Non-erotic Hues of Love by Yagyaseni

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fasterboy dear..... continue plz

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PART 36


Her eyes scanned his curled up and shivering form with several emotions washing over her soul. While her love, for the man who sinned against the cause she lived for, broke her aching heart into myriads of pieces, her conscience burned her very soul in ways she could fathom not.


“Khushi, shall we leave?” questioned a member of the Committee, pulling her out of her reverie.


“I need to catch up on something else at this moment, Shiv. If you can excuse me, I will join you later,” said Khushi, trying her best to keep her tone professional and facade of nonchalance on while internally she could feel the pain of thousand daggers stabbing her.


Her voice made the man of her thoughts look up to the source as he felt himself sinking further into the vortex of darkness and hysteria. His wife, the one whose trust he was yet to win, could have managed to evade her pain from the eyes of the onlookers but not the one to whom she had lost her heart.


Her pain only broke him further from inside, both for being the cause of it and for not being able to do anything in regards to the same.

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As the Committee members left the Court Room along with all the other officials, Khushi began walking towards her husband who had stood up, preparing for the upcoming battle between his love’s heart and soul.



“You never told me that you had this side to your personality too, Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada?” she questioned, her voice merely a whisper but held the potential to cause more damage than the one several octaves high in the heart of one standing in front of her.



“I agree that this should not have happened, Khoosi. It was not supposed to happen this way, trust me,” he said, moving close to her as he tried cupping her shoulders when she took a step back.



“Trust you?” she asked, a self-deriding chuckle leaving her lips as her eyes turned blood-shot.


“Khoosi..”

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“I earnestly hoped every moment of our marital life that I will trust you wholeheartedly one day, that you will give me every chance to do so. You have let me down on so many levels today, Arnav. How could you even play with lives of children when you love them so much? HOW?” she demanded, fury taking the better of her.



“It was not supposed to be this way, darling, like I said. I did not want any of this to happen,” he exclaimed, trying to move closer to her but it was only the physical distance that he could erase.



“So you are telling me that your company was manufacturing drugs without your knowledge and approval? Even if it is true, why did you never inform me of this case? When were you going to reveal this?” she questioned, breathing heavily, as if she trying extremely hard to not let sorrow wash over her and escape her eyes in the form of brine.



“I wanted to tell you but you were pregnant at that time. I did not want to put you into any kind of stress and what happened after the delivery is known to both of us. I didn’t want to add another trouble to our platter,” he answered, losing his control over the tears which were filling  his eyes.


Khushi took in a deep breath as she took in his answer. The reminder of the time they spent in Shillong proved to be bane to her soul and her heart alike, albeit for different reasons.



“You still didn’t answer my first questions. Are you trying to imply that your company manufactured these drugs without your knowledge?” asked Khushi, praying that the answer is in affirmative and since it was a joint case, the lawyer conveniently forgot to raise the point.


But, alas, the destiny had something else in hold for them.


“No. I knew,” he replied, looking everywhere else except for the shattered woman in front of him as heart resonated with the breaking of her heart once again.


Khushi stumbled back as her last straw of patience, the last shred of hope and the last piece of heart broke in myriads of pieces.

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“But I didn’t know that they had harmful side-effects on children. My trips to Shillong had taken toll on my schedule and in one such case, since I wanted to stay back for the maximum duration possible, I did not ask for any case reports or articles regarding this composition when it was proposed. In fact, we even bribed the Authorities to get the drug into the market. I was so confident of my team that I had forgotten that no one was higher than any of the seven vices. I wish I had rechecked it at least once,” explained Arnav, holding her in his arms as he tried to make her look at him as sincerity gleamed in his eyes.



Khushi found herself in a quandary she had never imagined herself in. On one hand, her heart was begging her to believe her husband and stay by his side in the difficult times but her soul screamed of impartiality to her as it roused questions on his sense of responsibility and his morality.



“Let go of me, Arnav,” she whispered, deciding that she will have to share her problem to someone before it engulfs her as a whole and staying so close to her love was not letting her think straight.


“Khoosi...Khushi, please! Please don’t leave me! I just lost my company, but if I lose you and the kids, I don’t think I can survive!” he begged, cupping her face with his shaky hands as he drew her closer, looking straight into her eyes as tears flowed from his eyes freely.



