They both reached bank and Dev dragged her to the side opposite to the direction they should go to home. He dragged him in the direction of temple and she asked him incredulously " Are you taking me to temple?"
Dev scowled at her " Do you think D.P is that obvious. Come along. this was a special place for you in past"
They reached to the bank of the temple and Dev took her towards the Kanha statue present in their spot. Radhika gasped " Dev! I came here once before."
Dev looked at him intriguingly " Doesn't you feel any thing then"
Radhika stood in front of Kanha's statue " I felt a little girl standing here singing some song, then all of a sudden she heard Bansuri playing in back ground." Radhika closed her eyes reminiscing the moment " Its such a lovely song you know. I felt immense happiness then, i don't know why after that many time it came into my dreams." Dev came near her and smiled, then she heard the same bansuri note, she closed her eyes off and started to sing that song she many times heard in her visions, she opened her eyes and then looked at Dev, now she was sure what that dream was. She spoke to him " Dev , do you know what , in that moment I felt like Kanha himself came to me and played bansuri. I know that feeling in her when ever I see that dream, now I too felt the same Dev. I felt like my Kanha came to me"
Dev came near her and spoke unsure " You used to call me Kishen Kannaya, for 13 years we are friends, after that I separated from her all of a sudden, I doesn't remember her when I met her. I now remember every thing, I saw that unspoken expression, in her eyes when ever I see her, I see that in your eyes right now. Why Radhika? Why are you feeling pained to be near me, Don't you like me?"
Radhika stood there still, not moving, she held her head down, she doesn't raise it. He slowly moved near her and raised her head, her eyes met his, many unspoken expressions exchanged between them, he told her smoothly " Radhika Bharadwaj, I Dev Purohith son of Chaya and Hari Purohith by body and son of Vydehi and Raj Purohith by mind here by promise you that, what ever comes by my way I will always love you and will never leave you. I am yours"
Radhika stared at him shocked, doing such promises infront of God was considered as ultimate form of marriage, she never expected him to do that. He was completing their soul bond by doing this, now its in her hand whether to complete it or not. She made her decision , she stared into her eyes " I Radhika Bharadwaj promise Dev Purohith that I will be by his side forever, guiding him and helping him. Promising him my soul. I am yours."
They both felt the force which enveloped them, soul bonds are rare, and when a soul bond is present it doesn't require the normal marriage custom, they have to acknowledge their love for one other , and that will be enough to bond form. Now they were couple, they will be till their death. No divorce or nothing will break their marriage now. They both hugged each other . Dev however chuckled "You know what this means right!"
Radhika nodded,she spoke to him " Jaante ho kya Dev! I am always devoted to you. So no need to worry. However our parents may not accept"
Dev wanted to make Radhika say truth "Why won't they accept Radhika, already we are married right"
Radhika bit her lip , she looked away uncertain but she smiled again " Dev, I think Mohan uncle, Devki aunty, Vydehi aunty, RP uncle should also see our marriage right!"
Dev smiled "Yes, but is it that necessary?"
Radhika sighed " If what I know of my other life is true then I am only daughter of Mohan uncle, he should do my Kanyadaan so that he shouldn't face hell. I should let him do that. Please"
Dev nodded, he can feel nothing but happy seeing his Radhika in this life too so compassionate and understanding others. However he want to light the mood "I think this Radhika name it self have some problem yaat"
Radhika frowned "Why is that so?"
Dev kissed Radhika on her forehead "You people are so compassionate and always think about others that you forget you yourselves are humans too"
Radhika smiled and looked at Dev mischeviously "I too think all Dev's have some problem"
Dev raised his eyebrow "What say is that?"
Radhika moved away from him a bit and smiled "Being down right Prat" she showed him tongue and ran off from there. Dev too followed her as she ducked through the over grown branches and soon enough they are running along the bank of river their reflections shining in the water. Finally they both sat on the edge of river and Radhika started to splash water by her legs and Dev too joined her. Radhika went into a trance like state "It feels good to be back to childhood right"
Dev not noticing the trance Radhika was in "Haan Radhu"
Radhika continued in her trance like state "I missed it a lot Kishankannaya"
Dev was about to answer, but suddenly he looked at Radhika, she called him Kishankannaya, Dev shook her "Radhika"
Radhika came out from her trance and looked at Dev "What?"
