Fifteen days passed by since Ram
had come with his baby from the hospital and his wife Priya was still in a
state of coma, responding slowly at one time and then at another time no
movement came on the cards from her. For Ram, seeing Priya in this state was
always a pain, he had always wanted her to be with him when their baby came
into existence in their lives. He had nurtured her pregnancy, had felt his baby
when it was in her womb, he had made sure tht he would be with Priya at every
step in her pregnancy. Every small move mattered to him and he enjoyed every
bit of it. And when it was born, he didn't had Priya with him, he was left
alone by her, the very reality of she going through every bit of pain just to
give him his share of happiness gave him reasons to be angry on her. He was
angry on her for being away when he had desired her in their dreams of bringing
their baby together.
" Maa, Maa" Ram called Krishnaji
as he came down while holding his baby girl in the arms.
Krishnaji came out frm the kitchen
responding to his call. " Kya hua Ram?"
" Maa I need to check with my
office, since past few days I was not able to concentrate on it, I know Vikram
was there, but still how much even I can stress him, he too has his family life
to concentrate, I need to check in the office atleast for some time and see
whats happening around, till I am back, please take care of my baby, I wl make
sure that I return early evening. But before coming home wl go and see Priya as
well, hope she have shown some improvement than the last." Ram exclaimed to her
in one go.
Krishnaji took his girl in her
arms and said : " You don't worry, your baby is in her Dadi's hands, wl take
care of her and play along, till you are back I am sure she wl stay with me."
She cuddled her grand daughter and then with a little bit of serious tone said
to Ram : " Ram, I am worried for Priya, wish she would have been here, and
would have enjoyed her motherhood."
Ram sighed on listening his mother
there and said : " I too wished she would have been here with us, but you just
cant fight the destiny. Anyways, I need to go now, wl def come early evening."
He said goodbye by planting soft kiss on his baby's cheeks and hands and waved
at her. At the next moment he was out of his house and drove past home to his
office in the next half an hour.
" Mr Kapoor
some lady wants to meet you. She is asking for an appointment." Dimple called Ram's landline in a quite scary
mode. She knew that her boss had ordered
not to disturb him as he was in the midst of very important meetings and had to
deal with those and hence had ordered for no disturbance from anyone. She was
scared of his anger, rightly so because for everyone Ram Kapoor was not only
the top businessman but he was a man of
strict disciplinarian. One word against his order and they all knew that would
be the end of their work and life in his office and county. Still she dared to call his line and Ram
picked up the call only to start firing of his words to her : " Ms Dimple,
didn't I told you that nobody should even dare to disturb me, then why the hell
u buzzed me here, don't you like your job? "
Dimple's
voice got scarred and before she said anything further a female took the phone
from her and voiced : " Mr Ram Kapoor, I wanted to c you, don't fire your
secretary, can we meet please, I promise I wont take more than 15 minutes of
you."
On the
receiving side Ram noticed that familiar voice and said ; " Hold on there, ask
Dimple to show the way to my cabin. I would be right there."
Ram
excused himself from the meeting but not before saying: " Excuse me gentlemen,
I would be right here after precisely 15 minutes, till I come back I need to c
the answers of the questions posed by me previously, make sure you have those
answers, otherwise I don't mind in cancelling the contracts with you, you all
know it wl be your loss more than anything of mine. And think of some good
answers, not otherwise." With those words coming from the man, the conference
hall freezed there itself, and was expecting to earn a relaxed atmosphere after
a while for it.
Ram moved
towards his own cabin, on the way he gave a glaring look at his secretary
Dimple, which scared her out of her
wits, he entered his cabin and saw that
familiar face in front of him.
" Yes Ms
Sharma, you dare to come in my office, I am impressed." Ram said quite sarcastically to Priya, yes
Priya, she was standing right in front of him, he never thought they would meet
so early after their meeting at the hotel just a week back.
Priya
sighed and said : " Even I didn't thought that I would meet you so early, but I
have no other option, I am going away for my further assignments on global
tour, and don't know when I will be back, so thought of meeting you before I
say goodbye."
Ram
exclaimed saying : " And you thought of meeting me inspite of knowing that I would
be damn busy with my meetings, nobody dared to disturb me but you did, great.
How would you thought that I would be even meeting you?."
Priya in
the same tone said : " I knew you would meet me, because there is still an
question unanswered between you and me, I don't want to carry that luggage on
my head with an expectation that I would answer that when we meet soon. I know
that word soon' wl not arrive btw us. So I am here."
Ram
relaxed back on his chair and asked her to relax as well. " Kya piyogi, chai,
coffee, cold drink..?"
" No I
don't want anything, thanks, actually I am in a hurry, I have a flight to catch
on in the next few hours."
Ram
continued : " Are u sure that your answer wl finish off in these 15
minutes?" Priya exclaimed : " Yes I
think so, but if you can buffer the time then...the only thing I want is that you
should hear me completely."
"Hmm, ok,
Go ahead" Ram told her and called Dimple
to say that he wl be back in the conference room in the next half an hour and
pass the msg there, Dimple obliged the rule, here Priya composed herself and
joined the words one by one as she recollected that terrified moment back in
her mind. Priya started: "Ram, during
your wedding day, Ria had come to meet
me as I had told you last time. "
Ram: "Yes
I do remember that, wl you continue from there?"
