Well, I find myself surrounded by everyone like a wounded wolf in a Wolfpack.

Prisha is clinging to me curled up on my left hand like she is not going to leave my arm ever. While Kiyansh is on my right throwing daggers at anyone who is even trying to come in ten meters radius of me. Arundhati and Kartik are standing near the door not even letting the room service come inside taking things from them and quipping them away. And Nishkarsh is sitting awkwardly in a wingback chair just opposite the bed glancing between us.

After a moment Prisha sobs and looks right up at me her heart shaped face pink and drenched in tears. " Why did you do that?"

I know what she is asking. It's says in her eyes Why did you trade yourself for me?

I sigh and wipe the tears on her face. " Well I couldn't leave my heroine unprotected could I? Who would have done my films huh? " I joke and hug her.

"Shut up." She says on my neck. " It made me feel so weak. So bad. I felt so awful knowing you were there because of me. And I was safe but you...." She cries again.

" Hey...." I make her look at me. " It wasn't because of you. It was not you. You got involved into it because of me. And what would you have done if I were in your place? "

Her eyes turn soft and she gives me a soft smile.. " Thank you." She whispers. " Are you really okay? "

I nod and smile at her. My own chest aching in response. " Now stop crying or I am gonna record a video of you snouting and it's gonna go viral."

She nods and laughs softly.

" Well well. It's a new landscape of Kiyansh Singhania sitting quietly and letting anyone else talk to Shanvi for such a long time. Well it could have been a more ideal situation, but nice to meet you, I am Nishkarsh. " Nishkarsh smirks from the turquoise wingback chair in an amused smile.

Kiyansh opens his mouth to say something but I cut him off . " She has a boyfriend." I say sarcastically.

Prisha doesn't say no and blushes red. My mouth opens in shock, I was just joking and she is blushing. My best friend radar goes red and I want to turn around and fire, but I know, timing.

"My bad." Nishkarsh dramatically keeps his hand on his chest.

" Well, everything aside. You said someone planned this. Who is that someone? " I turn to Kiyansh and he becomes stiff as rod.

I see his composure slip for a moment. And those gold brown feral eyes glitter in that tone of ramrod anger and burning fuedal. One word and that changes everything. " Sahana."

My mouth opens. It closes. Opens. Closes. For certain minutes. I can feel the similar tension in Prisha's hands clenching mine.

"What!?" I manage to say.

"I had a nag of it since our wedding. " His eyes turn in guilt. " That is the reason I went to meet her the next day. The security team sent me some files regarding her in contact with some illicit people. I warned her off but she said there was no proof. " He takes a deep breath. " I didn't want to trouble you with worries so I set my security team on work. The mistake. " His eyes flashes. " The mistake was I thought it was going to be me. But she knew me too well." His eyes passes all over me and in that moment, in that moment, all the fears, desperation clicks into his face, his eyes becomes so vulnerable that it feels too personal, too deep to look into them, like someone's soul shining bright in form and it's so surreal, so personal, that you want to look away. He gulps after a moment. For him to say this in front of other people is like holding yourself out bare to the world. He never does that and I think he is going to stop but he touches my face. "She knew to hurt me meant simply hurting you. " His fingers are like wave of the morning sun, his eyes like northern star.

" How did you find me? " I whisper.

His fingers go to my neck. My breath hitches when he very deliberately, very slowly touches the pendant on my neck. The shining heart on my neck. It's like there's no one in the room until he says, "Don't be angry. But...."

Someone clears there throat and I jump in surprise. It's no other than Nishkarsh. I blush and realise that there are four eyes on us.

" You both never disappoint huh? My eyes are going to gauge out itself. Stop." He groans.

I feel my face burn and try to stifle away from Kiyansh but he holds me back and shakes his head at me, glaring at Nishkarsh, "Nobody invited you. "

Nishkarsh holds up his hands and tilts his head left. " Well I was promised coffee so I came. "

Prisha giggles from beside me and that giggles loosens something taut inside my chest. " Well we have disturbed you enough. Come on I will treat you to coffee. Thanks for helping her." She gestures at us and gets up from the bed. Nishkarsh winks at her, grinning his crooked grin.

Kiyansh loosens his arm for a moment and gestures towards Prisha. I smile up at him, always knowing what I want even before I say anything.

