This update is for my yonger sister whose birthday is tomorrow.
❤️HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS❤️
"Geet, why will I tell lies? I have told you I did not come to the Haveli. What has been going on? Did you meet someone else, Geet? Are you in love with him? Did you go close to him? Were you both intimate with each other? Don't stand quite, Geet. Reply Geet. I want answers.
Geet was silent.
Part 25
"Why are you silent Geet? Please answer me Geet?"
Geet did not answer.
"Do you love Rahul? Do you want to marry him?"
She remained silent.
"Did you sleep with him? What has been going on between you two? Please Geet say something"
But Geet did not have any answers.
"Say anything but please don't say you do not want to marry me?"
Geet silence was answer enough for him.
He turned and walked away dejected.
The thoughts pulled Geet more into an abyss. The dejectedness she saw on Dev's face was like a thorn in her heart. She could not forgive herself. She knew the hatred Dev had for Rahul. And she knew the reason behind it.
She remembered the time when Dev had told her about Anjali. He had met her when he had a minor accident and had been taken to the hospital. Anjali had been an orthopedic surgeon in the India Hospital where she had been the one to attend to him and take him to the casualty ward. They had hit it off instantly and after few dates had decided to tell their respective parents about each other. Their respective parents had agreed upon the match and had fixed the wedding date.
Rahul had been his childhood friend and had become closer as they had grown up together. Soon they could always be found in each others home. Rahul had been very helpful in arranging everything for the wedding.
For a long time Dev had not come about what Rahul had been doing behind his back and when he had come to know about it he had been very hurt. It had taken him years to trust females again and he had broken his friendship with Rahul immediately.
While doing the arrangements for the wedding Rahul had been a constant presence in both the households. He had taken on the responsibility of keeping the communication lines clear between both the parties. His constant presence had increased the nearness between him and Anjali. Slowly, slowly they both had come near. On the pretext of the finalizing the arrangements for wedding preparation he had taken advantage of Anjali and had compelled her to have an affair with him and to keep it going till the last moment.
Though Anjali had not been at much at fault but Dev had been hurt badly and had cut himself off from the females for a long time. But time had healed his wounds and he had taken an opposite route. He had become a Casanova seducing many women and having a string of girlfriends.
But all that had changed when Geet and Pari had come to stay with them. The friendship that had developed dev and herself had a calming effect on him and had changed him drastically. He had fallen in love with her and had given up his old ways of living.
He had broken off his engagement with Anjali because of Rahul and the history was repeating itself. This time it was she herself was facing the same problem and that too because of this Rahul.
But when she kept on thinking, where did this Rahul come from she could not find the answer.
Neither could she answer the question, was he the man with whom she had spent her nights with? But she could not believe the answer to the question, was he her soulmate, was yes. She could not imagine anyone else, except Dev in her life
How did Rahul come to that room and what was he doing there, why was he wearing Dev's clothes and why had Rahul taken her in his arms was still a mystery to her.
She started thinking why did she mistake him for Dev? Was it because it was too dark? But then why had she not felt the difference between him and Dev? Was it because both had been wearing the same perfume and had same physical similarities that for a moment she had got confused. She had subconsciously realized the difference by her feelings that she felt towards him but by that time Dadima and others had entered the room.
But still she could not answer the questions posed by Dev. How could she tell him, she had lost her virginity to a stranger and that too on their engagement day if that person was not Dev? And why she could not still believe that it was not Dev on the engagement day or rather night. For a better word she would call him stranger. Why did she feel so close to that stranger if it was not Dev that night? They had spent more than a week together but she still could not be sure it was not Rahul. She had no answers to all the questions.
She knew she will have to face even more tough questions if the media came to know about all this. She had no answers to Dev's questions how would she answer the questions posed by the press. Not finding or getting any answers form her they would dig out the tragedy of her family and would throw dirt again spoiling both the Khurana name as well as the Handa name. What would Dadima who was more of a mother to her would reply to the press and how would Dev and Maan keep the press away.
She did not want anything to happen to the Khurana family. She hoped the incident in the room to never reach the media, otherwise she couldn't even imagine what they would do with the Khurana name. Not only the Khurana family would suffer but it would have great implications on Pari's life as well. And she could not let that happen.
And taking a decision she decided to act on it. It was not time to think but to follow the decision she had made.
Precap: Dev's marriage.
Edited by crystal-rose - 13 years ago
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