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Now coming to update..here you go...
Chapter 24 The drive towards their destination was quite though not calm. There was a storm brewing up in both the hearts. Riya was feeling disheartened about the conversation they had in the morning and then her leaving him, while Arjun was disappointed with riya's decision to leave again. Earlier she had left without any notice and he was hurt, but today even when she is leaving with a prior notice and acceptance from him, he is shattered more than that.
Arjun's ignorance was getting on her nerves now. It was about 3 months Arjun had stuck himself up with heaps of work and stayed back at office to finish them throughout the night. A month back atleast he used to call and inform about his late arrivals but now he had stopped that. It wasn't needed anymore.
Riya now being the best undercover agent in her department was no longer a part of ETF. She was trying hard to come to terms with his absence in her life. He kept himself busy with the strange cases that usually came up everyday.
Four months back she had to leave her mission incomplete due to some severe circumstances where she was hurt and bruised. Now she has almost gone underground to save herself from an alien enemy she messed up during the mission. She had to keep herself inside the house most of the time to avoid suspicions from people who were eagerly looking around for her.
Thus, Arjun's absence was making her days more lonesome and frustrating. The guilt feel topped it all. She had thought Arjun would come to terms with the fatal news of her incompetency but it wasn't that easy. Neither she was able to forget it, nor Arjun spared a second to try to forget it. He didn't speak in words but he blamed her and himself every time around.
Finally she took her decision. She waited for him that night and planned to speak to him about a divorce. Not that she was too eager for one, but there wasn't any other way out. But life again wasn't that easy. She told him about her decision that night and he kept silent. Riya took it to be his acceptance and felt dejected. She didn't try to speak to him again and thus missed his sorrowful eyes.
She left the house early morning before he woke up for the day not knowing he never slept. He had watched her leaving the house silently. The burden of helplessness didn't allow him to speak a word to her, also his arrogant nature.
His miserable state after that wasn't known to anyone but Sam.But sam too kept his silence owning to the silence both kept to themselves.
Arjun hardly returned back home. ETF had now become his family, his home, his life. He never showed an ounce of his pain to anyone, but it was always there pinching and prickling him, reminding him of his grave loss.
That was the day and again today, she is leaving. But the pain of parting with her was as fresh as it was on that day. His crying heart and his longing desire was continuously hammering him to speak to her, but again his lips were sealed and he didn't speak a word.
Their trance was broken with the sudden brake, jerking them towards the front. Riya looked around. They were at the signal waiting for the traffic to move before them. Riya looked around the place. At the other end of the opposite crossing she found Vishal standing, looking into every vehicle that pass in front of him. She had informed Arjun about her destination right at the beginning of the journey and as usual he wasn't mistaken at all.
The cars in the front started moving slowly. Arjun too started the ignition and moved slowly but his phone rang. He picked up the phone without looking at the caller while keeping an eye on the moving cars and handling the steering with his other hand.
hello,' he greeted softly,
Arjun kaha the tum? Mein kabse call kar rahi hu, bohot important baat karni hai tumse, Arjun sun rahe ho?' cam an impatient curious voice,
mein abhi traffic mein fasa hu, baad mein baat karta hu,' Arjun replied and disconnected the call.
The car started moving again. He threw the phone on the dashboard and looked at riya. She was looking at him from the time he had received the call. He seemed frustrated. Though she somewhere knew who it could be and wanted to avoid interfering in his life but her curiosity gave in and she asked him,
Kaun tha arjun? Kya hua?' she asked,
As expected Arjun instantly looked away and concentrated on the road. Riya knew it would be the response, she signed and kept quite.
Ab kaha jana hai?' arjun asked her, breaking the long silence,
waha, wo mera dost wait kar raha hai,' she pointed to the man standing at a distance, clad in a green tshirt and jeans, looking around with a disgusted pout on his face.
Arjun narrowed his eyes at the direction trying to recognize the guy who had suddenly become such a good friend of his ex wife but could not understand. Riya smiled at his confusion and found him driving towards the road where Vishal was standing.
