Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 43 (LAST PART)

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Khushi’s POV

I swipe my card at the city hospital clearing all the medical expenses of Sheetal’s mother who is admitted here from a few weeks. She’s a heart patient and is suffering from chronic heart issues. Currently she is stable, but the hospital management were on the verge of shifting her to the general ward and chasing Sheetal to pay the pending dues so as to continue the treatment. Thankfully Arnav had asked Aman to keep an eye on them otherwise I would never know about them and this worse situation that they were undergoing. Whilst I pay the bills, Arnav speaks to the management to not stop the treatment ever and informs them that we will bear the entire expense of Sheetal’s mother’s medical care. They say only a poison could kill a poison. I don’t believe so. Two negatives make a positive only in mathematics. Otherwise, it always takes only goodness to end the evil. Despite whatever injustice Sheetal did to me, I’m here to end it all for good.

“Hey,” Arnav returns to the billing counter.

I smile at him weakly trying to stifle my emotions.

“Sheetal’s mother is on the second floor. I think we should see her once before we leave.”

Should we? I don’t know if I want to meet her and if do, will I be able to remain unaffected? I swallow nervously thinking if this is a good idea when Arnav strokes my back, taking me in his arms.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 42

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Part 42


Khushi's POV


Three months later


I knock the door of Maa’s bedroom and find her completing her knitting project. Arnav has got her enough baby wool these days to keep her occupied. She has been making a sweater for Shyam-Anjali’s daughter Sara. She wants to complete it before the winters in New York begin.


“Khushi?” Maa gestures me to get inside the room. “How is it looking?”

She shows me her half-completed sweater.

“It’s beautiful. I can’t wait to see Sara wearing this.”

“Me neither,” she murmurs with so much affection and is about to continue when I stop her. “Don’t strain your eyes, Maa. If Arnav gets to know you are spending hours knitting for your grandchild, he is not going to be happy.”


Maa sighs putting the sweater and the knitting sticks away before turning towards me again.


“This is nothing. I’m yet to make a full woollen set with sweater, booties, mittens and Binnies for your babies too. And no one can stop me from doing that. I’ve plans to knit a dozen of those.”


My cheeks hurt as I try to hold my blush. Being an independent woman, a wife and a daughter-in-law is one thing, but being a mother? It’s still a huge responsibility and I’m afraid to even think about it at this moment. Maa pats my arm.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 41

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Chapter 41


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I’ve still hugged Arnav tight, letting us subside our grief that had been bothering us from so many years. All my doubts are cleared now about the past and I finally have started piecing each moment of my life together. I don't know why it all happened, who was more responsible, who was less. I don't want to hurt myself further by blaming anyone of us. I just want to let it go. Let bygones be bygones. History has time and again proved one thing. No one has achieved anything out of revenge. It’s just a form of asserting ourselves that we have fought for ourselves but it doesn't lessen the grief. It just intensifies it to a point where there is no return. In our case, I don't know sooner or later, but Arnav realized things and tried making amends. And that is enough for me to move on and accept him wholeheartedly in my life.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 40

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Chapter 40


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I sip some water whilst seeing Khushi speaking to my family over the lunch table. She looks calm, happy and so much enjoying the mood of this day. We took our marriage vows again in the temple few hours ago. More than our real wedding, it is this day which has left a deep impact in my heart. I am contented to have taken those vows again with Khushi and this time I am going to abide by each one of them.


“Saale Sahab, you are hardly eating anything,” Shyam’s voice breaks my thoughts.

From the temple, we all had drove to this nearest Indian restaurant for a family lunch. The moment Jeeju teases me, Khushi and Maa both stare at me as if wanting to know if its true.

“Shyam,” Di strokes my arm. “Don't tease my brother. His appetite will be satiated not by food today but the love of his wife.”


The moment she says this, everyone laughs except me and Khushi. We are sitting at a round table and Khushi is exactly opposite to me. Our gazes keep glued on each other as if reading each other’s mind. I really want to make love to Khushi, only if she lets me show her how much she means for the survival of my heart.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 39

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I wake up at the feel of her lips on my neck. Opening my dozy eyes, I look at the woman in my arms who is equally sleepy because its not morning yet. There is still enough darkness outside and in the bedroom, where me and Khushi are sleeping cozily. But looks like my wife woke up in the middle of the night and is hormonally driven for some intimacy. I don't let her realize I am awake and shut my eyes to let her continue the sensual assault to my body. She tugs at my T-shirt before raising her face and kissing my jaw, just close enough for me to feel the brush of her lips across mine. Ummm!! My resolve to pretend being sleepy fails that very moment and I cup her face angling to my lips and claim her mouth. Khushi mumbles something in between the kiss as the hard planes of my body grinds against her curves. It’s been too long. Too long that I tasted her, had her the way I needed. God, I need to keep a control on myself if she doesn't want more tonight. We break away to breathe. She’s practically panting whereas I am still lost in admiring her face.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 38

  

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I am so hurt to know from Arnav that Sheetal was the one who filled his ears about my conversation with Maa before the latter’s accident.

