NOVEL~*Hiding behind a Stranger*~THREAD 27~CHAPTER 32 -upd 20 APR - Page 41

Originally posted by: melovesja

Fear and worry are two horrifying faces of life

Makes us hard shells to cocoons our loved one.

' Hope'

How happy I am to have

Her as my bride

How beautiful it was to proposed

Her with love and had her concert with all love...

But first fear of my life was so gigantic,

Ruin our beautiful Moment with bare hands

Be a selfish to fulfil my only wish and

Trampled her wish to marry the man of her choice...

Where I breathe to be her man

To fulfil her dream but come out

As a broker of same Throtteld her every wish

Crushed her most elegant dream as young girl...

Where I was her well -wisher,

Became an opportunist enemy,

She asked her right as begging,

What I make of my queen ...

Who dying to see her one smile, IS

Only wipe out smiles form her face

The most divine moments will be

Painful face of our life...

But I am going on with only HOPE

She will learn the truth one day about me

And may be happy to be my wife

Whatever will be the fate ...

I will be at peace as she will be safe

after my last breath too

And happiest man to have her

As my wife, by my side.

Mitali.

Originally posted by: amSavindi

Hi di🤗 I woke up happy today thinking "wow.. HBAS new chappy comming today..." just few minutes ago I realized "it's only Tuesday"🥺

Originally posted by: Kuki715

Oh our kal di, you drench this HBAS land with your amazing rains of pearls... 🤗

That was a powerful song 👏... When translation was strong, can only imagine the original ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Originally posted by: lashy

Ok... I am a little late to reply to this... but 😆

Originally posted by: Sabdabhala

YOUR KHAN SAHIB IS REALLY SOMETHING ELSE LASHY -

DISCIPLINED TO THE CORE, INTELLIGENT, INTUITIVE, RESPECTFUL, EMPATHETIC, PATIENT, SENSITIVE, DIPLOMATIC, QUICK WITTED, UFFF, THIS LIST IS ENDLESS. I THINK HE IS A TRUE MEDITATIVE YOGI IN ACTION - ALIVE TO EACH AND EVERY MOMENT

IS THERE ANY DESIRABLE QUALITY THAT HE DOESNT HAVE??? ❤️

BUT WHAT I LOVE MOST ABOUT HIM IS THE WAY HE TREATS THE SAHIBA - LIKE SHE IS A FABERGE EGG - RARE, AMAZING AND PRICELSS 😳

I HAVE FALLEN FOR HIM HOOK LINE N SINKER 😳.

AND I DO HOPE SAHIBA DOES NOT GIVE HIM A REALLY TOUGH TIME 😉

YOU ARE UPDATING TOMORROW RIGHT?????? 😆

Originally posted by: hemakeerti

Lashy sahiba dearest... 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Jhanu's comeback is like a silent tsunami... you don't know when she'll come, but when she comes, she conquers all...

After our talk on WA, I revisited 30 & 31 to pick some excerpts and weave my comments around it. But like it usually happens with your novels, I forgot to do what I was supposed to do and did what I wasn't here for - reading all 3 parts end-to-end... yet again. And then the problem is back to square one - what to comment? How to comment? 😆

Just to be not repetitive of your superlative writing skills and out-of-box imagination skills, I'm skipping the lauding part. Also the wonderful critics here would've already dissected, introspected and delineated the events of 30 & 31 in their awesome reviews. So I'm skipping the analysis part. Then what is left...?😆

I was in la la land when I read all this... till I realised Jhanu is going to have a go at the 'fun' part!

Of course... the fun part!! 😉
And here it is...

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Respected Mansabdar of Parnagarh/Ustaad Sahib/Khan Sahib,

Hope this letter finds you hearty, hale and healthy. The triple addressing above might bewilder you but it was purposefully put because at the time you read this letter, I don't know who of you is reading it - the Mansabdar, who I'm yet to completely know or the Ustaad, who I defintely know or the businessman who I assumed to thoroughly know.

You might find the confusion ridiculous and unnecessary but I do have very valid reasons to be so.

If words could be explosive this would be how they sound!

One - You claim to care for my people and land like the Khan sahib, but you handover the farmaan, the only sustenance of Parnagarh, to the prince like the Ustaad.

Two - You come running to save my life like the Khan sahib, but you're hell bent on ruining it with a wedding to you like the Ustaad.

😆 Heera count your blessings, you're getting two two types of one husband - life will always be interesting!

Three - You make a civil talk a day before like the Khan sahib, and a day after you intimidate me with arrests like the Ustaad.

Four - You brag you're not power thirsty, but you exchange mansabdaargiri for a farmaan.

mansabdaargiri such fancy words from Jhanu!

Five - You claim to love a simple life like the Khan sahib, but insist on having all royal paraphernalia to yourself like the Mansabdar.

Six - You expect me to treat you like the Khan Sahib, but you behave with me like the Ustaad or Mansabdaar and at times both.

Seven - I confided my fears, my secrets, my heart in the Khan sahib I knew. But the Ustaad in you had used (and is still using) all of them against me.

This was the lowest blow to her!

All said and done, the point is - I don't know you. And another point more important than the aforesaid one is - I don't want to know you. This letter is only to set your expectations straight... both on our marriage and on me as your wife. Do Not, I repeat, do not expect me to understand you, your feelings or your mood swings as a wife. To the world, you'll be my husband. To me, you are and will be a STRANGER. Period.

But yes, since you permitted me to continue as the healer that I'm, I'd like to return your favor. Though I wouldn't serve you as a wife, I'd like to offer you my services as a healer. No, not for the calluses on your palms, for the bigger disorder you're currently going through - Split personality disorder.

