Part 23
He moved to his bed, umm sorry theirs, he corrected and laid beside the bunny that was lying flat next to him and kept his hand around it and said, "geet chalo so jao, I know you must be feeling sleepy.. so jao baby" he said cooingly in the ears of that bunny and started patting it softly, sometimes caressing its fur in mid.
Three weeks have passed since then and khurana mansion had come to a standstill. The mansion which was buzzing off with laughter and happiness few days back now speak of gloominess and despair. Hardly anyone's voice is heard, a cold silence has surrounded the walls.
Someone's shoes tap echoed in the mansion as he stepped down the stairs. He is the owner of the glorious mansion and a flourishing business, anything he want could be his just on his single word... he had everything under his power yet he has nothing. He is a man who is rich of wealth but still the most pitiable person in this world... anyone knows why??? Because he has no soul.
His soul died the very day she left him, but he just refuses to believe that she could ever do that. Come-on he knows her in out, more than she knows herself, he knows her to the limits of sanity, and that is why his own sanity is at stake today. Every day he just asks god only one question... how can love be so painful?? How can caring for someone be so heart shattering??? Every day he just waits for that one answer which could answer his every query, but only one person has that much guts and that person is nowhere close.
"maan aj Sunday hai, aj bhi office??" asked an old lady who is dying every single day seeing her grandson face all this... the only person whom she can call family in this lonely world is so much lost that he doesn't even care if his grandma feels hurt seeing his condition.
"mujhe kaam hai, mai sham tak aaunga!!" saying so he left, without even waiting for any reply, without even giving her a single glance. His cold baritone just filled her wrinkled eyes with tears, sham tak!!! Yeah she knows that he won't be coming back till early morning. He always does that, and he is doing that again.
She had seen him in his worst condition since last here years, but now that even seem to be much better than what he has become now. Atleast he was living then, though in pain but still he was alive, but now he is a walking dead... he is feeling less, emotionless... he is alive only for the time being he is in his room, with all the memories of geetakshi.. or geet!!!
He sat on his chair in his office and did the thing he does first every time he enters his cabin, he opened the drawer that was in the right and side and took out the picture frame. It was her pic, her smiling face that glowed in that transparent frame. She is the best thing in the world that happened to him in past few months; he smiled... yeah a true smile glistened on those dark brown lips as he caressed her face over the frame... there was another frame too, of his wife and his daughter kept next to geet's picture.
He knew for world it may seem that he has moved on or his love for suhana has died because he love geet now, but then love is something you can never make this world understand. He loved suhana the most, she was his first love and will always be his first love... he will love her till the end of his life, but then his love for geet is no less too.
Someone had truly said that love intensifies but never dies; he used to think that his heart can only love suhana but no later he realized that geet had made her own place in this heart, a room big enough which is filled with her in his heart. But then life isn't less complicated even, he didn't knew what to think of himself, is he lucky enough that love entered twice in his fate, or curse himself for losing it every time. His life is really a laughing stock, but he himself doesn't know whether to laugh on his fate or cry on his loss.
It was seven in the evening and he was in no mood to go back home. Home!!! Home is where a person waits for you but does he have anyone for him, no... its just a house now, a lifeless house. Three weeks and still he had preserved her essence in that room, making it still speak of her presence but he is also realizing that all this won't last long, one day all will be like a lost air and he will be helpless, probably that would be the day of his breakdown.
His thoughts were broken with the knock on door. He looked ahead to see police officer standing there. He looked at him perplexed while he entered in the cabin. "mr khurana am sorry to disturb you like this, but your cell was coming unreachable and we thought its urgent that you should know about all that is happening around."
"what do you mean inspector??"
"sir its about geetakshi handa case" his ears stood up hearing about her again. He got immediately serious as he sensed worry in inspector's voice and that was enough to alert him up.
"sir since we are still trying to find the reason behind her accident, we got some clues which says that she is still in danger and probably the person responsible is a close one. But then all the further investigation is leading to dead roads from here, so we will have to close the file or involve geetakshi handa to investigate further"
"no I don't want her to worry about all these, you just do whatever else is needed to investigate" he said hoarsely. He just didn't know why but he just cant see her in worry. She wasn't geet, but she looked similar maybe that's why, he tried to reason himself but whatever it is, he don't want her to be worried of all these.
they were in conversation when he got a call from dadima. He disconnected it, in no mood to answer her questions now. But it again rang, he disconnected again. It rang the third time, and he lost it.. "dadima aap kyu baar baar call kar rhi hai... mai office me hu na" but before he could continue further he heard something which shocked him and suddenly he was dashing out of the office forgetting the world around him.
He pulled out the suitcase in hurry and started throwing the clothes in it, dumping it like garbage in it. His other hand was busy in making calls and making all the required arrangements. Dadima was standing on the door as she looked at him in panic, his condition was worse, as if his life is losing away from him.
"maan wo theek hai abi!!! I just received a call" she said but he was way too lost to listen.
She again repeated but he was ignorant. She lost her cool and pulled him by his arms, slapping him to bring in his senses. He looked at her in shock while she cried, "wo theek hai beta, she is perfectly fine" he just looked at her for a moment letting it all sink in him and fell on the bed lost, broken accepting the defeat as he cried, cried like a mad man in her arms.
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