“Please, Arnav, I don’t think I’ll survive if I stay here any longer! Please!” she said, his hands automatically dropping to his sides as her words evoked a deep sense of angst, remorse and turmoil in him.



What will be the future of Arnav and Khushi?




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[kamdev99008]

so now the ball is in khushi's court.... and may be khushi believe him and stand with him.... confused ... as earlier.....
like a drug addict... love addict khushi

[kamdev99008]

Fb dear.... Please continue

[Renjith]

Nice bro

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Fb dear continue plz

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PART 37


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Court,

Khushi had walked out on him after uttering the single most damaging sentence Arnav had heard in his whole existence. Her words continued to reverberate in his ears, much like his heart which continued to beat with every beats of it shadowed by guilt and pain.


His mind was being torn apart by his thoughts - did he do right by not stopping her or his action of letting her go was the right option?


Only his heart would know the pain it had endured while eying the retreating back of its beloved and the way it had hardened itself to prevent him from engulfing her in a bone-crushing hug. Her walk out was not the cause of his pain but her pain was the dagger which struck the very chord of his heart.


The way her eyes glistened with disappointment and her voice shook with the pain of betrayal ensured that he would lose his calm and composure for months to come and it would haunt him till his last breath.


The saner part of him pushed him to inquire if she had reached safely since she was known to be quite rash in driving when she was in the wrong mood. Fate had decided to bestow sorrow at every step when Arnav rang several of his acquaintances at several places she could be expected at but it was of no avail. Khushi had neither reached his home nor her hospital.


Only one name surfaced to his mind as he felt sure that the person would surely know the whereabouts of Khushi, being so close to her - Rachna.


“What am I hearing, Arnav? Your company is involved in making hazardous drugs for children? How could you?” questioned Rachna, without giving a chance for Arnav to speak.


“I will give you ample time to accuse me, berate me and even punish me, if you deem fit, Rachna. But right now, we should search for Khushi. She is missing, after walking out on me. She was chosen as the President of the Committee who filed this case,” explained Arnav, her shivering and trembling form as she walked out flashing in front of his eyes as he struggled to maintain his tone.

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“What?! She never told me about this. I will try calling her and speaking with her. I will surely find her,” assured Rachna, despite being furious over Arnav, being a doctor and mother but she knew that it was not the right time and her friend was her priority at that moment. She had seen love in his eyes towards his friend and she knew that the love in him deserved some dignity and respect.


“Please! I already called up home and her hospital, she isn’t there in either of the places. I just hope she didn’t drive herself into.....” His voice cracked unable to complete his sentence as fear of losing his beloved engulfed him completely.


“Don’t! She will be alright, she better be or I will kill you myself!” warned Rachna, tears filling up her eyes as she knew how reckless Khushi could be in driving in her worse moods.



“If something happens to her, there won’t be a need of killing me, Rachna, for I will kill myself!”



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Khushi’s Apartment,


Khushi twisted the key in the lock of her old abode as the situation twisted her heart with a dagger of love. Her old home, which she had bought out of her own earnings, was reminiscent of her struggle, her determination, her sacrifices and her love through the course of being a doctor and an unrequited lover. Every nook and corner had so many bitter-sweet memories and she was sure that they would act as the elixir which could save her from the poison of betrayal suffocating her.


Her heart traveled to day Arnav landed up at her doorstep, demanding her to look back at the deal he had himself spurned away and had sought a vow from her to forget her love for him. The painful concoction of tumultuous emotions began brewing in her heart as she relived the same experience once again.



“Is it so easy for you to go back on your words, Arnav? One day you asked me to my love of years for you because you wanted to be loyal and another you demand to look back at the proposition because you needed revenge. Now, after months, you haven’t changed, isn’t it? You wanted to win my trust but you broke it, once again, in the worst way possible,” she sobbed, crashing onto the ground, without caring for the pain her knees had endured during the fall.

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“The children, who always manage to bring upon smile to everyone’s face, whose innocence could melt even the hardest of hearts, and for whom I chose to dedicate my life? Arnav thought it was appropriate to experiment upon them? Hey Mahadev, what kind of a test is this? Why did you allow me to choose someone who is breaking every bit of my ideals?”