Priya : "
Yes I am" ( She again composed herself from here and tried to relax her mind as
she went back to the unsound memories and continued) Ram, Ria
had come to meet me to hand over the important related documents
regarding our work which she had researched on, she had got very valuable
insights to the work and with that we would have actually nailed the people
behind it in a big way. I was waiting for
her at the place which she asked me to be put up. I was nervous, anxious and
worried for her as she was giving everything which she could to get those
things for me to have me get the cover story done and expose the people behind
it. In the next ten minutes, I saw her standing in front of me. I started
approaching towards her, and before we could reach each other a huge round of
bullets fired around us. We tried to escape those shots, but fortunately or
unfortunately as you can say I managed to pull out, but Ria came under those
gunshots, and fell prey on it. I ran towards her , to save her further, but
unfortunately couldn't and she lied in my arms all dead. I just couldn't do
anything for her, as she laid in my arms lifeless." She stopped saying after these words and
looked at Ram who was dead silent on hearing those words from Priya.
Priya called
him trying to shake him up : " Ram, Ram, are you ok?" " Ram..."
Ram tryng
to gather himself, with a dead look in his eyes, his hurt, pain deep inside his
heart got up from his chair and screamed :
" Didn't I told you Ms Sharma,
that you had killed my Ria, yes I was right, you did killed her."
Now it was
Priya's turn to shook back , her voice started cracking : " Ram, I didn't killed her, I told you I didn't
killed her, yes she died in my arms but I didn't killed her, please don't
accuse me like this."
Ram
getting more angrier: "She came to meet you to hand over those imp papers which
would have spiced your story, yes, thts right, and she fell prey to those
bullets, not you, you are quite alive and kicking in front of me, but who died,
my Ria, the girl whom I loved from the bottom of my heart, the girl whom I was
getting married to, she died and you are alive.." "Yes you killed her.."
Priya
getting hurt by his accusations deep within her heart started crying and said :
" No Ram, please don't say that, I didn't knew that she would fall prey to her
death, I apologize for everything Ram, if anything of my words has hurted you,
I am genuinely sorry, but please believe me I didn't killed her, I didn't even
knew that people would be across us, keeping an eye on us. I genuinely
apologize Ram."
"Apology,
what apology Ms Sharma? An apology which doesn't mean anything to you. A sorry
which doesn't mean anything, you are saying sorry, and you think that I would
accept it. I was right about you. " Ram got straight in his words to her which
made her deep hurt wounding across.
"Ram, please don't accuse me like
this, I genuinely feel sorry for whatever has happened but please understand
that I never knew that this would happen to her. Yes she was helping me, but
never thought that she would come in like this." Priya still trying to make him
understand but Ram was in no mood to listen, he still composed himself and sounded an ultimatum to her by saying : "
I hate you Ms Priya Sharma, I so hate
you" " Make sure you don't even come in front of me next time , or else I will
destroy you for sure and that's a promise, and now leave, just leave, get out
from here"
Priya was deeply hurt by his words,
she knew that this would come but she had only interest and just to put the
story which was correct in front of him, she did felt bad on seeing him hurt,
but she was ready to go and apologize further, she was genuinely feeling sorry
for the man who lost love like this for no fault of his and on his wedding day.
She left the cabin, but before that
turned to look at him, he had made his way towards the railings of his office
windows and stood there like a motionless man. She wiped out her tears and
closed the door of his cabin behind her, but couldn't escape wondering as why
those words by him hurted her like anything, she was not related to him,
neither was she going to relate to him then why his words deepened her wounds.
Was she getting in relationship with this man? Was she having feelings for him? Was she
falling in love with him unknowingly? These questions didn't had any answers
from her right now as well, but she unknowingly wanted to find out those. She
wiped her tears again and walked away from his office with a promise to herself
that if seeing her he would be again hurt time and again, she wont come in
front of him causing him that pain and hurt.
Ram meanwhile had all those words
coming in his mind which Priya had just spoken up. He didn't knew what was
going in his mind but yes the hurt, pain was visibile on his face, and his eyes
gave way to the tears. He looked up in the sky and said : " Why you had to
leave me Ria like this? Why?"
He controlled himself and started to
move towards his conference room, his mind was too occupied with the words of
Priya but he had to manage his work as well. Before opening the door of the
conference room he promised himself of one thing : " That he would destroy
Priya no matter what, whether he meets her or not, whether they again come face
to face or not, but yes he would destroy her, and destroy her badly. "
Ram walked in his office and everyone in his office was
surprised to see him, they had thought that he would take some time to come out
of his personal turmoil. But Ram being Ram, he had to join back where he
belonged. He asked his secretary Dimple
to make sure that that she arranges a board meeting with all the departmental
heads within next half an hour, and would seek the progress reports from them
for the same. Listening that orders
coming from him, Dimple knew that the office is back again to that environment
where only and only strict work spoke up.
She obliged and Ram went in his cabin to check what had happened in the
office in his absence via Emails and records, and called Vikram to mk him know
that he is back and he wants to meet him before the board meeting takes place.
Vikram was happy to listen his voice, and he promised to meet Ram in the next 5
mins. Ram switched on his laptop and started to look what he missed, this time
strictly professional on his work.
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