FF: A dish best served cold, Pt-20 Pg 96

Characters- The same as those in Mayee's KS. The only difference- JW is twice as rich, twice as hot and half as Motu as Mayee's JW. 😉And also even more ruthless and for a change has some brains, both in personal life as well as professional life. Bani is even prettier than Mayee's Bani (if that is possible) and somewhat less inclined towards jasoosi and banigiri than Mayee's Bani.

Background- The storyline is exactly the same as Mayee's KS till the Pia-Pushkar marriage. Then my Munna starts doing things a bit more smartly.

April 13, 2006 update by our Resident Muse cum Chronicler

"Ab main bataunga ki shaadi ka matlab kya hota hai"

From here the story moves in a different direction.

Part-I

JW's grip tightened around the glass of scotch he held in his hand. Kill all the three- Bani, Pia and Pushkar- who had made a mazaak of his life. He knew he could do it very subtly and not a thing could be traced back to him, he had the money, the brains and the power to plan it all. But no, where would be the triumph in that, he had to gloat over the losers in his moment of triumph just as they were gloating over him in their hour of triumph.

Then a bitter smile escaped his lips. He remembered what his friend Mohan had said him on the steps of the temple " They would have at best won only a battle not the war, you have a whole life to pay back the compliment". Indeed he would. He sat down on his laptop and did what he had last done in his high school- write the script of a play, a play which had won him the best playwright award at his school. It took him half a day but by the end of it, he had made a working script. But having memorized the key details he quietly deleted the file. Of course some innovations would be required from time to time, the path of least resistance to the targets would have to be worked out. The script should work fine, he thought. But this time it would be no work of fiction but would involve four (or rather more lives, should he be successful, he thought with a wry smile) real lives and the Prize would be far greater than what he had won that day in school.

I am not an unreasonable or vindictive man, thought JW, I would have gladly stepped aside and given Pia in marriage to Pushkar had any of the three come up to me and made an honest confession. But no they had not and had indeed chosen the worst possible way to destroy me. And I will pay them back in the same coin.

Three people had conspired to make a mockery of his life. Bani, his darling wife had broken his trust, he would break hers. Pia had broken his heart, he would break hers. Pushkar had stolen his bride, he would …… .

"Aapke paas sirf 4 ghante hai Mr. Walia, uske baad mein Pia and Pushkar ko 7 janamon ke liye baandh doongi...rok sakte hai toh rok lijeeye, Mr. Walia…yeh mera challenge hai!"

"Well played, Mrs. Bani Dixit Walia. You threw the challenge and won it too." JW said to himself, "but now is my turn". And he would use weapons against which there was no defence. No one would be able to suspect his intentions either as he intended to tell no one what he was about to do- no one, not Jigs, not Ranveer, not Mohan. The plan was there in his mind and his mind alone. The only thing that could torpedo his plans was if he himself went overboard and there was no way he would do that. Of course, his plan would take time but he had no hurry. In fact, he mused, the longer it takes, the harder would be the blow. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

He made a call to Zeeshan, a young assistant. "Send some of your men to keep a watch over Pia, Pushkar and the Shukla household. Enlist the domestic helps if any in the Shukla family. Give me the day to day dope on them. But do it discreetly and make sure that no harm is done to anyone". "Yes, sir" Zeeshan complied. Zeeshan wasn't brainy but completely reliable and asked no questions and went about his job competently.

Rgds,

Priyanka

Part I- Page 1, Part-II Page-5, Part-III Page-8, Part- IV Page-14, Part-V Pg 17, Part-VI Pg-22, Part-VII Pg-27, Part- VIII Pg-32, Part-IX Pg-38, Part-X Pg 44, Part-XI Pg 50, Part-XII Pg 54, Part-XIII, Pg 60, Part-XIV Pg 67, Part- XV Pg 73, Part XVI- pg 80, Part- XVII- Pg 86, Part-XVIII Pg-89, Part XIX Pg-91, Part-XX Pg 96