Dev spoke slowly "You called me Kishankannaya"
Radhika gave a confused face "Did I? when?"
Dev frowned, why Radhhika was behaving like she didn't remember what happened right now, Dev shrugged, he has to take notice of it, he spoke to Radhika "Nothing"
Radhika shrugged, she stood up and they both walked towards home.
Days at Purohith Manor are more peaceful,Dev and Radhika's wedding preparations are going on. Radhika found a new bliss, in interacting with the people who knew her other self very well. She wanted to know more about herself, occasionally she feel like she knew some thing, she can understand it was her subconscious getting the memories of her previous birth, but more than that she don't have any lee way. Its a month since Dev woke up from his accident, and in this one month, Radhika can happily declare that she was happy and was completely in love with this new passionate Dev. Dev started to get to understand the business at present level and was even helping Vivek, but still he was at unease when it came to Vishaka. Apparently they both have some bad blood Radhika thought to her self. Every day morning, they both get up, Radhika will quickly do her pooja , as she was provided with that privilege, then she go into garden and enjoy the weather there, some times mohini or Mrinalini will join her. But mostly she will be alone, or with Dev. Then she exercise for a bit, and deal with some of her patients online. To her luck she went to Rawal only once in all the days, and Rishabh sensing the danger, after he got a call from an irate Bharadwaj, sent another doctor to them. Radhika though starting to feel bored, she thought she will do one thing or other and then she looked at all the woman crouched in kitchen, she went there " Shall I do some thing too"
Devki smiled at Radhika " You know cooking"
Radhika's face fell " No, I doesn't know. But I can cut vegetables and all, if you want"
Radhika braced herself for some scolding or some thing in the way modern day girls don't know any house hold habits, but for her surprise every one started to laugh. Vaishali spoke fondly "Radhu also don't know cooking beti, so don't worry"
Mrinalini pouted " Yeah, Maa spoiled her a lot you know"
Devki snickered knowing "For you all it seems like that, but Mohan would never let me make Radhika do any thing you know"
Vaishali snorted "As if you would make your ladli beti work"
They again laughed, Radhika also smiled listening. She too spoke "Know what, Maa yaa dadi , they too will never let me work. I even remember times when I used to protest them saying they are making me lazy. But they will cut it off. Mummy used to tell me that children should study not indulge themselves in house works..." Radhika lost herself babbling, how can't she when she was missing her Dadima a lot. Devki and Vaishali looked at one another "Tum, apni dadima ko miss kar rahi ho na?"
Radhika bit her lip and nodded " Jaanti ho Aunty, I happened to stay in Hyderabad for some time in my studies and also I happened to go to London one year for my PG. then also I took Sumithra with me. I miss her a lot, I didn't see her for one month"
Mrinalini looked at Radhika sadly and asked "Hows she?"
Radhhika cheered up a bit "She and Pran are fine. Rishabh was saying that Pran is going for skating, and his sword fight is going fine"
Mrinalini and Others smiled as she lost her self in speaking about them. Unknown to them was Dev standing at door way to listen all this.
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Dev was working on some project Vivek said him when his mobile started to ring. Very few people have his mobile number apart from his or Radhika's family and frowning he attended it, its Vishnu " Hey Dev! "
Dev smiled, though he doesn't know Vishnu much, he trusted him. May be his sub conscious was still a bit active. He spoke "Hi Vishnu, What up?"
Vishnu spoke " Dev, remember I happen to hear that there's some conference going on in Delhi, about recent medical updates. I think, you better take Radhika to there, she will like it. I am sure"
Dev nodded, "Thanks for idea Vishnu. Now tell me the details of venue."
Dev scribbled them down and then went to kitchen, he saw Radhika cutting some vegetables and went to her " Get ready, we need to go out in a hour"
Radhika frowned, while Vaishali asked " Where Dev?"
Dev spoke "Wo maa, actually Vishnu called me, and asked me for some help. I need to go to Delhi, and I need Radhika to come along because I don't know much details of it."
