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Payal had literally flown at arnav and slapped him as hard as she could. Arnav staggered back, horrified, as his placid sweet sue sister in law, sprang like a tigress protecting her only cub.
"HOW DARE YOU MR.ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA!"
Everyone in the room watched on stupefied as the gentle bahu of the household started breathing fire.
"you, you forced her into a marriage? I misunderstood her! My baby sister...you hurt her? And over whom ...shyam? that cheat who deceived our family and was deceiving di, you thought , you thought khushi was as dirty as HIM? Khushi was worried sick over you all this time you were gone and you..."
"stop." Anjali's voice, abnormally calm broke into the tirade." Chotey, am i to understand that my husband deceived me for my property, over another woman and my brother married the wh**e who flaunted herself in my husband's face and took him away from me?"
"what did you say? You called my sister a--- what?'
" a wh**e! He kidnapped chotey for property but khushi must have provoked him, like a gold digger does ,chotey witnessed her trying to make him leave me, triggered his actions otherwise he loved me for so many years and now all of a sudden..."
" aren't listening are you, di? She definitely must have asked him to leave you assuredly she must have done. Let me tell you the story then, before you insult my khushi more. Khushi must have provoked him huh? Don't you wanna know how they first met? Your wonderful brother, wrecked my marriage ceremony, my baraat returned from my threshold when he held khushi up on trumped up charges. Next, he released the tapes of how she had fallen into his arms during the fiasco. Now that was very damaging to our family image was it not amma? You see your brother's little release overnight made a reputation of khushi as an easy girl on the streets of lucknow and why? Only because she had made the mistake of raising her voice against the dowry demand, made upon us, blundered up the wrong way and spoiled your brothers show...and how audacious of her!---challenged him . the neighbourhood hooligans started picking at her, do you know what they called her? A call girl. They were stripping her shameless on the street when your husband stepped in. Whatever he might have done later this act of his saved khushi that day. We started regarding him as a friend, a benefactor. When we shifted to delhi unable to stand the bad reputation, he helped khushi get a job to support us. But she landed up in your brother's office of all places;. His little games wreaked havoc in her life. Shyam said he didn't have a place to stay in delhi and requested to stay in our home as PG. Buaji agreed as it'd help us out financially and besides he had helped us so much. By and by he became one with the family. Babuji had the paralytic spell and when he offered to marry, her making out that, babuji wanted him to marry khushi off to him putting words in babuji's dumb mouth and he could not possibly refuse. It surprised me at the time, because babuji never seemed to like him as much as buaji did. Khushi initially did not wanna marry him as she was not ready for marriage yet. But his clever manipulations of buaji made up so much of family pressure that khushi gave in. They got engaged;"
Anjali's mind reeled, those images of how he had been absent for weeks at a time, how she had found him in the the guptas neighbourhood and, oh god , khushiji had said that she was engaged to their PG shyamji, but everytime she had wanted to make anjali meet her fianc, he had mysteriously disappeared and then mentioned how her engagement had been called off...
"...and then when mine and akash's rishtaa came up in some pooja or the other, khushi got to know that he was your goddamn husband" payal spat out the words." We kicked him out but he told us that if we told the raizada family about him nobody would believe us. Instead my rishtaa would get ruined. In two minds, khushi still came to tell you, but you got so upset at your mangalsutra getting torn, she thought it'd destroy you to know of this. She didn't have the heart to tell you...or to indirectly call off my rishtaa once again."
Anjali knew now all this was true...every word of it. Khushi had come to her upset and had been on the verge of telling her all about her broken engagement and the mangal sutra tearing, and her consequential upset, her declaration that she wouldn't be able to live without him, had effectively stopped khushi from saying anything further . she remembered khushi's words , while her hands retrieved anjali's mangalsutra----"kuch bhi toh nahin hua anjaliji, apki shadishuda zindagi bilkul waisehi rahegi jaise thi..."
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