I get up from the bed and put my arms around Prisha. She sighs and hugs me back tight. " You can stay with me if you want. "

" No it's fine, he needs you. " She whispers to my ear. " You didn't see him before. I thought he was going to kill everyone. He was shaking. He seriously needs you." She repeats again. " I will be fine I will be staying the next door. And....Rohit is coming here. He said that he will stay with me till all the investigation is done. Can you imagine he left a movie for me? He is coming."

The last line sounds so much fond that my heart dances in happiness. My two friends are finally, finally accepting the fact that they are in love with each other. I knew it the day Prisha entered my office and Rohit turned smoothly in his chair. And tilted his famous head a little and said in that smirk of his, "Definitely Overrated."

And Prisha pointed her chin defiantly and said, " Yes you are right, you are. " Then with the ease of sitting at one's home sat on the leather chair as if glancing to her right was an inconvenience for a whole hour. While Rohit kept glaring at her, as if he had seen the most offending person in his life. Well that's an altogether a long story to tell.

But right now, when she steps back and smiles at me. I know the smile is for that person as just it is for me. Nishkarsh salutes and winks at me and they both head off followed out by Arundhati and Kartik. The door clicks shut and my breath stumbles.

For some reason, I feel scared to turn towards him. All the feelings all the emotions come at once. To be able to think that I can be alone with him when just an hour before I thought I was going to die and never see him again. My heart races like milestones.

"Shanvi" the word tumbles inside me with an uneven breath. I feel him standing up, moving towards me. I freeze when he comes in front of me. He is so beautiful that it aches. Like a dream that shines through your mind.

"Hey" he tentatively reaches out and touches my cheeks. The hand, I know every detail of, that calloused beautiful golden hand. That brown gold eyes looking at me as I am looking at them. How lucky it is in a world where you can love a person and that person loves you back. How lucky it is that you found it together and loved together.

Tears fall from eyes, I can't stop them. To be able to be touched by him, to be able to be with him again. It's..

His fingers move so caringly over my cheeks that it makes me cry more and I hiccup.

"Hey, Baby! I am here, right here." He so slowly and reassuringly says that I clasp his hand, it's like wrapping my heart around something warm. His forehead leans against mine and for that he has to bend. He always bends for me. The person who doesn't bend for anyone always bends for me.

" I thought I was never going to see you again. " The words stumbled out of me. The dark thought which was stuck inside my mind. The thought I was continuously ignoring for the sake of sanity, stumbles out of me desperately. And he doesn't laugh, or joke about it. He just leans over me more, completely plastering our heads together, his lips bare inches from mine.

And he says, "I would have broken through heaven and hell to find you. "

His breath is the most amazing breathe I have ever breathen.

"How did you find me? " My hands move to his waist.

He shakes under them. Very slowly his hand moves towards my neck and it touches the pendant. " This" he whispers back.

I close my eyes.

" There's a tracking device installed inside it. "

I open my eyes and involuntary move back a little, his arms tighten around me dragging me back so that my chest bangs with his.

" A tracking device. " I hiss.

Atleast he seems mortified, when he says " I wanted to know where you were all the time. "

" You could have asked me. "

" I didn't want to trouble you. " he looks left and right.

" Kiyansh. " I sigh. He finally looks up at me. "You can ask me where I am and I will always tell you. You always know where I am. "

" It's just...."

"Shhh" I keep my finger on his lips. " It's okay. " I can't believe I am saying this but I do. " It's okay. If it is so important for you it's okay." I smile.

He looks up at me in clear shock.

" You know this pendant saved us. " I stick my tounge at him.

His mouth opens and he bites my finger. "Oww" I Yelp..

He takes the finger and kisses it. Goosebumps raise on my arms. "Do you know what I want to do right now?"

I blush. "Wh...what?"

"I want to tug you under me for the rest of eternity. And let nobody else ever hurt you in any way. "

My heart stutters.

" Also I want to do this. " He moves in, his lips fall over mine so deliberately that my whole body shivers in response. Too long. Too long without him.

I forget everything and just fall in synch with him. My hands slides over him, confirming to every little detail of him stuck in me forever.

We find each other. Again and again. It's as vulnerable as ever. Like the looks we share. Ours. Nobody else's. Something between us. Something just us. Something that is everything.

Author's note : IT'S NAVRATRI GUYS!! BEST TIME. HAPPY NAVRATRI TO ALL OF YOU. ❤️ Let's let go of all our fears and win ourselves with magic. Be happy guys 😘 You deserve the world!!