ArShi FF - || Forced to be Yours || Chapter 15 Page 15 - Page 15

chapter 10

The pricipal did not know about their relationship? There was no approval from him? That raises a lot of issues.

chapter 11

If he has to do anything, let it be a joint decision. The last thing he should do is decide by himself.

chapter 12

There he goes again. After all that has happened, he made the same mistake.

After five years, a lot has changed. Now she wields the power and defines all the terms.

She will put him in the place where she was. He was always looking out for her, but will she do the same?

chapter 13

This payback will not be easy. She will put him through the paces and make him him powerless.

chapter 14

It has not been an easy road for Khushi. She still has feelings for him no matter how tough she pretends to be on the surface.

Please update soon.. eagerly waiting

Chapter 15

Khushi looked at a sleeping Arnav through the mirror. She trapped him in this game to take revenge on him but she herself wasn't aware why she felt extremely deprived when she saw him with Tia.

She didn’t want to fall in love with him again. She had trained herself so strongly to fall out of love, she has to take control over it.
She could see him stir in sleep and went towards the bed.

"Good Morning, boyfriend." She said kissed on his cheek.

Arnav opened his eyes and saw Khushi over him. The glimpses of past night revolved in his mind. He knew he was not happy in this forced relationship but he also knew how she affected him, how intensely she affected him.

"Do you really not love me, Khushi?" He demanded for an answer.

Khushi stopped and sat on the bed. Love? Love is another name of pain. And how dare he take the name of love? He is the one who has insulted the word to such an extent?

If this is another trick he was trying to play, then she swore, he could never resist her.

“Don’t try to lie,” Arnav said sitting on the bed. “Because last night I realised how much you love me. When we made love…”

“Don’t overthink. We didn’t make love. I have my needs, you are just a medium. That’s it.” She said coldly and left the room.

Arnav sat there, shocked. He couldn’t believe his ears. Was it really his Khushi? Was it only physical for her now? No emotions attached? No feelings, no love?

"We are going for a business party today." She ordered and Arnav sighed.

Though Khushi didn't like Mr. Khanna, their business rival, but considering it a rule to be a good business woman : not to show your emotions in the corporate world, she agreed to go the party. As soon as they reached the party hall, both came out of the car, Arnav gave the keys to guard to park the car. To his surprise, Khushi slid her arm in his. While she smiled, he sighed as usual.

An hour went by and Khushi suddenly felt uneasy. Ever since Arnav had left her sight, getting somewhere busy in the party, she had this unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach.

Zoya, her assistant notoced her restlessness.

"Boss, is everything alright?" she asked.
Khushi nodded in a very unconvincing way. She couldn't explain his restlessness to Zoya when she herself did not know the reason for it.

"Do you want me to find Arnav?" she asked, taking Khushi by surprise. "I mean... Arnav Sir."

Zoya was amused by the look on Khushi's face.

"I'll call him. " Khushi said and excused herself.
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Arnav came out of the washroom after cleaning the drink that was spilled on his shirt. An associate did it by mistake. To his utter shock, suddenly Tia jumped on his arms.

“Tia?” he called with confusion.

Her hands startes roaming around his back, shoulder and neck seductively. Realising, Arnav tried his best to push her away, and after several attempts, he was out of her hold.

"What the hell?" he said as he pushed her away. "What are you doing?"

"What I always wanted to," she said in a seductive voice as she held his face. "I can do anything for you, Arnav."

"Stop being a bitch, Tia. Don't forget I have a wif… girlfriend." he pushed her away again.

"I don't care, Arnav. I want you. Right now,” she pulled him close, placing her mouth on his.

*Snap. Snap. Snap.*

But he pushed her away Instantly. Hot white anger took over him and he slapped her making her fall on the ground.

"You have gone mad. Just stay away from me. " Arnav warned.

He rushed out of the room in anger when his phone rang.

"Khushi calling" it read.

"Hi," Arnav said breathlessly and Khushi frowned but the next moment her thoughts began to race as she heard him breathing into the phone; imagining both of them breathing heavily as they made love. Like really, how can she even think of that as love? It was sex and would always be.

“Where are you?” Arnav asked, bringing Khushi out of her trance.

“At the gate. Ready to leave.”

“I’ll be there in a minute.”

"Why are you panting like this, Arnav?" Khushi asked in a strained voice seeing him still out of breath.

"Nothing," he said, trying to hold his breath. “I just ran through, didn’t want you to wait longer. Nothing else.”

He didn't want to tell her about Tia's cheap act. He was feeling angry and disgusted but he didn't want her to realise that.

But you were panting when we were on the call, she wanted to say but didn’t.

"Why did you remove this?" She asked seeing he was not wearing his coat and holding it. "Its a centralised AC hall, not hot at all."

"Rehaan Qureshi spilled drink on it by mistake. I went to clean it," Arnav answered.
Let’s go?”

