Riya gets to know the truth

Anokhi was making mitali scared and angry with her words. Mitali said in anger, “No Mrs. Shergill, you are not lying. But I did not mean Mr. Shergill. My boyfriend's name is also Rishabh, I was talking about him.”

“o achchha to aap apane boyaphrend ke baare mein baat kar rahi thi. achchha hua aapane clear kar diya , varana khaamakha abhi mere husband gusse mein kisi ko jaan se na maar dete.

( Oh, so you were talking about your boyfriend. It is good that you cleared it, otherwise my husband would have killed  you in anger. ) You know, my husband loves me a lot, if any girl even associates her name with him, he cannot tolerate it and what Rishabh ji is to the world, the whole world knows it, right?” Anokhi said smilingly while insulting and threatening Mitali.

Rishabh was staring at her after listening to her.  Where just a while ago her Cupcake was crying like a child in the garden and now she was scaring Mithali with her words and by repeatedly calling him her husband in her talks, she was also increasing her heartbeat.

His eyes were on Anokhi and Mithali's on his. She could clearly see how much love Rishabh had for Anokhi and this was increasing the hatred for Anokhi in Mithali's mind.

Anokhi did not keep quiet there. She further insulted Mithali and said, "By the way, you were talking about my behavior just now but I did not understand your behavior. You are very strange. You are telling a stranger about your boyfriend and marriage as if you know me for years. Do you know me for years? Have you met me before?"

Anokhi was speaking while looking into Mithali's eyes and Mithali was surprised to see this side of Anokhi. Not only Mithali but Gaurav, Manish and Dai Maa were also surprised.

The Anokhi with whom Dai Maa lived till today was their Anu, who was small, innocent, cute, naive and ignorant, but the Anokhi standing in front of her right now was not afraid of anyone. The person who gave her the biggest pain of her life was speaking to them without any fear, looking straight into their eyes. Otherwise earlier she was not even able to look into the eyes of Mithali and Manish, she was scared to say even two words to them.

But Dai Maa was liking this side of Anokhi very much. She always wanted that Anokhi should never be afraid of anyone because she did not do anything wrong and she was relieved that her Anu has Rishabh in her life who has started loving her immensely. Not only love from him, he is becoming her strength and support as well.  Now maybe Dai Ma did not want anything else.

On Anokhi's words Mitali did not say anything but said to Manish, "Papa I think we should leave from here now, it is quite late."

"It is late, the party has just started, where will you go so early?", said Alok. Manish seeing him said something but Rishabh said, "Dad is right. Anyway this is Rishabh Shergill's party. People come here on my wish and even if they go, it is on my wish." Saying this Rishabh left from there taking Anokhi with him. Alok and Shobha also left from there and so did Dai Ma.

Archana was just looking at Manish and Mitali who had fear and worry on their faces. She said to Manish, "Why are you both so scared? What did someone say that made both of you sweat? Is there something that I don't know?"

" There is no such thing.”, Manish said. Then Mitali said angrily, “And even if there is, then you don’t need to know because it is our matter. So you stand quietly and enjoy the party. Anyway, you liked that girl a lot, right? You was praying that you get a daughter like her, that too in front of your own daughter.”

Hearing Mitali’s words, Archana smiled. Smiling, she said, “The tone in which you are talking to your mother and the words you are saying, just say it to yourself in the mirror once and look at yourself too, then you will know why I said that and as far as my prayers are concerned, if she really becomes my daughter by my prayers, then not once, I will pray millions of times that maybe one of these prayers comes true and a daughter like Anokhi comes in my destiny. But alas, this cannot happen because you were born from my womb. You know, prayers come out of the heart on seeing her and regrets on seeing you.  ” After saying this, Anokhi left and Mitali kept grinding her teeth.

She said to Manish, “ Papa, Mom left after saying so many things to me and you did not say anything.”