The red line packed a punch!

Looking forward to heal you,

To-be-yours but never-to-be-yours,

Heera.

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Wanna read Khan sahib's reply...? 😆

>>>🤣

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Dear Heera,

Hope this letter finds you in a better state of mind than you were when you wrote that letter. The intimate addressing above might appall you but it was purposefully put because at the time you read this letter, I want you to be clear of who wrote this letter - Yes, its me, the horse merchant you always confided in writing this; not the Mansabdar you despise or the Ustaad you fear.

>>> 😲

Had you given it a thought, you wouldn't have any confusion about who I am or what my roles are.

To care for and honor you, I'm the Khan Sahib.

To safeguard your people and you from the likes of Khalil, I'm the Ustaad.

To salvage your lands, your people and you from the power of the Prince, I'm the Mansabdaar.

These three lines more or less summarise everything else!

As to your grievances against me, here are my answers.

One - I indeed care for you, your people and lands. That is exactly why I handed over the farmaan to Shehzaade. Having the farmaan with you was nothing but death lurking behind you. You'd be killed, so would your people and your lands will anyhow been seized.

👏

Two - You call the wedding ruining your life, but I call it resurrection... of your power, pride and honor. With this wedding, I only mean to restore your rights on what was yours.

❤️

Three - I had to intimidate because you refused to heed to the civilian in me.

Four - If I were power thirsty, I'd exchange the farmaan to be mansbadaar of the wealthiest town in country. Not for Parnagarh, a piece of to-be-exploited-land with to-be-refugee-people... both of which I've to resurface with my authority and wealth.

😭

Five - I live a simple life. My lackluster Aidabad Haveli should speak for it. I insisted on not moving out single paraphernalia because you're going to share the Haveli...with me.

Six - I always am Akbar Khan to you. It's your rebuttal to my proposals, which again are for your own safety, that bring the Ustaad or Mansabdaar or at times both out of me.

Seven - I agree and apologize for using your fears (of your people's safety), your secrets (of farmaan) against you. But your heart... how I wish I could convince you that all of this is only to not let it tear apart.

Awww

All said and done, the point is - I care for you. And another point more important than the aforesaid one is - I love you. You may not want to understand me today, but I'll patiently wait for the day you accept I'm not a STRANGER to you.

Wah... whistle podu ending!

And yes, I'll gladly accept your services as a healer. No, not for the split personality disorder you believe I have. For the much deeper suffering I'm currently going through - the suffering of your curse.

Looking forward to be healed.

Forever yours,

Akbar Khan.

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"It made sense..." Heera sighed. "His every point made complete sense." Her finger that constantly lingered over his signature spoke for the yearning her heart felt - a profound yearning to forgive and return to the young businessman it was once lost to. Yet... Heera retreated finger from his name and looked down to her heart. "Don't be quick." She direly warned. "There's a lifetime to heal."

But this part was the best... and you added it as an after thought? Heera's reaction... read it thrice!

You're right... Heera and AMK would never write a letter to each other with such strong words... I am sure they'll never utter it either...

but and a big but... I know when and how they express this

I am sure this is all what she was trying to say when 'her eyes had narrowed, turning her glares deadlier - deadly enough to stop a man twice her size, in his tracks.'

and when his 'kind of chilling glare, he generally reserved for enemies in an interrogation chamber'

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With very many thanks to you for giving us this masterpiece...🤗🤗🤗

OMG what a treat... and to top it a PBD teaser too???? *Sighs* as you put it... the Jalals and the Akbars... ❤️

Originally posted by: hemakeerti

Everytime I read Respected Mansabdaar of Parnagarh I'm 🤣 🤣🤣. I hear Heera's taunting tone in the background.

Originally posted by: lghosh

Jahnavi loved every word of your letters specially Khan Sahib's! Amazing clarity and blunt perspective put forward! 👏🤗 👍🏼 Superb!

If this letter was written and send then the novel will finish soon because all misunderstandings will clear away and none of us wants that. 😃 I know 'selfish me'! 😉

Awww selfish you? Selfish me too! 😆

ruth be told, it is not a misunderstanding... rather, she knows the whole truth but needs time to understand him & his background etc... so whatever said and done, that cannot happen overnight

I am being sadistic here asking to prolong the misunderstandings and wanting to explore every avenue of Parnagarn and the Haveli along with these two towards unravelling their problems and thus leading to 'happily ever after'. 😊

>>>

I want to enjoy all the twists and turns, ups and downs, laughs and cries, the butterflies in the stomach and the flutters of the heart, the sweet nothings and the fights, egos and selflessness, selfishness and the sacrifices, the love of Khan Sahib and the manipulation of the Ustaad, the misunderstandings and the solutions, the pushing away and the fleeting touches, the anger and the passion, putting Heera over the threshold in private and jumping to save her in public from the world of enemies, helplessness and softness of Khan Sahib and the force of power of the strong Ustaad...in a nutshell I want every possible little detail!

I do not think you have left out even one single detail in your write up here, Lana 😆 What a masaaledaar list of expectations.. let's see how it pans out and hope it lives up to your expectations!

Lashy so keep going, make it an epic! 😳

❤️

Jahnavi I simply love your wit, humor and talent to pen down so fluently and effectively.

She is... I call her super-grey celled creature! 😆 I only have normal grey cells.. and even half of those are missing these days 🤔

As for the PBD update, I hope Jhanu that I am liberty to say this... she was in a writer's funk, but she's got back the spunk!😉

2000 words... another 4000-6000 to go????