“Sheetal was involved? Why would she do that?”

Arnav exhales loudly.

“She was my friend, Arnav. Why would she agree to my father and do something so horrible to me?” I repeat.

“She wasn’t agreeing to your father. She was agreeing to her father..” he explains.

I don’t understand.

“What?”

Arnav wipes off my fresh tears again.

“Have you ever met Sheetal’s parents?” he asks.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 37

 

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“What will you reward me with?” Khushi asks me and I strongly haul her to my chest this time, our lips an inch away from brushing and claiming the other’s.


I sense it on her face. She has lost her ability to reply and is desperately waiting to know if I will go ahead and kiss her. I want that too. To kiss those luscious inviting lips of my wife. Khushi had those lips I can nibble on for hours and still not be done. Not just her lips, but each and every inch of her body is what I crave for and want to suck and taste for life.

“Ar…nnaavvvvv..”

Her soft voice against my hot face breaks my trance and lifts my gaze from her lips to her eyes. We are too close and with this level of closeness, our eyes squint to see each other.

“Your phone.”

My phone? I hear the ringing of my mobile which I’d left in the kitchen. I withdraw myself from Khushi and make my way to check who called me at this hour? As far as I know, my family wasn’t going to disturb us at this odd time. Maa had called me an hour back when I’d told her that I was making Aloo parathas for Khushi which we both will savour in dinner. She was happy to see my little efforts in becoming the kind of husband any woman would love to have.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 36

 

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When I enter Di’s home, Shyam Jeeju is the first one to block my way.

“Good morning, Saale Sahab.” His smile is teasing and I know why. Last night I stayed in Khushi’s apartment and now my family was obviously going to demand the reasons behind it.

Maa and Di reach the living room and have the same question in their expression. I look at the three of them gawking at me, and exhale.

“Khushi and I want to give this relationship a chance again.” I blurt it out.

They are still cold and confused.

“What?” I ask looking at their shocking faces. “Aren’t you all happy that we are reconciling?”

Di is the first one to speak up.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 35

 

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My eyes open as the morning sunlight enters the room. We forgot to pull the blinds together to shield us from the light, before we decided to sleep on the couch.. .together. I look down where Khushi is snuggled to my chest, her arms wrapped around my waist, and mine over hers. That's how we slept on this couch the entire night. It was the second best night of my life after the one when we consummated our marriage. I grin recalling this out of the world feeling I got since Khushi told me she wanted to give us both a chance together. It’s like a dream come true. A dream which I had stopped thinking would ever turn into reality. But seeing Khushi’s determination last night and the way she has snuggled to my body now, I have enough assurances that this will work. I will make it work again! I promise to give Khushi everything she desires and deserves in her life because thats what a man in love would do for the woman he is in love with. I love her.. And that truth will die after when my life ends.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 34

 

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I can’t believe I am staying in the same house with Khushi tonight. Though we both retired to our respective rooms an hour back, I still can’t get any sleep. The mere thought of Khushi undergoing the same kind of pain which I suffered without her, makes me cringe. I cannot even imagine how she would have coped up to stabilize her life that she had finally to speak to a psychologist? She too is taking antidepressants? I know it’s not going to be good for both of us in longer run.

I toss on the bed, staring at the wall that separates our room. This is a silly idea that Khushi suggested we act upon tonight. Only sleeping under the same roof is not going to heal us. I know we need each other more than that. I can feel it. And for a change, this time I know Khushi has realized that too but she needs her own time to accept it completely. She isn’t ready to move on with anyone else. That gives me hope for us. For our future.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 33

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“You want to know?” I clench my jaw. “Then listen. I was on sleeping pills for a few months and since now my psychologist denied prescribing me more, I am having these seizures at times where my hands shiver. The fever and headache are because I can’t f*cking sleep, Khushi. There hasn’t been a single night when I could sleep on my own.”

