Part 49

"I will know her spending pattern. I will find out how much he has squeezed my sister." He thought smirking.

He came back to his room in the evening with Aakash. Aakash still had the hangover of the lunch with Payal. He was in a dreamy state, not taking in anything that Arnav was trying to tell him.

"Aakash...! Wake up! We have a task ahead." Arnav was irked.

"Sorry bhai...! I know...! But I just can't stop thinking about her!" he said. Arnav shook his head hopelessly. He started working and checking his emails on his laptop and Aakash sat there staring unfocused.

"Aakash, I had left my cell at home and HE had picked it up." Arnav said gravely after some time.
"What?... did he scan through?" Asked Aakash shocked.
"How do I know? Nani took it back from him but looking at his nature I feel he must have seen my contact list or messages" Said Arnav.

"Oh! Now what?" Asked Aakash aghast.

"Now what? We have to wait and watch..." Arnav remembered his conversation with Khushi and smile appeared on his face. He had changed Khushi's name to Aman2.
"And he has brought in a maid to help Di." He Said.
"What? I.. mean.. this could prove dangerous. We have to do something bhai...!" Aakash was getting shock after shock. He was waking up from his dreams. "Aakash, we have to be very careful. We should do something to safeguard Di.." Said Arnav seriously.

"Ok. Aakash... coming back to business... I have received the list of required documents to go ahead with the project. One Mr. Shondeep Banerjee, CEO of a group company of BTR is deputed on this project and he will be interviewing Jijaji next week sometime." Said Arnav.

"Let us wait and watch the outcome of the interview. In the meanwhile I have consulted our Company Secretary. He says this can be done in a couple of weeks time once we decide to go ahead with it. I have asked him to prepare the MA and AA. (memorandum of association and Articles of Association). I will have to talk to Mr. Balwindar Singh before we go ahead. I will do that tomorrow morning.." He said in a tone of reporting the progress.

"Ok bhai... I feel we should go ahead with our plans. That way we can keep him away for some time from our other companies..." Aakash said thinking on the options.
"Yes Aakash and now if you excuse me, I need to water my plants." Said Arnav getting up. Aakash dismissed himself.

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Arnav's cell rang late in the night and it was Aman2. He smiled and picked up the phone immediately. "Khushi.....!" He called her.

"Arnavji! Papaji has returned from his Kaar Seva..." Khushi said. "I will start my routine from tomorrow..." She went on "What is the news at your end?"

"I stayed home the whole day. HE was there all the time. I could not talk to Di much. .." He started narrating. There was not much to talk about from both the sides. But a phone was a must to hear each other.

"And another news is HE has brought in a new maid for Di.." Said Arnav waiting for her reaction.
"What? Why? This could be dangerous, Arnavji! Be careful." Khushi said in worried tone.
"Yes, I know." Said Arnav.
"How old is she?" Asked Khushi suspiciously. Arnav could not understand her question. And then.... Simper appeared on his face.
"Um... let me think. She served me food. She seemed to have fair complexion. Then she came to my room with a tray. She looked young....and.." He started off,
"What? Were you looking at her? What do you think you were doing? Why do you have to look at her? Did she enter your room? How many times?" Khushi went on angrily.

"Khushi... wait .. wait.. Something is burning. Wait. I will go to the kitchen and see if she is alright...." Said Arnav trying to control his laughter.
"Ok. Arnavji... you carry on... I am going to sleep. Goodnight!" Khushi was really angry at him.
"Oh! Wait .. .. I was just kidding...Khushi? Are you there?" Arnav asked getting serious. There was no answer from the other end.
"Khushi.. talk to me.. .. look, I am sorry.. I was just kidding...Khushi KHUSHI!" he called her with his voice rising.
"Hello Arnavji... I will call you tomorrow... there is another call coming in for me from my colleague ...Goodnight Arnavji" She hung up smiling maliciously.

"Now keep thinking about this non existent colleague of mine, the whole night Arnavji... " She thought smirking and went to bed.

Khushi woke up early in the morning. Her typical day started at 6.00 in the morning. She got ready, took mumiji to the mandir, ran to catch the bus, for her training. She entered the office exactly at 11,00 am. Papaji had already reached and was busy with the meeting. She went to her desk and looked into the files on her desk, waiting for her emails to get downloaded.

She scanned through her emails. Sham's Profile was in her mailbox sent by Shondeep. instructing her about the preparatory work in the new project. She noted down the instructions and started working on them. She called up the official of the Sahakaar Co-op Spinning Mill requesting the person in charge to send the company documents. She sent the mail. The spinning mills officials had to send the last 10 years balance sheet with profit and loss accounts and the resolution copy resolving to hand the loss making co-op society over to the private owner.

She neatly filed the papers sent by their financial consultant with the project report noting how this sick unit will be turned around into a export oriented company within a span of three years. She waited for papaji's meeting to get over. At lunch time, Papaji came out of the conference hall and greeted her. She went for lunch with him twith her nonstop chatter. Papaji listened to her patiently.

"Khushi, did you call Shondeep?" Asked Papaji. "Sorry Papaji, I will do that." She said guiltily.

"No need, Khushi I had been to the hospital in the morning. His father is been shifted to the private room and will be discharged in a couple of days. His mother had all the praises for you. I told her on your behalf that you will meet her in the evening. So you need to go there at 6.00 in the evening. You have to curtail your lunch time to leave early. So hurry up and get back to work." He said and left for his next meeting picking up the file from her. She came back to her desk.

Papaji came back in a few minutes and said "Khushi... we need to talk. Come with me..." He sounded serious. They went into his cabin. "Khushi... Arnav had called...." He started off...

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Arnav got ready early morning and skipping the breakfast he left for the office. On his way, he had called up Papaji. They discussed about their plan. Papaji had approved his plan of action.

He had said "Go ahead with your plan of spinning off a new company for this. Make him the authorized signatory. But before that, make sure all the legal formalities are completed. Puttar, we are taking a big risk. Our money with our reputation is at stake. You should remember 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'. You have to keep constant vigil on his activities. I will have my person tailing him always as his assistant but he is capable to give us a slip. Give him a prima facie power but clip his wings. I have a strong feeling that he has an abettor. I will get that report soon. But be careful, puttar." Papaji hung up leaving Arnav in deep thoughts about the risk he was about to take.
He came to office. He had made it a point not to talk to or email Mr. Balwindar Singh in the office. All the communication was through Mr. Banerjee. He received a mail with copy to sham about his interview on Tuesday at 4 in the evening. He had received a separate mail about his video con call with Mr. Banerjee on Tuesday at 11.00 in the morning.

By the time he finished his morning work and was getting ready for the meetings, he received a call from Nani. She was in panic. She said Anjali slipped in the kitchen and is in severe pain.

"Nani, call the ambulance, I am leaving right now" He called up Aakash and without waiting for him raced towards home. He was not sure what had happened. He kept on thinking about the worst. He had anticipated some untoward incident would happen but not so soon.

He was furious. His sister was in pain, and this all because of one person. Tension was killing him. He dashed home and called out "Di.... " He ran inside. His Di was lying on the Sofa in the hall, bleeding. Her braces dangling, and she was visibly in deep pain. He knelt down beside her and took her hand in his saying "Di.. why did you go to kitchen? ..you should have taken care Di... You have a maid now!" Suddenly remembering about the maid, he Screamed "Where is that maid? What was she doing when Di was in Kitchen? Nani, where is she?"

He was sure that this was not an accident... His Jijaji was nowhere to be seen.