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....listen batul, tomorrow  abba is going to gamo s  with my marriage proposal  so tell motiya to refuse  Samir that evening had  visited  batul  s to inform her of her father  s plans,  batul  s heart had stopped  beating 

Chacha might take  batul  s proposal instead of motiya  this was a matter of active debate 

Abba was helpless because chaudhary shajjah had specially instructed him to bring this proposal,  Samir had tried to convince her about his abba but she wasn't  going to believe it

Wasn't that impossible that the chaudhary and chaudhrain would  ask abba so, ,chaudhrain was very much aware of  batul  s mother was  making rounds of Samir s house for their alliance  for years,  how could the chaudhrain  even think of it, batul was agitated and began  walking up and down the  courtyard  muttering  , her mother hadn't returned yet from the haveli,  Samir sat before her  in a cot  looking very stressed