Hira: are you ready to know who I am, Sanjay Singh Khatri?
Sanjay frowned and nodded, Hira nodded back then looked around, on the Singh Khatri and they all were looking back at her
Hira: I imagined this moment many times, but I never imagined it will be me the one standing between you and you are the ones judging and looking at me with disgust and pity when you should look at yourself with them and I should be the one judging you
Marie frowned: HOW DARE YOU?
Hira screamed: HOW DARE YOU, AFTER ALL WHAT YOU DID TO ME TO STAND AND JUDGE ME, MARIE (then she looked at Jude) HOW DARE YOU
Jude swallowed and looked down and Hira looked at Sanjay with disappointed eyes and he swallowed
Hira: before you I answer you, Tell me do you know who you are or anyone of those who he is?
Sanjay looked at her confused and Hira shook her head with disgust and looked around
Hira: you even don’t know the true faces of each other, you all lie to each other and hurt each other and yourselves and you dare to ask me who I am, DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, WHO ARE YOU? WHO ARE YOU?
Marie: that is it, Sanjay; call the police, they will make her talk
Hira: yes, yes Sanjay call the police, let them take me and I will talk there (then she looked at Marie) but the police won’t put me in prison Marie, he will keep your husband there, and after you were worried that he will spend another night in Jail, I WILL MAKE HIM SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE THERE, IN THE DARKEST CELL AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN, NEVER
Marie’s eyes widened and Sanjay looked at her confused
Hira: but first I will tell you who I am, I am the devil and the snake that saved your son
Marie frowned: enough of that, we all know it was just an act to enter the family
Hira: twice Marie, I saved him twice, once when he wanted to kill himself and the other when his siblings wanted to break his bones while he is chained in your rusty chains
Marie’s eyes widened and looked at Viola and Jude, Viola sobbed covering her face and Jude looked down, she looked at Sanjay and he was looking away
Hira: do you know what you did when I did that Marie?
Marie looked at her with widened eyes and Hira nodded
Hira: you slapped me and put me in Sultan’s taxi and sent me to your brother to torture me
Marie’s eyes crowded with tears and looked at Sanjay who his eyes widened looking at Marie in disbelief
Marie: Sanjay, I thought...
Hira: the only snake and the devil in your son’s life is you, Marie; you chained him 11 years of his life and I freed him and saved the rest of it, you took from his life everyone he ever loved or trusted and I loved him more than anyone I ever loved.
Sanjay looked at her with pain, feeling another ache in his heart, hearing the past in her words of love
Hira: I loved him when he was sick and in chains, I loved Sanjay when no one else loved him or show him kindness, not even Sanjay himself, not even you
Marie’s eyes crowded with tears: how dare you? I love my son; no one loves Sanjay more than I do
Hira smiled sadly and nodded as tears flew more on her cheek
Hira: I guess now, you are right
Sanjay closed his eyes as Hira walked to Viola and smiled to her
Hira: I am the one who never wanted to hurt you Viola, who warned you once and twice from Jagdev and begged you to hear her, before seeing from you one moment of sisterhood or kindness
Viola: true
Sanjay’s eyes widened and looked at Viola but said nothing, Hira nodded then walked to Jude who was skipping her eyes, she closed her eyes and a tear dropped on her cheek
Hira: I am the one who felt sorry for you and spoke to you from her heart and wanted to sooth your pain but you stepped on me to raise over the flood, you know what you did to me, Jude; I won’t even expose your true face to your family, I will let you take the win and live with it (then she frowned) you deserve to be who you are
Jude closed his eyes and looked down and Sanjay felt a rush of adrenaline go through his body, seeing Jude reaction to Hira’s words
Hira walked towards Jagdev and seeing his bruised face she sobbed and touched his face lightly, his eyes crowded with tears
Jagdev: I am so sorry
Hira: you knew who I am before I do, but you didn’t want me, you threw me between them, and you watched me suffer on their hands, I told you once and twice I don’t want to hurt anyone but you didn’t let me go and scared me with what they will do to me when they know who I am (then she smiled as tears flowed on her cheeks) now they will know and I am not scared anymore, let them do what they want to me, if my older brother doesn’t care about me and hurt their innocent Viola, then how could they be blamed on whatever they will do to me
Jagdev: no, no I am sorry (then he swallowed) listen I know I am a horrible brother, I took our mother from you your whole life, never accepted you or your father and..and I put you between them and gave them the chance to hurt you like that but after I really knew you, I knew how much I love you, I swear I do, give me another chance to make it up to you
Hira shook her head with faint frown then she walked towards Sanjay, Sanjay swallowed and held his breath seeing her frown getting deeper, her body shivers as she taking her slow unsteady steps and her tears streams faster over her rosy cheeks
Hira in low tone: you still don’t know who I am, Sanjay?
