Ishq sukoon hai

33

[Shivaay - S, Rudra - Ru, Gauri - G]

Om: And you've signed the contract?

S: I didn't have a choice. It was the only way to stop her. She's a maniac, you don't know her as well as I do. She planned an attack, she has someone working in our house among the staff. She showed me the footage, someone mixed poison in daadi's soup. At the last moment that person dropped the bowl because she called him.

Ru: oh god, she's such a psycho bhaiyya, i don't want to die so young

S: we wouldn't be safe if i hadn't signed the contract

G: But what about Annika?

S: I was going crazy, looking for ways to stop this maniac. I couldn't think about anything else so I would often miss her calls. Initially because I was busy looking for information but later on purpose. I had a doubt Rupali was tapping my calls and tracking me. So I stopped calling Annika, I told her we'll talk once I was done with work. If Rupali thought of her as a threat, there was nothing I could have done from here. Annika was super supportive, anyone else in her place would have argued with me that I didn't give her any time. She was frantic when she saw those pictures of me meeting Rupali frequently. She told me the paranoia hasn't left her, she was scared. And I knew how scared she was. She never once accused me of cheating, even though she must have had that thought a thousand times. But after that attack on daadi, I knew Rupali was not going to back off. So i had to break up with Annika

Om: Shivaay, you understand the value of family but you still don't understand what love is. Did you tell Annika all of this?

S: No, Rupali is tracking my phone and tapping my calls. Even right now, my phone is in the car and the driver's driving the car around. I cannot take any risk

Om: shivaay, she was your partner. She wanted to share your problems and you pushed her away. I'm sure if you had told her the truth somehow, she would have understood and supported you. You said you loved her, I guess you didn't love her enough to trust her with your problems. You have still not learnt to love someone shivaay. You were so focused on your problems, in becoming a good son, a good brother that you failed to be a good partner.

S: I know that Om. You have no idea how I feel. I had to push the love of my life away

G: No bro, you didn't have to. You just couldn't think of another way. There were better ways to handle it. Anyway, you've been here long enough, you should leave. We can't have rupali doubt you now.

Priyanka: We need to figure out a way to defeat her. Don't worry bhaiyya, we're all with you

Ru: yes, we'll find a way to throw that monster out of our lives.

G: cameras and spies are in oberoi mansion, so we can all plan here. No conversation over calls or text okay

S: let's meet here, no one will leave the house together for that, take different routes and don't ever speak about it loudly.

Ru: good idea bhaiyya

They discussed and left one by one, so if they were being followed, no one would know they were all together.

Meanwhile at the oberoi mansion, Bindu was inside the guest room. She heard something, like a fallen vase.

Bindu(in her mind): what was that? Sounds like it came from Shivaay's room, let me see what he's up to