Prerish || The Journey that made them

Prerna took the time to open the small box and saw an engagement ring, a building brochure, some small post it notes and a photo of him with Nitya. He seemed so happy. Prerna didn't realise that Mr Bajaj was now staring at her.

"Maybe this was the wrong idea" and he tried to get up but Prerna held his hand.

"Nitya ke saath kya hua tha Rishab" Prerna

Rishab took the box and looked at the stuff. "Nitya was a dream prerna. Pehle baar kisi ne mere plans ke bare main sun kar hasa nahin, kisine meri care ki mujhe kisi aur ki care karne ka mauka mila. She was smart, full of life, wanted to conquer everything, have everything not a care about the world aur mere kandho par mano itna bada burden tha mere mother ka revenge ka that I completely leaned into her. I wanted to grab onto that happiness." Suddenly he got up and went to the cabinet and poured himself a drink.

"Rishab?" Prerna

"Just one." He took the drink and went and sat on the chair and finished it in one shot. "I used to think did I really get that lucky and maybe just maybe I was getting all the happiness after so many years." And he chuckled. "KVB channel aap jante hain Bajaj industries ki biggest achievements" Prerna nodded "I was trying to take over. I knew they were Nitya's clients but that is not why I got involved with her but yes I was young and I was selfish and I was completely driven by revenge also. At that time I wanted to win at any cost. Itna kuch achieve karna tha for my mother for destroying Basus.I was tempted, I was..." and he hid his face in her hands.

"Rishab?" Prerna

"I was tempted to take information from her thinking it will help us settle it for my revenge and she will understand. I was going to talk to her myself and ask her for help. But I didn't want to lose her. Somehow meri himmat hi nahin hui. I just couldn't. But kahi in sab ke beech hamare rishte aur meri success ke beech main success become higher and ek point aisa aa gaya ki I wanted to just get that information at any cost. Nitya office main late kaam kar rahin thi and I was sitting on her table working and in a moment was about to open the imp one but then I saw a picture of mine and Nitya at that desk and I just without thinking anything I just left I left from there." and looked straight into her eyes.

"maa ne yeh to nahin sikhaya tha unhone bure se bure waqt main yeh nahi kiya maine kabhi nahin kiya. It didn't matter whether it was Nitya or someone else to do this wrong it was stealing" and his voice started to crack.

Prerna got up and went near Rishab and turned his face to look at her.

"It's ok you didn't do it you didn't and we all make mistakes we all do" and Rishab just couldn't look at her anymore and went near the window and opened the window of the office as if trying to breathe.

"Around 1-week tha merger ko jab hume ek anonymous mail mila regarding their internal information and also some fake sting operation that they did and I was able to crack the deal. I wanted to tell Nitya but I thought why complicate matters. I am not doing anything wrong, not cheating so."He went to where he and Prerna were sitting and took the ring from the box "I bought this ring from my first profits and was about to propose, maine ghar tak ke liye baat kar li thi. Uski family conservative thi so they wanted a so called proper well settled boy and I wanted to be prepared." He held the brochure in his hands and caressed it for a second. "since then the ring and everything has been in this box only."

"She thought that you cheated on her for the takeover. To get information and all. Use bataye kyun nahin aapne Rishab aap use ek baar batate to" Prerna and she suddenly stopped looking at Rishab

"She accused you straight away" Prerna and it hit her what must have happened.

"Agar woh mujhe sirf yeh kehti ki you stole this information from me I would have understood in fact I would have accepted it infront of her even if I didn't actually did it I did try but to say that it was all because of the merger. She thought that I actually used her to get that information"