AUTHOR'S POV

Aditi and Ruhi tease Shravya too much. She is sitting with her hands on both her ears, but both of them are not stopping and listening to anyone at all and are constantly shouting near her ears.

"Shravya ... where is my office bag?"

Aditi tries to mimic Adhyay, Ruhi quickly picks up Shravya's purse and while giving it to Aditi, she slops her eyes deliberately and tells her.

"Here is your bag Adhyay Ji."

"Hmmm... "

Ruhi swung her hands while interlocking her fingers together, and looked at Adhyay (Aditi) while pressing her lower lip between her teeth.

"Adhyay Ji coffee kaisi thi."
(Adhyay Ji, how was the coffee?)

"Hmmm... "

Shravya wants to laugh a lot listening to their words but she ignores both of them and sits silently with her hands on her ears.

"Or Raat Ka khana Kaisa that."
(and how was the dinner?)

"Ummmm.... "

"Ummmm .... Adhyay Ji you are wrong this is not ummmm ... it is hmmmm."

"Yes ... hmmmm."

"Ok, continue ... How was the lunch?"

"Hmmm.... "

"And .... "

"Shravya ....Before you ask me anything else, I will give you the answer to everything at once ..... hmmm.... Hmmmm .... Hmmm."

They both start laughing out loud while making fun of Adhyay, Shravya immediately grabs her scale and starts hitting both of them on their feet fakely, and starts calling their parents.

"Bade papa .... Badi maa... "

When Ruhi hears that Shravya is calling her parents, she also shouts loudly.

"Mumma .... Our sister has started beating us in love with Jiju, this is her condition from now on. I don't know what she will do later with us .... Oh god .... Help us .... "

Radhika and Manohar come there after hearing their voices of them and seeing the sight there, those people also laugh at their banter.

Shravya turns her attention to Radhika and Manohar who are laughing seeing them standing at the door. She immediately runs and hugs Radhika and almost complains to her.

"Badi Maa dekhiye na... ye dono mujhe Kitna jyada pareshan kar rahe hain."
(Look at them, how much these two are bothering me.)

Radhika pats her back and looks at Aditi and Ruhi. She shows both of them her fake angry eyes, almost scolding them falsely.

"Why are you troubling my daughter once in a while? Don't you both understand at once? Now she is only 15 days with us, so trouble her in a good way every day."

After hearing her mother's words, Shravya immediately turns to her with a jerk and shouts.

"Badi Mumma .... "

Everyone is having a lot of fun by troubling Shravya in this way. After 15 days she is getting married and everyone wants to live with her in a very good way and cherish this memory forever.

Manohar places his hand on Shravya's shoulder and holds her close to him and, showing his finger in front of everyone, tells them in an almost intimidating manner.

"If you guys think that your constant teasing like this will make my daughter shy, then you guys have a big misunderstanding, the name of Adhyay is enough for my daughter to be shy."

"Bade papa Aap bhi .... "
(Bade papa you also.)

Everybody laughed at his unexpected comment. Just then Shravya's phone starts ringing. Even before Shravya comes there to pick up the phone, Ruhi immediately takes her phone and reads the name out loud.

"Adhyay Ji..... uuuu .... I will talk to him first....."

Manohar sits down on the couch along with Shravya. Shravya has kept her head completely bowed as she has realized to a great extent, All these people are in a mood to trouble both of them a lot today.

Ruhi picks up the phone but doesn't say anything. When Adhyay doesn't hear any sound as Shravya has a habit when she receives his call, she always addresses him with "Ji", so he doubted that it's not his Saanjh, he says softly.

"Hello ... "

Ruhi clears her throat and tries to talk in Shravya's voice.

"Hello .... "

As soon as he hears the voice, Adhyay smiles and immediately sits on the chair, looking at Raunak and he talks to her.

"Ruhi, you have received the wrong phone, this is not Raunak's call on which you need to talk, it is Adhyay's call, which is for your sister Shravya ... get it, my sweet sister-in-law."

Raunak, who was working sitting in front of him, stops for a while looking at him, and gets busy with his work again by a wink at him.

"Absolutely get it my cunning brother-in-law, your would-be wife is busy somewhere or I say busy with someone, so you have to talk to us."

"Where is she busy... "

"Why, are we so bad that you can't talk to us that's wrong..."

"Ok I have no problem ... Tell me, what do you have to talk about?"

Raunak shakes his head while looking at him because he knows very well that now brother-in-law and sister-in-law will talk to each other very long and with a smile, Adhyay gets back to his work as he just calls her to know about her whereabouts.

Before Ruhi can say anything to Adhyay, Aditi snatches the phone from her hands and almost scolds Adhyay.

"What is this way, Adhyay Ji, only 15 days are left for marriage and till now you are handling your business sitting in Bangalore, You should get married with your business....."

Ruhi laughs at Aditi's words, Adhyay pauses for a while and tells Aditi.

