Chapter 17
It was late night, and manyta had not moved from her seat, her eyes were swollen due to her constant crying. For the first time in her life she felt so useless. She had not even eaten since morning, but she ignored her hunger and tiredness, it was her, self inflicted punishment. How could she eat or rest when her love udayveer was battling for his dear life, that to due to her silly mistake.
"beta" a voice startled her, she looked up and saw giriraj standing there, was there a tinge of hatred in his eyes?
"ya.. uncle?"
"I think you could go home, isn't it late night?"
"but uncle, udayveer, when…"😕
Giriraj cut her, his tone serious "aren't his family here to look after him, I am his dad, his mother and sister are with him, so he wont be missing anyone, it would be good if you leave now. And thanks for all the favors you did to my son. It would be great if you would leave and don't ever come back to his life. Please"
It was as if someone had slapped manyta, she let those icy words sink through her. It made her shiver. Words did more damage than physical injury.
She moved away from there taking one step at a time, moving in a mechanical way. Her eyes looked dead. And she literally was like a walking dead.
She did not know when she reached her home or walked to her room. She was in a trance, the pain eating her inside out. It was as if her heart ached, she forced herself to breath, and even that involuntary act seemed to be so tedious for her. Sleep was out of question for her, not when her heart shattered into millions of pieces…
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3days later
Giriraj was talking to unnathi
"how is baba now, shall we ask him how he got our son?"
"he had gained conscious dad and asked for uday. I told him he was in the hospital, but I ddint tell him the extend of hid injuries."
"maybe I should go and see him now"
"I will also accompany you"
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Baba was lying on the hospital bed. Hi eyes were open and fixed on the ceiling above him. he looked as giriraj and unnathi entered. He weakly smiled.
Giriraj came and took a seat next to him,"how are you feeling?" he enquired.
"iam still weak"
"can I ask you something?"
"ehh… ahhh ok
"is uday your son?" giriraj wore a poker face not revealing anything.
"wh…what? Uday? Ya…yes.." he stammered
"is he your biological son?"
"baba lowered his eyes, not able to look anyone
"no" he said in a soft whisper.
And he continued" he is not my biological son, I don't even know who his parents are… I first saw him when he fell in front of my jeep, he maybe 5 around that time. I was drunk and was driving fast in the jungle when a young boy… my uday jumped in front of my jeep. I hit the breaks on time, but the jeep hit him, as it was a forest and there were no nearby hospitals, I took him to the tribals there. They treated him. as a forest official, I knew what my duty was so I went to the police station to state I got a child, but they didn't evev bother to listen to me, they told me to keep him if I wanted. Uday remined of my lost family and from that day I was his baba av=nd he was my son:"
"do you know who his father is? it is me, iam his dad. Udayveer is my son, he was missing since he was 5, and you know his mother was in coma all these years. I had to look after unnathi all these years alone, do you know how it felt for me, for my family because our elder son was missing? Do you have any idea?" asked a soobing giriraj.
"uday was your son? Oh iam so sorry. Iam really sorry. It was my selfishness. Oh god, please forgive me…"
"these sorry's wont give me back the time I lost, it wont bring anything back. but then I forgive you for the simple reason you looked after my son all these years, he is a perfect gentleman and not snobbish. I owe you for that. But you should tell udayveer that you are not his baba, you should let him know the truth"
"i… I don't…I don't think I could do it… please forgive me. I will leave this place now itself never to be back to your lives again, please, I don't want to see his face when he knows I am not his baba, he will hate me, I won't be able to bear it"
"but only you will be able to explain him the truth, even if he hates us, he will not hate you. Please don't leave here, uday will find it heartbreaking"
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1 week later
Manyta was still depressed, her mother and ds tried ot talk to her but she refused, she rarely ate or slept. She always sat on the window side and looked outside
There was only one person enjoying this siyuation, it was jai. First when she had knonw uday itself was udayveer, she panicked. She had tried to get both of them together without knowing the truth, but now she was happy that uday's family was angry with her
She would try to exploit this situation to her advantage, for that she needed to get manyta out of the picture and get uday to marry her, then she would be the maharani, she smiled wickedly at this thought…
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Uday was awake when avantika walked in the room, she smiled at him. he was still in bandages, he couldn't move much because of the pain, but now he felt better because it was not hurting it as it was hurting it some 6 days back.
He was really grateful because unnathi and her parent s were here to look after him. his baba had hurt his knee and had difficulty in walking and so could not come to see him(actually that was what they had told him)
Avantika looked at her son and quickly blinked her tears away, they had not told him about "baba " yet. He was weak so they did not him to know that bitter truth now," let him rest" was what they thought .
Avantika adjusted uday's pillow and helped him to sit, it did pain him and he gave out a low "ahh" sound
"is it paining uday beta?" she asked in a concerned tone.
"na ma, its ok" uday said trying to mask his pain.
"avantika aunty" had asked him to call her "ma" and not aunty, and he too felt some emotional attachment to her. He always felt her as a "motherly " figure and he was always glad that she was with him. even chotthi would be there with him for most of the afternoon, he never felt lonely, he was happy
But was he? Deep down, something was eating him it was hatred, great hatred towards the person responsible for this condition- manyta. He wanted to something bad to her , to make her suffer as he suffered now. He wanted revenge. He did not know how, but he knew he would not rest till he got his revenge
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