ArHi FF:3:The BEASTS and the BLEEDING ROSES - Page 4

Originally posted by: Aquiline

Chapter One Hundred Three: The War of Emotions

Numbed to even decide what to do next, Kushi had rushed to the kitchen as soon as she had escaped from the hold of the First Lord in his room. She was rummaging through the storeroom when Rahim Chacha chanced upon her, "Kushibitya! You're back!"

thats unbelivable! i thought kushi has some sense & ran way from the castle, from this beast😲

But she didn't look towards him and continued with her searching.

"Bitiya? What is it you're searching for?" He was concerned for she seemed to be frantic and focused only in her objective. She seemed to not be aware of his presence either.

He walked towards her and laid a hand on her shoulder, calling concernedly, "Bitiya?"

Kushi looked up as though she had been struck by lightning and stared at the butler. Her face was pale and dried tears still had their mark on her face.

😭

"What is it, bitiya?" he asked worriedly, not taking his hand of her shoulder, "What are you searching for?"

She didn't speak anything but looked towards the shelves again.

"Are you looking for your cocoa beans?" he asked and she looked at him. She neither nodded nor shook her head.

Now thats our rahimchacha, he proved he loves her dearly by showing & knowing what his bitya needs👍🏼

He assumed it must be the beans, "You finished them all last time, remember? There is no more left."

& the last time she needed was because of the lordy lord too😡😭

Her expression changed to one of defeat and she cast a glance over the shelves in remorse. Then she walked around the butler, letting his hand slip from her shoulder and before he could stop her, she was running out through the backdoor of the kitchen and into the sunlit outside, fresh tears flowing down her eyes.

my poor girl she doesn't even have her cocca beans in this beastly castle to get some calm😭

The butler had called out to her but instead of running after her, he ran towards Nani's room to announce to the Lady Mother and Lady Anjali the happy news that Miss Kushi was released from the dungeon (which he had already assumed because he had seen Lord Arnav sneak into the dungeon late at night though he had not waited to see if Lord Arnav left the dungeon with the girl in his arms, not wanting to get caught for being disrespectfully snooping) and the depressing news that she was lost and distraught like the way she had been last time they'd seen her wretchedly create chocolate liquor.

Butler is smart😎 he has seen the concerned face of arnav when he was going to the dungeon for kushi , so actually he is telling his master where to find khushi😎

It was after the butler's announcement that Nani ordered the servants to search for her and Lady Lavanya volunteered to join the search. Lady Anjali had wanted to go but she realized it was only right that her condemning brother go find the girl himself for she deserved his humbling after what he had led her to bear. Instead of the servants and the family running out for Kushi, it was only justifiable that the condemner of th!e girl go and apologize and himself bring her back.

Anjali acting smart, showing some brains.Well thats good news of the day!

And that was how we saw Lord Arnav, having been told this piece of information

see i told you, butler was delivery the info only to his master to take some actions as he knew its only his master who can bring khushi out of her distressed state as he is the one who actually put her into it

, storm out of Nani's room and barge into his room and there he shut his door and began pacing to and fro in frustration. He was angry with his sister for taking the village girl and her feelings seriously and he was angry with himself for hurting his sister and making his sister cry.

No, he is angry because he is himself is taking this girl seriously😆

He cursed and then decided to get to the bottom of this mess.

Buddy, let me help you😎

you are in this mess as yr heart is messing up with yr mind for this girl.yr heart is fatally attracted to her😆

He was still in his bathrobe so he changed into his morning shirt and pants and then made for the door. Rushing down the stars, he leapt of the last stair and rounded into the guest room, bothering to knock this time but entering without waiting for an answer.

yes, we know you are anji's brother, this is the only gene which u both share😆

"Lavanya, where is-" The room was empty and there was no sign of either the mistress or her handmaid.

Lord Arnav backed away and made for the kitchen, almost crashing into the butler, "Watch where you're going, Rahim Chacha!!"