“Like me!!” she interrupts, with tears in her eyes at my revelation.

My anger mellows down as I hear it. Khushi couldn’t sleep too? Why? Isn’t that what she always wanted? A separation from me? Despite getting her freedom why could she not be in peace?

“Whaaatt?” I stutter.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 32B

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Chapter 32B

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I can’t believe Khushi initiated this simple conversation with me. I thought after meeting me again, she would keep distance from me. But she didn’t. She asked me how I was doing. She confessed that she ran away from her date with Rajeev, and she doesn't mind even if I stay here in New York forever. But does it mean anything to me?? No! I can always have hopes but not expectations. Though we have gone silent again from past few minutes, I take it as a cue to leave from there. If I don’t, I might end up cupping her beautiful face and kissing her because I am dying to touch her. The way she is looking at me doesn't look like she would mind but again, I can be wrong. I was always wrong in predicting what Khushi feels for me. When I thought she loved me, she never did. When I thought she would give me a chance, she made me realize it was too late.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 32A

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Arnav and I are seated opposite to each other over the 12-seater dining table and the temperature in the room has suddenly raised. My appetite is zero though Maa has helped me serve some veggies in my plate. She tried to serve Arnav too but he denied having much. In a black shirt, Arnav has always looked adorable but today seeing him after so many months, I can’t help my eyes stop drooling at him. I know when I was making a small talk to Maa who is seated next to me, Arnav had his eyes on me too and was admiring me the same way. It’s like we are just waiting for our respective moments to steal glances of each other. I am about to pick the mayonnaise bottle when Arnav holds it too. Our fingers grip the bottle together. A spark flares as our eyes meet. His touch is cold yet this one touch is enough to burn us both. Arnav is the first one to withdraw his hand and pick the other sauces instead.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 31

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I am really overwhelmed to be the brand ambassador now of such a cosmetic product which is so famous worldwide. Today is the party thrown at a famous pub of New York where I’ve just unveiled their new launching product – a 12-hour lasting waterproof lip gloss. Becoming famous for my work is one thing which I always wanted to see and feel and tonight when people are appreciating my work, waiting to have me endorse their products and shoot ads and other commercials with me, definitely brings the joy but even then I don’t feel contented from inside. As if something is amiss!! Probably because I don’t have anyone beside me to celebrate my win. Of course my friends Pam and NK are there and we have plans of a private party for the same this weekend, but still I am looking for a family.. my family.. someone who could embrace me, pat my back, kiss me. I shut my eyes for a few seconds to avoid thinking about Arnav and the way he has always kissed me yet that’s the only thing that flashes in my head. Maybe because I’ve never let any other man get that close to me even for a kiss!! I don’t think I would like that either. With Arnav things were different. And now I was ending it all. Because that was right, isn’t it?

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 30

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“Why do you look so exhausted? As if you aren’t sleeping well from a few days?” Maa’s query puts me in a dilemma what to reply.

She is right. Because Akash denied giving me sleeping pills I am hardly able to sleep.

“Arnav? Are you not well?”

Maa quickly cups my face.

“I am fine Maa. Just have an early meeting to attend to. So, woke up early.”

She looks suspiciously at me.

“I am worried for you, Arnav,” she holds the sob that is about to come out from her heart.

“Maa.” I grab her wrists and kiss her palm. “I am fine. Everything is fine with me. It’s just the work stress.” I try to convince her.

“You need a break Arnav.”

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 29

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Four months since Khushi and I saw, or talked to each other.


“Maa, come out soon, the breakfast is getting cold,” I say before pulling out my phone from pocket and reading a message.


‘I’ll be there on time.’ I reply back and put the phone on the dining table where the breakfast is served. Maa comes out from the Puja room.

“Arnav, why are you leaving one hour early today?” she asks occupying the chair opposite to me.

“I have a meeting scheduled.”

I grab a toast and begin to butter it.

“what’s your plan for today evening?” I ask her and she shrugs.

“Nothing, why?”

“I am taking you for dinner tonight.”


Maa laughs at my declaration.

“Are you serious?”

