The Hour before Dawn..!! Part Nine up.

He couldn't breathe, he tried to calm down.

In. Out. In. Out.

But his body was not listening to him. He felt a cold chill starting somewhere in his heart and engulfing his own body.

Somewhere in the recess of his mind, he took in the investigator who sat across him, the files scattered around the table, the angry and accusing glare of his cousin. All of them proving her innocence.

'Her innocence.'

The words mocked him now.

How many times had he looked into her eyes and saw innocence there?

And how many times had he convinced himself that it was just an act?

Another way for her to worm her way into his heart and ruin his family with her mercenary methods?

He closed his eyes. But it offered him no solace. Because all he could see was her face. Vibrant and full of life with her thousand watt smile.

And he couldn't help but remember how she looked now. So cold and lifeless. With eyes that were dead.

That was what had scared him the most. She had the most expressive eyes he had ever seen. But recently, after their last confrontation about a week ago, the life in her eyes had died.

She had stopped trying.

Was that why he had decided to investigate the whole matter?

Someone calling his name brought him out of his reverie.

He looked at NK. He was saying something to him.

"I asked what are you going to do now? Now that you have the proof."he scoffed.

Arnav did not say anything. He got up and left his cabin. The reality had begun to sink in.

Oh God!, he whispered. Oh god!
What had he done? Every cutting barb, every accusation that he had thrown at her came back with a vengeance.

She was right. He was a monster. He didn't deserve love.

Didn't deserve her.

He had been living a cold loveless life for 26 years feeling nothing. But it was not nothing he was feeling right now. So many emotions were fighting inside him that he had a hard time naming them. Guilt, regret, disappointment, love, anger. And hatred.

Hatred for himself.

He ran towards the car. He had to see her right now. To tell her how wrong, how horrendously pathetically wrong he was, and beg for her forgiveness.

He would crawl on his kness if that meant she would take a chance on him. Because in all this confusion he knew one thing with crystal clarity.

If she did not forgive him and leave, his breaths would cease.

He opened the door of their room. He had felt it even before taking in the evidence that she had left.

He opened the wardrobe and all he saw there were his black suits. His life, before she had entered bringing colors with her. There were no stars, no chimes, it was as if she had never existed.

Only the wind assured him that she had once been here, bringing with it her scent to him.

He collapsed on the floor, with her name hovering on his lips, which was no more than a whisper.

"Khushi.!"

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Originally posted by: abayance

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Originally posted by: sakthi25

Emotions flowing out from both the ends were really nice.
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Part 3 :-

He had no notion of time. Minutes may have passed by. Or may be hours.

He had no idea. He did not care. He knew that the only way he would be interested in it would be to have him count the hours, minutes and seconds.

That hours that would have passed by since she left.

The minutes that he would long to hold her in his arms.

And the seconds that would pass by without him having his wish granted.

But No! She had not left him. He had driven her away.

And now he was back in the abyss, the one he had always lived before her.

She had come into his life like a sunshine. She had taken the darkness away! She had forced him to see what he had become. A corpse frozen in a limbo! The moment she had fallen into his arms..his heart which was cold, had thawed and started to beat again. He had felt warmth after a long bout of coldness.

And now, now that he knew what it felt like to live with her, how his heartbeats increased when she smiled, how intriguing he found that tiny spark of mischief that was always there in her eyes, how he was insanely jealous of the strand of her hair which always feel on her eyes. Now that he had known all this, how could he ever live without her?

And he had no one to blame for his misfortune but himself. Because he had done this to himself. He had let her down. In a thousand different ways he had let her down.

She had put so much trust into him. And he had betrayed it without even giving it a thought.

He had been handed something so beautiful, so precious that millions of people would have killed, prayed, died to have it.

And he had crushed it under his feet until it had crumbled.

He kept gazing into nothingness, which seemed to symbolize his life now, his future.

"Nannav." The soft voice reached him but his brain failed to process anything. He was blinded by mind numbing pain.

"Nannav!"

Arnav jerked and raised his eyes to see NK looking down at him with deep concern in his eyes?

"Are you okay?" NK asked.

Arnav did not reply. He just kept staring at him.

When arnav did not reply NK looked around the room. Realization finally dawned on him as he said, "She's left!"

"Yes."

Only one word but it held such depth of emotions, such anguish, such pain and hopelessness that NK had to blink several times so as to stop the moisture in his eyes falling down on his cheeks.

NK had come to know about the problems between arnav and khushi when he had heard them fight last week.

As he had heard in horror what they were fighting about, he was filled with a deep sense of purpose.

He could clearly see what arnav couldn't. Khushiji was being punished for something she had never done. She was being executed on the testimony of lucifer. He could not believe nannav was so thick headed.

For someone who was a billionaire and supposedly one of the most intelligent and shrewd man around, he was behaving pathetically obtuse.

When both of them had seen NK, arnav had given a disgusting glance at khushi and walked off.

NK had seen the light die in her eyes in front of him.

He had decided then and there that he would do whatever he could to make arnav see sense. That was the reason he had kept on pestering arnav for two days about investigating the matter until suddenly he had finally given in.

Now looking at Arnav, broken and shattered, just a shell of a man, he knew that his work was not yet complete.

He would have to help Arnav win his Khushi back.

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