3 years have passed. Maan was the top businessman of India. He has expanded his business in all sectors. He was already leading in the construction business. Other than that he has collaborated with foreign investors and has successfully entered the field of Mobile network and Electronics center. He has completed his graduation and Masters in management along with expanding his business like mad. One of the most rising businessmen, universities wanted to associate with him. He did not need to go to a formal class and just gave a formal exam. He was living example of business management in his own self.
He had one of the most elegant Mansions in Delhi where he lived with his mother and was in an endless wait of 3 years to have his wife back in his life.
He looked at her mother managing the house, instructing the servants. Everything was not as he had wished but as his wife had wished but she was not here with him. Having everything that one could think of but still his life was empty.
3 years; how have he lived without seeing her and he has no option to just keep waiting. Thus all he did to get out of this emptiness was work day and night and expand his business.
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It was late at night, Geet was always last to get out of office.
As she entered her Villa, her dad was still waiting for her.
“You don’t need to work this hard. Can we have dinner as family even single day”
“Family.. ohh yeah we two.” Geet said with a straight face but Mohinder could feel the pain.
“But Dad, Hard work is needed right or else how will equal status be maintained. He is way above your company, if I do not work hard, how will we equal status with him”
Mohinder did not say a word, he was stuck in his own conditions that he had stated to Maan – You equal your status with me, if I feel you are there I will myself give Geet to you. But in the meanwhile if Geet finds someone suitable for herself, you will willingly divorce her. Unless I myself give Geet’s hand in yours, you two will not connect.
Mohinder had been very sick those days. There had been some problem with his bones and numerous tests were conducted. Geet, his only daughter, had left him for her husband. She was his world and she gave up on him and his ego was not ready to give up to Maan, who was still mere a bodyguard in his eyes. Doctors had prescribed numerous medications and tests, but he denied all. His health deteriorated.
Maan found this out and sent Geet to take care of her father, he would look for his mother and business. But Mohinder denied Geet any access to him. Geet was restless, her Dad’s health was deteriorating, he was not taking care and not letting her come to him. At last Maan had to come
“What will you do Maan? he is not listening to me and you think he will listen to you?”
“Geet, we are agreeing to any of his conditions but his health is a priority. I have lost mine at early age, we can’t risk his health”
“anything? Maan, do you know what he will ask?”
“Let us at least bring him to talk to us, Geet.”
Mohinder had then got ready to at least talk to them
“Geet, you want to take care of me and also be with your husband, how is that possible? He is not your status, at least he can prove his love for you, to me. What can you do Maan?”
“What do you want me to do?”
“Geet for her so-called love to you, left this whole business on my shoulder and moved out to take care of you, your ailing mother and your shitty small business, can you do the same for her? Can you leave your useless business trial, move in this house with Geet, ek ghar jamai kee tarah. Geet will handle business, you will be her assistance. Bolo ker sakte ho”
“Aur maa?” Maan asked
“Maan, how can you even think of what he is talking about? It is not possible Dad”
“Then leave both of you, no need to think of my health”
Maan looked at Geet “Main baat ker raha hoon na”
“No, you have already crushed your dream once, I won’t let anyone crush it again. You will go on top, and Maa has seen a dream for you. You can not break it again. Dad, Maan is way above talented to teach me the nuisance of business, he cannot leave his business. It’s already grown so big, you are not accepting”
“Then in that case, if he is so talented, let him come up to my status. Once I am convinced of his caliber, I myself give you back to him. Itna pyar bhi hai, itna talent bhi hai, have guts to prove any. Or else leave me alone to live or die”
“Dad??” They had no option but to seek the second option. Maan could not have brought his mother here in this house to see him being humiliated. Any mother’s heart will pain and she had already seen her son humiliated life long. She will not be able to take it a second time.
But just like his mother, Mohinder was a father too. How can he and Geet leave him alone in this condition?
“Geet, I see no solution. We have to end this. He is your father, You and me, can’t lead a happy life knowing he is so upset with us”
“Maan?”
“Geet, are you ready to leave him in this condition and come with me”
“I can’t, how can I Maan? He is on suicidal trip. I can’t.”
