Okay bhootnis after yesterday's boring episode and today's fabulous one, I felt compelled to continue. So drool away for here's something juicy and especially for you Jyots!!!!š
Part 9.......................................................
Kaajjal simply hangs on to Dev. He tries to tell her that she is weak and they must get home so that she can rest but to no avail. "I want to catch up on all the time we were apart. Promise me you will never ever leave me.' Kaajjal is hugging Dev, they are so close with not even an atom of anything minute can come inbetween them but........ But she can feel that something is holding Dev back. A kind of tight control that she sees in his eyes. She looks up into their loving depths but a slight tinge of something whcih she can't define. "Dev?" she asks puzzeled. Dev breaks their hug and very slowly and gently extricates himself from her loving warmth inspite of how welcoming they are but it has to be said and done.
He puts some distance between them much to his hatred but he has to else he will not be able to tell her so. "Dev?" she questions again. He heaves a very long sigh.......... "There is something you must know. But whatever I am about to say or do you must remember one thing and that is the only ultimate truth, I LOVE YOU AND ONLY YOU Kaajjal." He stresses on every word as if kissing her at every word with his eyes. "Remember that forever. Do you understand?" She nods and tries to understand what he is saying and why? He then starts but his voice is wobbly and full of fear, "You see that day I was all set to come and meet you when I heard ameeshabhabhi talking with someone on her cell. At that time I didn't realise who she was speaking to but she was planning my accident. She probably was speaking to the mechanic who scraped cut the brake wires. I was at first alarmed, then realised that this mahadashaa still hanging on me and rather than put your life in danger why not..........." Kaajjal is about to interupt when he raises his hand to stop her "Please listen to all I have to say, please let me finish I know what your feelings are, but this is not even half of the truth that i have to yet tell you. So please hear me out." She relents and simply nods her head and sits next to him. He smiles at her and takes her hand in his as if drawing some kind of strength for what he has to reveal to her. With a very heavy heart he continues, "I decided that I shall act along and then save myself from this and go under cover and expose chudail. So I pretended that skid while talking to you and purposely asked you not to disconnect so that I could hear you till the last moment." Kaajjal closes her eyes tightly as if to erase that day's memory from her mind, but alas it is etched in her mind like a blueprint! She squeezes his hand and he too feels that day flash by in his mind. He shakes his head as if to clear it from those sad moments when he heard Kaajjal's scream calling out to him and he didn;t reply. But he has to confide so he continues, "I in a day came to know that chudail was in cahoots with Karan bhaiya and was shocked. I took Pahua's and Sannata's help and reached Rajgani. Sannata is a friend of Ramukaka's son and Pahua is his brother. But I had to expose these two and needed to get back home so I tried and came across you several times. I hated to see you the way you were. I wanted to come right in front of you and take you inmy arms and confess but if I did that then I would have to marry you and you know the rest. So I thought I should be patient and find out a bit more of these two's dirty plans. On the third day after my death I followed these two and one day I reached a private nursing home." At this point Dev clutches onto her hand as if it were a lifeline in a stormy sea. She looks up into his eyes that a re now very far away. He has tears in his eyes but forces himself to continue in a very soft and sad wobbly voice, "I have never felt so helpless in my entire life. What I say there I cant express to you. But what I am about to reveal to you now, is something that really doesn't matter to me so much and you must believe what I told you earlier on that it is you I love and shall do so till the end of my life." Kaajjal can't take any more, she stops his tirade by covering his lips with her hand. "Enough I don't want to listen any more. Please Dev I believe you and love you. I can't see you torturing yourself like this, please stop." Dev smiles at her with loving eyes at her softness and closes them, and tears roll down. "My sweet loving Kaajjal. So innocent and believing but what I am about to tell you might mind just might change what you ave just told me." Kaajjal cups his face and vehemetly replies "You think my love for you is so weak. Try me Dev then you will know. Did that leap from the terrace not prove to you that my love is a strong and lasting one?" Dev takes her hands and kisses each finger as paying some kind of tribute to each one of her fingers. He smiles at her through his tears and continues "I went inside that nursing home disguised as an inspector and asked the person on duty about the evil duo. She at first denied on which I threatened her then she finally gave in and took me in a chamber to see the patient." Dev at this point is completely broken. Tears are flowing from his eyes but those are tears of pain and frustration. Tears of helplessness. He squeezes Kaajjal's hand and breaks a bangle and realises suddenly and kisses the blood away. But he continues, "I saw....... Kaajjal, I saw her, so helpless, tied to the bed and she was there, weak, tired, utterly deranged. Lying there like some vegetable.........." He closes his eyes at the memory of it and hugs Kaajjal. "Dev!!!! You are scaring me. Please tell me who was she?" Dev is almost sobbing now but he comes apart and regains some control "She , she was..........................
Preview : Kaajjal hugs Dev and for long moments they just enjoy being with one another, the fire burning with the flames going high up but they are lost in their own fire burning within themselves............................... (your Tabela Jyoti)š
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