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Chapter 55
"Chandu!!" He wished his voice didn't sound so hoarse, desperate.
"Dev, How are you? You didn't get hurt too bad right? Raj Kaka spoke to me a long time ago. Just after you and Shankar reached the cantonment, Avinash ji called him and informed him it seems, and he called me straight away. He told me everything that happened today... you were so brave, to tackle them all like that and then pull such a trick on them. I am... I am so proud of you. But what did Shankar finally say? Raj Kaka didn't know, so..." Chandni who was talking rapidly till then, stopped herself, feeling shy and awkward for sounding so eager.
Aryan just listened to her, his heart brimming with joy, not even taking her words completely, just happy that she wasn't mad with him, even after all the past incidents, and was talking with him so happily. He looked up at the starlit sky, which seeme
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