Monday:-
After that incident on Saturday evening, Sidharth decided to stay away from Aranya and was busy in his work, even on Sunday. Today he had to go to government's town planning office for the meeting regarding the renovation project but before that since it was first Monday of the month, so as always he first went to the temple for Pooja and after that directly came to office from the temple.
When he entered inside main building, Aaranya was standing there waiting for the lift with other girl of her team. She was randomly looking here and there and sipping water from her bottle while waiting for the lift. The moment her eyes landed on Sidharth who was standing just few meters away from her and was talking with somone, she got choked by seeing his attire and spitted all the water of her mouth on that girl.
" What the hell? What you did? Today is first day of the week and you spoiled my shirt." That girl complained to Aranya.
" I am extremely sorry. Please trust me,I didn't do it intentionally. I got shocked after seeing something and that's why it happened. I am sorry once again. I will buy you, one shirt from my side but please forgive me." Aranya genuinely said sorry to her but her eyes and mind were focused on him only.
" It's ok but what you have seen here which made you react like this way?" She asked from Aranya and then noticed she was looking somewhere else. That girl too followed her gaze and found Sidharth standing there wearing dhoti and a shawl wrapped around on his upper body. That girl understood why Aranya was shocked.
" Oh, this is why you got shocked then I won't blame you. Trust me, first day when I had seen Sidharth Sir like this in the office, I almost got heart- attack. It's not your fault. Almost everyone's first reaction was same here but with time you will also get habitual to see him like this once in a month just like us." That girl explained to Aranya.
After hearing that girl's explanation, Aranya looked at her with confused expressions but before that girl could say anything lift came and both went inside.
The moment lift door was almost about to close, Sidharth looked towards them and first time they were face to face after that awkward moment but it lasted only for fraction of seconds and lift moved up.
" What you were telling me before lift came? " Aranya again asked her because she was too shocked to see Sidharth like that in the so called corporate office.
" Oh that. Actually, Sidharth Sir belongs to royal family of Jaipur. I know, now we are a democratic country but royal family do follow their traditions and customs till now. It's their tradition that royal heir has to do Pooja in their ancestral Shiva temple in the morning at the time of sunrise on every first Monday of the month. Earlier, his grandfather used to do it but 3 years back when he fell ill, and Sidharth Sir came here from US, since then he is doing it because he is next heir of royal crown. And do you know, what is the most astonishing thing, he goes to that temple from his home on barefoot by walking and come back also like that only. That temple is near to the main palace, so earlier kings could easily do this but Sidharth sir almost walk upto one hour to reach there and then additionally 30-45 minutes for coming back to office from temple. Isn't it something so great and unique? I mean who follows their traditions with this much dedication in today's modern time but he had not missed it even for a single day since he started doing it. This is why everyone loves and respects him so much because he is not just a successful business man but a very nice person also who values his traditions so much.I must say, he is one of a kind person and his wife will be luckiest girl of the world.You know what, sometimes, I really feel so envy from Samaira ma'am. Just imagine, in today's world, she will be called a queen, will enjoy all the luxuries of royal family and will get a husband like him and her name will also sound so royal, Mrs Samaira Sidharth Singh Rajawat. We are not at fault to feel jealous from her at all but yeah she is so sweet. I can't wait to see their great royal wedding when she will come back from London. It will be perfect fairy tale wedding and will be like a festival for our city. I know you will go away from here after 6 months but I am sure Sidharth Sir will definitely invite you in his wedding and if you will get the invitation then please don't miss the chance to come here and take part in it. You will have once in a lifetime kind of experience. Almost everyone in our city is eagerly waiting for that day. Oh God, I am feeling excited by just imagining all of this." That girl kept talking like that and when they reached their place they didn't notice.
After hearing everything from her, Aranya was having very mixed feelings. After a moment when she digested all the information, she asked that girl a question which shocked her.
" Does your Sidharth Sir have some twin brother?" Aranya asked her with very serious expressions.
" What? wait a second, you are asking me this to know if you can have chance to get hitched with his brother? I am sorry to burst your dream but he is only one, single piece, no duplicate. Although, your idea is very nice. He should have a duplicate copy, in that case, I would have definitely proposed him." That girl said in her dreamy voice.
Aranya looked at her with weird and annoyed expressions but before she could clarify her, both of them heard a voice from back which scared the hell out of them.
" May I know, whom are you guys planning to propose standing in the middle of the pathway of the office? Am I giving you salaries for daydreaming in my office?" Sidharth asked them standing there with folded hands and no nonsense attitude.
