Rishabh's guilt

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“Ok, see you sun.”, saying this Alok disconnected the video call.

Then he got up and came to the window and looking at the moon in the sky said, “Anokhi I will definitely fulfill the promise I made to you. Now the reason I got you married to Rishabh should also be fulfilled. I know what Rishabh has done to you, but Anokhi you will have to bear all that, because for what I want you will have to bear all this. You cannot grow weak and you cannot leave that house, and Rishabh at all.” At this time there was neither any anger, nor any hatred, nor any pride in Ashok's eyes. Rather what was visible in his eyes was regret and remorse.

Rishabh and Praveen returned home.  After coming home, the first thing that Rishabh did was to slowly open the door of Shobha's room and look inside the room. Seeing Shobha and Riya sleeping , he smiled a little and closed the door.

When he came back to the living area, Praveen was still standing there. Rishabh said to him, "Your duty is over, will you sing me a lullaby now? Go and sleep in your room. Just go and get lost." Saying this, Rishabh moved towards the stairs.

Praveen looked at him once. Rishabh had climbed almost half the stairs by now, seeing this Praveen went towards his room.

Then while climbing from the stairs, Rishabh's eyes went to Anokhi's room and his steps stopped there. He started looking at her room and did not know when his feet started descending the stairs instead of climbing them.

He reached Anokhi's room staggering a little in his drunken state. The room was completely quiet and he could feel a coldness in the air which Rishabh did not like at all.

He said to himself, "It was not like this when I came last time. She was sleeping here then." Saying this, he pointed towards the bed, and then spreading both his hands, he said further, "And her faint fragrance was coming in the air. But tonight there is nothing. Neither she nor her fragrance." Saying this, he jerked his hand down. As if he did not get what he wanted.

Rishabh looked around the room. Then his eyes fell on Anokhi's cupboard and he moved towards it. He opened the cupboard and saw that there were some sarees and salwar suits, which were very simple.

He took out a red colored salwar suit and sat on the bed with it. He was staring at that dress as if he was trying to find Anokhi in it.  When he couldn't find it, he threw the dress on the bed and lay down covering himself with Anokhi's blanket.

He started getting the fragrance he wanted from Anokhi's blanket and her pillow. Finding it, Rishabh started smiling and  hid his face completely in the blanket and started feeling its fragrance.

Then Rishabh took the dress back and hugged it to his chest and said softly, “Vikram says that if I say sorry, the fire burning in my heart, the guilt I am feeling, will all subside. If that is the case, then I say, I am sorry. I am sorry, I did not know that you cannot walk, otherwise I would not have let you climb the stairs and would not have asked you to walk from the temple to the palace on the wedding night. I know you must have felt a lot of pain, I am so sorry. You know mom will also be very angry with me for this. After all, I did the same thing that her husband Alok Shergill did to her. That is why I am very angry with myself. Get well soon and get your treatment done. I will not let you live like this. I do not know what Rohit was talking about, but whatever happens, if you have to get treatment, then you have to get it done.  ”

While talking to himself like this, Rishabh fell asleep on the bed, hugging Anokhi's dress to his chest.

The next morning_

Rishabh's eyes opened as soon as the first ray of the sun fell on his face. He woke up fidgeting. But when he looked at the room, he was startled for a moment.

“ Whose room is this? How did I come here? ”

Then his eyes fell on Anokhi's red dress that he was holding in his hands. He looked at the room carefully and remembered that this was Anokhi's room. He immediately threw Anokhi's dress on the bed and got up from the bed, put his hands on his waist and said, “ How and why did I come here? Did I sleep here yesterday? ” Saying this, he started pressing his head.

He had a severe headache. He closed his eyes and started thinking about last night. He remembered that he had hit the bodyguard, Vikram had stopped him, he had spoken to him, then he had drunk alcohol and came home and went to Anokhi's room. He also remembered how he said sorry to Anokhi by hugging Anokhi's dress to his chest and after that he slept on Anokhi's bed.

As soon as he remembered all this, the expression on Rishabh's face changed. Rishabh who was till now troubled due to confusion and headache, now had a stern expression in his eyes and his face became expressionless. It took Rishabh only a moment to hide his emotions.

