Hlo darlings

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The hall fell silent as all the pairs of eyes looked at Shivaay accusingly. Could he fall so low to get his work done ? He manipulated a girl to marry him. What would have been her state of mind right now ?

"That's how you asked 'help' from her, by leaving no option for her but to agree to your demand ?" Om shouted at Shivaay and Shivaay stood there, feeling guilty deep down his heart.

"Shivaay how could you do this ? Just to protect your own sister you ruined another girl's life. How could you forget, that she is also someone's sister and daughter ?" Janvi asked from Shivaay in a calm voice but her eyes had anger for him. Pinky and Priyanka stood beside Anika who was silent all the time. Her tears that were yet to be spilled were visible to both of them.

"It all happened because of me." Anika's heart started beating fast due to fear as she heard her baby brother's voice. She turned her face to look at Sahil who was already crying which means he heard everything.

He walked towards Shivaay with difficulty as he was still in pain due to his leg. Shivaay felt himself as a beast after seeing the little boy. "How could he be so cruel, to use someone's pain as a pawn ?" He thought. He didn't feel the pain as Sahil was hitting him with his crutch. His own guilt was painful enough to not let him feel more pain.

Anika ran towards a crying and angry Sahil. She knelt in front of him and hugged him. She asked him not to behave like a bad boy but he cried and cried like never before.

"I'm a burden on my Anika didi. Had I not been there, she would have never been blackmailed by anyone. I'm the reason of her pain. I don't deserve to live.." Sahil cried as he kept hitting Shivaay. Before he could speak further, Anika interrupted him and stopped him from hitting Shivaay.

"Shut up. Shut. Up. I'll slap you if you spoke like that again. You can never be a burden on me. You are my reason to live. Then how can you be a burden on me ?" Anika spoke as she tried to stop him and herself from crying.

"Shhh.. don't cry my bacha. No. You love me, right ? So please stop crying. I want you to smile, for me. Come with me." Anika wiped Sahil's tears and took him away from all the tension filled atmosphere. She can die thousand deaths in a second but cannot see her baby in pain.

Everyone looked at Anika and Sahil's retreating figures. The bond between them reminded all of them of Obros. But the question "How are they related to each other ?" Kept nagging them. Once again, their mind and heart started their debate about who the real Anika was. The one who they met a year ago, who was arrogant and proud over her royal blood ? Or, the one they are now living with, who is ready to sacrifice her happiness for someone who is not even related to her by blood ?

Shivaay tried to talk to his family, to his brothers, to his sister, but they left from there without giving a chance to him to explain. What would he explain ? He has nothing.

He went to see where Anika and Sahil were. That is all he could do. He found both of them in his/their room. Anika was sitting on the couch and Sahil was laying and sobbing. Sahil's head was on her lap and she was trying to suppress her sobs but couldn't stop her tears from flowing.

"I hate SSO. He is so bad. How could he give you so much of pain. He is bad." Sahil spoke angrily and she caressed his hair to calm him down.

"Nobody is bad Sahil. Only circumstances are bad, which make us do things that we can't even imagine. Sometimes, we have to be bad in other's eyes to stop something bad from happening." Said Anika, staring nothing at particular. Her heart aching as if someone scratched an old wound that wasn't even healed properly.

"He is not bad. He just wanted to stop something bad from happening. He was protecting his sister because he loves her. Tell me, won't you protect me if I'm in trouble ?" Anika asked from Sahil and he nodded. His anger subsided a bit. He's a child after all.

Anika wiped her tears as she had to be strong to stop them from flowing. She has so much of pain that she can cry 24×7 all her life but the pain wouldn't lessen. She couldn't let that happen in front of Sahil. Could she ?

Shivaay couldn't stand there. His head was banging like a hammer. He was angry on her for her harsh words against his family. Then, he couldn't control his feelings for her and couldn't see tears in her eyes. To top that off, he isn't able to understand why she is living away from her family like this and enduring all this ?

He left from there to get some peace of mind and try to talk to Om and Rudra. Both of them must be in Om's art gallery so he drove towards it. It was not too far so he reached there in fifteen minutes. Om and Rudra looked away from him as soon he entered Om's personal room in gallery.

"Om, Ru at least listen to me. I had no option other than that. If I hadn't done it then it might have affected our Prinku's future. Please try to understand." Shivaay spoke in a tired voice, unable to see the accusing looks of his brothers.

"Really ? Is that how you are justifying your act ? Unbelievable." Om looked at Shivaay like he was the most weird person in the world.

"You could've married someone else, bhaiya. There are so many girls who are money minded. Who want to have the status of an Oberoi. Then why only Anika didi. Why did you blackmail her ? Or is it that you wanted an excuse to do that and Tia and her mom gave you that ?" Rudra asked. His question shook the hell out of Shivaay, making him tongue tied. Unconsciously though, may be that was also a reason.

"I..it's nothing like that. She isn't that..important." Shivaay tried to defend himself but it looked like he was trying to convince himself rather then them.