Aranya gave him annoyed expressions but that girl got scared.
" No sir. We were just randomly talking while going towards our desk. Have a nice day Sir." that girl said with scared voice and went away from there dragging Aranya along with her.
Aranya kept looking back at him till she didn't turn to go to her work area. He was too standing there only till she was visible to him.
" Sir, what are you doing here? We need to go for the meeting." Mr Rathi came towards him and reminded him.
Sidharth just nodded his head and went away from there.
Government office:-
There were total 5 teams who came to give their proposal regarding project. Sidharth was shocked to see Maan there but he didn't try to interact with him because he didn't want to spoil his mood. So he avoided talking with him and directly went inside. Maan smirked looking at him and he too went inside with the owner of that company with whom he had started partnership and gave him all the details of Sidharth's project in exchange of the partnership.
One by one all the team gave their proposals. Only Sidharth and the team which Maan was supporting were left. That team representative stood up and started his presentation. The moment it started, Sidharth's expressions changed and he looked towards Maan who was smirking at him. At that very moment, he understood what exactly happened and it boiled his blood but he controlled himself considering they were not in his own personal office. Sidharth's other team members were looking at each other with fearful expressions, specially the person whom Sidharth had handed over that pendrive. He was constantly wiping sweat from his forehead and was giving apologetic looks towards Sidharth.
When that presentation ended, the co-ordinator invited Sidharth's team to give their presentation but before anyone can stand up, Sidharth himself stood up.
"I am sorry sir but our file got corrupted and currently we have nothing to present here. Although, I don't need to show it in a PPT about our capability because what we have done in past 5 years since the start of my company, it's all in the public domain. We have live examples of our capabilities and success stories in both abroad and here in our own city. I am sure, everyone of you are aware of it and had seen it with your own eyes but still if you want me to give a PPT presentation then give one more day. I will personally come to your office tomorrow,but it's completely upto you. Even if we will not get this project, we will keep continuing our work through my company's CSR funds and Rajawat trust just like how we are doing now. Thankyou for your valuable time, have a good day." Sidharth said and gave one last look to Maan and came out of the office without waiting for any reply.
Sidharth was going towards his car with full of anger. He could not believe Maan could stoop this much low in his hatred.
" Sir, please trust me, I had not done anything. I can swear on my child. Our family had always been loyal to Bade Hukum and after him to you. We can't even think of such thing. We can happily die for you rather than backstabbing like this. Please trust me, I am not lieing." That man pleaded to Sidharth while crying.
" Mr Rathi, relax. I know, you have not done anything. You don't need to prove your loyalty but someone had done it right? and to make sure that this incident doesn't repeat in future, we need to find the real culprit as soon as possible. It's your duty to bring real culprit in front of me, ok?" Sidharth said to him.
" Thankyou so much Chote Hukum for trusting me. I promise, I will definitely find the real culprit and will bring in front of you. Backstabbing is a sin and similar to committing murder in our Rajputs community and whoever does this, deserves rigorous punishment for it. I will make sure that we can reach out to real culprit soon. See you in the office." Mr Rathi told Sidharth and went away from there.
Sidharth was about to sit in the car but Maan came to him and stopped him.
" Listen, if you care about yourself then just go away from here and let me go or else I will not be responsible for whatever will happen here in public place." Sidharth warned him in dangerously low voice.
" Oh,I got scared. I didn't come to stop you, I just came here to congratulate you on your first loss and my first win against you. I can give you guarantee that this is just the start, congratulations in advance for upcoming losses too. My day has finally come and your countdown had started. One more thing, before going, I want to share a very beautiful phrase with you. Have you ever heard of "Ghar ka bhedi lanka dhaye"
(Note:- for people who doesn't know Hindi, basically this phrase is based on Ramayana epic. In that story, Ravan's brother helped Ram to kill Ravan by sharing his secret to Ram and because of this crucial information only, Ram could kill Ravan and since Lanka was Ravan's home so from there this phrase came. meaning- someone from home only helps to destroy the home, I hope you guys got clarity why I used this phrase and why it is very important..🤫🤫🤭🤭🤭)
Maan told him and winked at him. After that he went away from there with a big smirk on his face. Sidharth was still standing there trying to understand what he meant by that. Then he ignored his words like nonsense always and tried to open his car in anger. By doing that his fingers got hurt from the car door. He felt shooting pain for a second in his fingers and tried to press it with another hand to relieve the stress.
This incident reminded him about a similar incident of two days back. Then something clicked in his mind after recalling Maan's last words and his eyes became wide with shock and disbelief.
