ArHi FF: Checkmate!-T2 (completed) - Page 43

What a brilliant plot!!!!!!!!!!!Wow!!!!!!that's all I can say for now...

Originally posted by: abavi

From the Author's desk: Hello people, hope you are enjoying the track and My initial plan was to wind up this entire FF with 50 episodes... but with Shyam's story getting longer and longer, I think I will be going for more than 50... Hope you all will have patience to tolerate with more of this story! Here is the next part...and there is another part coming up to end Shyam's conve with Arnav...

Happy reading and thanks for all the likes and comments

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Part 48

As if Shyam knew what was running in Arnav's mind, He started speaking about those incidents...

"My last resort was to make Anjali see and believe that I was in a physical relationship with another girl... Any wife would be enraged to know about that.. and that should definetely make her end her marraige with me.. I planned to get Kushi to the terrace and I decided to trust her and let her in the secret... But she wouldnt let me speak.. She was not even ready to listen.. She was loathing me... and I had no idea that the equation between you and Kushi had changed so much and you were actually falling for her...

I had planned for Anjali to come to the terrace.. left her a message in our room... I guess she did not see it at all... When I heard the noice at the terrace door... I thought it was Anjali and grabbed Kushi into an embrace...which she herself didnt expect... She was in shock... and I started telling my well rehearsed phrase to make Anjali blast at me.. but that blast didnt come... Later when you confronted me I understood it was you who had witnessed it.. Then Anjali announced that she was pregnant... I couldnt decide what to do... or what happened...but all hope was not lost for me... I thought you would take matters into your hand and ease out things for me... How wrong I was... You went ahead and married Kushi...

Rana had called me to meet him at a particular place, I left the house to meet him.. it was at that time, you confronted me at the road telling me to back off from Kushi..Because Kushi is your wife...You told with such intensity that Rana who was also nearby understood you and Kushi shared more than a casual relationship...and that you were in love...He was enraged... I think he had even started suspecting me...He blamed me for not sensing that this was happening under my very nose.. He thought I had cheated and the gossips which had started nearly 8 months back was true... and I was fooled... I knew better.. I suspected this wedding was not entirely out of love... I could'nt do anything about it as rumours reached me saying that some spies other than me were planted... Whether electronic or labour men, I was not sure...I am not sure even now... But I had to be careful...

I was given orders to kill Kushi... I had to devise a plan quickly... I told Rana that I could seperate you both.. That should solve the issue...he came to know from the spies that you both already had some issues...and all was not well...so he bought my plan... my many a adventures with Kushi was a result of that... I couldnt get Kushi alone to tell her who I really was... She would never listen to me.. and I didnt want to show Anjali who I really was.. Lest I damaged my own plans to get Anjali and Ashok together...

Then one day, when the family suspected that Kushi was pregnant... I was really in a fix... If she was pregnant she was carrying a heir to the thrown... If Rana got to know the news, she will be dead! I had to over react with you to make sure that Rana recieves the news that Kushi was not pregnant... whether she was really pregnant or not is another thing.. but right now.. Rana should believe she was not... I saw her going down... late in the night..I had to caution her... to be safe... she should no longer be kept in dark about the royal lineage she was carrying if she was pregnant...But things turned nasty... Kushi held up a knife to hurt herself- She was getting hyper- trying to save her dignity and all that from what she believed was my attempt to force myself on her, I plunged forward to take it out of her hand, she hit me, you came in... we fought... Anjali screamed... it was a total chaos... but luckily whatever I wanted to happen started to happen... Anjali started to realise it was over between me and her.. and I put in that divorce drama to convince Rana...Rana didnt really want me to divorce Anjali... But I told him it would only be a drama to seperate you and Kushi.

I found out that you both had got into a contract wedding, That came as bit of surprise for me... that was a brilliant peice of clause by the way... But I decided to use it to fool Rana... but still he did not believe in it... I asked him to give me time months' time to settle things... I cannot connect with you or Kushi at RM or at AR.. I wanted to get Kushi out...I tried hard to make her pack her bags which will successfully fool Rana..and finally we did it...I had initially planned only for a month's time for Kushi to stay somewhere safe...I asked sid to persuade her to leave Delhi... Kushi accepted finally... we moved her to Mumbai... I had only a month's time settle things, we had devised a plan..and was working towards it... Once the property comes to you, Rana can do nothing... and we were also running out of time... the contract wedding was coming to an end... then Kushi discovered she was pregnant...