She felt her whole form burn with the flame of love, of pain and of angst. But she felt that the flame was not enough to quench her thirst of obliviousness. She found herself walking towards the restroom she had frequently used to quench her thirst for the same; little did she know, the thirst could not be quenched by a flame but instead required the ambrosia of passionate and unconditional love.



Invoking the lord who had consumed the most deadly poison for betterment of the world, she collapsed under the stream of burning water, to survive the poison burning her from inside and choking the soul which screamed for its love.


She eyed the wall where she used to imagine her lord and began her worship, ignoring her own pain. Her skin was ablaze due to intense temperature washing over her body while her knees hurt for collapsing upon numerous times and staying in the crouched position for long.



But she could not care less. She wanted the pain to consume her, lest it allows her to forget the pain given by the one closest to her heart. As a mother of two and someone who loved children, the mere thought of her husband using children for his gains was enough for her heart to bleed and the unmerciful destiny decided to write the same in her fate.


Obliviousness finally embraced her as she lost the account of time, place and herself as she immersed herself into her worship.

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“I am in front of her old home, Arnav. I will check upon her. I don’t know how she will react and I cannot promise you anything but she is my bestfriend and I won’t let her commit any mistake,” promised Rachna as Anurag parked the car.


They jumped out of the car and raced towards Khushi’s house, praying that she was at her home, safe and sound. Arnav’s call pulled them out of their jobs onto the streets on the lookout for her as they learned from Arnav that she seemed quite unstable when she walked out upon him and reached neither Arnav’s home, nor her hospital nor the committee headquarters and they thought of trying with her parents only if they had searched for her

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everywhere else since they would be worried sick if she wasn’t there with them.


“Khushi’s car is here, so it means she is here,” noted Anurag as he pointed at the car as Rachna let out a sigh of relief as they walked into the elevator to take them to Khushi’s floor.


“I just hope she came here just for sometime alone and not to hurt herself in any way. Sometimes I wonder if supporting Khushi in marrying Arnav was a good decision or not,” wondered Rachna, as the lift took them into the higher floors.


“I’ll hope that we were right, Rachna, because there is no way to reverse the past and a separation at this point of time would only break them further, especially Khushi. She has been love with him throughout the time I have known her,” replied Anurag as he rushed out upon reaching Khushi’s floor to see that the door was left ajar.


“Khushi?” Anurag prompted, walking in, to find no one in the living room. He could hear the sound of water flowing at a constant pace but he could not see any sign of water in the kitchen or the dining room.



“Oh no!”


Rachna paced into the restroom attached to Khushi’s room to find her unfortunate guess coming true. She immediately turned the shower off while trying to lift Khushi up from the floor.


“Khushi! Are you okay? ANURAG! Come. Fast!” yelled Rachna as she quickly checked her vital signs as Khushi’s body temperature made her blood run cold.


“Dammit!” cursed Anurag under his breath as he lifted Khushi up in her arms with Rachna supporting her head and walked towards her bed. He placed her gently upon the bed as Rachna began searching for dry clothes which Khushi could change into.


“I’ll arrange for some ice by the time you change her. Do you need any of medical devices or instruments in the car?” asked Anurag, as Rachna pulled out a simple ensemble from the wardrobe.


“Bring the entire kit. I’ll have to run a lot of diagnostics on her. God knows from when she was in that burning hot water! Her temperature is running very high. Also, inform Arnav. I don’t care if he knows about this or not but I want redemption to burn him in the same way his actions burned my Khushi. If at all he loved her, he will surely burn in the flame of regret!” claimed

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Rachna, switching on the fan at high speed and setting the room temperature to natural ambient temperature for Khushi to recover faster.


Anurag decided that it was not the time to argue with the best friend in his wife and rushed out to complete the instructions given by Rachna.


“Arnav, we found Khushi. She tried burning herself by hot water at her home. I suggest you to come as soon as possible.”

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Exams are still going on and will try to post other stories when they are done. I posted this update to show how doctors value their patients in wake of the attack at NRSMCH on a junior doctor, although I had planned it since long, but posted it faster in respect of IMA’s Protest today. Doctors, whose life expectancy is five years less than general public, dedicate their lives to save others, risking their lives through exposure to infections several times over, but with a smile on their face. But it’s attacks like these which erase that smile from our faces so I plead everyone reading this to condemn the attack and treat us doctors as a human, not as a God, in a humane manner.