Lordy lord in the kitchen again, the second time in his life 😲😆

Arnav, "Watch where you're going!"😆

"Sorry, sire," bowed the butler, moving away to make way for his Master to pass, but the latter stayed there, "Did you see the village girl?"

See butler is smart, he wants arnav to spit out his worry😎😆

"I saw her run out through the backdoor but then we lost sight of her, we are searching but she is nowhere to be found."

even if he knew, i bet that butler wants arnav to go search for her first & show some sorry!

Lord Arnav didn't wait to hear the rest and raced for the backdoor. Maybe if he ran the way she ran, he could pick up her trial.

& get his hands on her again😆

But on emerging out through the backdoor, it seemed he had to search the entire hillside. He was heading for the lake when he heard Om Prakash's voice a long way behind him calling out to someone else, "I've found her! She's in the stable!"

Assuming the "her" to be the "her" he was searching for too, he spun on his feet and raced for the stable. He had almost reached it when he saw a crowd of maids and servants before it.

Arnav, not only your family but al the servants are concerned for her well being.

You are not a master any more here darling as everybody just cares for khushi!

On seeing their Master approach, they all looked appalled and stepped away from the stable door.

"What is this?" he ordered on reaching them.

Shocked arent you arnav! they are worried for the queen of the castle!

"Master, the girl is within but she will not come out or see anyone and she will not eat anything," said the main cook, Surabhi.

wow, thats good news for you isn't it aranv, now you can feed her yourself😆

Lord Arnav took the bowl of bread and cold coffee from the cook's hand which had been intended for Kushi and ordered them to disperse to their situates immediately.

"I want no one loitering around in these areas, understand?" he asserted and after they'd gone, he walked into the stable with the bowl in his hand.

yes, with kushi he wants all the privacy in the world to live the moment of his life to all his fill!

The strong scent of horse dung and dry hay wafted upon him but his eyes were searching the place for the one reason he had there come for.

His eyes fell to the far corner of the stable where a shelf was attached midway in the wall to stock the saddles and reins. Underneath it, in the little space between it and the ground, he saw the huddled figure of the girl. Her hair had come loose and they enveloped her, keeping her face and form away from prying eyes.

😭

Lord Arnav walked towards her, his boots crunching on the scattered hay on the stable barn. The heat in the room was rising with the afternoon approaching.

He came to stand before her and he called to her, "Kushi!"

She crouched away from him, deeper into the dark shadow of the shelf above her.

His nostrils flared in anger but he bent down and hunkered beside her, "Eat this!"

i m fatally attracted to her & she is crouching away from me WHAT THE!

Her face was away from him and her hair obstructed him from seeing her.

oh no, i know whats coming, better hold my breath for some intense sensitive scene ahead

"Kushi! Look at me!" he ordered but she still did not look at him. He placed the bowl down and pulled her towards him by her shoulders, "Kushi, look-"

His breath hitched on seeing her state. Her face was pale and her eyes red from all the crying. Her lips trembled weakly from exhaustion and hunger and yet she preferred to sit lifelessly in the corner.

"Kushi?" he was worried, "What..."

One hand lifted, he gently moved away the strands of hair obstructing her face from his gaze.

She blinked and looked up at him.

He looked away and, after a pause, he reached for the bread.

He dipped it in the cold coffee and lifted it before her. Hovering it near her mouth, he said expressionlessly, "Eat this, Kushi."

Kushi did not open her mouth and he pressed the bread upon her lips. A drop of the cold coffee remained on her lower lip but she made no attempt to lick it away.

"Kushi!" he said firmly, "Eat this. You are weak."

She only stared at the wet bread. He put the bread back into the bowl and lifted the whole bowl instead. He positioned it before her lips and said, "Drink this at least."

Surprisingly, she parted her lips and he tilted the bowl enough for a little coffee to slip through the space and water her throat. One arm pressed on the back of her shoulder as he helped her drink. She closed her eyes and drank the entire bowl of coffee, held there in his arm which was around the back of her shoulder, and being drunk by the man who had caused her this state of misery.

kushi what the hell are you upto😕 i thought you were angry at him then why😕

When she had finished drinking the coffee, he placed the bowl back and then looked up at her. Colour revived back in her cheeks but the look in her eyes was still alien to him.