“Totally,” I wink at her and continue eating my bread butter.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 28

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Chapter 28

Arnav’s POV

I sit at the airport gates, waiting for the announcement to board my flight to India. After that disastrous dinner date, where Khushi confronted to me that she would never return to me, I wandered until midnight in the streets of New York alone, thinking what to do next. It was around early morning when I made that decision. I had to leave her alone. If she has no plans of returning to me, I cannot keep stressing her out. Yes she had given me one month time, and one week was already passed to that, but she didn’t do this to give a chance to me or our marriage. She agreed only because I wanted to redeem all my sins that I did on her by dragging her into my revenge against Shashi Gupta. Khushi never loved me, she never will. And I can’t be around her and poison her future plans. She was so sure of finding another man in future whom she might even love and get intimate with. How could I be there to see all that or stop her from doing so if that’s what she really wanted? I couldn’t. So, I took this decision to leave her for her best. She is my love. She is my wife at the moment but I’ll not chain her to me if she is so freaking oblivious to my feelings for her. I want her to move on if she really wants to. I don’t know what I would do from here, without her, but I’ll not let my toxic love ruin her life anymore. So I packed my bags and leaving a voice message to Maa on her phone, while she was sleeping in her room, I left for the airport. It’s high time I free the woman who is forcibly bind to me and is clearly unhappy.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 27

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I look at myself in the mirror wearing the loose black T-Shirt which Arnav gave me tonight. He never wore it before still it has his essence on it, as it was in his wardrobe for a long time. I can smell his cologne on it. I can feel his touch and surprisingly I don’t cringe away from having it on my body. It makes me feel wanted, desired. No!! I shouldn’t have these feelings for him because I don’t want him in my future, do I? I snap my eyes shut recalling how he got angry when I told him today while shopping the wool for Maa, that after he frees me from this relationship and returns to India, he can find another wife for himself who can give him babies and hence fulfill Maa’s desire to see her grandchildren. Would Arnav re-marry? Will I get into a relationship with another man in future? The mere idea of having another man hovering over me, kissing my lips and touching my body makes me cringe and I open my eyes in frustration. Why does it feel so disturbing? Maybe once Arnav actually divorces me and I be single again, this absurd feeling of not wanting any other man touch me, would go away. But I don’t want to date again so soon. I want to stay single for some time, enjoy my career, earn some money and most importantly save some to be financially independent forever. I smile at myself in the mirror loving those plans and then head back to the bed to sleep. Oops. The water in my flask is over. I need to refill it before I hit the bed. Taking the flask with me, I make my way out to the kitchen and just when I reach the living room, I see Arnav there, sitting on the couch, typing something on his laptop. The moment he realizes I am there, he raises his gaze from the screen only to give me a once over, a hungry one if I am right, and that’s when I realize I am wearing his given Black Tshirt and he is probably appreciating the way I look in it. I haven’t worn any pants below but the T-Shirt is long. Not very long. Just barely covering my thighs. I look away from his dark gaze and almost make a run towards the kitchen to fill my flask.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 26

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Chapter 26


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I had to get Maa to the hospital to get her regular tests done. These couldn’t be done from the comfort of the penthouse so I drove Maa here to ensure we don’t miss knowing how well she is doing. Whilst Shyam and his team are busy in conducting these tests, I am sitting with Di in her cabin. She is speaking on the phone to some of her patient, so whilst she continues, my mind wanders over how the last two days have already changed everything between Khushi and me.

It's been two days since she agreed to give me a chance for the next month to be her husband and we are now cordial to each other. She doesn't say hurtful things to me nor I do anything to bring tears in her eyes. I just want her to be happy now apart from getting recovered from her ankle sprain too.


“Chotte?” Di’s voice brings my attention back on her.

“Huh?”

“All okay? You are smiling.”

Am I? I think so. I smile again.

Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 25

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Chapter 25


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“Maa I am done. I can’t eat more.”

“Little more, Khushi, and I promise I wont force you again. Just two more morsels.” Maa insists.

No one has ever fed me with so much love and how can I deny Maa? So, I allow her to resume feeding me the dal rice she cooked for me. It has a different taste compared to the ones which Maa cooked or maybe my taste my changed due to the medicines I keep intaking to soothe my ankle sprain. Ever since I have returned home with NK dropping me today after this injury, Maa hasn’t left my side. She is full-time busy in pampering me and I love it.

“Let me pamper my daughter-in-law until for the next month, after that I’ll get to speak to you only on video calls.”

What? What is that supposed to mean? Maa reads my confusion.

“Arnav told me an hour ago that we are leaving for India after a month. Since you have your modelling assignments, you can’t join us now which is absolutely fine. I want you to shine in your career, Khushi. All my blessings are with you.”