“ What else would I have said? What was the need for you to say such a thing about Anokhi when you know that she has become the wife of Rishabh Shergill. Even after that you said such a thing, did you think that they will listen to you like we and your mother do?”, Manish also said angrily.

By then Gaurav had reached there. He said to Manish, “ But the surprising thing is that Papa, who knew that this Alok Shergill want Anokhi for his son. He got her married to his son and not only got her married, he changed her entire life. Didn’t you see that she is walking without stumbling, without any support.”

Mitali saw Anokhi standing far away who was smiling and talking to Vikram and said to herself, “So what if she has learnt to walk, I will make her disabled again.”

Omkar was looking for Riya everywhere, but Riya was nowhere to be seen. Then he heard Surekha asking Shanaya, “Hey Shanaya where is Riya? I can’t see her anywhere.”

Shanaya said, “ chachi ji, she has gone upstairs to her room. She was saying that she is not feeling well so she wants to rest a little, so I told her to rest in the room itself. That is why Praveen has just left her in her room a while ago.”

“Okay, it’s okay, she might be tired.”, said Surekha.

When Omkar heard Shanaya, he went straight upstairs. He enquired from a waiter and went towards Riya’s room.

Standing outside the room's door, he was thinking how he would tell Riya the truth? How would he handle her when she breaks down? He didn't understand anything but he had to tell her so he took a deep breath and put his hand on the door to knock and the door opened.

He was a little surprised by this but he went inside. He saw that all the lights of the room were off. His eyes went to the balcony where Riya was standing with her back towards him and looking at the dark sky.

Omkar came to Riya slowly and raised his hand to touch her shoulder, but then pulled it back.

He looked at Riya for a while and called her softly, " Riya. "

Riya turned back on his call. Seeing Riya's face, Omkar was surprised for a moment and then worried. Riya's face was filled with tears, her eyes were completely red.

Omkar took Riya's face in both his hands and said worriedly, "Riya, what happened? Why are you crying like this? Tell me what happened."

Seeing Riya in such a state, he forgot why he had come here. He just wanted to know her problem and take away her trouble. He wanted to stop the tears from flowing from her eyes.

But Riya did not say anything, instead she removed his hand from her face and took two steps back and started looking at him with tearful eyes.

Omkar did not understand Riya doing this. When he started coming near her, Riya again took a step back and said, "Don't come near me."

"What, but why and what has happened?", Omkar asked in surprise, then Riya said with a choked throat, "It has not happened but you will do a lot. You will destroy me. You came to me only to destroy me. You are taking revenge from Papa by using me as a medium.  "

On hearing Riya's words, Omkar's eyes widened with surprise and his heart stopped beating. How did Riya know all this? He wanted to ask this question but his tongue was not supporting him. It seemed as if his tongue had been paralyzed. He was just looking at Riya with nervous eyes, like a stone.

Riya further said, "You are wondering how did I know? I heard all the talks between you and Papa in the garden. Seeing you leaving the hall, I followed you like crazy to meet you and talk to you, but when you were looking at your brother and little Bhabhi like that, I felt strange and then your and Papa's words surprised and broke me. That love, that care, that concern, taking care of me, all were small lies. Every single thing you said was a lie."

" No Riya, it is not like that. I admit, I admit, when I came to you, my intentions were wrong, but my love was not wrong Riya, my care was not wrong. I lied to you, I admit, I had decided that , but I could not do that, I did not have the courage and today gathering a lot of courage, I came to tell you the whole truth. I came to tell you that I am Anokhi's elder brother, I am Omkar Mittal, I am an international boxer, Omi, to know about Anokhi, I pretended to be your assistant, I pretended to be your friend and I pretended to love you. But Riya, I did not even realize when the drama became the truth. Caring for you was not a drama of mine. Seeing you in pain and feeling that pain inside me was not a drama. The agony inside me after seeing you getting hurt was not a drama.", Omkar said. Tears started flowing from his eyes too.