Hlo darlings

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Some things are meant to be the way they are. Days change, months change, years change, time changes, weather changes but those things remain the same. Like these things was this heartless man. The man with those extremely handsome features, fair skin and a black, full of arrogance heart. Shivaay Singh Oberoi.

Anika looked at him and his guard with God knows what emotion in her eyes and he as well, stared at her with an unknown emotion. He prayed that the emotion in her eyes shouldn't be hatred that he somewhere knew it was. Whereas she was still trying to decipher that look in his eyes that was actually love and fear. Only if she knew that.

"Ani -- " before he could take her name, she showed him her palm to stop him.

"How fake can you be, Shivaay Singh Oberoi ?" Asked Anika as she stepped towards him.

"Stop." She said to Khanna as he was about to leave.

"When you can plan to spy on me after discussing it with him then why can't you listen to me when I'm discussing the same ?" Asked Anika and Khanna looked helpless. He felt so sad that he couldn't do anything to make Anika understand that his boss wasn't doing anything wrong. More than that he felt empathetic for him. How painful it must be for him to see hatred in her eyes.

"Anika you're getting me wrong. I was --" Shivaay tried to explain his side of the story but he stopped as she chuckled sarcastically and the tear that fell from her left eye just left him speechless. Beyond her tears he could see nothing.

"You were what ? Let me tell you. You were just ordering your guard to keep an eye on me because Tej Singh Oberoi is back, right ?" Anika said.

"Keep an eye on Tej, I'll look after Anika."

She recalled his words as she felt helpless. What she could do to do to tell him that she was never in touch with Tej Singh Oberoi and she has nothing to do with him.

"You're mistaken, Anika. I said this, I know but you're interpreting it in a completely wrong way." Shivaay explained as he stepped closer to her and she took a step back.

"I've learnt it from you, Mr. Oberoi. Isn't it your habit to misinterpret everything ?" Anika looked at him with an accusing glare.

"I know you don't like me, Anika. You're right. I had made your life a living hell. It was the biggest mistake of my life to misunderstand you. But now, I trust you more than I've trusted anyone ever. But I don't trust that man. I don't want him to harm you. You don't know -- " Shivaay stopped when Anika laughed at him.

"I don't know what ? I do know Tej Singh Oberoi. I know you too. And you know what, Tej Singh Oberoi is thousand times better than you because he shows what he is. He isn't fake like you." Anika spat with so much of hatred that it stung him like a thousand daggers.

Khanna looked at her, sheer shocked from the way she was speaking. She was so angry that she herself didn't know what she was saying. His boss had made mistakes, but he wasn't that bad as she just labelled him to be. He took a step towards her to stop her but his boss' silent glare stopped him. He couldn't stand there anymore being a silent spectator whole she insulted the man he respects the most. He could stand there being helpless, so he stepped out of the corridor where they were standing.

"You know, your hatred and your doubts have made me believe I don't deserve respect. I think I'm actually a slut. May be I am meant to be someone's mistress." Anika shouted.

Next second she was pinned to the wall. He could tolerate if she would kill him but she had no right to speak about herself like that.

"One more word and I'll lose it, Anika. Just don't say a word. Just. Don't." Shivaay said through gritted teeth, tilted head and his lips almost touching her lips. She felt her throat parched. However, the numbness was mere for a minute. She came to her senses.

"Once a heartless, always a heartless. Your intention had always been to hurt me, and it will always be that way. I was a fool that I started taking your advances to be soneyhing good. You were, you are and you'll always be a beast."

She wriggled to come out of his tight grip. But all in vain. The more she struggled, the tighter he held her.

His grip only loosened when he saw her biting her lower lip to control her sobs. He realised he was hurting her with his nails digging her soft skin. The anger subsided for a moment leaving guilt to engulf his being.

"I'm.. I'm sorry. I--" He apologised, only to earn a sarcastic smile from her.

"How many times will you apologise ? Or I better say, pretend to apologise ?" She asked as he was now standing at a distance. When he turned his face to the other side, she left from there.

He kept standing there, staring into oblivion, her words still haunting him like a nightmare. He ruined it again. He was angry on himself. She said such filthy words for herself, that angered him even more.

This time he didn't do what he would usually do when he's angry. Instead, he fell on his knees and a tear fell from his left eye. Then two, three, and then a stream of tears poured out of his eyes. He shouted at the top of his voice. He didn't care a bit if anyone was listening to him.

That day he didn't know how much he cried while still sitting in that corridor. Khanna didn't want to go to him because he knew his boss didn't want anyone to see his vulnerability. He simply called him while standing at a distance from where Shivaay couldn't see him. Shivaay didn't pick the call but composed himself, coming back to his emotionless self.

Shivaay called Khanna and asked him to make sure Anika reaches her house safely. He went to his cabin and opened his laptop. But the work couldn't divert his mind today.

It was of no use sitting there and cry over what happened. Anika was alone and he couldn't trust anyone at this point when he knew Tej Singh Oberoi had come back to India.

He found that the door to his house wasn't locked. He entered the small living room only to see both his brothers bickering on something silly. He removed his turban and marched towards his room silently. How did Om and Rudra unlock the house didn't occur to him. All he had in his mind was Anika and her words.

"What happened to him, O ? He seems upset." Rudra asked from Om who nodded his head negatively, not knowing what was the matter.

They enteted Shivaay's room that was separated from living room by a door whose lock didn't work. Everytime they explored this house, they realised the intensity of Shivaay's love for Anika. Shivaay was never so vulnerable, he had been upset in the past too, but he used to manage to mask his emotions. But now, he couldn't do it.

They found Shivaay looking over the window and they knew where he was looking. They stood behind him and saw him staring at Anika who was sleeping while sitting on the windowsill in her house.

"What happened, Shivaay ?" Om asked. It was nearly impossible to know what Shivaay was thinking if Shivaay wanted to hide it. He just hoped Shivaay would tell them.

"She misunderstood me again, Om." Shivaay said in a very low voice.

"She said.. she said I'm a heartless man and I'll always be. How do I make her believe that this heartless man cares for her more than his own life, that he loves more than his breathe. I can die for her Om and at the same time I want to live with her all my life." Shivaay said while still looking at Anika's face, even from a distance he could see her tear stricken face.

"She hates Shivaay Singh Oberoi. She loathes him. She said... I'm worst than Tej Singh Oberoi. If not for this face of Shivinder Singh, I would not be able to see her infront of my eyes and smiling with me." Shivaay said and smiled as he recalled how she smiles and laughs at his not so funny jokes. Not his, but Shivinder's jokes.

"She's just angry bhaiya. I know she'll understand you one day." Rudra tried to console his brother but he didn't know how to do it. His brother, who makes sure that he (Rudra) never cries, is now crying and he can't do anything to console his father figure brother.

"I hope you're right, Rudy. I hope you're right !" Shivaay sighed and gripped the iron bars of the window tightly.

"What if she never forgives you ?" Rudra didn't know how and when these words rolled out of his mouth. He didn't want to upset his brother more than he already was. But now the damage was done.

"Then I'll kill that heartless man and keep pretending to be the one she likes. Forever."

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