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Vishal was looking into the passing cabs for the trace of riya, right then an SUV stopped beside him and riya came down. He hadn't expected her to come in an ETF SUV. He looked at the driving seat and found the man still sitting inside looking at him with narrow eyes.
Riya opened the back door and pulled out her bags. Vishal watched her and quickly walked beside her. He helped her with the luggage and she closed the door. He waited for riya to move forward but riya moved towards the other side and stopped at the driving seat windshield. She started speaking to Arjun in soft tone, thanking him for the favor.
Vishal found it fishy and walked ahead on the road , waiting for her to finish her greetings. His sharp cop instincts didn't miss the hard glares the person at the driving seat was giving him. He started looking around avoiding looking at Riya but his eyes were continuously getting diverted to her. After a few more minutes he found riya lower her head in disappointment and start walking towards him.
She had taken a few steps towards him when he found the SUV reverse and zoom out instantly. Vishal looked at Riya and found her staring at the retreating car. But the next moment she turned to him with a smile spread over her blank face.
tumhara driver ke saath chakkar chal raha hai kya Diana?' he asked her the moment she stepped beside him,
vishal..kya kehe rahe ho?' riya scolded, hitting his arm and glaring at him,
wo tum jaise apne handsome driver se baat kar rahi thi, mujhe to kuch garbar laga, aur ye ETF SUV kaha se mili tumhe?? Kahi kuch kiya to nehi tumne? Kisi mard ko chera?' he asked her curiously, raising one of his brow,
Vishal, kitna bakwas karte ho tum? Wo mera husband tha, ACP Arjun Rawte, ETF second-in- command, samjhe ya firse samjhau?' riya replied with a curved smile,
husband ya ex husband?' he asked with a raised brow, lips curving in a smirk.
The smile vanished from her lips and the disappointment cumbered back. Vishal didn't miss it and somewhere the hollowness in her eyes hurt him immensely. He quickly picked up her bags and turned, shouting at her,
kitna late kara diya mujhe Diana? Aunty ne pau bhaji banaya tha, chalo mujhe bohot bhook lagi hai,' he tugged at her elbow and dragged her with him, towards his house.
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Riya's muttering of a few thankful words before parting had actually annoyed Arjun. He was aimlessly driving on the road. He had kept a keen watch on vishal and his gestures while he was helping riya, and though he ignored, vishal's closeness with Riya was boiling his jealousy striken heart.
What irritated him more was, the sharp eyes of Riya didn't miss his exasperation. She had caught him unattendent and it instantly brought a naughty glint in her eyes, just like before. She cordially asked him to meet her friend but his arrogance shot up and he rejected, putting on his glares to avoid her to read his unspoken desires.
Then again he realized he had hurt her unintentionally. The momentary charm on her face got replaced by a smear disappointment. He smashed himself for hurting her again and changed the gears taking a long u turn. Rash driving was his nature, but today it was more of a grudge for himself.
Another half an hour of driving and finally he stopped. He looked around, it was a deserted road. The milestone said 34 kms to lonavla.
Lonavla, the name itself brought in loads of memories. Their official first outing together.
Riya had just joined ETFa few months back and a crucial case led them to move to lonavla. Though it was a case related visit with all the ETF members, investigative officers, forensic department and their gadgets with them, but for Arjun and riya, it was a total bliss. Though they hadn't accepted their own feelings towards the other and it was just initial stages of their developing feelings, yet the journey was special for them.
It was a murder case, where the victim's body was sliced into pieces and disposed in a normal garbage bin. When the forensic department had brought out the pieces, Riya had started feeling sick and went out pucking. Though Arjun kept his silence all through the case and didn't speak to her much except case related work, Riya could feel his care.
A bottle of water with an opened cap was forwarded to her when she skipped lunch, after witnessing the horrible incident. Even some sandwiches were brought to her when she was restlessly shifting herself during an interrogation of a suspect.
These were some small gestures that made the way for the arrogant, rude, ruthless cop to her heart.