"Dhook dete hai bhabhiji ..."
(Dhook - touching feet of elder)

"God bless you .... But now answer me first I am very angry with you... We all thought that we would do all the wedding shopping with both of you..... With lots of teasing and troubling to you and Shravya, but you are sitting there in Bangalore ...."

Adhyay never talks much to Shravya's family members but knows very well that her entire family loves her very much so they have high expectations from Adhyay too.

"Well I am sorry, it didn't happen as you planned .... But I will come there very soon. You still have time to tease me and her as much as you want."

Raunak who is working and sitting next to him is enjoying and listening to his words, he laughs very loudly and on the other hand, Aditi starts looking at everyone with wide eyes.

"Wow .... Adhyay are you seriously talking to me?"

Adhyay has a slight smile on his face, Raunak takes out his mobile and starts taking lots of photos of Adhyay which he is going to send to Shravya later.

"Yes, I am talking to you only and I will try my best to solve any complaints you have with me.."

"Good, I like it ..... come soon we have lots of plans for you..."

"Sure ... "

Radhika takes the phone from Aditi and while sitting beside Manohar she tells him.

"How are you, Adhyay beta?"

Adhyay leaves whatever work he is doing and sits comfortably in his chair and tells Radhika.

"Dhook dete hai badi maa, I am fine, how are you?"

"I am also fine. After talking with Anjana ji, She is very angry that you are not coming here for any marriage preparation, just you are busy there in your work, come right soon to redress their grievances."

"I also try my best to come there as soon as possible and solve all their complaints but the problem here is that everything has to be started new here which is taking some time."

"Whether you take care of yourself in your work or are you busy with work only."

"Yes, I take care of myself very well, I have no interest in getting sick and taking bitter medicines."

Radhika laughs listening to him, Shravya takes a look at her badi maa who is currently busy talking to Adhyay with a constant smile on her face.

Shravya knows very well that Adhyay does not talk a lot to everyone nor does he talk a lot to his family members but today he is talking to her family in a very good way.

Radhika asks Adhyay a lot of things and every once in a while she has a beautiful smile on her face which makes Shravya happier.

After talking to him, Radhika gives the phone to Manohar but Manohar does not take the phone, when Radhika starts looking into his eyes, he immediately takes the phone and she tells Shravya.

"Shravya, let's go from here today, let the father-in-law and son-in-law talk for a while, after that you talk to him well at night...."

Right here, she gets up from there and goes with Radhika, Aditi and Ruhi also go after them to trouble her more.

Manohar put the phone on his ear and tried to talk to him as he was very stressed because of something.

"Hello, Adhyay beta ... "

"Dhook dete hai bade papa."

"God bless you .... How are you? .... "

"I am fine but I think you are not well because of me."

"You are absolutely right, I am very upset because of you and I am even more worried that I have to hide everything from my daughter."

"If you are hiding anything from her, it is for her good."

Adhyay responds to Manohar in his dominating tone, which draws Raunak's attention to him.

"I am telling you Adhyay Ji, the day Shravya comes to know that you have done very bad to Reva and her mother she will get very angry with you. No matter how bad they have done to her, Shravya still loves her maternal uncle and grandmother very much."

"I didn't do anything with her uncle and with her grandmother.... Everyone saw the impressive work of Reva in our Engagement, in that I have not done anything like that but from Whatever bank she had taken a loan from or whatever place she had bought for her lavish boutique, I have eliminated her name by paying a higher price.... That's it .... And I don't feel at all that I should have the slightest remorse for what I did."

Raunak starts rubbing his head because he knows that the topic is going in the wrong direction and Adhyay may get very angry over this.

Manohar looks towards the door as he fears that Shravya may not listen to what he wants to talk to Adhyay by hiding from her.

"But Ajit has come to know that you have done all this, I am not saying that you have done wrong, I am just saying that Ajit is a family for me..... I just want to tell you that no matter how angry Ajit is with his daughter and wife, he loves his daughter very much."

"Every father loves his children as much as you love both your daughters and my father loves Rithika ..... But both of you know that if your children make a mistake, then they should not hide that mistake, but they must be punished for that mistake..... He cannot punish his daughter at all, but I know how to punish whoever has tried to defame my wife....."

Raunak, who has been listening to Adhyay saying all this for so long, realizes very well that Adhyay is getting very angry so he immediately snatches Adhyay's phone.

"Dhook dete hai papa .... "

"God bless you .... Raunak Ji I know very well why you have taken the phone from Adhyay JI .... I know he is not wrong at all.... I know he is absolutely right .... I am only worried about Ajit and Shravya...."

"Don't worry papa .... I will talk to him."

"Thank you beta ... "

Manohar disconnects the phone. Raunak looks at Adhyay who is currently taking deep breaths with his hands on his waist near the window so that he can calm himself.

He makes a cross on his chest and joins his hands to pray for his safety then mumbles.

"It's time to step into the cave of the hungry lion .... God bless you Raunak..."

Here is an update I hope you like it please let me know.

Adhyay again turns into an angry bull.

What will Raunak do now?

Stay safe and keep smiling.

Thank you for reading this book.

SG

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