FF-Strings, Tying Us Together #2 Part 15 Pg101 4/7 - Page 47

Recap: Lavanya tells Khushi why she is back which is to get Arnav back for herself. She states that Khushi stole Arnav away from her which is why Arnav left her.

Khushi wiped her tears and slowly walked out of the cabin in a daze. Her mind kept ringing with the words that Lavanya had said. She didn't know what she going to do, but she knew that she wasn't going to go down without a fight. He was her husband and no one is going to change that, not La, not Devi Maiyaa, not even Arnav himself. He's mine.

With that in mind, she looked up at the cabin right above hers. The see through glasses surrounded the cabin in a eerie way. It was almost as if while making the cabin Arnav had told them to make the walls of the room glass on purpose. As if he was taunting all of his workers to dare to look inside in his private area, Not that he does anything besides work in there.

Anger now replacing the initial confusion caused by La, Khushi picked up the ends of her saree and quickly ran up the stairs and threw the door open without even knocking. What she saw there only surprised and further aggravated her.

"What the?!" Khushi cried out in rage not even realizing that she was using her husband's favorite words.

"What?! Are you mocking me??" Arnav asked as he turned around to see the woman who refused to leave him alone, "Have you never heard of knocking? How dare you just enter my cabin?!"

"Oh ya? Why so touchy? It shouldn't matter if all you were doing was work! Obviously that's not what you were doing now was it?" Khushi asked, placing her hands on her hips and standing right in front of his desk.

"Chamkili we were talking about an important business deal. Thanks for interrupting us," La said as she continued to flip through the file in her hands.

"Then why does it matter that I walked in?! Why do you care so much about me walking in randomly without knocking? This cabin is as much mine as it is yours! How dare you question my authority over it?"Khushi asked as she slammed her fist down on the table.

"What the?! Are you insane?! How is this your cabin?!" Arnav retailed, his temper rising as he listened to her talk, his mind trying to warn him that something wasn't right.

"Did you just say I was crazy?! Do I look crazy to you know?!" she cried out, all of her frustrations coming out on the one who was the cause for all of this mess.

"Chamkili stop! That's your boss you are talking too. He can have you fired right now," La warned, "Right ASR? Just fire her! The way she just talked to you? How intolerable!"

Arnav looked at La as if she had grown two horns. He didn't know why, but just the words spilling out of La's mouth made him want to punch her. Fire Khushi, what does she mean fire Khushi?! I can't fire Khushi?! But why do I care...? It doesn't matter. I can fire her! You know what I will fire her. She is nothing to me. If this harms Akash's relationship then that's not my problem.

"Fine! Fire me. Please so I can get the heck out of here," Khushi said, knowing all too well that her words would have the opposite reactions to what La had wanted, "I have better things to do in my life anyway."

"Like what? Looking for your husband?" Arnav asked in a taunting voice, smiling with satisfaction when he saw the hurt in her eyes, "I can't fire you and you know that. You are here for fifteen days. If you have such important things to do in your life, why don't you quit? Write the check-- I mean just hand the money in at the front desk," Arnav responded dismissively.

"I am not going anywhere until you tell me to go away Arnav," Khushi said in a soft but bold voice that made Arnav look up from his laptop to see her staring at La rather than him.

"Just shut up Chamkili. No one cares if you are going or not. Why can't you just say that you don't have enough money to pay AR for the silly contract you signed which is why you won't leave? Do you really think ASR wants you here? The only reason you haven't been thrown out yet is since ASR never breaks a contract unlike you. So get over yourself and just go," La finished smirking triumphantly when she saw Khushi's glistening eyes.

Arnav looked back and forth from Khushi to La. He could tell that there was so huge tension between the two but he refused to get involved in it. Getting involved would mean jumping in a gladiator fight, something he was not ready for. He felt his stomach wrench when he saw the tears in her eyes and the one tear which was now leaving a trail on her face. It took all of his self control from getting up and wiping that tear but he did it, convincing himself that it didn't matter. For all he cared the girl could cry another Nile.

"Khushi?" came the soft voice from outside of the cabin.

Khushi quickly wiped her tears when she heard the familiar voice of her Jiju. Turning around with a bright smile on her face she looked at him standing there with a concerned look.

"Hain Jiju? Are you okay? Did you need anything?" Khushi asked trying as hard as possible to keep the pain out of her voice.

Obviously she failed since her Jiju gave her a knowing look and then quickly walked up to and wrapped his arm around her. Arnav watched in rage as his brother wrapped his arm around his sali. Nothing really mattered to him at that moment. All he wanted to do was to go and throw Akash's arms as far away from Khushi as possible. The proximity did not soothe him at all even though his mind told him again and again that Khushi was his sali.

"Khushi let's go. Payal wanted to talk to you so come call her now," Akash said as he pushed her to the door, "La, I need to talk to you, so will you please come with me? Thank you," he said before La could protest and walked out while guiding Khushi.

"Here, go call your sister she is really worried for you," Akash ordered, while handing Khushi his phone, as he saw La entering his cabin.

"What did you need to talk to me about Akash?" La asked when Khushi had left the room punching numbers in on the mobile in her hand.

"What are you trying to do La?" Akash asked, not beating around the bush.

"What do you mean?" La questioned while sitting down on the chair.

"Cut the act La. It's just you and me here. Tell me what you are trying to do! Why are you back? How dare you try to break my Bhai's happily married life?" Akash demanded his temper rising for the first time in such a long time.

"Obviously the marriage wasn't too eventful or else ASR would have remembered that Chamkili. I bet she was just a time pas-" La said only to be interrupted by Akash.

"Don't you even dare say something like that about my Bhai. Are you saying he used Khushi?! He loved her Lavanya! Love. He wouldn't even let her out of his sight in case something happened to her. It's called love. ASR was in love and not with you," Akash said in a dangerously low voice.

"Well we will just see about that won't we?" La said as she got up to leave the room, not really interested to hear another person going on and on about the greatness of Ms. Khushi Kumari Gupta. She knew all about how great the girl was, and what a big sham she was.

"Don't even dare to try to ruin my Bhai's life. I will ruin you before I let that happen," Akash warned before he waved his hand in a dismissive way.

La left the room quietly, shutting the door behind her. She walked out into the main hall where everyone was working and where Khushi was talking softly to someone with a sligth smile on her face. Watch Khushi. Watch how I take everything you have now and get rid of the smile on your face forever. Just watch.

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