her not moving an inch.."wahan baitho!!!"
Gauri immediately walked towards the bed and sat there..
Om brought her medicines and all the required ointments and bandaged doctor prescribed..
holding her hand, Om made Gauri sit comfortable leaning her back to the headboard..
as he was about to cut the previous bandages but he stopped and gave weird looks to Gauri..
and she realized she was wearing a gown with a thin jacket of full sleeves..
"ek min.." she said and tried to roll her sleeve above...
"seriously?" Om asked..
"nikalo ise.."
"ji..??"
"i mean.. ye is side se.." Om indicated towards her left shoulder and nodded..
Gauri tried to remove the sleeve but couldn't.. when she tried from both the shoulders she hissed in pain and burning in her left hand..
"ek min ruko.." Om said and got up asking her to come forward a bit..
she didn't reply to him but just came forward..
Om stood behind her and very gently he slid the sleeves of her jacket below...the back of his fingers touched her skin of her right shoulder sending shivers to both their spines down as his fingers traced down her arm while removing the jacket..
she didn't look at him neither responded but he could see that she was tensed...
he came in front and sat on the bed..
after removing her bandages, he cleaned her burns.. as he was about to apply the ointment.. she stopped him..
"ee.. hum kar lenge.."
as she took the ointment tube from her.. he held her hand and stopped her..
"nails dekhe hai apne.." he said and completed his job..
Gauri couldn't take her eyes off of her face while he applied the gel and blew air on her burns every time she hissed in pain..
"ye aise hi rakhna.. bandage kal hogi.."
she nodded in yes..
he collected all the stuffs.. kept them to their respective places.. threw old bandages in trash can and came back to her..
she was about to get up from the bed but stopped as saw him standing there again..
"hum bas ja..." before she could complete her sentence.. Om sat on the bed holding her hand..
"ji.." she could utter..
"kal se apne aap laga lena.." Om said and cut her nails holding each finger very gently..
"Omkara.." Gauri called him..but Om didn't reply...
"aap bahut achchhe hai Omkara.. hum har roj sankar ji ko dhanyavaad karte hai ki aap humare pati hai.." she finally said it in words...
as he heard "aap humare pati hai..".. it caught his attention and he looked above only to meet his eyes with hers..
he saw that her eyes were moist buy had a meek smile on her lips..
as their eyes met she closed her eyes in approval of what she said earlier and tears dropped down from her eyes making Om's heart skip a beat...
he looked at her hand as she hissed in pain.. by mistake he cut her finger slightly with the nail making it bleed..
"i'm sorry.." he apologized and immediately took her finger in his mouth to suck the blood and sooth the pain... Gauri looked at him with wide eyes and he also looked at her..
he gulped his saliva as he realized what he just did and their eyes met..
Gauri lowered her eyes down and Om slowly he pulled more like slid her finger out of his mouth..
she hid her hand in her lap and he licked his lower lip..
"i'm sorry.." and he got up from the bed..
"yahin so jao.. wahan nahi..." he said indicating towards Chulbul's bedding..
he made her slip inside the duvet and made sure her arm doesn't get hurt with anything..
he got up..and that's when his phone rang.. he immediately picked the call..
"yes inspector.. "
"yes.. he asked me to call you.. but i was a bit occupied.."
"yes.. !" Gauri was listening to him.. perhaps he was still worried about Svetlana and her evil plans.. but his next question caught her attention..
"Chulbul ka kuchh pata chala inspector..??"
"no.. no one saw him... i asked everyone in oberoi mansion.." Om replied after a pause.
"i understand that inspector.. and i'll manage whatever is there with Svetlana.." Om replied when inspector asked him something about Svetlana..
"Chulbul kal morning se missing hai inspector.. of course i'll be worried.." Om replied in a bit harsh and worried tone which made Gauri worried..
"he didn't know anyone in this city.. he is my friend inspector.. agar wo kisi ko janta to wo definitely mujhe batata.."
after a pause Gauri saw him nodding in yes..
"i'll see you tomorrow.. "
after the conversation, Om cut the call and threw his phone on bed in anger..
"kar kya rahe hai ye log... do din se nahi pata kar paye.." Om almost shouted in anger and sat on the bed opposite side of Gauri holding his head..
Gauri had no idea that Om will be so worried for Chulbul.. "ee sach mein bahut mante hai use.." she thought..
she almost moved back her legs.. when Om took a deep breath and lay his back down on the bed..and his head was about to touch her legs.. he had almost forgotten that Gauri was there.. he kept laying there.. closing his eyes.. rubbing his temple across his forehead...
"where are you Chulbul.. i hope you are safe.." he sighed..
"sankar ji.. hum inhe bata de kya???" Gauri thought..
Om was really worried and was lying there closing his eyes.. Gauri didn't want to disturb him but his next step made her shocked..
"please swicth off the lights.." he said.. slipped into the duvet and closed his eyes..
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