Bhagwaan Jinko Kehte Hai, Woh Hai Akhir Ek Insaan,

Sangarsho Se Ladkar Jo Aapke Mrityu Ke Khilaf Jung Main Saarthi Bane,

Swayam Ko Chod Kar, Avaam Ke Liye Jo Jeevan Arpit Kare

Jo Insaaniyat Ke Khatir Jiye Unke Prati Thoda Insaniyat Darshaye

[Renjith]

Nice bro

[fasterboy]

PART 38


“How is she now? Is she any better?” questioned Anurag, cupping Rachna’s shoulder as she appeared to be every bit of the worn off soul that she was.


“She is a lot more stable than she was a few minutes back, of course, physically. Mentally, I have no idea,” she answered, discarding her gloves in the dust bin as she eyed her dear friend with tears in her eyes.


“Couldn’t she call me once before taking such a harsh decision? Didn’t she consider me to be her friend? Then, why didn’t she find it important to discuss such a crucial matter, before acting on her impulse?” complained Rachna, love pouring out from her eyes and her voice as Anurag took her into his embrace, drawing soothing circles at her back.


“Of course she considers you to be her friend, Rachna. Maybe she did not have it in her to relate the happenings and relive them once again. She is fine now, relax. I have called Arnav and he will be here in a short while,” informed Anurag, as he caressed her hair softly.


“It’s all because of him and you called him. Why, Anurag?” she questioned, looking up into his eyes.


“Because he loves her and that gives him the right to see her. Or in other words, if he is truly guilty, it is his punishment to see her in this state. Do you really think someone who loves children as much as Arnav would intentionally do something to hurt them? He would have been truly unaware of the situation and maybe someone in his company exploited his trust upon them. He was always very irresponsible, spurning away one responsibility if he was taking up another, he could be responsible for only one thing at a time and maybe that ruined everything in his life, starting from his relationship with his parents, Rati and now Khushi,” he explained as Rachna began understanding the situation logically.



“It’s karma, isn’t it? Remember, Arnav did not believe Rati when she told a producer took advantage of her severely inebriated state and she did not indulge in him? Now, maybe, Arnav is only partially at fault and Khushi refuses to believe him. And Khushi, bless her love, gave the idea to Arnav to betray his marriage and she was betrayed by him in something so close to her heart. It’s all karma,” she mused, realizing that they were nothing but puppets in the hands of destiny.



Before Anurag could answer further, they heard Khushi turning in the bed, struggling to turn as her skin was still sensitive. The couple were by her side quickly as Khushi opened her eyes weakly, trying to adjust to the bright light and the blinding pain which coursed through her.


“Rachna...” she whispered as Rachna helped her to change her position and rest her back properly to the backrest so that she did not strain her back further.


“Why did you have to take this step, Khushi? Your Mahadev wouldn’t be pleased to see his devotee trying to burn herself by invoking him,” scolded Rachna as she handed over a water bottle to Khushi as she needed to keep herself hydrated to regain her health faster.

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“I was broken, Rachna. I didn’t know what I was doing. I loved him so much. His company played with the lives of children who were already struggling with ailments, how could he?” she sobbed, her voice shaking with pain which was both mental and physical but it was the emotional turmoil which wretched her.



“You really think that he would do it, Khushi? Ask yourself once. The man whom you have loved, the man who loves children so much, would he risk other children’s lives? Would he tarnish his company’s reputation which he had built from scratch, giving it all that he had?” asked Anurag, taking his seat beside her feet as he changed the side of the cold pack from her knees which had been scbangd badly.



Khushi looked over to Rachna, wondering if she agreed with her husband’s words, because she knew that Rachna would always want the best for her friend and was one of her best well-wishers.


“Yes, Khushi. I don’t think he is capable of doing it. He is irresponsible alright but a rogue and fraudster, I don’t think so. He loves you enough to not do a thing which would hurt you so badly,” added Rachna, applying cream over her hands which were burnt by holding the scalding hot water in them.


“I wanted to believe him so badly but he did not say a thing which would negate what was said in the court. Yes, he could not have informed me of the court case when I was pregnant or when we met after four months but i expected that after our marriage, he would not hide a thing from me. If he felt that somebody in the company had cheated him by creating the wrong drug, why did not he act on his instinct? Why did he not get an investigation done or revealed at the court? My heart still wants to believe him, Rachna, but my soul and my conscience, they are lost. I want answers and only he can give them,” she replied, preventing her tears from leaving her eyes, lest the dam of her heart broke.


