Shot 3
"I'm really impressed with you Khushi. You did well, keep it up." Akshay said in delight giving a smile of satisfaction while others nodded. It was her first case and she had handled it with ease, more than what they had expected. Surely, she was beauty with everything!
"Thankyou Sir. Though Arnav Sir helped me a lot but I'd like to steal the credits being the first timer." She said cheekily making Arnav smile inwardly though he tried to maintain his poker face but Khushi could see much deeper through it. She smirked.
"You're right Sir. I think she has that potential and willpower to do something for others, to serve for them. If you don't mind, I'd like to have her under my supervision in cases for the next 2 months so that i can polish her more." Khushi's smirk deepened with each of his word. So he is ready to play under the cover too!
"Sure Arnav." Akshay readily agreed making the triumph smile on Khushi's face to never leave. "My pleasure Sir!"
"You.. throughout the whole discussion, how do you manage to mask your happiness under this sadu face of yours?" Khushi asked as soon as he sat beside her in the car. They were going to a chawl for raid along with the rest of the team following them.
"Who said I'm happy?" He asked in a clipped tone raising a single eyebrow with expertise making Khushi swear under her breath.
"Oh? So that discovering something with me is happening without your own consent?" She asked irritated. Her heart jiggled at the memory of their conversation the same morning when he had come to drop her home.
"Khushi.."
"Hmm?"
"I .."
"I?"
"No.. I..I kind of, like you."
"You kind of like me? What is that?"
"I like you." Never in his life he had faced such difficulty to convey something he had in himself. Maybe because till today, his mind spoke not heart.
"I think we should discover what is between us." Khushi didn't wait for him to complete the confession of his feelings, she immediately rushed into his arms, winding her arms around his torso rubbing her nose on his chest.
The little memory made her smile.Nothing could describe the rush of emotions she had felt when he reciprocated to her gestures with equal warmth.
She opened her eyes breaking out other reverie and looked at his smiling yet stern face in anger.
"Laal hogai! "
"Ji?" She asked incredulously making him flick her nose. "Your nose." And she chuckled.
"Why are we even going now there Arnav?" She asked seeing the crowd of people through the window. "Sir asked us to petrol them at evening. You know you could take rest for a few more hours. We got home in the morning and this afternoon we're going to..."
"Boom! Welcome to our world Khushi. I appreciate your worry for me but we just cannot sit back to rest while some people are getting harassed, some are dying, some are fighting for their life unknowingly just like the little life we saved yesterday. There is no time given that the crime rate of India is increasing in return."
"I'm so honoured to be having working under you Sir. By the end of these two months, I'm sure I'll be the ditto copy of you. At least i wish to be.." she said in an awe of this man. He simply smiled looking sideways, his hand raising to tuck a single strand of wandering hair on her face that had escaped out of her high pony.
A sudden urge to hug him surged through her when she began to look outside for her surroundings.
"The windows are tainted." He smirked as she hurriedly lurched towards him and kept her head on his shoulder sliding her arms across his torso to his back as they stood on the signal, red light pinging ahead of them.
She massaged his back with her dainty hands feeling the rigidity in his muscles, trying to open the painful knots. He returned the hug with the same passion wounding his uninjured arm around her bringing her more closer to himself tugging his chin above her head.
The discovery of their emotions was proving to be one if the motivation factors for him, he though, pecking the top of her hair soundlessly but they had to part themselves owing to the loud horns wafting from behind them.
They tugged their selves under the window, slowly moving forward with predatory steps, their guns clutched into their hands and their faces expressionless. And what she saw left her furious. A bulky lady sat in the middle of a shabby room of a cottage situated away from the city, miles away from the highway too. And gathered around her were a bunch of young looking people with hazy red eyes, some swaying and some too much angered.
The trend of selling drugs was too mainstream these days. A few hours ago they had received the information about the same. The head of the seller community was to be found near the city and after today she would no more remain the anonymous person.
