Slowly Chandradas went to Joe and held both his hands.
"What I am going to say now, no one but us should know..."
He looked at them pleadingly….
“Gauri…. Gauri.. not our daughter…”
He said nervously….
"What…"
All three of them asked in unison….
It was hard for them to believe what they heard.
They are looking at him.
he He wiped his face with a towel.
“Yes.. she is not our daughter… but Maya and Grandma don't know that… and they shouldn't know…..and Gauri too…”
He stopped saying in a trembling voice….
“So how did Gauri become your daughter…”
Dev asked…
He leaned on a pillar a little ahead…
He traveled back in time...
"My and Maya's love was marriage…. My family and her family were against it…. We overcame it all…. After a few days everything went fine.
But even after 3 years of marriage we didn't have children...
There was nothing wrong with us when we showed up at the hospital…. That's how we came to pray here after knowing about the Sriparvati temple here through Rajan who works with me...
Maya got pregnant like Goddess Prasad…
So I come here every month to pray.
Maya was 8 months old and we came to worship Vindu Devi.
He paused and looked at them.
After that. Remembering that day...
The pouring rain...
It was very difficult to drive the car forward….
The view in front is hidden.
"Why is it raining like this... it was clear..."
Struggling to drive the car, Chandradas said…
Maya put her hand on her stomach and looked at him with fear.
"You started going down to Ambalam... how about hiding somewhere...?"
Maya covered her stomach with her hand and asked…
Seeing nothing ahead scared her…
Before I started to close the car and get out of it, something hit me hard from behind...
The car door opened and Maya fell down.
"Maya…"
Chandradas jumped out of the car and ran towards her.
A little from the car. He saw Maya lying unconscious and ran to her.
It was still raining...
“Maya…. May…”
Placing her on his lap he called out to her…. Hearing his voice, two people came there.
Ayak got scared as Anak disappeared from Maya...
He took her by the hand and put her on the back seat of the car.
"There is a hospital around that bend, go there..."
One of the arrivals shouted loudly
He quickly started the car…
Even though the road was not clear due to the rain, he drove the car at speed….
Blood gushed from his head into his eyes, but he wiped it away…
He drove as fast as he could to save his life and safety.
He was taken out of the car that was rushed to the hospital.
“Doctor……”
Yelling, he opened the door and took her and ran inside.
It was not a hospital with any big facilities….
It was a small hospital working for the common people there.
They heard Maya inside…
He waited outside the door in fear.
He looked expectantly at the nurses as they went to and fro…
After a few hours, the doctor came out.
Chandradas ran to the doctor...
“Doctor… Maya and baby…”
He looked at the doctor expectantly.
But from the look on the doctor's face, he felt as if he was about to hear something he shouldn't hear.
“Sir…. Sorry…we could only save mother…the situation was that bad..”
The doctor looked at him and said...
"Maya.."
He leant against the wall.
"Madame has not woken up.. has not known anything.. is in a trance..."
The doctor put his hand on his shoulder
"Then when she fell down, the womb was badly injured because the stomach hit her."
Look at him...
He looked at the doctor suspiciously.
“So… madam can no longer give birth to a child….”
The doctor looked at Chandradas and then slowly walked away...
All hopes were dashed and he sat down on that chair…
The sadness that Maya felt in the days when there was no child...
The changes in their lives since the arrival of the baby.
Days of waiting for that baby angel….
How can I tell her that it's all over….
How can we say that the baby has left us alone?
His chest felt like it was collapsing.
As if everything is lost in a moment.
I don't know how long it sat like that.
Suddenly he rushed out...
The rain outside has eased a bit...
Chatal was still there….
He got into the car and went out through the gate.
By the time he had gone some distance, he stopped the car on the road and put his head on the steering wheel and cried a lot.
After some time, he was filled with the thought that Maya was alone there...
While starting the car to go back, I heard the cry of a baby.
He immediately jumped out of the car.
Yes... Baby crying again
He walked towards the place where he heard the cry.
A little far away, a movement among the chaps...
The dogs are coming there after hearing the sound...
After chasing them all away, he ran to the baby.
A baby wrapped in a wet cloth inside the kuppa...
A newborn baby
As he quickly picked it up and pressed it to his chest, his heart skipped a beat as he got back his lost loved one...
When he went back to the hospital with the baby and begged him, he didn't think about anything else...
He went inside and laid the baby next to Maya.
"Sir, what are you doing... where is this baby..."
The doctor asked nervously.
"Somebody threw away the baby... I got it from the dump... I will raise doctor…. Without anyone knowing… my molai…”
He held both the doctor's hands together and said as if pleading….
“Sir.. all this will be trouble…. If someone comes wanting this baby….?”
The doctor fearfully said his doubt….
“No one will come…. Who will come looking for the baby left in the garbage?
I will see doctor... My mole….”
His throat was clearing up…
"My Maya... She wanted a baby so much... If I know she lost it, I won't get her like I used to...
Isn't it a baby that no one wants... we will raise it..."
He requested the doctor to….
Finally the doctor understood the situation and had to admit it.
Chandradas stopped.
Turn around and look at them.
He was silent for a while.
"Maya woke up from sleep and was very happy to see the baby.. The next day he went there with Maya.
From then till now she is our daughter...
I haven't seen it separated...
No one should know that she is not ours..."
He looked at them pleadingly...sat with tears in his eyes..
"No one else will ever know this... She should have asked all this to save her."
Joe grabbed his hand.
“So Gauri is not your daughter…
You got her from near this village…..so she will be related to someone in this village?”
Deva told her doubts one by one….
"Anyway, let's think about it...Uncle, let me in now..."
Deva and Joe also came out.
Chandradas watched them go.
He was filled with the fear of losing his daughter.
Mahi is looking at the book in his room and thinking about something..
Meenakshi came there taking all the washed and dry clothes.
She put them all on the bed and started folding….
"Mahietta..."
She called him because he didn't look at her or talk to her even after she came…
Mahi who was thinking about Parvati didn't hear it….
"Mahietta..."
Meenakshi patted Mahi's shoulder and called...
"Paru..."
Mahi suddenly called out in shock.
(To be continued…)
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