All plans collapsed..because this news kick started another clause of the will... The safe pregnancy, the heir completing one year being sound and healthy... our foremost need then was to protect Kushi and her unborn baby...things couldnt get much complicated as such...If Rana gets to know that kushi is pregnant with the heir... it was very dangerous... your phone lines could be tapped.. we forbid her to tell anyone about her pregnancy...your wedding contract ended... and Arush was born when she was out of wedlock... We didnt know how that will be covered in the clause...I needed time to find that out and was working towards that... all the while keeping Rana and his gang off the track. and finally when everything got settled, we thought it was time for you both to get together again...Also... Now that you are out of your wedlock.. You would need to renew it.. before you turn 30 that would be in a couple of weeks' time...

This was one of the funny clauses in the will...The will defines an upperlimit on age until which time the monarch would wait for the eligible heir to declare out of celibacy or prove his potency-by which time, the mornach would no longer and would pass the title on to the next eligible son..." Shyam finshed and looked at Arnav to give him some kind of a response...

Arnav pressed his hands into his aching head.. this was so much to process... But he was forgetting some link...

"Is there an explanation for why you tried to kill my sister if you only wished well for her?" Arnav asked Shyam, his tone still clearly saying that he didnt yet decide if he should trust Shyam.

"do you really call those attempts as my honest attempts to murder someone? That would surel be an insult to my intelligence " Shyam smiled sheepishly "For god's sake.. ether... evaporates quickly, and if you remember, I set the scorpian on my own body.. and the car sabotage was only to scare her. I knew she would be safe, the fuel tank was cut on the lee side, ensuring, the fuel got empty very soon, making the car to loose acceleration... I also made sure the fuel was very less in the car..."

"what about the further attempts on me? or on Ashok?"

"If you are refering to your unfortunate accident.. it was really an accident.. I was not responsible for that... I only took the opportunity to let kushi believe that it was me who planned it...so that she move out of RM... I suspected Rana to have a hand on it...But I dont have any means to find it out... atleast now... but With Ashok's incident, I am sure it was Rana's goons... When I had given divorce to Anjali, I tried to justify myself with the point that when I had to decide between You and Anjali, I had to let go of Anjali because Rana's main aim was the monarch title and the wealth therein...He seemed to buy it... But later, I think he started to realize that I might be double crossing him...He planned to scare away Ashok... and used the opportunity to scare Kushi through threats on her family...even the car that you drove with Kushi and NK was sabotaged by his men... You must have noticed the difference... I usually called but after those attacks the threats were through messages from Ashok's cell... "

Arnav looked at Shyam not able to decide if whatever he told was truth or not... there was still one last question nagging his mind.

"who is that person for whom you took this task? risking your life.. for whom you took up so much?"

Shyam smiled.

" I am not sure would be happy to hear his...Shrimathi Gayathri devi Rana" he said with reverence

"Gayathri? My Father's mistress?"

"Yes, the very woman whom your father fell in love with.. the woman who was tricked by her brother and fell head over heals in love with your father, not knowing your father's marital status, the woman who was cheated as much as your mom was and was forced to get seperated from her own son"

Arnav's face grew dark hearing this.

How can he trust that the very woman who was responsible for miseries of his young age, the very woman who was responsible to push his mother to end her life, the very woman because of whom his sister's wedding stopped the first time, the very woman who was the reason for his happy childhood to end and he was forced to grow up faster- How can she be responsible to drive these men, inspire them to protect him and his sister?

To be continued...

oh no wjat will happen now !

am just loving it all...awesome...
You just ended it in a cliffhanger...

Originally posted by: abavi

From the author's desk: Thanks for all your surprised, confused and thoughful comments.. You all are the best set of readers any writer would ask for!👍🏼 cheers to all of you! and Have you all started to fall in love with Shyam already?

Happy Reading!

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Part 49

Arnav was shocked to hear who the driving force behind these men was.