“Yeah,” Khushi said as she walked towards the car, her heart was still restless.

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Khushi stretched lazily and woke up to an empty space next to her, like every other day. Arnav was an early riser, who never skipped a single morning jog, no matter how late he slept at night. She was starting to get used to her new life with Arnav. She had not forget why she bind him in this forced relationship but she still couldn't help herself from getting affected by him. It was a bond she didn't want to break, it was his care she never wanted to loose.

"Ma'am you have a parcel." the servant said as she settled on the breakfast table.

Arnav jog at the park but his mind was occupied with the events of last day. He couldn’t get all that out of his mind. He couldn’t believe Tia tried to force herself on him. She has been a great friend in the past years, he never knew this was in her heart. Even if he was not at fault, but he still felt guilty. He knew his current relationship with Khushi was not how he wanted it, still he felt that she should know about this. But he couldn't decided how to tell her and when. Lost in these thoughts, he marched towards the house.

Khushi picked up the envelope and tore it open. A pile of photographs welcomed her. Her body went numb; her brain was simply switched off looking at them. The next minute, she threw them away and it scattered over the floor reaching the place where Arnav was standing. He gaped in horror when he saw the pictures as soon as he entered the dining hall. It was of Tia and him. There were several pictures- she was holding his face; his hand was on her waist; she was hugging him; her lips were against his mouth. He picked them up. Those were of last day. The pictures showed as if he was getting intimate with Tia; that was far from the truth. He lifted to see Khushi seated at a distance, she looked destroyed and defeated.

Arnav rushed to Khushi's side.

"Khushi, this is not true. This is not the entire truth, you've got to listen to me." His voice fell soft when she refused to move; she just sat there, staring into space, as if she was made of stone.

"Khushi..." he touched her cheek and made her turn her head to look at him. What he saw in her eyes was something different today. What he saw was emptiness; oblivion; nothingness. He inched away from her, for she made him feel as if he was staring into stranger's eyes; someone whom he did not know at all. Arnav felt cold sweat drain down his back. His palms turned sweaty and his vision blurred as tears filled her eyes.

He wanted to cry, shout, throw a tantrum. He knew there was nothing like love their relationship but still he wanted to prove his innocence to her. He wanted her to trust him. He wanted her to believe that he didn't betray him.

Silence was all around Khushi, and that sound of her heart-break was deafeningly silent. She had thought Arnav was the same, but no. He changed. He had become a cheat, shameless and stone-hearted man. She couldn't believe she had forgotten her revenge for a while started trust him but she just realised that this man does not worth it. She was all the while wrong when she thought that he was still in love with her.

"Don't you trust me?" His breath caught in Arnav's throat as he watched Khushi walk away so distraught.

Swallowing hard, he felt tears rise in his own eyes yet again because he was the cause of het despair. Never had he seen her bow her head with so much sorrow and walk away in hopelessness. And she had chosen to walk away from him, unable to express her pain. He waited for her to turn around. It meant hope. Hope that she still had trust on him. Hope that nothing was over between them. But she did not turn. Instead, she sat in her car and drove out of the huge gates.

An hour passed by. Arnav still sat on the floor as all the happenings revolved in his head. He wanted to clear every thing with Khushi but he didn't know where she was. She was not even picking his phone.

He heard the door being unlocked and rushed towards the door, only to see a Khushi walk in. Her eyes were swollen, they were red. Arnav realised that she had been crying.

“Khushi, you got to listen to me.”

"Is there still something left to talk?"

She looked him straight in the eyes.

He didn't know what to say. All he wanted was her to trust him.
“Khushi, I know what you must be thinking… but trust me, I have always loved you…”

"Shut up Arnav!" he stopped talking as soon as she yelled at her. "Just shut the hell up! Who do you think you are? You are the one making out with another girl behind my back. And you say you have always loved me?"

"Khushi, I... " Arnav cut her off, all ready to defend himself.

"I am not done. And I even don't want to know why you did that," Khushi had to force herself to step back as she felt all the anger returning with a full force. "You know what, Arnav? I had started trusting you. I always knew what a selfish man you are. But still I started caring for you. Oh, now I get it. You did all this because this is a forceful relationship, right? You want to get rid of it? But sorry to say darling boyfriend, you would never get it. I am not sparing you. You will stay with me and I will make your life hell!"

She stomped her purse on the sofa and walked inside the bedroom pulling the door behind her. She sat on the bed in a thud and kept her palm on her face. She couldn’t believe Arnav kissed some other woman. Has he been sleeping around all these years? Was she only a fool who was still in love with him? Was he the same Arnav who had loved her unconditionally few years back?

A ring on her cell phone took her out of the trance. Letting out a deep breathe, she picked up the call.

“Hello,” she answered, trying to sound chirpy.

“Mamma!” she heard her little munchkin.

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That's all for today!

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