Sanjay swallowed and looked at her eyes as Hira nodded and said in low tone
Hira: remember 11 years ago, a little girl was playing with her ball in front of a factory and you took the ball from her...
Sanjay’s eyes widened and covered his ears but Hira held his wrists and pushed his hands down, off his ears
Hira: IT IS ME
Sanjay shook his head with widened eyes, as tears flowed on his cheeks
Sanjay: It can’t be, I killed her
Viola screamed and Marie gasped and slapped her cheeks, Hira shook her head as tears streamed on her cheek and said kindly
Hira: no Sanjay, I didn’t die but my parents did, I was saved, that is really me
Sanjay looked at Hira’s features in disbelief as tears flowing on his cheeks; he raised his hand in front of her face as if he trying to teach her feature but he put it back down and shook his head
Hira: my name is Hira Garcia, I am the daughter of Radha and Alejandro Garcia, and I didn’t remember you were there that day till you teased Pedro and Mario with your football skills like you did that day, remember?
Sanjay looked with teary eyes at Eliana and Jagdev, Jagdev just frowned but Eliana nodded to him faintly confirming what Hira said, he looked back at Hira
Sanjay: but I watched the fire eating the building and you were inside
Hira: yes but my father wasn’t inside before, he entered and saved me by throwing me from the window you broke (then she looked down) but couldn’t save my mother or himself
Sanjay in low tone: why didn’t you tell me, Hira?
Hira frowned: that is the only question I answered before that day, but if you want I will answer it again, but before that tell me, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO DID THIS TO ME AND MY FAMILY?
Sanjay looked at her with widened eyes and shook his head
Sanjay: don’t say anything, please
Marie: don’t say what?!! Who did that to her family?
Sanjay’s eyes widened looking at his mother and Hira looked at Marie then walked towards her
Hira: IT’S YOUR HUSBAND
Viola shook her head in disbelief then held her head, Jude sat on the chair shocked and Eve’s eyes froze on Hira who frowned to them and nodded
Hira: uncle Adarsh did this to me and my family, in the factory we built on the land he sold to my mother, Radha Garcia
Marie: No, it can’t be, IT CAN’T BE I DON’T BELIEVE YOU
Hira: THEN ASK SANJAY WHY HE HATES HIS FATHER THIS MUCH?
Marie looked at Sanjay and Sanjay just bowed his head and Hira looked at them with disgust
Hira: YOU KILLED MY WHOLE FAMILY, YOU SCARRED ME AND ORPHANED ME, AND I LIVED 11 YEARS WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT (then she looked at Sanjay ) the moment I come and take my revenge from Adarsh and this Revenge was you, Sanjay
Sanjay looked at her with teary eyes and Hira nodded as tears flew on her cheek
Hira: I came to drive you back on the ledge Sanjay, I came to torture you and make you want to kill yourself, so Adarsh lives the rest of his life tortured with my pain; that was the first plan that you thought I liked so much
Marie held her head: God help us
Sanjay looked at Hira as tears flowed on his cheeks and Hira looked at him sadly
Hira: but how could I do this to you, Sanjay; how could I hurt a person so innocent, so kind so pure for his father’s mistake? I didn’t do it for a minute, I couldn’t, instead of me sending you to the Ledge, you sent me
Sanjay’s eyes widened as Hira held his shoulders and shook him angrily
Hira: you wanted answers, hear them, uncle punished me that day because I saved you for the second time, I was poisoned because I was trying to protect you from someone else in the mansion that wants to hurt you, do you know why I did this all Sanjay? because I loved you, I took beating from your mother and lived between the family that murdered my family because I loved you; I loved them and forgave uncle Adarsh on the unforgivable because I love you, I wanted to help him get out of the prison because I loved you but what you did when you loved me, Sanjay?
