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The Mehrotra's gather in Jiya's room after searching for her in whole palace. They looked everywhere for her but it was too late as her plane just took off from the airport. Indu was devastated as her daughter ran away from her own wedding, she was sitting with her both hands on her head , Luna and kalyani was trying their best to console her .

Jiya ran away from here just leaving a letter to her family most precisely for Ashrit, which made Indu's blood boil but now everyone in the family is tensed about Raghuvanshi's reaction.

"How will they react after knowing that the bride ran away? "That was the only question ringing in Indu's mind.

Meanwhile the Raghuvanshi's are waiting for the bride in the mandap not knowing that she ran away from the wedding.

" Why is it taking so long to come, the auspicious time will be over soon"kalyani said looking at her watch.

" Ha maa, pata nahi kya kar rahe hai?" Prisha said agreeing her mother in law.

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Indu stood up from the couch and looked at her family with her teary gaze and said " we should go down and tell them truth. The auspicious time will be over soon" Ajay, Damini, Viraj and Luna looked at her in pity, they couldn't do anything, but saying truth to them because the deed was already done by their daughter and now they have to endure the result, may it be anything. They nodded and went to mandap.

Reshmi looked at the Mehrotra's coming to mandap with sour faces,she sensed something is wrong but shrugged it off and told everyone that the bride is here. Excitedly everyone looked at the entrance excepting for the bride but frowned not finding her with her family.

" Arey Indu ji meri bahu kaha hai?" prisha asked her with a frown not finding her soon to be daughter in law.

" Vo...vo.." Indu stuttered while not finding any words to tell them then she felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked at her brother who assured her that to leave everything on him.

The Raghuvanshi's looked them confused , then Viraj came in front and said everything to them " as you know Ranjeet ji, iam a man of my words, so i don't push the bushes and come to the main point" Ranjeet nodded sensing that something is wrong , Viraj continued " Indu went to Jiya's room to call her but she was not there. She left, leaving just a letter for Ashrit " he completed and lowered his head as he knows his niece did wrong and it's their fault.

There was a long silence after that, no one spoke anything they just looked at each other meanwhile indu started to cry again. Ashrit fisted his hand on his kurta, it is tooo much for him.

First his family threatened him to marry, then they choosed a girl who is self obsessed, selfish, gold digger and a arrogant girl. he tried, tried his best to cancel this marriage, he even went to a sudden business trip on his roka day and returned 5 days before of the wedding . He didn't know that he is going to get married in 5days, if he had known about it , he would never have come back. But his family was smart enough to keep it a secret from him, they even Threatened his trusted men , making them shut their mouths.

When finally he accepted his defeat, and thought to get married with the girl he didn't love . love - hell he didn't even looked at her for once, he accepted to marry her just for the sake of his family, just to see them happy because they liked her. And finally he was sitting in the mandap waiting for her, only to listen that she ran away ,And just left a fucking letter for him. He was already angry about this big fat wedding and now this , which just added ghee to his fire.

Ashrit stood up from his seat and came down and stand in front of Mehrotra's " aap ne kya bola hai uncle? Vo bhag gayi?" Ashrit asked his voice is laced with angry. Indu looked at Ashrit, and his family they were fuming with anger. Suddenly a fear started to build up in her heart.

Indu knows what happens when people mess with the Raghuvanshi's.

The fear of getting killed by them. That's the only punishment they get when you mess with them.

They don't do anything untill and unless people mess with their family. Here, Jiya ran away from her own wedding making this difficult for both families. Mehrotra's and Raghuvanshi's are both well-known and powerful families in left side of Rajasthan. Now, it is about both families reputation,the paps are waiting outside the palace waiting to see their new queen and the time is running out.

"Thank god, the wedding is held in private or else everyone will get to know about the mess here"Viraj thought while looking at a raging Ashrit

Indu came and stand in front of Ashrit, he looked at her with his stern gaze. She was about to open her mouth when prisha yelled at her" Because of your daughter, our reputation is ruined, Indu ji, bahar sab ko kya batayenge hum?" Prisha started to panic, the Raghuvanshi's know this is not she wanted to say it's something else , which she don't want people to know about it.

Indu closed her eyes and gulped listening prisha's words. Everyone she spoke was right, her daughter's one silly mistake ruined everything"rana sa aap meri dusri beti se shaadi kar lo!!" As she completed, the Mehrotra's looked at her in shock and Raghuvanshi's in disbelief.

" What the hell are you saying?" Ajay yelled at his daughter, " please,rana sa. Vo meri bhai ki ek loti beti hai aap usse shaadi karenge toh, hum sab ki reputation bhi kharab hone se bach jayegi " she said completely ignoring her father ." Aap ki ek beti shaadi se bhag gayi aur aap bolrahi ki hum humhare beta ki shaadi dusri se karvai " prisha said to her in anger, her angry was reaching it's peak. " She is right!! indu" Luna said from behind and indu turned to her brother " please Bhai, mann jao naa" saying that she cried again, everyone looked at her in pity they can understand her pain but what she is saying is not right.

Viraj looked at his wife and nodded not able to see his sister's helpless ness then he turned to Indu and nodded his head, a smile formed on Indu's face . Then she turned to Ashrit's and said" bhaiya mann gayi ab sirf aap jo bolenge vahi hoga rana sa" she said, Ashrit who was lost in his thoughts came out of them and nodded, which shocked his family to core, because they wanted him to decline the it but instead he accepted to marry Jiya's sister.

Ashrit who never listened to his heart,for the first time listened to it . His heart was screaming to accept it and he did.

Not knowing that this decision is going to change his life.

Kalyani looked at their head priest Ram ji with worried eyes saying that it is wrong but he assured her that with his eyes, some where he knows that it's all density which planned this stupid game and playing with the innocent hearts just to make them United in the end.