Arnav motioned her inside, ahead of him while he signaled others to stand across the circumference of the house which was about to collapse any given second. She rushed inside instantly putting the gun above her head. "Stand up! Put everything on the table you have in your hands." The lady took a moment to register what had happened. She threw the small packets of drugs in front of her slowly rotating around to find the rigid faces of the 3 officers.
"You?" Arnav asked ridiculously. The same lady he knew who gave the tour of the Delhi university a few days back when he went there for inspection about the same case. The same woman who hid behind layers of make up and a sugary smile stood with her upper lip twitched evilly and scooped up expressions, not at all scared.
"Yes! Me.." She pushed Khushi back causing the gun in her hand to fall down to the other corner of the room and ran to the other door in the room. Khushi stood up gasping as she went behind her followed by Arnav and the junior inspector.
The heavy lipids of the woman didn't allow her to run faster than Khushi though she was quite and expertise herself but she couldn't fight her age. With a sudden tug at the back of the collar of her shirt, Khushi managed to catch hold of her bringing her behind her and then finally facing her.
The students were in custody too. Everyone stood watching as Khushi slapped the woman hard. To Arnav, the scene unfolding against his eyes seemed almost impossible. Such a thin life could have so much of energy to throw a heavy woman on the floor just by a slap? He stood amused but his thoughts traveled back to those of serious issues.
"Save the time and open your mouth since you and me both know that you cant go out of our clutches now. Quit the useless tricks and come to the point."
Tears began to trickle down her face. "My real name is Sheetal. Sheetal Arora. Ranbir Arora is my husband." She paused temporarily while half of the details began to sunk into their minds. They knew, Ranbir Arora was a shrewd man.
"He...he never trusted me. I was a business woman before being appointed in his university as a lecturer. You know, he runs a big business, has his own chain of hotels, universities. I hated him!" She suddenly gritted her teeth with the animosity she felt for her husband. "I still hate him so much. He have no respect for women. He always mocked me that i cant do anything, women aren't capable of handling any type of businesses." She kept looking at the floor helplessly.
"Yes i had my own limitations of not doing good with the business. I asked for his help but always got his mockery in return. I was never able to resume back to my position again and i had decided i will take my revenge on him. I sold drugs to the students of his university." She told into the silent room, slowly, her voice rising into untimely laughs which soon turned into the maniac weepings. "I wanted to destroy him, put his business at stake, put his name at risk. I was so successful." She said throwing an evil smile towards the students.
"What sin did they commit? What was their fault? They have a life to live ahead unlike you who have thrown daggers in your way yourself." Khushi asked angrily sitting down at a knee catching onto her collar to see into her eye.
"What was my fault? Just that i wanted my husband's help? His love? This was my fault." She asked with equal passion which in turn gifted her another slap.
"That doesn't mean you go through the surface of this earth ruining the lives of the people on whom you could lay your hands upon. Specially these kids. Shame on you!"
"Get her confession!" Arnav said to the junior inspector and headed to the car followed by Khushi.
He got into the car and as soon as she put on her seat belt, he grasped her hands in his and placed his lips onto hers.
She was stunned!
And she was out of her breath. While her head pressed back into the head rest of her seat, he threaded his fingers into hers catching her lips deeper into his and smooching them with a passion. The reality was too heavy to swallow but once it sunk into her brain, she reciprocated with a multiplied zest and more fervor.
Gasping, he lifted his head from her mouth to see her flushed and disheveled face, her breathing in large lumps. Tucking her bangs beside her ears, he settled back in his seat regaining his senses back.
"Whaa..what was thaaat?" She asked lifting her eyes up, blinking frequently.
"I just wanted to!" He smirked! He couldn't lay the descriptions of his thoughts about her just yet, they were new in this, they'd have to wait.
She held his nape and pecked his lips moving his face closer. "I wanted it too.." she smirked back.
'I was just not ready to meet my future husband yet but you came there as an angel dressed as a cop whisking me out of my bland world, your aura forced my heart to fall in love with you, to kiss you, and I just did...'
The end...
Edited by Rish_Rubles - 9 years ago
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