"OK. Does that mean you married her to take revenge from her, for insulting your family ?" Om asked bluntly and Shivaay was enraged by that. How could Om, His brother think so low of him.

"I didn't marry her for revenge and as I said, she's isn't worth it. She is nothing to me. I did everything for my sister and that's it." Shivaay shouted as if, by shouting it would become the truth.

"Ok. Fine. But You have to apologise to her. She doesn't deserve this. I don't know why she behaved so rude that day. As much as I have known her in these days, she is not a bad person. So go and apologise." Om said and Rudra also supported him. Shivaay looked at both of them as if they were aliens. Apology was never his cup of tea and then, this matter was totally different. It concerned her, the girl who seems like a puzzle to him. Who is the center of his thoughts, but why ? He don't know.

"And if you won't apologise then we are not going to talk to you." Said Rudra and Shivaay nodded absent mindedly. After that the three of them went back home.

Om and Rudra dragged Shivaay towards his room and asked him to apologise to Anika right now. He looked at Anika who was sitting on the couch with her head resting on the head rest and Sahil's head on her lap.

"Hey champ ! Let's go and play video games in my room. What say ?" Rudra took Sahil to his room to give some privacy to Shivaay and Anika. Sahil went with him and mixed up quite well.

Shivaay entered the room, still trying to think ways to start up a conversation. Anika, on the other hand, didn't want to see him or talk to him. So she tried to leave the room.

"A..Anika listen..." Shivaay tried to stop her but she didn't listen to him so he blocked her way.

"Anika I want to talk to you. At least listen to me. I.." He spoke again but she tried to leave again, without looking at him. This thing annoyed him so he pulled her towards himself by twisting and then locking her hands behind her back.

"I said listen to me. And look at me when I'm talking to you." Shivaay spoke and tightened his hold on her hands making her cry in pain. She wanted to control her tears and not to show him how vulnerable she was but she was unable to control her emotions. A tear fell from her eyes and he loosened his hold immediately.

"I...I'm sorry. I didn't want to do that. I just..." Shivaay tried to apologise but Anika stopped him.

"You didn't want to do what ? What is left to do ? Are you feeling guilty ? Or is it because your family disapproved your actions and you want to show it to them that look ! I apologised ? But that is not going to change the fact that you are a an arrogant businessman who just knows how to use someone's vulnerability." Said Anika angrily. Shivaay couldn't hold back his anger and pinned her to the wall.

"Arrogant ? Huhhh !! You are saying that ? The girl who insulted my family in her arrogance. You know what, you don't deserve this apology, nor you deserve any sympathy. And you know, I think your family also realised that you are unworthy of all the attention and care. May be that's why you are slovenly today." Shivaay shouted, venting out all of his anger. He didn't realise that each word spoken by him was crushing the broken pieces of her soul.

She controlled her tears. Where did she get the power of doing so, she didn't know.

"I don't care what you think about me. I'm unworthy ? Fine. I don't need your apologies. Because what you've done is unforgiveable. I would have forgiven you easily if you had used my situation for your benefit. I know you were trying to protect your sister. But You chose to use my brother's pain as a pawn. There you went wrong. I can forgive the person who try to even kill me but I will never forgive the person who used or tried to harm my sahil." Saying so she stormed out of the room, leaving a shocked and guilty Shivaay behind.

He was regretting saying such harsh words to her. He realised, in his anger he spoke something too wrong. Her eyes showed that she was hurt, broken. He wanted to go and talk to her, apologise to her, genuinely this time. But he had no courage to do so. Once again he was in a dilemma, "Was he judging her wrong ?"

Anika directly went to the terrace and let her tears flow down. She tried, but she couldn't hold herself from getting weak. How much will she tolerate ? She's a human after all. Is she so bad that she doesn't deserve to be cared, to be loved, as he said ? Is she really unworthy ? Then why is she alive ?

"Kyunn ? Kya dushmani hai mujhse aapki, Jo har baar har takleef meri kismat mein likh dete ho ? Jab bhi mai khud ko sambhalne ki koshish karti hoon toh kyun ? Kyun ek naya tufaan bhej dete ho meri zindagi tehas nehas karne ko ? Na marne dete ho na jeene. Kyunnn ?" *(Why ? What enmity do you have with me ? Why every pain is written in my destiny ? Whenever I try to gather the broken pieces of my heart, you send some or the other storm in my life to ruin me. Neither you let be die nor you let me live. Why ?")* Anika shouted and questioned the almighty. She cried and cried until she fell asleep on the floor.

Shivaay kept waiting for Anika return to the room but she didn't come so he went out to find her. He searched the whole house and finally went to check the terrace. He found her sleeping on the floor in a corner. He was worried and guilty. Worried because he had seen her only crying all the time and guilty because of his harsh words.

He picked her up in his arms and brought to his room. He made her sleep on the bed properly and settled on the couch, unable to sleep as her tear stricken face haunted him.
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