Radhika nodded, and she left up.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Dev took her along with him to the conference and Radhika felt surprise at the effort. For past few days as much as she mingled with the family, she missed her work. She missed her research, and now she was here attending the conference which she lng dreamt to attend. It was a conference for oncologists, she got an invitation before accident and that day she felt over joyed. Now she can't help but feel happy having Dev along with her here, he too had an invitation if she remember correctly. Radhika smiled and immediately shook her self from thoughts, she opened her laptop and brushed over her details and stepped in , dragging Dev along with her despite of his protests that he won't understand any thing happening there.
Radhika huffed in annoyance "Mr.Purohith, this is final time I am telling you. You are one of the best Surgical oncologists in India. Now Shut up and move along" She felt light speaking to him in such a way.
However her happiness was short lived as she came across the presenting names , there across was her name written in Capital letters. She didn't even give her name, hell. She started to hyperventilate, she had to present now, she can't back now. What should she do. Radhika started to panick and seeing her condition, Dev sat beside her, he wanted to relieve her but how he doesn't know. He hugged from side "Relax, it will be fine. I am sure you will do good. "
Radhika calmed a bit "But I didn't even have a topic"
Dev thought for a while " Are you doing any project right now"
Radhika thought for a while " I have some projects going on, but statistical data base is not proper, or else one is almost completed"
Dev smiled "I am good in statistics, now IU can do it . How much time do you have"
Radhika calculated "Mine is 4th in presentation, on an average one will take 15 - 20 minutes, that makes an hour and starting lectures will take an hour, so we have a total of 2 hrs"
Dev nodded, "Good, it will take me 1 hour to complete the whole stats preparation, remaining one hour you can prepare"
Radhika smiled and they both sat at an empty lobby, doing their work. Dev noticed that they both make a good team. Dev smiled at the thought and then some thing un expected happened. Some one hugged him from back, he stiffened a bit and then that person even kissed him on cheek, Dev looked at Radhika, who despite of observing it, had her head down and he can make out the paling of her face. He turned back and looked at the person who dared hug him and saw a girl with loose hair and tight fit jumper and jeans, her whole attire is screaming informality and he can't help but sneer at the attire. He looked at the girl and she was white, but was not beautiful. She smile and winked at him "How are you sir?"
Dev narrowed his eyes " Excue me! Who are you?"
Radhika raised her head and spoke immediately " Dev, its Bharka Vasishth, my class mate"
Bharka raised her eye brow " Radhika, am I your class mate only, I think we are best friends. Any way why the hell are you introducing me to Dev sir and why the hell are you calling him Dev?"
Dev interrupted , snaking her hand around Radhika's waist "And May I pray ask you Madam, what else should my wife call me. "
Bharka looked at both of them in confusion and then asked " Your wife, are you gone nuts Dev sir, when did you marry her?"
Radhika held her head down.. but what Dev replied next minute surprised her "Its none of your business Miss. Vasisht. " he turned to Radhika "Work is over, shall we go?"
Radhika didn't miss the glare Bharka directed at her, she nodded at Dev and they both went in leaving Bharka behind.
To say Radhika's conference went well will be an understatement. Remaining senior doctors didn't expect much from Radhs, but their shocked faces after her presentation it self said how well her presentation went. Radhika was happy, she spoke for a while with some other seniors for a when one of them asked her "Miss. Bharadwaj, Do you know Mr.Purohith, I see you both get well along"
Radhika looked at Dev who was sitting at a side sipping some juice cordially wishing some one who tried to speak with him, she nodded "He's my fiance Dr.Mukherjee"
The other doctor smiled "Its nice to know Mr.Purohith is getting settled in life, after her first wife's death I think he was distressed a lot. Any way I must commend you Miss. Bharawaj, you agreed to marry him even after knowing about his wife."
Radhika stared at Mukherjee and spoke " We can't fault Mr.Purohith if his wife died of a complication during pregnancy. Upto what I know he was a good husband."