"All that was because of intoxication, yes intoxication and nothing else." Rishabh said in his mind and turned to go out of the room. But then his steps stopped.

He came back to the bed and picked up Anokhi's red dress and looking at it he said, "I slept holding it last night, so it will definitely smell of my perfume and I don't want anyone to know that I was here last night." Saying this he took it with him.

But maybe Rishabh had forgotten that he also slept on the bed, due to which the bedsheet and blanket can also smell his perfume.

After freshening up, Praveen went straight to his study room. Praveen was already waiting for him there and along with Praveen, Rohit, Shivika, Shivaay, Vikram and Hardik were also there.

Rishabh's eyes narrowed on seeing those five and he sat on his chair and started staring at them. Then Rohit said, "I told Praveen that let's go to the hospital to see the little Bhabhi but he refused. He said that he has some work with Sir."

As soon as Rohit finished speaking, Hardik said, "And in the course of our conversation, he blurted out that he is going to give you information about Anokhi and that's why we all came."

As soon as Hardik finished speaking, Shivika, Shivaay and Vikram said together, "And we also want to know about Anokhi.  "

Rishabh took a deep breath seeing the drama of those five and looked at Praveen. Praveen took out a file from the drawer and said to Rishabh, "Sir, whatever information I have gathered about Anokhi in these two years is in this file. I did not tell you earlier because you were not here and you never asked, so I could not tell you."

Then Hardik interrupted him and said, "Why are you giving a speech, tell me what is in the file."

On his interruption, Praveen looked away from him. Then his eyes fell on Rishabh. Rishabh also had similar expressions on his face as if he was saying that Hardik is not wrong.

Seeing this, Praveen gave a slight smile and connected his phone to the projector and started speaking, “Anokhi is from Dehradun. Alok Shergill had come to Mumbai from Dehradun a day before your marriage and Anokhi also came to Mumbai on the same day, the only difference was that Anokhi had come to Mumbai half an hour after Alok Shergill's arrival on another flight.” Saying this, Praveen showed a picture on the screen.

That picture was divided into two parts. In the first part, Alok was seen at the airport and in the second part, a girl wearing a veil was seen at the airport.

Vikram said making a face, “Arre yaar, her face is not visible even in this. Does she always remain in a veil? I mean, after marriage, it is understandable that this Rishabh did not complete the rituals, but who remains in a veil before marriage? Is there a stain on her face?”

Vikram was speaking and everyone was staring at him with devouring eyes, especially Rishabh.  Seeing this, Vikram quickly put his finger on his lips.

Praveen started saying further, “Alok Shergill had come to Mumbai 30 minutes before Anokhi but he stepped out of the airport only when Anokhi arrived. During those 30 minutes, he was with the airport security guards, who took him for interrogation because a gun was found with him. After half an hour, both of them sat together in different cars.” While saying this, Praveen showed the photos of the cars on the screen which were one behind the other and Alok and Anokhi were seen in them.

“ After coming to Mumbai, Anokhi stayed in the same hotel which is in front of Alok Shergill's house. After coming to Mumbai, he contacted Rishabh sir and talked to him and got him married to Anokhi and the same night he got their marriage registered, but the marriage certificate is still with Alok."

After saying this, he became silent and then after thinking something, hesitating a bit, said, "And the day you got married, Anokhi turned 18 years old."

As soon as Praveen said this, Rishabh was shocked and he said, "18 years."

And everyone started looking at his face, then Rishabh removed the surprised expression from his face and said, "Say more." Then Praveen changed the screen and a photo of a 60-year-old woman appeared on the screen.

Seeing that photo, everyone started looking at Praveen, then Praveen said, "I enquired in Dehradun and found out that Alok Shergill has met this woman many times.  "

Rishabh looked at the picture of that old woman very carefully. More than half of the hair of that woman had turned white, she was wearing a simple cotton saree, that too in village style.

Rishabh asked, "Who is this woman?"

“ I don't know sir." Praveen replied disappointedly. "What do you mean?" "I mean sir, I don't know who this woman is and where she is. Before I could find out anything about her, she disappeared somewhere. I tried to ask people around me but no one answered me properly. They would often avoid the topic."

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