“So?” “I feel so tangled in this whole thing”
“Geet, for now there is only one way to untangle it. You trust me, right? I am confident I will win his trust. We have to wait for his acceptance. There is no other way.”
Maan had since then worked like mad, day and night. His business acumen and his brain was always his positive point, way above par, but now it was fueled by the junoon to get Geet back respectfully. He had reached Mohinder’s economic status in just one year. He had contacted numerous sources, convinced them for business with him, went on winning projects after projects and then starting to lead in many sectors. He would have loved to have Geet by his side in this phase of his life. It was her dream to be part of it all but her own father in his blindness of status has snatched his daughter’s dream.
Mohinder had thought Geet would get over Maan and her marriage. And he had been unable to fathom the caliber of Maan as he never accepted to see it. So Mohinder thought Geet would get over Maan and he would make her meet boys of his stature. But that never happened and Maan reached the stature in society, money and business equal to him. Mohinder’s ego broke badly but he could not bend down.
Three years passed for Mohinder’s ego to completely break and see the reality. But by now Maan has reached the height where Mohinder had never reached. Geet was with him but only in a mechanical way, he knew her heart was with Maan.
He knew he had done a blunder and only guilt and shame covered him. How he has destroyed the beautiful life of his daughter by his own hand.
Now all he wished was his daughter’s happiness, which he knew was with Maan. His ego has already gone down the drain, but he was covered with shame. how will he go to Maan and give his daughter to him. Maan was way way up in stature now. He was proud of Maan and ashamed of himself at the same time.
Mohinder knew, Kids loved each other but they would now not go against his will. He had threatened them for his life. How he wished, either Geet mentioned Maan or Maan would somehow make his appearance to claim his wife, but they were waiting for him. Mohinder was now waiting for one chance.
When Maan and Geet separated 3 years back, only a handful of his initial associates knew he was married. That too, they never went into depth that it was Geet Handa. All knew he and his wife Geet Khurana. But they were very few. Now Maan had a big name and most, especially the media, did not even know he was a married man.
Even on Geet’s side, as promised to her Dad, Geet stayed like a normal girl and not a married woman. Mohinder, already had worked to show his society that his daughter was not married. And even if few knew, no one was aware that she was the wife of Maan Singh Khurana.
Maan would be busy with his work and meetings but girls did try to come in the news with him. Maan did not give any heed to these. Thus all thanks to these girls, every other day, newspapers and channels had news and pics of Maan being seen with this girl or that girl.
It pained Geet. She could see how emotionless her Maan had become, he just did not care. But she had become the same herself, and did not react.
But who was now most hit with these pics was Mohinder. He would be restless
“Why does Maan let people get his pic with any other girl? Does he not know he is married”
Geet did not even react.
It was one evening when Geet was at home as one of Mohinder’s old associate was with his wife and daughter Neelam
“Mohinder, I have great news. We have been invited to the party of Annual meet. Maan Khurana is going to attend.”
Pang was there in Geet’s heart but she stayed quiet. Mohinder’s eye went on Geet, she turned her face away from her Dad’s.
“You know what, I am planning to tip my daughter’s hand for him. Neelam and Maan would look so good together”
“Yeah Geet, I am going to a party as well. I will see how he can ignore my charm.Ohh, getting married to Maan Singh Khurana will be a big deal.”
“This is not how you try to get hooked with any man. You don’t know about him” retorted Mohinder.
“And how else does one try? I am going to do everything to get this match to work. Neelam has already fallen for him, I will fulfill my daughter’s wish”
“Daughter’s wish” Geet murmured and it went to Mohinder’s ear. Guilt and pain again covered him
That night Mohinder was pacing in room, when Geet brought milk for him
“Drink milk and rest Dad” and she was about to leave
“Geet” she stopped, her back facing him.
“Beta,I will talk to him” Geet did not say anything and left.
Geet was confident of her love of her Maan. She was in pain of separation and more that her beloved Dad, in his stubbornness , did this to her.
But Mohinder was all worried now, what if Maan gives up and what if his mother gives up and if she wants her son to settle down properly.
“No, not anymore. Whatever it takes. ”
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