E I G H T E E N

Shivaay smiled in satisfaction, the thing which he couldn't make happen his family did, he tried to call Annika to come over for lunch but she wouldn't listen, leaving no other option for shivaay to make his family force her to come.

Annika had been busy since three continuous days with her new job along with searching for a boarding school for Sahil, she had been all messed up in visiting each particular school to choose best school to enroll him. Shivaay did forwarded his hand to help her but then she refused his proposal saying she didn't wanted to depend on him making shivaay sigh.

He had taken off from his office for two weeks, reason was only her, he wanted to spend more time with her, talk with her, atleast make her the same old Annika like before who would atleast fight with him and now she doesn't even open her mouth often.

He changed himself into a casual shirt and pant. Setting his hair first time without gel, shivaay felt incomplete but then it was all for Annika and he smiled.

Annika couldn't refuse the family members to come and have lunch in Oberoi mansion, she knew something was cooking up inside that baggad billa's mind.

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Annika knocked on the door and the next moment she knew, she was taken inside the house already by shivaay.

Annika looked around the whole mansion, numerous memories flooding inside her tiny brain, how was she able to control them, they were so precious to her, she remembered entering the mansion for first time, the time when shivaay had hated her so much, humiliated her so much.

Looking at the shivaay standing in front of her made her realise that he had changed so much, he was the guy who loved her senselessly now and not the one she hated to admit that she had fallen for him.

Annika heard him clicking his fingers infront of her. "You seem lost"

"Where are the other people?" She couldn't hear any noises from the mansion other than them talking in the main hall, she saw him scratching his neck nervously.

"Actually they went to some marriage, they just remembered now" Annika rolled her eyes at his answer, didn't she knew he was blankly lying but she decided to play along.

"Ok then, let me leave" Annika turned the other to leave but she felt his firm grip on her wrist, she turned her head to see him looking at her intensely.

Shivaay came closer to her. "Don't go please" what was this man? And why was he affecting her so much? His words couldn't make her move away from him again.

"Stay please" she couldn't see him like that. "I thought you were strong but look at you, what has happened to you?"

"You happened Annika, you changed me and I love myself more because of you, thankyou for being there, I love you for everything"

He held her waist from side, nuzzling his nose into her hair, inhaling her scent. Annika couldn't stop him when she herself wanted him to be close to her, she was craving to be his, to spend her time under his embrace.

"No touch shivaay" he got away immediately, he didn't wanted his stupidity to result in Annika throwing him out of her life permanently.

Shivaay lead Annika towards his own room, making her confuse. He then took her to the pool side, she smiled looking at the striving put up in decorating the whole pool side area in cosy environment.

Shivaay went away to take food from kitchen, Annika settled herself on the floor with lots of cushions arranged randomly with couple of blankets below her. She felt relaxing.

Annika looked at shivaay entering the room with a tray, she could see two flares filled with something she really loved to eat. The aroma of aloo Puri filling her nostrils made her happier than ever.

He settled next to her, Annika smiled as she felt his heavy gaze on her. "Don't stare Mr" Shivaay grinned as he looked away.

Passing her the plate filled with aloo Puri, Annika turned to him and saw staring at her with wet eyes, he looked away as she saw him. "Shivaay.."

She shifted closer to him. He wiped out his tear from corner of his eye and looked back at her. "Do you think I am worth you, worth your time"

Her face fell down, she needed him as much as he did to, just the difference was her heart was still not ready to accept that he will by her side always.

"Shivaay I have known one thing that I can't live without you"

"Really?" He took hold of her fingers, playing with them while he looked deep into her eyes. "I have hurted you so much then too you are allowing me to enter your life? Why? I have broken your heart so many times and then too you didn't leave me, why? I am not worth you, your patience and your care"

She shook her head at his words, it pierced her heart deeply, how could be even think like that? Was he the same one she knew before the broken weeding? No. He was someone else sitting next to her, the changed shivaay, the shivaay who was smitten in her love.

