Hlo darlings

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The vast, cloudy sky, the damp roads, the trees, freshly washed by the heavy downpour this morning, the freshness of the air and the slight drizzling refreshed her senses as she exited the mansion. She deeply inhaled the air and enjoyed the little freedom after whole two months.

Shivaay’s behaviour in last few days, was nothing short of a dream, not that it was like he was behaving like a prince charming, but he behaved less beastly. Infact, she didn’t see him more often these days because he left the mansion before she wakes up and comes home only after midnight.

The other members of the family had started avoiding her to the fullest, but they didn’t taunt her and accused her with their looks, and she was thankful to God for this. Today, when no one was at home, she grabbed the opportunity and left the mansion, to go to temple to pray for the well being of her grandmother and then, to go to hospital to see her. And she had a little hope in her heart, that she would be able to ask for help from Dr. Shalini in clearing Shivaay and his family’s misunderstanding about her. She couldn’t help seeing Dr. Shalini as an angel, as the lady was helping her so much. She saved her grandmother and she was paying the hospital bills also.

The serenity and the peaceful atmosphere of the temple, not only calmed her mind, soul and body, but it also calmed her fears. She didn’t wish for anything but her Dadi’s welfare, she wished if she could see her Dadi atleast once, walking, talking and smiling happily, and after that she’d even accept her death.

As she descended down the temple stairs, she saw an old lady crying and two goons forcing her to remove the expensive jewellery she was wearing. She looked around, at the people who stood like statues, watching the old lady’s helplessness. She doesn’t hate people who are cruel, but she hates those who don’t go ahead to help someone.

“No, these bangles are really precious to me, not because these are expensive, but because my husband had gifted these to me. Please don’t take these.” The old lady cried hard and joined her wrinkled hands helplessly infront of the goons who gave deaf ears to her pleadings.

When the lady denied to give those bangles to them, they started to misbehave with her and then tried to stab her, but thankfully, Anika was close to them and she successfully saved the old lady.

The sudden pain in her stomach after being stabbed was so severe that she lost her consciousness almost immidiately, all she could witness was the scared faces of those goons and then, a faint voice of someone shouting, “Mam !!”

When she opened her eyes, she was in the hospital, with that old lady sitting on a chair, beside her bed. She tried to get up, but the pain in her stomach didn’t let her move.

“Are you okay ? Should I call the doctor ?” Asked the lady and Anika, though it was paining, nodded her head in no and smiled.

“What’s your name, beta ?” the lady asked and caressed Anika’s head, making her feel like her own Dadi was there, and she answered her question meekly.

“You don’t have any idea what you’ve done for me, I would never be able to thank you enough for this kindness you’ve showed, Anika.” The lady said and Anika smiled before replying, “You don’t have to thank me, Aunty ji, and about kindness, love and kindness can never get wasted, right ? I would’ve felt guilty if I had not done anything.”

“Ok, if you feel so, but stop calling me Aunty, I’m just like your own Dadi, so call me that.” The lady smiled and Anika too, smiled, feeling nostalgic. This lady was exactly like her dadi because such kind of love, only her Dadi could give her.

“I forgot to ask you, tell me the number of any of your family members, I’ll call them, or you can tell me your address and I’ll drop your there.” The lady’s words made her small smile vanish, “It’s ok, Dadi, I’ll be fine. I’ll go, I’m fine now.” Anika answered.

Even after a lot of persuasion from the lady, Anika didn’t change her decision because that was not an option. “What would she tell her about her family and address when she doesn’t have any of them ?” she thought. The lady left from there after a lot of persuasion from Anika.

The whole mansion came to life as soon as Kalyani Singh Oberoi entered the mansion and called her lovely children, each by their names. Om, Rudra, Priyanka came and engulfed their Dadi in their arms and she kissed their heads with affection.

The usually dull and boring atmosphere of mansion  became cheerful with Dadi’s talks about her visit to tirupathi and then, Om, Rudra and Priyanka’s complaints about her arrival after so many days because they missed her very much.

In between all this, Om and Janvi exchanged looks, because it would be so difficult to hide the current happenings of the house from Dadi. For a moment they became silent when Dadi asked about her most lovable grandson, Shivaay, but they changed the topic saying he was in his office, as usual.

“I can’t even imagine what would’ve happened if that girl hadn’t saved me. Such a pure hearted and kind soul she was, she risked her own life to save a stranger like me.” Dadi said and everyone nodded, still very scared thinking of the consequences if the ‘girl’ had not been there.

Shivaay smiled, as soon as he came into the mansion and listened his dadi’s voice, but his smile died as soon as he heard his Dadi telling about the incident that happened with her. He shouted and then went towards his Dadi and engulfed her in a hug, making sure she was fine.

Khanna stood infront of Shivaay, who looked as if he would eat him raw. Shivaay had sent Khanna with Dadi because he trusted him the most but,  even in his presence his Dadi had to face all of this.

“Billu, stop scolding him. I had told him to go and buy something from the nearby market. He was not at fault. Now stop it.” Dadi scolded Shivaay, and asked Khanna to go, making him sigh in relief.