Sidharth sat in the car with so much anger. He was not able to believe what his mind just concluded few moments back and he hated to admit that now it made perfect sense to him how such kind of incident can happen with him which never happened before. The only difference from earlier and now was Aranya Gujral.
Evening:-
Aranya came home at 7:00 pm. She was feeling so tired and was going directly to her room but from nowhere Sidharth came and held her hands. He took her in the backside lawn where no one was there. Aranya was throughout trying to release her hands from his grip but it was of no use. When they reached lawn, then only Sidharth left her hands but before she could say anything he did something which shocked her to the core. He forcefully tried to give her a knife in her hand. She was too scared and puzzled to see knife in his hands and the look on his face.
" What happened? Why are you not taking it? Please take it and kill me. You hate me right? and can do anything to hurt me then I am giving you a chance to do it. Please do the honours and free both of us from this torture. Trust me, my soul will be forever grateful to you for releasing it from this torturues life and no one will say anything to you, this is my guarantee. You can easily go back to your home without any hurdles. Isn't it such a golden opportunity for you? Please use it and get both of us free from this trap forever. Please do it, I am waiting." Sidharth kept blabbering holding her shoulders. There was madness in his eyes.
Aranya got scared to see him like that. She threw the knife away and tears brimmed in her eyes because his strong grip on her arms were hurting her. When Sidharth saw her tears, he took two steps back as if his trance got broken and he came back to reality. He was having anxiety attack and he fell down on the ground holding his head. Aranya got even more scared now after seeing him like that. She was about to run to ask for help but before she could go inside, she saw him taking some medicine from his jacket's pocket and popping it up like a candy. Then he lied down on the grass for few seconds closing his eyes. She was looking everything with fearful expressions and was too shocked to move away.
After some 2-3 minutes, he opened his eyes and looked towards her.She realised her body was shivering due to fear but still she was standing there. Sidharth stood up and came towards her. Aranya took two steps back in fear. Sidharth realised his actions had scared her. So, he changed his body language and didn't try to go towards her.
" I am extremely sorry for hurting you like this. Trust me, I can never even think of hurting you. It's just that I am also a human and there is a limit, I can handle things. You have no idea, what I am going through right now.I am not expecting anything from you. All I want to say, you are new here and don't know anything about here and about people. So, please don't fall into anyone's trap. Don't let anyone use you for their own selfish motives. Don't become someone else's puppet.You want to fight with me or hurt me, do it on your own and to me only. I think you are capable enough of fighting your battle on your own without taking anyone's help. One more thing, I have done wrong with you not my employees. So, if you want to hurt me, I am always here in front of you but please don't involve my company into it because they have not done anything wrong to you. I hope from here onwards, you will use your own mind and will not let anyone use you. Take care and extremely sorry once again for hurting you." Sidharth told her and went away from there without waiting for her reply.
Aranya was still standing there not knowing how to feel about everything what just happened there. She was still feeling shivers in her body and her arms were still hurting. She was not able to understand anything whatever was happening in her life. She sat there helplessly. Her mind was even more puzzled because of seeing two extreme sides of Sidharth in the same day. In morning she had seen him in a complete different form which had left her speechless and now this. She was not understanding what she should think of him.
" I think, he is definitely suffering from split personality disorder, there can't be any other reason for such extreme opposite actions. Yes, this is true and I have to be careful till I am here. I will stay away from him as much as possible atleast in home because he behaves like some mad bull in the home only. In office, no one can even imagine that he has this side also. I guess, he knows he has some problem, this is why he took medicine and after that became normal again. God, please end these few months without any trouble so that I can go back my home safely." Aranya pleaded to God.
She was still sitting there only lost in her thoughts. At that time, she received a call. When she saw the caller ID, it elevated her anger on next level. She received the call and bursted out on that person.
" Don't you dare to call me back again and FYI, I am not someone's puppet. So, don't even think that you can control me and I will do whatever you will say. Whatever your problem is with him, deal it on your own. I will deal on my own. Got it?" Aranya shouted on Maan and disconnected the call.
After hearing her outburst, Maan got shocked and irritated.
" What she think of herself? I was only trying to help her. I also don't need any stupid girl to execute my plan. I am more than enough to tackle him alone. Now, It's too much. I have waited and kept patience for so long but not anymore. Now it's do or die and I will make sure that my next move will be last and game will be over after that and I can live peacefully." Maan promised himself with anger filled voice.
Note:-
So Aranya decided not to help him anymore but what Maan will do next which will be game over according to him?
Stay tuned for something huge ahead...
Till then,
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