Queen of Darkness

Preeti's Anger

As Raj exits the operation theater, everyone rushes to him. As he leaves the room, his gaze meets Rohan's. Raj's eyes held a sense of disappointment, pain, and anger, perhaps directed at Rohan. Seeing Raj's eyes, Rohan's eyes drop, and a fear becomes visible in them.

Raj's attention is broken by someone's voice, it was Preeti's. Noticing Raj's attention on her, she asks him, "Raj, wha...what happened? Krishna, is she...is she alright?" There was a hope in her eyes that everything would be fine.

But what Raj said made everyone's heart sink. Preeti kept shaking her head in denial, as if Raj would now say that nothing of the sort had happened. Meanwhile, Priya and Ritu covered their mouths with their hands; it seemed not just difficult but impossible for them to believe.

Hearing Raj's words, Neha faints. Just as she is about to fall, Rohan catches her from behind. Everyone's attention turns to them. Rohan seats her on the sofa opposite.

Only Preeti was still standing in front of Raj. She said, "Raj, please tell me you're lying. Please..." and starts crying. Then Raj says, "No... no, everything I said is true. The glass was deeply embedded in her head. My team and I removed it, but her brain is slowly shutting down. It seems like she herself doesn't want to try. Until she responds, neither I nor anyone else can do anything. We are shifting her to the ICU because her condition is still critical. We can observe her for 24 hours; if she doesn't regain consciousness within these 24 hours, she will go into a coma." His voice becomes heavy as he says this.

And he looks at Rohan and walks towards his cabin. Preeti, who was crying with her head down, suddenly turns and goes to Rohan, grabbing his collar. Everyone is surprised by her action. Then Karanveer's voice is heard, "Preeti, Preeti, what are you doing? Please calm down, just keep your mind cool now." "No... I don't want to keep my mind cool, brother," Preeti interrupts Karanveer and, looking at Rohan, says, "Now you must have found peace, haven't you? You killed her. Children are a form of God, but you have pushed your Krishna into the jaws of death. Don't children make mistakes? When they make mistakes, their parents explain to them, and if they don't understand, they scold them a little, but they don't kill them. She was saying all this while crying, and hearing her, everyone's eyes became moist.

She continues, "You and sister-in-law never gave her love since childhood, just because she survived among your twin children and her brother didn't. What was her fault in that? Tell me, is that her fault, or is it her fault that when she goes out with someone, they get attacked, and their lives are in danger? Why don't you think that maybe these attacks or accidents, where everyone's life was in danger but nothing happened to anyone, why don't you think that because she was with them, everyone was saved, nothing ever happened to anyone? Others said that everything happened because of Krishna, that she was unlucky, so instead of going against everyone, you believed those baseless people. I... I loved her, didn't I? So I had the right to scold her even for her mistakes. What have you done to that child, brother, in your anger? What have you done?"

As she speaks, her hand slips from Rohan's collar, and she slides down to sit on the floor, covering her face with her hands and crying. Now her hiccups had also started.

Without knowing the truth, without thinking anything, what all did you not say to her? Yes, she was mischievous, very mischievous, but only to get the attention and love of her parents and brothers, not because she was spoiled. Then she ruthlessly wipes her tears and looks up angrily, saying, "There are many things you don't know. The mistake for which you have put her in this condition, make sure that later you don't have anything but regret for what you did just by believing others. Remember my words! If anything happens to her, you two will be responsible, only you two," she said, looking at Rohan and Neha.

Then she gets up and runs into Raj's cabin.

(While Krishna was not as important to her mother, father, and brother, she was the life of her grandparents, aunt, and uncle. But she was just a child. Seeing so much love from other parents, she also wished that her mother would put her to sleep in her lap, that her brother would protect her, that she would be her father's princess, but she never got that. To get everyone's love, she tried her best, which everyone thought meant she was spoiled.)

Preeti had left, but she left behind words that shook Rohan and Neha to their core. Yes, Neha had regained consciousness and heard everything. Everyone's eyes were moist; some had disappointment, others regret, and fear.

But as they say, "What's the use of regretting now, when the birds have eaten the field?" That's the situation here.

Anyway, back to the story. Everyone was standing when their attention was broken by a phone ringing in Rohan's pocket. As he wipes his tears and takes out the phone, his hands stop at the name displayed on the screen, and his eyes well up again. His hands start trembling. He somehow manages to pick up the phone and put it to his ear. Hearing the words from the other end, fear appears in his eyes. The tears held back in his eyes stream down his cheeks, and the phone slips and falls to the ground.

What do you all think Rohan raised his hand for? Whose call did Rohan receive? What was said from the other side? What will happen when Krishna's grandparents arrive? Where are they? All will be known in the next part...

Until then, bye.