"Kushi, how do you feel now?"

Kushi looked at him, and she spoke in a strained feeble voice, "Is this your way of an apology?"

OMG! khushi you knew why arnav is doing this 👏 now big question , did this man ever feed anyone before with his hard cold hands? but here he is feeding a girl who he thinks is a village lowlife girl, a servant & here he is feeding her with his own hands!
BUDDY WHY CANT YOU SEE WHAT R U DOING!

"I don't apologize to anyone," he said bluntly, "I have no need for it."

"You do not apologize in words," corrected Kushi.

yes, you go girl👍🏼

Lord Arnav frowned and then looked away, "If you did feel my apology in this act of letting you drink from my hands, then so be it."

OMG! he is confessing to her that he indeed is sorry👏

"That is not the answer I seek," said Kushi, looking away too, "Are you truly sorry?"

Lord Arnav grunted, drawing his hand away from supporting her shoulder .

drawing hands away from kushi, this must be hard😆

Kushi sighed, "Tell me, sire, have you no regret for what you have done?"

👍🏼

He looked at her, "I never regret anything, Kushi Kumari Gupta. But if you want to feel better, I will tell you that I am disappointed to see you in this state."

arnav, you are now explaining your actions to her all the time😆

"You are the cause," she said, looking straight at him.

"It need not necessarily be," he reasoned.

"It is," she asserted.

"You're not wounded or dead, are you?" he asked, "Only bruised pride is what I see in your face."

😡

"You would have preferred me dead?" asked Kushi, "Would you then have come and apologized?"

khushi go ahead, only you know who to make him speak his actions👍🏼

"Are you trying to force me to say I'm sorry?"

she can't force you anything darling, you yourself want to clarify yr actions but yr mind is telling u, she is forcing you😆

"I can force nothing from you," said Kushi, "You are the Master and it's up to you to decide what you do and what others around you must do, right?"

👍🏼

Lord Arnav gritted his teeth, anger rising in him, "What do you want?"

😆😆😆

"Tell me, do you feel not even guilty?"

"I am numb to guilt," he stated plainly.

you are lying to youself dear

"I already knew," she looked away, and then she sighed, "A man like you must have never known what it is like to almost die inside when trapped in a dark and eerie dungeon, never knowing if you will see daylight again alive."

no kushi, plz don't say that, poor man has suffered & is still suffering hell😭

Lord Arnav stood up, his eyes suddenly very cold, "You think I don't know what it is like to die inside?"

😭😭😭

Kushi stared at him: his voice, his words...they all sounded so unlike him.

yes, kushi listen to him now , this will help you in easing his pain even more

"You will never know," he said, pained somewhere and angry everywhere, "what it is like to be so young when one is only learning to live and then having to lose his parents to Death from which there is no return. You will never know how he lost himself, died that night in the lonely world filed with the echo of his sister's tears. You will never know! You will never know what it is like to bury your parents and to roam the forests looking for food because you cannot go back to the place you once called home because it is now a miserable place that haunts you of lost memories and an empty future."

😭😭😭😭😭

And with that he stormed out of the barn, leaving Kushi gazing into the air, broken inside and silently weeping again, not for her, but for a heart that had been harbouring unhealed wounds behind the guise of his cold face until his heart iced over and froze and he was no more warm...

this is what khushi is all about, forgets all her misery, her hurt, her pain & just weeps for the griefs & pain of others. Kushi, there is no one like you❤️

Chapter One Hundred Four: Orders on the Spur

Lord Arnav walked into the living room of his Castle and found everyone, even Nani, who was sitting on the armchair, all waiting for his arrival. The servants were also standing expectedly at the doorway of the kitchen. When they saw that he had come in alone, they looked behind him, over his shoulder, in the hope of seeing the girl he had gone to get.