Mukherjee nodded smiling " He's my student in his Post Graduation Miss. Bharadwaj. Nice to know he got a good person. Congratrulations! Miss. Bharadwaj." Radhika smiled and nodded to him, then she turned her eyes to Dev and saw Bharka approaching him. She turned to the other side, she knew Dev love Bharka and if Dev wish to reconcile with her she don't want to come between them. Radhika closed her eye to prevent the tear drop from falling down and then she saw Gaurav on a side and went to him. Gaurav turned to look at her and smiled to her "That's a brilliant presentation Radhs, I thought you won't come. Rishabh said me what happened with Dev"
Radhika smiled and hugged him " I am glad I saw you here Gaurav. Well I too didn't expect, Dev brought me hyere, how he know I have a conference here today , I don't know"
Gaurav beamed at her " Finally that prat is showing some love to you. Nice to know " Radhika laughed at that sentence and Gaurav asked her " Where's Mr. Handsome"
Radhika's face fell at that " I think he might be in a conversation with Bharka"
Gaurav became serious " Bharka!" he hissed, " Why the hell did you let her get to him"
Radhika looked down mumbling some thing. Gaurav tried hard to listen but can't so asked her to repeat she said louder " I don't want to get in between two lovers."
Gaurav griited his teeth " Shut up Radhs, You and me as well knows he doesn't remember it. For once stop being a goddess and become human. Now come with me." Saying that he dragged her along with him to the counter where Dev was sitting, Bharka trying to talk with him. Dev looked at Radhika and stood up rushing to her " Finally! I am waiting for you here, and many people come to me shaking their hands with me asking how I am . Its really hard to pretend as if I remember all of them and nothing's wrong with me." Gaurav laughed at expression on Dev's face and Radhika made a face at Gaurav poking him hard in ribs. Dev looked at Gaurav confused and Radhika sighed " Dev, this is Gaurav. He's my class mate in MBBS, he's a neurologist now. Gaurav is one of my best friends. And Gaurav you know Dev"
Gaurav laughed " Keep your formalities Radh. Bhai its nice to see you again." Dev looke at him and nodded " Nice to meet you"
Radhika smiled and then they took to a table for a lunch , where Bharka also joined them for their annoyance. She nodded curtly to Gaurav who glared at her in reply, she sat to the other side of Dev and started to speak with him " Dev I know you are angry on me. But why are you ignoring me. Are those years we are together nothing for you" Radhika kept her head in her palms, and Dev glared at Bharka " Well Miss. Vasisht, we both have a break up as you said and that's past. Now please let me live in present" He looked to Radhika who was watching him with an emotion undecipherable in her eyes and spoke " I always love Radhika. May be then I don't know what is true love and confused my attraction for you as my love. But when I recall things, then I can say that I always love Radhika. Miss. Vasisht before you say me you love me, can I ask you why are you angry now. When you come to me, Radhika bowed her head, she was wife but still she didn't argue with me why I am speaking with my ex, and if this minute I choosed to to reconcile with you she won't even say a word. Because she love me and for her my happiness is important, but can I say the same with you? Nope. I said I am married to her still you are trying to cling to me and was angry on her. I always love Radhika and will never loose her"
Radhika was looking at Dev shocked, and same was expression of Gaurav, but Bharka smirked " Dev, you know what the size of ego you both have, even if you are married you won't last forever" Then she looked at Radhika " You know what you are disgusting, I never thought you will stoop to such a level that you marry the lover of your best friend. You disgust me." Saying that she left from there.
Radhika doesn't even heed Bharka's words, she continued to look at Dev who looked at her and said smoothly " Shall we go" Radhika nodded and Gaurav smiled to them " Dev Bhaiyya congratulations. I am happy for you both" saying that he too left.
After coming out Radhika hugged Dev tightly " Thank you so much Dev, I love you!! "
Dev smiled to Radhika " You always loved me "
Radhika shook her head " I loved my Dev yes, but I started to love this part of him too"
Dev smiled " I also love this part of you Radhika"
Radhika smiled and they both got into the car.Radhika rested her head on Dev's shoulder while he drove and spoke " You loved her you kniow"
Dev shook her head " I like her may be that's right, but I didn't loved her. There's difference between them both. And my subconscious always tell me I loved you. "
Radhika again looked at him and she kissed his cheek " I never want to leave you Dev"
Dev smiled as he kissed her head " If I have any say then you won't"
Radhika hugged him more tighter.
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