“Thank God ! you’re fine, Dadi.” Shivaay held Dadi’s hands and kissed her knuckles. “That girl deserves thank you, not God.” Dadi said and Shivaay asked about her address so that he could go and thank her personally but Dadi didn’t know anything about her, so they had to let the matter go.

Anika, with a lot of difficulty and after a lot of arguments with the hospital staff, who weren’t letting her go, left from there towards Oberoi mansion, because she didn’t want to take the risk of being missing from the mansion when Shivaay would return. She was disheartened that she couldn’t meet her Dadi because it was already quarter past eight at night.

Gladly, no one was in the hall when she entered the house and silently tiptoed up the stairs, little did she know, that the damage was already done. Shivaay had been searching for her since so long and she was nowhere to be found.

In the corridor, Rohit stopped her and she looked at him disgustingly. “What happened, are you getting angry ? But it was your fault, you were so proud of your self respect, your dignity and blah blah blah... look how you forced me to do. Why did you insult me by not agreeing to my wish ? It was just a matter of a night, sweetheart, but you had to ruin my mood and that day, I had decided to punish you for insulting me infront of the whole colony.” Rohit marched towards Anika, making her step backward.

He took out of his coat’s pocket, two pieces of a torn photograph and showed it to her. It was her picture on one piece and on the other, it was him. There was a time, this photograph was their friendship’s proof, the one sided friendship from her side, from his side, it was only lust.

“Since that day I kept this picture with me, so that it reminds me of my revenge and God was so generous to bless me with a chance to do that.” Rohit said, and Anika shook her head, feeling disgusting at him.

“What are you saying, Anika, how can you ask me to do such a cheap thing, you are so.. I can’t even speak what you are asking me to do. I feel disgusted that I had once thought of you as my friend.” Rohit said, and threw the pieces of the photograph on the floor, secretly.

“Thank God, Shivaay sir do not know that you were friend, otherwise he would’ve misunderstood me. You’re such a disgusting woman. How can you ask me to blackmail me to kidnap Priyanka mam and then blackmail Shivaay sir, in lieu of one night... you’re..” Anika was still not able to think what he was doing until, Rohit smirked, and Shivaay held Anika’s hand in his tight, beastly grip and dragged her towards the room.

When they went into the room, he did what was expected from his angry self, slapped her.

“Where were you ?” he asked, in short, and simple words and Anika went pale and silent at his question. Answering him was useless, because he wasn’t going trust her as always.

“You’re asking me as if, you’d believe me, and you also know very well, you won’t.” Said Anika, “Stop playing with words and answer me, and I want to hear the truth.” He shouted.

“What should I say, when my truth is always a lie for you ? When all you would do at the end is, call your slaves and ask them to find out where I was, what I was doing and who I was with ?” shouted an equally angry and frustrated Anika. Her disappointment on not being able to meet her Dadi, the severe pain in her stomach because of the stitches and the frustration of being blamed and misunderstood constantly, had broken all the barriers of her emotions that she had suppressed till now.

Shivaay, for a moment, had been scared and silent at such an outburst of hers, but he composed himself, “You’re right, I know I won’t believe you because you don’t deserve it. Every time I warn you, you repeat your mistakes. And yes, I won’t call Rohit, because he has already told me where you were, I’ve heard what you were saying to Rohit.” Shivaay’s words frightened her once again and she stared him silently.

“I was in the temple this afternoon, and I was going to meet my Dadi and.. and I.. swear, I didn’t say anything about Priyan...” Anika stammered but her words were left in her mouth when he pushed her on the bed and hovered her, making her wince in pain and cry.

"The more I make you pay for your sins, the more you commit them. This is how people like you are, who don’t have parents and take advantage of it for their pleasures and greed. Thank God your parents are dead and they didn’t have to see your sins. And how dare you even try to take my little sister’s name from your filthy mouth, how dare you !!” Shivaay shouted and fisted her hair, not caring about her moaning in pain.

“You were missing Tej Singh Oberoi and his bed a lot, I think, right ? Should I compensate for what you’ve lost, I hope you won’t mind, right, Ms. Mistress ?” his words disgusted her to an extent that she felt like pushing him away and strangle him to death, but her weakness and the increasing pain in her stomach didn’t let her do that. All she could do was to pray that he was just taunting her and actually, he was.

“But I’m not going to do that, I’m not cheap like you.” He said and a sudden wave of relief washed over her face, but it died as soon soon as he continued, “but you’ll be punished. Bringing my sister in this matter, using her for your cheap benefits was your biggest mistake.”

“Stay here, and die.” He scowled, pushing her out of the room, into the balcony which separated from his room by a glass wall, in the heavy storm and rain. Staying in that balcony, under the heavy rain and thundering seemed peaceful in front of the storm that just closed the sliding glass door of the balcony and left the room. She really wished if his wish could be fulfilled and she would die, she really wished, when her eyes were closing, that she doesn’t open them again.
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