ArHi FF: Checkmate!-T2 (completed) - Page 38

From the Author's desk: Hello people, hope you are enjoying the track and My initial plan was to wind up this entire FF with 50 episodes... but with Shyam's story getting longer and longer, I think I will be going for more than 50... Hope you all will have patience to tolerate with more of this story! Here is the next part...and there is another part coming up to end Shyam's conve with Arnav...

Happy reading and thanks for all the likes and comments

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Part 48

As if Shyam knew what was running in Arnav's mind, He started speaking about those incidents...

"My last resort was to make Anjali see and believe that I was in a physical relationship with another girl... Any wife would be enraged to know about that.. and that should definetely make her end her marraige with me.. I planned to get Kushi to the terrace and I decided to trust her and let her in the secret... But she wouldnt let me speak.. She was not even ready to listen.. She was loathing me... and I had no idea that the equation between you and Kushi had changed so much and you were actually falling for her...

I had planned for Anjali to come to the terrace.. left her a message in our room... I guess she did not see it at all... When I heard the noice at the terrace door... I thought it was Anjali and grabbed Kushi into an embrace...which she herself didnt expect... She was in shock... and I started telling my well rehearsed phrase to make Anjali blast at me.. but that blast didnt come... Later when you confronted me I understood it was you who had witnessed it.. Then Anjali announced that she was pregnant... I couldnt decide what to do... or what happened...but all hope was not lost for me... I thought you would take matters into your hand and ease out things for me... How wrong I was... You went ahead and married Kushi...

Rana had called me to meet him at a particular place, I left the house to meet him.. it was at that time, you confronted me at the road telling me to back off from Kushi..Because Kushi is your wife...You told with such intensity that Rana who was also nearby understood you and Kushi shared more than a casual relationship...and that you were in love...He was enraged... I think he had even started suspecting me...He blamed me for not sensing that this was happening under my very nose.. He thought I had cheated and the gossips which had started nearly 8 months back was true... and I was fooled... I knew better.. I suspected this wedding was not entirely out of love... I could'nt do anything about it as rumours reached me saying that some spies other than me were planted... Whether electronic or labour men, I was not sure...I am not sure even now... But I had to be careful...

I was given orders to kill Kushi... I had to devise a plan quickly... I told Rana that I could seperate you both.. That should solve the issue...he came to know from the spies that you both already had some issues...and all was not well...so he bought my plan... my many a adventures with Kushi was a result of that... I couldnt get Kushi alone to tell her who I really was... She would never listen to me.. and I didnt want to show Anjali who I really was.. Lest I damaged my own plans to get Anjali and Ashok together...

Then one day, when the family suspected that Kushi was pregnant... I was really in a fix... If she was pregnant she was carrying a heir to the thrown... If Rana got to know the news, she will be dead! I had to over react with you to make sure that Rana recieves the news that Kushi was not pregnant... whether she was really pregnant or not is another thing.. but right now.. Rana should believe she was not... I saw her going down... late in the night..I had to caution her... to be safe... she should no longer be kept in dark about the royal lineage she was carrying if she was pregnant...But things turned nasty... Kushi held up a knife to hurt herself- She was getting hyper- trying to save her dignity and all that from what she believed was my attempt to force myself on her, I plunged forward to take it out of her hand, she hit me, you came in... we fought... Anjali screamed... it was a total chaos... but luckily whatever I wanted to happen started to happen... Anjali started to realise it was over between me and her.. and I put in that divorce drama to convince Rana...Rana didnt really want me to divorce Anjali... But I told him it would only be a drama to seperate you and Kushi.