Sanjay closed his eyes as Hira held his shoulders and shook him while frowning and tears flowing on her cheeks
Hira: YOU DIDN’T BELIEVE ME, YOU DIDN’T HEAR ME, YOU HUMILIATED ME AND HURT ME AND THE PEOPLE WHO CALLED ME A FAMILY, I LOVED YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE PURE AND KIND, AND EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN LIFE BUT YOU FOUND THE CRUELTY IN YOUR BLOOD AND WHEN YOU FOUND IT, YOU TOOK IT ON ME, TOOK IT ON WHO LOVED YOU MORE THAN HERSELF AND NEVER HURT YOU
Sanjay looked at her with teary eyes and Hira sobbed, he wanted to sooth her and touched her shoulder but when his fingers barely touched her shoulder, she flinched and looked at him as if his touch burnt her
Hira: not the beating or my parents loss or the poison that ate my body broke me, BUT YOU BROKE ME SANJAY (then she hit his chest) YOU BROKE ME WHEN YOU DIDN’T BELIEVE ME, WHEN YOU HURT MY BROTHERS, WHEN YOU HUMILIATED ME, YOU SAVED ME FROM UNDER YOUR BROTHER’S KNIFE TO s*******r ME
And she grabbed the silver “rose neck chain” from his neck and Sanjay’s eyes widened and held her hand that was squeezing on it
Hira: I bought this neck chain with the promise that it will bring me love, but this love I don’t want
(Then she put her hand that is holding the neck chain on her chest)
Hira: it burns me with the fire I ran from, you didn’t burn me back then but now you did, when you doubted my love and hurt my loved one’s while looking at my eyes
Sanjay closed his eyes tightly as a tear fell on his cheek
Sanjay: enough Hira, I can’t take more
Hira: you know what your father did when he knew who I am? he asked me to leave and warned me that someone here will hurt me and that he wouldn’t be able to protect me (Then she looked at Sanjay confused) I doubted everyone but didn’t think it will be you (then she looked down with widened in disbelief eyes) how could I think for a minute that the man who called me the love of his life, can hurt me more than anyone else did in mine?!!!! How could I think the man that was tortured with his father crime for 11 years, can be crueler on me more than his father, the cold blooded murderer
Sanjay’s eyes widened and Hira nodded to him as tears flowing on her cheeks
Hira: so don’t you dare look at your father like you do again, you are not better than him for me, the only difference between you, that he killed my family, and you just killed me
Sanjay looked at Hira with teary eyes as Hira looked at everyone again and the looks of worry, pity and disgust, turned to looks of shame and guilt, Hira closed her eyes
Hira: do you want to know who I am?
Then she took the paper from her jeans pocket and opened it
Hira: I am the new owner of half of this mansion and everything in it, and the other half is for Jagdev
Jagdev’s eyes widened and everyone looked at Hira shocked, and Hira nodded looking at shocked Sanjay
Hira: another thing I hid from you, Sanjay; when we were searching in the office I found that your father sold your mansion to me and Jagdev
Marie’s eyes widened: what? Why would Adarsh do something like that?
Hira: as compensation on our mother and my father I assume, but of course nothing can, so my plan was to hid this from Sanjay and Jagdev and everyone, pretend it didn’t happen till uncle come out of Prison and take it back but now I promised you not to hide anything anymore so...
And she walked to Jagdev and put the contract in his jacket’s pocket and he looked at her in disbelief
Hira: do whatever you want with your half and mine; I don’t want anything from them, not even my parents’ right
(Then she looked at the security still holding Eliana and Jagdev)
Hira: leave them at once, and go free Pedro and Mario, tell them to pack their clothes if they can
The security guard: yes ma’am
And he ascended the stairs; Eliana ran to Hira and hugged her
Hira: I am so sorry for everything that happened, Nanny and I promise you we are leaving to Spain on the first flight and never I will come back again, never
Sanjay’s eyes widened: leaving?!!