"Arnav, we very well understand how you would feel hearing this piece of news.. But it is true that Gayathri was tricked, and she suffered perhaps more than anyone in that affair.. Still she felt guilty that she was unintentionally the reason for destroying the family of a man she fell in love with... Ever since that she has strived to seek compensation for the misery that you and Anjali have been through, devoting almost all her life in looking out for both of you ...I have sometimes even suspected that her love for both you and Anjali is perhaps a shade more than what she feels for Dhruv" Sid tried to make Arnav understand the lady who was a very noble woman by heart

"And if she is not honest enough... Your own Dadi wouldnt trust her..." Shyam told Arnav

"My Dadi?" Arnav asked astonished "you know where she is?"

"Ofcourse we know... She is the founder of MCF- Maliks Charitable Foundation, One of the best charitable organizations in India which runs numerous Orphanages, Old age homes, health care, destitute care, rural development programs and educational institutions in India helping out thousands and hundreds of poor souls who cannot afford a decent education or health care or a normal shelter, food or clothing- enabling the underprivileged to earn a sustainable livelihood!

I am an orphan who grew up in one the first orphanages established by her... and she had always been fond of me...your dadi... and I even had the privilege to be present when Gayathri came in search of Dadi to that orphanage, seeking forgiveness...

Dadi took her time to understand Gayathri's predicament and I understood, that Dadi finally realised that this girl was wronged as much as Mrs.Ratna Malik, ie your mother was wronged.

Since then, Gayathri has been very much a part of the MCF, even though Dadi founded it with the money that she was entitled to as a Malik, It was At Gayathri's guidance that MCF was established in various states all over India..

They both shifted their headquarters to Bangalore and have been there ever since.

After I graduated I moved out of the home which gave me food, shelter, education and life.

I went to meet Subadra Maa and Gayathri Maa after I completed my IPS and told them that I had got posting at Lucknow, they were very happy, but they seemed to have remembered something when I mentioned Lucknow and It seemed it was something which pained them... I persuaded both of them to let me know what troubled them so much... After a lot of coaxing from my side Gayathri Maa told me that Lucknow was very much connected to their past... Later Subadra Maa told me about her elder son, her bahu...and the way Rana had betrayed your father and how he had even cheated Gayathri who was actually his sister... about her son Dhruv... and all the incidents that led to that dreadful incident..how she had moved away from the family after the unfortunate incident of your mom and Dad's suicide...How broken you and your sister were.. how it stopped Anjali's wedding... and how she felt responsible for all that...how Gayathri had strived to bring her out of her hole and had ever since been closing watching out for you and Anjali... and had even hired detectives to watch out for Rana's activities...

I wanted to be a part of whatever Gayathri Maa was doing and help her in her mission to protect Agrim Malik's rightful children as she used to address you and your sister... I wanted to repay them for what they did for me and Subadra Maa was adamant that I shouldnt risk myself or my job... and try to carry on with my life.. I was finally able to convince her that I feel it is my duty to untertake the mission...

I asked Gayathri Maa to agree to let me in on her mission and through her, I got to know all the finer details.

We had decided that I would not be able to do anything beyond my cader if I presented myself as an IPS officer. I was to present myself as a Lawyer, and that would help because, Rana was a politician, and was in dire need of a able criminal Lawyer to get him or his hooligans out of trouble... This was ideal for us because, being a lawyer, I will get to know his inside plans and activities, and get to know things that hired detectives will never be able to gather- well in advance

I decided to watch out for her own son too.. But ofcourse without her knowledge.. But as soon as I feigned my Identity and joined Rana's circle I could see how spoiled Dhruv was.. He has been poisoned against you Arnav... and ofcourse against your Dad...he has been brought up to loathe you all so much that he would not even have second thougths to kill you or Anjali if he gets as much as an opportunity. " Shyam paused to take a little break.

"Wrong company isnt it?" Sid asked "It ruined Agrim Malik. It is ruining Dhruv Malik too, too bad Dhruv didn't get a chance to grow up near his mother!"

"But how is Sid connected in all this.. ?" Arnav asked "I mean...you have a family right.. I mean Kushi was speaking to your sister.. your parents.."

"I owe my education to MCF... I am from a very poor family in the slums of Mumbai..It was my luck when I heard about the scholarship exams conducted annually by MCF and dared to attend it.. the ranking was on All India level and I cleared it.. I was admitted to one of the best schools in Mumbai and MCF sponsered for my entire education...even till I completed my degree and MBA...I had several opportunities to meet Subadra Maa and Gayathri Maa during the course of my education... and Subadra maa was also kind enough to give me the startup amount to set up my company...and I met Shyam during one of my frequent visits to the Ashram where they both stay.. we became instant friends..."