"Shivaay please can we not talk about all this now? I know I never complained because time and again I wanted to trust you and I wanted you equally as you do but my heart still doesn't wants to forgive you" shivaay nodded in understanding.

The eat was silent throughout, Annika licked her fingers at his cooking skills, how can a man cook so deliciously good? Shivaay smiled at her antics, there used to be a time when he absolutely hated her childhish acts but now when he had fallen hard for her, he couldn't get his eyes off her.

Shivaay got up, offering his hand for helping her get up, Annika didn't gave it a small thought before accepting his hand. Carrying the plates to the sink in the kitchen, he kept them and turned towards her, awkwardly looking here and there.

Grabbing a rose from the nearby flower pot, he went to give her. "For the most beautiful lady" Annika chuckled hearing him. "Cheesy much, huh?"

Shivaay giggled as he caught her smiling, he loved making her smile. "Let me drop you back" Annika nodded and headed towards the car.

They sat silently as he drove, he was loving the new silence where no one spoke. Shivaay stopped the car and caught her sighing.

"I am once more sorry for everything Annika" he tried to smile but he couldn't, Annika came forward relaxing his shoulders by placing both her hands on the either sides. "No need to Shivaay, as much you were responsible for all this I was too at fault" shivaay shook his head.

"It was all my fault" Annika frowned, why was he so adamant at taking everything at his own head? She didn't wanted him to stress out thinking he wasn't worth her or he was always at fault but she knew she was equally involved in all this, if she had once talked to him or tried telling him once that she had developed feelings for him when she knew he did too.

Sighing, she brought his face closer, running her finger from side of his forehead to stubble, she joined their heads together. He closed his eyes as he felt her breath near to his, she went ahead and nuzzled into his neck.

She felt drops of water falling on her skin. She looked up to him, eyes squeezed tightly while he bit his lower lip more tighter. Wiping them, she rubbed her palms on her cheeks.

"Shivaay.." he opened his eyes while some more tears fell. "I am such an idiot right? How can you give a chance after what I have done? Humiliated you, hurted you, wanted you to leave my house and what not? Think again Annika, I don't want you to choose a bad option..." Annika kept her palm on his mouth, not wanting him to continue.

"You accepted me as I am shivaay, you love me because you like what I am, you can never be the bad option, you have broke the wall of Naam khoon khandan just for me and you are changing for me how can you still say that I might not even like you, I feel for you more than you think shivaay"

She took the breath out of him, he felt his lungs filled with lots of oxygen, his heart pumping loudly and faster than ever. "Annika you are best thing happened to me, never leave me" he hugged her tightly, feeling his warmth, she reciprocated back.

"Annika" he spoke still resting his head on her shoulder. "Yes"

"I love you" Annika smiled instantly as she heard him saying it. She loved the emotions filled in those three words and when shivaay always said her, she had always felt so special, so good.

"I know" he broke apart examining her blushly face, cheeks burning and eyes still closed tightly. He looked at their intertwined fingers, when did this happen? Shivaay thought and looked at her flushed face.

"I am not even touching you or kissing you right now and look at you blushing so much Annika what might happen when I might do other things with you?"

Annika opened her eyes widely, he was such a cheapda, understanding his words meaning, she beat his chest playfully. "You are not my boyfriend, you have no write to kiss me or any other right to do other stuff"

Ruffling his hair in process, shivaay still smiled. "I will make you mine then, in every way I can" he shifted closer when she opened the car door and went out not even glancing back at him for once.

Shivaay grinned to himself, the women was doing magic on him and he loved the effect she felt in him always. She was like lightness in his dark life and like oxygen in water while he be the carbon dioxide to make water.

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Longest chapter ever till now. I have made shivaay suffer so much, I can't more I guess, I might still show how he is still chasing her around and making her happy.

This week is going to be busy for me, so don't expect many updates from my side.

Point of mistakes if you find any.

Crazymaniac