SS-Damad in demand OPEN FOR ADOPTION see page 38 PM ME - Page 12

Some of the ideas for the subsequent updt have been given by Sukubai and Sagi

DD was relieved to see his niece happy...it looked as if everything was going perfect

Aapne khana kha liya Bade papa...nahin beta...abhi khata hoon...waise toh mere pet tumhare khushi se bhare chehre se hi bhar gaya

tumne abhi tak theek se nahi bataya beta ki tumhe Ashu kaisa laga

bahut der ho gayi hai, aap khana kha lijiye

nahi..pehle tum kuch bolo

Deepti shied away ...bade papa aap pehle khana khayiye

DD smiled...mujhe mera jawab mill gaya hai beta

There was a happy silence in the house...Deepti was lost in a world of love and DD was dreaming of Deepti's wedding...

Deepti would be in safe hands, he had known no greater gentleman than Ashutosh...there would be grandkids...well bred kids of cultured parents. His responsibility would be over

Next day in KGH

Ashu is alarmed as he doesn't receive his daily GM SMS from Nidhi..he tries calling her but she doesn't pick up. Namrata informs him that she is assisting Dr.Karan in the OT...the operation gets over but Nidhi doesn't greet him. Ashu is amazed at the transformation..agreed that they had arguments in the past , but none merited such aloofness. He decides to have a heart to heart conversation with Nidhi and plans to call her in his cabin.

His plans had to take a backstage as he found DD waiting

Ashu,mujhe tumse kuch baat karni hai

Ji kahiye sir // Ashu is still lost in Nidhi's thoughts//

Tumhe Deepti kaise lagi?

Ashu makes a mistake as he is khoya in Nidhi ke khayal'.

instead of saying woh acchi ladki hai he says woh acchi lagti hai'

Dubey was pleased with what he heard...this was what he was waiting to hear but was afraid that his reticent protege may never come up with those words.

Dr.Mathur Saturday wapas aa rahe hai na..main sunday ko unse aa kar milta hoon...ab to aana jaana laga hi rahega.

Ashu didn't understand the meaning of DD's words but didn't ask for any clarification...little did he know the misunderstanding he had created.

DD went to his cabin and dreamed sweet dreams of him being Ashu's sasur.

Nidhi meanwhile was fuming over the betrayal...she wanted to confront the other-woman'...but how could she do it??? she didn't even know her name...one way was to go through Ashu's mobile and make a list of all the contact which looked new and then eliminate them one by one.

Thank God she regularly went through his mobile contact list though there was no real reason...it wasn't as though she had any reason to be suspicious back then, but the whole action thrilled the little spy in her.

Now all she had to do was to slip inside his cabin when he was busy in the OT and spirit off with his mobile..rely on her stellar memory to find out the contacts he had recently added...

The thoughts were quickly put into action...it brought back memories of the time she had entered his cabin as an intern...to borrow his car keys...it seemed to have happened ages ago...

.memories brought tears to Nidhi's eyes but she wiped them quickly and concentrated on the list at hand...she had jotted down contacts saved under men's names too...coz love' makes people extra smart..and Ashu could have grown more smart under the influence of his new found love'.

It was a tidy little list - Abhay, Anwar,Deepti and Pallavi...she dialled them

Abhay and Anwar turned out to be men whereas Deepti and Pallavi's voices indicated that they were young women. She couldn't finalise on which one of them the other-woman' was ...she thought and thought but to no avail...she called Anji and it was she who offered an easy solution...to check the inbox for any SMS Ashu had forgotten to delete...cheaters do make mistakes, they sometimes fail to cover their tracks...

Nidhi made another attempt at smuggling away Ashu's mobile...the ground beneath her feet slipped away as she saw the multitude of messages from Deepti...good morning , good afternoon...good whatever ...see you soon...yes, I shall be there at the restaurant...thank you for the lovely lunch...the list went on...

Nidhi now began to wonder whether she really knew Dr.Ashutosh at all...he has been brazen enough to leave messages from his love' untouched...it was as if he didn't care one bit if those messages are seen by someone else...he even ate lunch cooked by her..so he had been to her place the other day..when he had boasted that he was going to have lunch with someone who didn't misunderstand him

Nidhi had no energy left to confront Deepti...all she did was to inform Anji that the other woman's name was Deepti and that she and her Jeeju chatted a lot through SMS. Anji asked her to return home immediately so that they both could chalk out a plan of action...