The doorbell began ringing as Anurag volunteered to go and open the door, which revealed a very disheveled Arnav Singh Raizada, panting and pained, fragile and fatigued, full of lament and full of love.


“Where is she?” he demanded, eying round the house as Anurag pointed towards the room in which Khushi was as Rachna walked out, deciding to give privacy to the couple.


“Khoosi...”


A loving yet broken whisper left his trembling lips as his staggered steps dragged him towards the who who ignited the flame of love in him.


“You had wanted to punish someone; it should have been me, why did you take it upon yourself? I am your culprit; I had vowed to win your trust and the unfortunate idiot who broke the vow. It should have been me to burn in that water, blaze in redemption and smoulder in love, not you!” he exclaimed, collapsing on his knees by her side, as the tears in her eyes finally descended down.


“You think seeing you in pain would have given me pleasure, Arnav Singh Raizada? You are highly mistaken if you think punishing you would have alleviated my pain. It would have instead pushed me into the flames of hell. Please tell me, how did this happen? Who, according to you, has changed the composition of the drugs to form this dangerous concoction and why didn’t you do anything about it?” she asked, placing her arm over his, the love which she showered through her eyes acting as an embalmation to his soul.


“Because I have no idea who it can be. Vivek was taking care of the company when I was with you in Shillong. He never studied pharmacology, so he has no idea. I asked him to approve on my behalf while I just manually approved for the heck of it. I have no idea when it was approved and the name under which it was requested. The composition logged into our servers doesn’t match the one displayed in court. There was no way I could prove that I was unaware because such a big goofup in the servers mean someone higher up and it would only increase suspicion on me,” he replied, raking his fingers through his hair as he pulled it.


“We will find a way to prove that you are not involved in it, Arnav. Don’t worry. I know quite a lot of lawyers and I will meet with them, starting with the legal advisor of our hospital. I can’t ask the Committee to take the case back but you file an appeal and I will make sure that justice is served,” she promised, determination lacing her tone, adding to his strength.


“So, you do believe me?” he demanded, placing his arms on her sides, careful to not hurt her as he knew that her skin would be sensitive.


“Believing you is the only path leading to my sanity, Arnav, so I am walking on it, guided by my heart and its love for you. If I don’t, I will lose myself and should you fail in this, I don’t think I will be able to survive because my soul will be destroyed in the lament of your love and daggers of my conscience. But I am willing to risk it, in the hope of a beautiful future with you, in the hope of fulfilling my childhood fantasies and in the hope to unite with you, this time once and for all. “

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PART 39



“Ma’am, Ma’am, what do you want to say about ex-husband’s company being convicted in the production of dangerous drugs and the fact that his current wife leads the Committee which filed the case?” questioned the reporter as Rati glared at the reporter.


“If you are addressing him to be my ex-husband then you should be knowing that we were married in the past and not now. As amicable as we are, I do not want to comment on the happenings and I would request you to stop hounding the couple about it. There is absolutely no need to mix their professional and personal lives and I believe that they will find their way out since I have utmost trust on the two of them,” replied Rati, signing to her bodyguards to guide the reporters out.


She had to make her entry out of her home after numerous calls and pleading from the media to the point where she felt that if she had not given the statement, her silence would be extrapolated into her acceptance of Arnav being the culprit which was not the result she aimed for.


Rati walked into her home and pulled her phone out as she dialed Khushi’s number, well aware that she would be the prime-target for the journalists and she had no experience in answering the media, only increasing her troubles.


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Khushi’s Flat,


Khushi stared the first page of the newspaper numbly where the pictures of herself and her husband being on the opposite sides of justice were printed with heart-wrenching suggestions and headlines. The number of messages and calls she was receiving compelled her to put her phone on the airplane mode so that she could have the little bit of peace she could ask for, given the situation.


The three companies involved were few of the most trusted and most popular amongst the doctors and civilians alike and to see them letting the trust down was the worst fear coming true. It was also true that the love in Khushi’s heart asked her to side with her husband but she wondered if she would be able to give him another chance honestly, with every cell of hers resonating in her decision, after what his irresponsibility had caused.