I found out that you both had got into a contract wedding, That came as bit of surprise for me... that was a brilliant peice of clause by the way... But I decided to use it to fool Rana... but still he did not believe in it... I asked him to give me time months' time to settle things... I cannot connect with you or Kushi at RM or at AR.. I wanted to get Kushi out...I tried hard to make her pack her bags which will successfully fool Rana..and finally we did it...I had initially planned only for a month's time for Kushi to stay somewhere safe...I asked sid to persuade her to leave Delhi... Kushi accepted finally... we moved her to Mumbai... I had only a month's time settle things, we had devised a plan..and was working towards it... Once the property comes to you, Rana can do nothing... and we were also running out of time... the contract wedding was coming to an end... then Kushi discovered she was pregnant...

All plans collapsed..because this news kick started another clause of the will... The safe pregnancy, the heir completing one year being sound and healthy... our foremost need then was to protect Kushi and her unborn baby...things couldnt get much complicated as such...If Rana gets to know that kushi is pregnant with the heir... it was very dangerous... your phone lines could be tapped.. we forbid her to tell anyone about her pregnancy...your wedding contract ended... and Arush was born when she was out of wedlock... We didnt know how that will be covered in the clause...I needed time to find that out and was working towards that... all the while keeping Rana and his gang off the track. and finally when everything got settled, we thought it was time for you both to get together again...Also... Now that you are out of your wedlock.. You would need to renew it.. before you turn 30 that would be in a couple of weeks' time...

This was one of the funny clauses in the will...The will defines an upperlimit on age until which time the monarch would wait for the eligible heir to declare out of celibacy or prove his potency-by which time, the mornach would no longer and would pass the title on to the next eligible son..." Shyam finshed and looked at Arnav to give him some kind of a response...

Arnav pressed his hands into his aching head.. this was so much to process... But he was forgetting some link...

"Is there an explanation for why you tried to kill my sister if you only wished well for her?" Arnav asked Shyam, his tone still clearly saying that he didnt yet decide if he should trust Shyam.

"do you really call those attempts as my honest attempts to murder someone? That would surel be an insult to my intelligence " Shyam smiled sheepishly "For god's sake.. ether... evaporates quickly, and if you remember, I set the scorpian on my own body.. and the car sabotage was only to scare her. I knew she would be safe, the fuel tank was cut on the lee side, ensuring, the fuel got empty very soon, making the car to loose acceleration... I also made sure the fuel was very less in the car..."

"what about the further attempts on me? or on Ashok?"

"If you are refering to your unfortunate accident.. it was really an accident.. I was not responsible for that... I only took the opportunity to let kushi believe that it was me who planned it...so that she move out of RM... I suspected Rana to have a hand on it...But I dont have any means to find it out... atleast now... but With Ashok's incident, I am sure it was Rana's goons... When I had given divorce to Anjali, I tried to justify myself with the point that when I had to decide between You and Anjali, I had to let go of Anjali because Rana's main aim was the monarch title and the wealth therein...He seemed to buy it... But later, I think he started to realize that I might be double crossing him...He planned to scare away Ashok... and used the opportunity to scare Kushi through threats on her family...even the car that you drove with Kushi and NK was sabotaged by his men... You must have noticed the difference... I usually called but after those attacks the threats were through messages from Ashok's cell... "

Arnav looked at Shyam not able to decide if whatever he told was truth or not... there was still one last question nagging his mind.

"who is that person for whom you took this task? risking your life.. for whom you took up so much?"

Shyam smiled.

" I am not sure would be happy to hear his...Shrimathi Gayathri devi Rana" he said with reverence

"Gayathri? My Father's mistress?"

"Yes, the very woman whom your father fell in love with.. the woman who was tricked by her brother and fell head over heals in love with your father, not knowing your father's marital status, the woman who was cheated as much as your mom was and was forced to get seperated from her own son"

Arnav's face grew dark hearing this.

How can he trust that the very woman who was responsible for miseries of his young age, the very woman who was responsible to push his mother to end her life, the very woman because of whom his sister's wedding stopped the first time, the very woman who was the reason for his happy childhood to end and he was forced to grow up faster- How can she be responsible to drive these men, inspire them to protect him and his sister?

To be continued...