"Where is she?" asked Lady Lavanya, coming to stand near him, her eyes on the open central doors through which he had come, "Didn't you get her, ASR?"

Arnav thinking"Damn them all, damn to me,, Why the hell we all are worried for that begger!"

His eyes were on Nani, "Came down to speak for the village girl's sake again?"

Nani frowned, "You have something against my coming downs, Chotey?"

Lord Arnav's eyes were as firm as his voice, "I have always wanted you to emerge out of your room, Nani. But if the cause for your appearance is that girl, I would have better preferred you to remain in that dingy chamber."

he is right nanik. even though you are a very wise warm hearted lady, why did you abondoned yr grandchildren & leave them to suffer alone. this is sad😭

"Chotey!" said Lady Anjali, walking towards him, "What is wrong with you?"

Lord Arnav looked at his sister, "Nothing is wrong with me, Di. It's the world that is in the wrong. It only gives more reasons to pain."

😭😭

Lady Anjali stood before her brother, her face softened at his words, sensing the unseen aching. Her hands reached towards him and he let her touch his cheek, "Is my Chotey in pain now?"

Lady anjali, our aquiline is on a full mission to make us love you😆

"Heartless though I am," murmured Lord Arnav looking away, "My heart is sore."

WOW👏 Arnav did you hear what you just say "YOU HAVE A HEART!"👏

A shuffling sounded behind them and all turned to look at Kushi standing at the doorway, her gown hay-ridden from its presence in the stable and her hair dishevelled from too much frantic running and brooding.

when will kushi start to feel her misery & stop thinking about others pain😒

kushi be prepared for more 🥺

"Miss Kushi," gasped Lady Anjali in relief and she rushed towards Kushi followed by an elated Lady Lavanya.

Kushi had her eyes on Lord Arnav, however, and he was looking at her too, reading the curiosity in her eyes. He realised her mind was lingering on the last words he had spoken to her before parting from the stable.

He looked away.

you have to look away arnav or again yr heart will bang yr mind😆

Kushi turned her gaze to Lady Anjali who had come to stand beside her and was asking her how she was, "My lady, I am well." Her voice was weak but her eyes had a determined light again.

"Why did you go to the stable, Kushi? Did you intend to leave?" Lady Lavanya asked, concernedly, pressing her hand on Kushi's.

Kushi looked from Lady Lavanya's hold on her hand and then smiled up at her mistress' face. She saw that Nani and Lord Akash were waiting for her to walk into the living room instead of standing at the doorway.

She stepped in

Khushi, sometimes yr love & concern for others irritates me

but Lord Arnav said warningly to all the assembled, "Since it is stated that Lavanya no longer needs Miss Kushi Kumari Gupta as her handmaid, I see no need in keeping her here. She may leave for her home tomorrow."

😲😡

All eyes looked at him but he stood abashedly.

Lady Anjali spoke up, from beside Kushi, "Chotey, we have a very important occasion forthcoming and I would like Miss Kushi to be present-"

"The occasion you speak of is important to me too, Di," stated Lord Arnav looking at his sister, "For that reason, I do not want anyone who is not servant or family to me in this house."

death anniversary of parents?

Lady Lavanya tried to defend, "Miss Kushi is-"

"No one," said Lord Arnav with finality and looked at Kushi, hurt reflected in her eyes. He addressed her directly, "Your service here has expired. Sunrise tomorrow, I expect you to bid Farwell to this Castle forever."

And then he turned on his heels and headed for his room.

to cry & be mad on himself for his own ego & stupidity for ordering her to leave him

you are a big beast looser👎🏼

FAVOURITE SCENE:

Best part of the 2 updates was heartless egoistic lord arnav feeding khushi with his own hands FEELING all guilty & concerned👏

Originally posted by: medharees

My my after all these celebrations ...evrything seems to have calmed down...no one in sight ...the inn keeper also is feeling so depressed ...

YES, ME SAD TOO