I know I know I have to update Felonious but what to do I drafted and redrafted the updated again n again but the output was not up to my satisfaction, this was running in my mind so updated it, hope you guys like it.

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CHAPTER 17

 

"WAIT" he shouted before there can be some more mess created in his cabin.

But will Khushi be called Sanka Devi by her bua if at all she ever listens to anyone else? Seeing Arnav close to her she freaked out more, If Khushi kept herself still for a second they would have avoided any further mess but with Arnav unexpectedly near to her even after her trying to keep distance, she pushed herself back in an attempt to keep distance between them but it resulted in Arnav stumbling over her as his hand is still in her hold and his watch stuck to her half torn dupatta. With the weight of both Arnav and Khushi, ASR's poor desk had to move a little making space for them to fall flat with Khushi hitting the ground first and Arnav following her.

"ENOUGH" if making them both fall flat in his cabin was not enough Khushi tried to get up with Arnav on her still, she started twisting and turning, in turn, tangling them more in the mess, and rising his temper to peak.

With the sudden commotion from Arnav's cabin in the silent workplace both the siblings rushed to check if all is okay with their respective family members.

"Bhai?"

"Khushi...," Payal was the first one to recover from the scandalized image her boss and sister were portraying at the moment and rushed to help them to stand.

"Bhai, you okay?" he joined in helping his brother, seeing Payal help Khushi. But he was still reeling in the image he saw a few seconds back. What is actually happening between his brother and his PA? From the time the girl entered into ASR's life he got the privilege to see some or other weird behavior of ASR. He selected a GIRL who SPOILED his show as his PA, gave her silly tasks, isn't it a day before he saw a video of them fighting on the road? his bhai would throw some money on any day on whosoever face it may be at any point of time rather than indulging in any verbal spat that too for something like a wrong side driving case, and now this. Maybe the work, the sleepless nights are taking a toll on him, he should speak to his dad, new employees have to be hired so that the burden is shared or maybe this girl has to be kept away keeping in view the future of AR or maybe he needs to speak to his sister Anjali as the girl seems to bring out different emotions in ASR, maybe it's time to see Arnav again in ASR.

Arnav stood up with the help of Akash dusting and straitening his coat. He scanned his cabin it looked like the aftermath of the place hit by a hurricane. The chairs scattered away from the desk, the desk pushed towards the wall, the files and contents in it all mixed up on the floor, pens, pencils, markers, rolled all over the floor to different directions. He finally glanced at the cause of all this, the girl after creating so much chaos was least bothered about it and was looking at her sorry state of dupatta with a sad face. He saw Payal beside Khushi looking at her sister, at the same moment Payal too glanced towards him.

Oh NO! what would it look like to her or to anyone at that moment, him lying over his PA in his cabin at this time of night with no one else in the building, the state in which the cabin is looking right now also wouldn't help him in any way. He opened his mouth to explain, but Payal beat him to it.

"Khushi? Would it pain you in any way if at all you wait for a second to ponder on your actions before reacting?"

"Jiji, I didn't know I dozed off waiting and got scared when I heard my name being called out so loudly and all this happened, I was just trying to control the situation "

"AND this is how you control a situation? by creating a disaster?" Arnav was giving her deadly looks.

"Sorry" she gave an apologetic look to him after looking around her once.

"Sorry ASR, Khushi let's move" Payal dragged her out of the cabin. As they started descending the stairs Khushi remembered the reason for her to be in the cabin in the first place. They need to speak and she doesn't want to delay it anymore.

"Jiji, you go, I need to speak and it's important" with that she turned back and sprinted towards Arnav's cabin.

Arnav was standing near his see-through glass wall and looking at both the sister's leaving AR. If Khushi confused him Payal was no less if he remembers correctly, it was Payal's wedding day on which Khushi gatecrashed his show, then what happened at the wedding? why did the sister's land in Delhi? Payal is not married, does it mean the marriage broke? that too because Khushi was kept as a hostage in sheesh mahal, by him? Is he the reason behind a girl being left out at the wedding altar?

The palace was decorated, laughter was heard from every corner, his sister smiling at him, suddenly the smile turned into her heart-wrenching cries, there were bodies placed in front of them with a white cloth covering them.

He jerked himself out of the past memories, then he had no power to control anything, he wasn't able to do anything else other than standing by sidelines and watch it happen, but he did fight back everything didn't he? the smile on his sister's face is back, he brought back sheesh-mahal as promised, he made a space for themselves in the society. Nothing could go bad now. He was sure.

What surprised him was if at all Payal's wedding broke how did she still manage to go on with her daily life as if nothing happened? His sister took a lot of time to be out of the trauma, accepted that the loss of their parents was a greater sorrow at that time rather than the wedding being called off but still the pain of getting rejected was visible in her eyes. He can see a glimpse of him in Payal, the girl surely did a great job in masking her pain, by the time they were in Delhi attending the interview in AR it was not even few days from the wedding date and when he asked her the reason behind her leaving her previous job she said due to the wedding and when he asked what happened then? why is she here for a job again? she simply said it didn't happen, nothing else. Her body language or her words never showed the past mishappenings.

If he thinks of Khushi then he is doubtful over there too, when Anjali was enrolled in the college once they are back to Delhi, he was always present by her side, dropping her and picking her up from college never allowing any guy near her in the fear of seeing her break down again if at all she gets close to them, but here he never saw Khushi trying to prevent Payal or for that matter any person from having a casual conversation with her sister, she didn't have a problem with Payal working late nights with his brother, them traveling together to different places due to meetings, professionally there is nothing much to ponder on this, but personally she was completely opposite of how he behaved in the same situation, when their siblings were dumped at the altar. How can it happen? Is it only because they have their parents with them during this hard time.

He saw Khushi coming to a halt and turning in opposite direction and running towards his cabin, he saw her opening his cabin door without knocking and he moved towards the other side just in case she isn't able to handle her speed or she stumbles upon something resulting in plunging on him, this time they have glass wall behind him, it wouldn't be able to handle the pressure for sure.

"Sir, I need to speak to you, it's urgent, that's the reason I was waiting for you in the cabin, and all this happened," she said looking around the cabin once again with an apologetic look she had before.

"Ms. Gupta, why don't we postpone whatever it is to the next day, right now, neither my cabin nor my mood is in a state to handle a meeting"  he was completely not out of the past memories which suddenly popped in his mind.

"Sir, I'm here to tell that with Aman gone I'm not able to handle this in the way he did, but I don't want to give up, I have something planned to solve this, why don't we both sit together and discuss on what you are expecting out of me and I handle it in my own way rather than me simply following the ways which Aman did before?" she went on with her idea as if he never spoke.

"Ms. Gupta, whatever it may be, let's deal it on any other day, for now, leave" he was trying to have this conversation without shouting on her.

"what do you say, Sir? shall we do it now or tomorrow morning? Now it is anyways late, let's do tomorrow morning, but at what time?" Khushi in her enthusiasm of having found a way out for this problem was going on with her rant without caring to look at Arnav's reaction.

"OUT, NOT A WORD, JUST GET OUT" he marched towards her, held her arm, dragged her towards the door and pushed her out of it. He better distance himself before he does anything which he regrets later.

Precap- Arshi have a talk, Payash have an argument

Ok, the precap is not in this completely but thought of making this  one exclusively for Arnav and his thoughts. The next will surely have the precap.

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