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“He did not want it to happen intentionally, fine. He did not tell you because you were not in the right situation, acceptable, but is it acceptable and fine to be so irresponsible about your company which is dealing with thousands of lives? So ignorant that he did not bother crosschecking the composition when the ethics and approval committee sent it back and instead bribed them? I think you should rethink about him, Beta,” read the message from her father, the only message she had bothered to read from the morning and she was sure that there were many more waiting, which she had not received due to her choice.


She knew that it was not the time to sulk or ponder over every possibility but the time to act. She removed the airplane mode to contact the legal advisor of her clinic when she received a call, with an immaculate timing.

“Khushi! I didn’t expect the call to be connected after all these tries! How are you?” questioned Rati, her concerned voice making myriads of emotions run in her mind.


“I don’t think I have an answer for that at the moment, Rati. You were trying since long?” asked Khushi, sighing deeply.


“Quite understandable, Khushi, but do take care of yourself. Arnav really needs you at this time, when probably no one believes him and no one is ready to stand by his side, I am sure you are his only hope and your support would mean the world to him,” replied Rati, a sad smile playing on her lips as she sent out a prayer to the couple in her mind.


“What do you think? Did you know of the case?” Khushi asked, wondering if she was the only one who was kept in dark.


“We live in the same city and Media loves, well, hates me so I was bound to know. I am sure there has been a mistake because Arnav would never intentionally harm children. He loves them too much for him to allow that to happen. Anyways, since we spoke of media, I am sure they would be hounding you for an interview now and you have no experience, no offense, so I thought if you would want the help of my PR to tackle this issue because it is the best if you give an interview rather than letting people speculate,” explained Rati, eying the various newspapers highlighting their silence over the issue.


Khushi pondered over the idea momentarily. “Your PR Team can handle this?”


“I know why you are apprehensive, Khushi. This is a new team and much more efficient, I promise you won’t be in trouble like me due to the Team and media. Of course, if you want to look at other choices, go ahead but just wanted to let you know that you are welcome to use mine,” said Rati, the past memories which tore her apart, created due to the lack of efficiency of the previous PR Team, playing on the canvas of her mind.

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“If you say so, let’s go ahead with it, Rati. Thank you so much,” thanked Khushi, the sadness clutching her in a grip she had previously not known.


“Don’t. I am not doing this for you. I am doing this for my peace and...


“Love. I know. The only emotion which can make you do things you wouldn’t imagine.”

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After an hour,


“Anurag and Vivek managed to transfer the entire database on the Company’s systems onto this laptop. Whatever data you need, I hope, will be found here,” said Arnav, handing over the laptop to Khushi, who began to analyse the data.


“They just gave away the composition in the court to the experts but we cannot ascertain under which name they had been entered into the system, since it does not recognize the drug,” pointed Khushi, switching the laptop on and prompting Arnav to enter the password to the access the database.

Khoosi.

His passcode made a shiver run across her spine as the very word got absorbed into every cell of hers, causing them to resonate with the emotion filled in the word - love.


“That’s right but there are not a lot of drugs they could have manipulated, definitely not to the extent that approval committee would approve it even with bribing. I mean to say, that the original pharmacological side effects must have been pretty close to the dangers indicated by the new ones,” said Arnav, pulling Khushi out of her reverie, as she decided that it was for the best if she focused at the situation in hand and let the love triumph rather than lose herself in love and allow the most esteemed emotion of her life to surrender.


“The Bench said that the drugs cause severe neurodeficiency and interfere with the development of nervous system and hence sensations. The drugs are also particularly harmful for the children so maybe it has something to with the thyroxine or thyroid gland for that matter. How many such drugs did you manufacture this year that were used to treat thyroid disorders?” demanded Khushi as her command over the subject shook Arnav as he had failed to notice the same despite mastering in Pharmacology.

“About three of them but we introduced only two of them into the market this year. We were lagging in the thyroid department especially since others had already made several drugs. I can’t believe that the desperation took away everything from me,” cursed Arnav, raking his fingers through his hair as Khushi placed a concerned arm over his free hand.

“Not everything is lost, Arnav. Not yet. Not if we catch the actual criminal and bring him to justice. You are guilty for being irresponsible, probably since years, and its time that you overcome the same. I am waiting for the moment when you will be declared free of all charges, both by the judiciary and the insolent and rebellious part of mine - my conscience.”

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