"And Gayathri Maa told me that I can trust Sid on my mission any time and he would lend a helping hand" Shyam informed Arnav putting a hand on Sid's shoulder.

Arnav nodded his head

"You said Gayathri was keeping close watch on me and Di. Did you mean we were watched by detectives...or was it one of the family members who knew about this? " Arnav asked Shyam, he couldnt imagine one of the family members was also involved in this.

"No" Shyam grinned " its the The Prakash brothers.. they were watching after you both for her, Passing on news to Subadra Maa and Gayathri Maa..."

"But prakash brothers? you mean HP, OP.. "

"it seems that their parents and grandparents were faithful and loyal servants of Maliks for generations... so the brothers knew Subadra Maa. It seems subadra Maa was the one who asked them to apply for house help job with you in the first place...and gave them frequent information when they were hired by you. They work for loyality and not for money... "

Arnav nodded taking time to digest this piece of information... Prakash brothers.. passing information.. No wonder Kushi came to know about what happened in the family and called up when she was away... He never suspected the Prakash brothers.. it all the same.. just like he didnt suspect Aman... then smething striked him

"BUt what about Aman? is he a informer too? "

"Oh Aman... poor fellow.. He is a fellow mate from my orphanage.. very sincere but timid.. Yes, initially when I asked him to apply for a job in AR it was purely for his better future.. We had decided, the lesser knew about this' the better... If I needed to gather any information, I could get it with only a casual chat with him...but later, when I wanted him to give some clues to you, he couldn't help but ask me what was happening.. I had to give me some information- that I had made arrangements to give you an opportunity to win the divorce case- it took time for me to convince him of my good intentions... and he finally agreed. I told him not to worry but act innocent because he was innocent all the time... But I suppose he panicked when he was enquired by the police...

But before I could get my hands on him, Rana bet me to it...Rana was angry that he lost the grip on Anjali's life because of blabbering Aman and the result of it was that Aman was thrown to the mercy of the street dogs in some trench... When I came to know about this, again it was Sid who jumped in to save him, after almost 16 hours of search we were able to rescue him...

He has been working at Sid's office after his recovery."

"So the money conspiracy was made up? "

"yes it was made up.. By the way your money is safe.. you were not able to find where I could have invested it, becasue it was not invested anywhere... It was given to Subadra Maa for safe keeping.. I am not after money Arnav.. I earn enough from my profession."

"You earn from your profession but still your story seems to tell me that all you were interested in was your personal mission.."

" Ofcourse.. I have my own duty to take care of ..and I do it.. I am blessed with an able team of men in my department to carry out my official orders and I never use them for my personal mission.. I have been lucky enough to have managed with both my profession and personal mission.."

"Shyam you told me that Rana found out about you" Sid reminded him

"I have reasons to suspect that he might have found out.. I have been having my doubts fr sometime now. But lately, I havestrong suspicions Sid" Shyam looked tired suddenly if not worn out. "I think I will get going.. Its past 2 now... You need your rest too"

"Not before you tell me what you wanted to tell me.. You came here for a reason"

" We will talk about this someother time Sid.. I can only say all of you to be a little more cautious..."

"But Shyam..."

" I shall call you Sid.. later...Now its late.. I need to get going before .."Shyam stopped abruptly, looking around. They all stiffened too hearing a noise outside as if someone was walking outside their shack.

Arnav instinctively clutched Kushi tight who looked tensed but determined to be brave... with the other hand he picked up his Iron Rod, while he noticed shyam's eyes had narrowed as he grabbed his pistol back watching the door for any intrusion. Sid had jumped to attention too and was watching out for more sound. Sid moved to the right side of the door, while the others watched him with caution.

To be continued...

and shyam was always the good guy?

i feel sooo bad for cursing shyam left and right all this time... he's actually a really good guy.

i am also sensing his doom is near, but i dont want anything to happen to him, not anymore

I think Dhruv needs to 'bump into' his mom and be given a reality check...

and rana is just pure evil... to have 1 goal in life for THIS long... insane so well planned and thought out

awesome part 48 and 49...

intersting...thanx 4 d pm yaar