ArHi FF: Check Mate! (completed) - Page 45

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"Why did you not tell me about this?" Fernando hissed
It was recess during the court proceedings and the jury's judgement awaited after recess.
"but Its not true. we are just friends.." Anjali whispered helplessly.
"Then how come they produce so many proofs against us? This peice of trump has cost me the case!you people have kept me in dark!" Fernando told her.
"Thats alright.. whatever has happened has happened.. now where do we stand?"
"I dont know, The last peice of evidences puts him on the upperhand clearly and you know how Indian law would react when one of them want to give a chance to the marraige... Now they will suggest councelling for Anjali and Shyam and try to postpone the divorce for another 6 months...If at all the verdict turns in our favour, I would spell that luck favoured us... I am sorry Mr.Raizada.. this news came as a surprise for me... You did not even give me a clue about this and they have so many evidences against us" Fernando told Arnav before he moved towards his cabin.
"Thats alright di" We will do something.. dont worry" Arnav assured her.
Kushi was standing silently beside him. Kushi felt like the ground would split and take her in.. It was all her mistake... She never thought when she stepped out of the house with Arnav and Anjali today morning the events would turn this ugly..

Contradictory to Arnav's first impression on Fernando, they found that he was an able fellow, his argument were crisp and intriguing..He started the case at the right point, moving forward providing evidences on how cunning and deceitful and dangerous Shyam is and finally when they established that its pointless for Anjali to live with shyam, Shyam turned the plates completely.. He had expected them to come up with this accusation.
He told them it was for a case that he had to stay and collect evidences. He never meant to cheat them and he did not even hide his name but couldnot tell them the reason because of the nature of the case he was working on... the Culprit was staying in the lacality and he had to do so to befriend him. More over he proved that he never ever stayed at GH at nights, He always returned back to his wife.

when Fernando projected his various murder attempts to kill Shashi gupta and Anjali, and brought up nirmala as an evidence as she has been threatnening him for money- Shyam argued that it was totally a made up story...Nirmala had found out about his stayal to collect evidences and thats why he had to shut her up with money.

Fernando was confident enough to break these two arguments of Shyam but then when shyam brought in Ashok and Anjali's relationship with him- Fernando got caught in surprise.. Shyam told that after Anjali met her Childhood sweetheart after years, she lost interest in her marraige and started accusing or shouting at him unnecessarily... then the big blow came when she started the blame game on him connecting him with her own sister in law. "which girl would stay quiet and get married hiding this big a truth ?the girls stayed quiet all these days -which means my wife's accusation is not true!- both the girls and their family did not say anything during marraige or till three months after the marraige.. suddenly they blame me... why?" he asked the jury... Because it is a made up story... Anjali wants to get out of this marraige and the family is supporting her... But that does'nt mean that they can make me a murderer... I miss the girl I fell in love with...I am striving hard to provide her all the comfort because she is from a wealthy background... I have been insulted in that house because I stayed with my In laws but I took it on the stride becasue my wife wanted to stay with her family, I was willing to lose my self respect for her sake..." he told them.

Just because they are wealthy doesnt mean that the truth should fade... I am on the truth's side.. I want my wife back... I love her.." he announced dramatically before the recess was announced.

"Kushi? What happened?" Arnav asked shaking her out of her flashback.
"I am sorry.. Its because of me" She told them.

She had been trying to put Anjali and Ashok together this last one and a half months- creating situations for them to spend time alone, recreating the old and forgotten love in them, but she never imagined this act of hers would cost them the case...she never dreamed that Shyam would churn up a story and more than that she never dreamed that shyam would be following Anjali's moves this closely... they had all expected and concentrated on putting up her relationship with him forward as she had insisted, how he cheated and tortured her and her family, but thinking back, it all seemed a predictable move on their side and he had defended it well.. Arnav had been correct all the while... He had wanted to take the case differently and in an unsuspected path all the way, in the zone where Shyam was relativey a novice and Arnav was king- he had been suggesting manhandling money and shares and property. She had been the one who had insisted on truth- which SHyam had managed to manipulate-she reaised Shyam had been clever enough to make sure not even an outsider was there when they had got engaged.

"NO Kushi Dont be, It was not your fault.. you meant well for me..we didnt know that Shyam would twist the tale like this" Anjali assured her.
"No I shouldnt have insisted on this ..and I tried to keep you and Ashokji together... "
"Kushi!its not lost entirely... we need to see what needs to be done next.. I will try set it right.. Dont worry" Arnav assured her.
She looked into his eyes, though he was putting up a confident facade to the world, his eyes told her that he was not so.

She held his palms and found it to be sweating, she looked into him "Arnavji?"
He pulled his hands away and held her shoulders "Its going to be alright Kushi!" He told her. It seemed that he was consoling himself
"I pray so" she told him looking at Anjali who was standing a little away quietly talking to Naniji

-to be continued.