Then came the moment when a bullet fired at Arjun was engulfed by his trainee. He had ran to her shouting her name, followed by rest of the ETF members. He still remembered the silent pleading of her mournful eyes, to keep himself safe. It was not the first time but for her it was the first act. He had shown his bravery skills and pounced on her, rolling down with her away from the firing bullets.
Later he had spent two entire sleepless nights at the hospital room, where Riya was admitted. Though Riya had gained conscious and was safe, but no one could move Arjun from his place on the chair beside her bed. Everyone had seen his stubbornness melt when Riya finally blackmailed him to stop taking her medicines, if he didn't leave.
That was the time, when both had an upper hand on the other and now is the time, when they almost didn't have any right on the other.
A loud horn at the back brought him out of his trance like state. He had stopped his car at the side of the road on the highway. The car passed by him, the driver giving him a weird expression. He signed and started the ignition. It was time to get back to his wrecked life again.
That's when he realized he was supposed to speak to sakshi, who had been calling him repeatedly from morning and it was afternoon and he hadn't spoken to her. Pecieving some urgent important reason for her huge number of calls, he picked out his phone quickly and dialed her number.
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Sakshi was continuously trying to speak to Arjun about her parent's arrival, from the earlier day. But to her misfortune, Arjun left for a meeting in the evening, before she could speak to him at his cabin. Later she called him in the night, but he was again busy with some important case files, since Sameer and Ayesha had already left for home.
Moreover her parents were getting too eager to meet him and wanted him to visit them, that very evening, as they would have to leave the next afternoon, for her brother's cricket practice sessions.
Now Sakshi had to speak to him, before he met her parents. He still wasn't quite aware of the damage she had done back home and before she could repair anything, some more complications were on their way. She couldn't deny her parents as she had proposed them of her marriage with arjun, but as she had not informed them about his earlier marriage she was scared.
Sakshi was irritated now, when Arjun had ignored her calls repeatedly. She threw away the phone without speaking another word and slumped down on the bed. She hid her face on the pillow and started cursing her fate. She was hitting her head and sobbing silently. A disturbed mind always relaxes to sleep, and she slept on the bed.
Her sleep was broken when her phone rang loudly beside her head. She opened her eyes slowly and looked at the screen. It was Arjun. She rubbed her iching eyes and picked up the call by the third ring,
Arjun, kaha the tum? Main kabse wait kar rahi hu?' she asked him in a breath,
kya hua sakshi?' he asked her, a bit irritated and a bit curious,
bohot garbar ho gayi hai Arjun, mujhe kuch samaj nehi aa raha..' she replied sitting up and holding her hairsback,
gadbar? Ky hua hai?' arjun asked her confused,
mom dad aye hai, tumse milna chahte hai, humari shadi ki baat karne,' she signed and told him,
A silence followed. She had expected Arjun to shout and get frustrated at her. But he was quite. May be he was confused. She was now feeling more scared. She tried to talk to him but couldn't find the right words,
Finally after a ages long silence, he spoke,
Kab milna chahte hai?' came is a calm and blank voice,
Arjun tum,' she asked him completely puzzled at his acceptance,
kab milna hai sakshi?' he asked her again, this time a bit aggressively,
sham ko, agar tum free ho to,' she told him, almost in a mechanic tone,
mein aa jaunga,' he replied firmly,
per tum, wo mein..agar tumhe, arjun..' she started speaking but got baffled at his sudden change in nature,
its okay sakshi, mein aunga, tum bata dena, ab rakhta hu, office jana hai, bye' the call disconnected,
Sakshi muttered a bye looking into the screen she had just spoken to. She had expected an angry, cursing Arjun, but this arjun was completely unknown. The calm, sober and accepting the odd without any further queries was almost unbelievable. But it was true.
When finally the realization dawned upon her, she felt composed and happy. Finally a ray of hope. Fate wasn't really that worse. She smiled and tied up her hair. She quickly got down from the bed and ran to inform about their guest in the evening. She had a lot of arrangements to do. First get herself dressed beautifully for her man.
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done with this...leave back your feedbacks..😳Edited by rimi_invisible - 11 years ago
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