[krish_999]

As always, I am overwhelmed to find so many comments and discussions about the latest chapter. As Lollobionda rightly said, your responses serve as suggestions, encouragement, and an expression of courage for me to write more. I also agree that I had developed the story points long before I began to write it, and this fact makes the comment section very interesting to me as Prashanthi remarked in an early comment.
Many people here make predictions on the future plot developments because I mostly end the chapter at the peak. I have no plan to prove anyone's prediction wrong here. But I don't deviate from the plot just because the majority are expecting a particular twist. The money matter in the recent chapter was a bit of disappointment for many here,  many have criticised it. But, since I had introduced it for a purpose, my commitment as a writer is that this purpose is met. That's how we tie the loose ends, don't we?
In my last story No One Dies a Saint too, people were on a guessing game. I often go back to read the comments there - believe me it's very interesting and inspiring to go back and read them. There I get to see a few readers jumping to conclusion that there were so right about a particular plot twist, saying things like 'See, this time I guessed it right', and then the next chapter reveals that his/her prediction was nowhere close.
Sometimes it plays out the other way too. There have been instances when a reader predicted my plot twist two-three chapters ahead. These predictions do bring a smile to my face but haven't ever made me change the course of my story.
But there's one thing these predictions do. If I feel the readers are hungry for a particular twist, and if it happens to be true later, then I try to write it up to their expectations. Suppose, I'm hypothetically speaking, if you want Meera to be screwed hard by Desai, and if that was part of the plan from the beginning, then I'll make sure it happens with all the details you want to know about it.
Precisely this comment section is the beauty of this forum. The writer gets to know the pulse of the readers with every chapter. It is truly a motivation. Any comment, positive or negative, give me something to ponder about, something to improve my writing. So I welcome both appreciation and criticism.
About the recent request for the timing of the next update, first I am apologising for the delay in previous updates. And I also request your patience for the next update also. This one is a festive weekend and I won't be getting much time to write and finish chapter 21 on time. So it won't be coming on Sunday. Maybe Monday night, I'll say. If it's getting delayed further than that, I'll update again.
Happy Onam to all.
Keep reading and keep posting.
Krish.