Hira looked at him then looked down as Jagdev approached her and held her hand
Jagdev: no Hira don’t leave, we will live together, give me a chance to take care of you and make it up to you
Hira frowned: you hurt Viola; you are not different than them for me, Jagdev
Jagdev looked at her sadly as Hira took Eliana and was about to go upstairs but he said
Jagdev: wait Hira; give me a chance to show you something
Hira stopped on the stairs and he walked towards Viola and Viola’s eyes widened and Sanjay approached Jagdev with widened eyes
Sanjay: don’t come near her
Jagdev looked at him then he took the camera from Viola and Viola’s eyes widened and tried to hold on it
Viola: NO, NO
Jagdev smiled: it’s okay, don’t worry (then he looked around) is there a TV in my new mansion?
The security: yes sir
And he walked inside then came with a table with a huge HD TV and Jagdev connected the camera to the TV
Viola: NO, NO, don’t, you can’t do that (then she looked at Hira with teary eyes) he filmed me when we were together, don’t let him show this to my family; I will die, Hira
Jude’s eyes widened: he did what?
Eliana: you told me you didn’t hurt her
Marie covered her lips as Hira looked at Jagdev terrified, Sanjay rushed towards Jagdev angrily but the security Guards held Sanjay, Sanjay fought them and a third one approached to hit him, Marie screamed but Hira’s voice what was really heard
Hira terrified: NO, no don’t hurt Sanjay..
The third security Guard walked away, and Sanjay calmed down seeing the worry in her eyes that vanished instantly when their eyes met; she swallowed and looked down then went towards Jagdev
Hira: Jagdev please don’t hurt them anymore, it’s enough what you did to them till now, enough; if you want me to stay with you I will stay (then her eyes crowded with tears) but don’t hurt anyone anymore, enough
Jagdev turned on the Video, Viola covered her lips and sobbed and Sanjay and Jude looked away, it was a moment that they knew it will break them all,
But in the Video after Jagdev approached Viola and sat on the bed, he was to touch her but then he stopped and his eyes widened
“Jagdev: I don’t know how I thought to do this to you, Hira is right; it’s not fair, I am so sorry
And he walked towards the camera, took it and the tape ended”
Sanjay looked at the screen with widened eyes and Viola looked at Jagdev with teary eyes
Viola: you didn’t film me, you couldn’t hurt me like Hira couldn’t hurt Sanjay (then she smiled with teary eyes) I told you there must be a misunderstanding, they won’t do that
Sanjay looked at Hira and his eyes crowded with tears and guilt, as Jagdev nodded then looked at Hira who was looking at him with teary eyes and smile
Jagdev smiled: I guess that proves we are siblings
Hira chuckled and nodded then Jumped in his arms and hugged him and he hugged her back and kissed her cheek
Hira: thank you, thank you so much (then she broke the hug and wiped her tears) I love you so much but even though I can’t stay, I suffered so much pain here that I need to forget (then she wiped her tears) but I promise you one day we will be together, I promise
Jagdev nodded faintly: okay Hira, if it will makes you happy, I am okay with it; but be sure I will always contact you and make sure you are okay and wait for you to fulfill your promise
Hira smiled and kissed his cheek then she took Eliana’s hand and ascended the stairs, Jagdev took a deep breath then smiled
Jagdev: okay Singh Khatri, it’s time to pack your bags, the mansions was sold to me with furniture so take your clothes, I will give you till tomorrow morning and don’t worry about the security and the servants, they all are hired
Marie frowned: I will take Sonia with me
Jagdev nodded then he looked at Sanjay and smiled then walked out of the mansion
Marie sighed: I think he is right, it’s time for us to go pack and leave the mansion, and I don’t need to say that we will forget what happened tonight and all what they said about your father because it’s not true, okay?
The four looked at Marie and she nodded to them then went to her room, so did Viola and Eve, only Sanjay and Jude stayed, both sat on opposite chairs, Sanjay’s eyes were lost and teary, and Jude’s eyes was fixed on him