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"Om... Om... where is Shivay?" a bride dressed in a red banarsi saree entered through the main door like a storm.

All she could see after entering was empty hall. No one was there and the hall was dark.

"Om... Om... Rudra... Om..." she continued calling the names until the little girl of the house showed up.

"Anika didi... you here? At this time? Everything is fine right?" worry just spread over Priyanka's face.

"Yeah Prinku... where is Shivay? I want to meet him once" she hurriedly repeated her sentence looking here and there.

"You calm down di... come... come with me, bhaiya is in his room... come" Prinku held her shoulders and took her near her bhaiya's room.

"He is fine right?" Anika was scared to go in for no reason now... she looked at Prinku and then at the door.

"Go inside and check yourself di, for us... he isn't fine" Prinku looked down and left Anika's shoulder.

Prinku went in and informed about Anika's arrival, Om and Rudra stood still looking at Shivay who was shocked beyond anything to react. Her marriage is in almost three hours from then and she is there at his house... what does that mean... has she... has she run away from her marriage just to marry him... why is she there. The types of thoughts just gathered Shivay's brain which stopped working the moment he got the news of Anika's arrival. Om, Rudra and Prinku silently went out of the room.

"Go di... he is inside" Rudra said.

Anika nodded and stepped forward to see the man sitting. He has changed so much in just two weeks, she has not seen him for two long weeks and only she knows how her each moment passed. His face has gone pale, there are some tear stain down his eyes along with black circles. Was he not sleeping and crying... maybe... she went near to him without breaking the eye contact.

"How are you?" the shiver and the wetness in her voice calmed his heart.

"Why are you here at this time?" he completely ignored her question just to listen 'for you' as the answer to his question.

"To talk to you... to know the reason for which I am getting married to a person whom I won't be able to accept anytime" she don't know what feelings they shared but she was damn sure that without him no one would ever be able to keep her happy in big or small things.

All the small antics he used to do made her happy everytime but the same thing never happened in Prem's case.

"It's your marriage today" he looked away and the break in their eye contact irritated her.

She grabbed the jaw line and hold it in her hand and made him look towards her eyes while sitting in front of him.

How he has wished to see her in bridal dress and makeover and she is sitting wearing the same in front of him. An unknown happiness has already made its way inside his heart when he got to know that she has come but now... now the feeling is beyond any explanation.

"Why did you break apart Shivay?" her question threw him back to reality.

"It's your wedding in three hours Anika" yes he know the exact time of her marriage. They may not meet but it is never possible that Shivay won't keep check of his Anika's deeds and doings.

"I will go back after you answer me, the soon you answer, the fast I will go back to marry Prem... please answer me... I have the right to know" her warm hands tightened around his jaw line.

Nothing... just nothing rung in his ear but the sentence 'I will go back to marry Prem' and the possessiveness took over, he can't share his Anika with anyone. This feeling he had before but he soothed and calmed his heart by saying it was his mistake to loose her but now... now when she is in front of him, tendering him... he can't think beyond that and placed his lips over her.

He felt the exact shiver... the exact shiver of her lips when he will place his lips over hers as he imagined in his dreams. All he could think was of tasting her and marking as his. She did not move an inch and closed her eyes not responding, neither pushing him away.

"What are you doing Shivay?" his mind came back to sense and he left her lip. How can he loose himself like this... no... he can't...

"Why did you leave me Shivay?" she repeated feeling his lips and his breath going away. This question had two meanings now. But she meant the first... why did he backed out from marrying her.

"I did a blunder D... I don't know how... but... but... it just happened... I have tried to share this with you... but I never wanted to be the used up man in your life... you are... you are understanding right?" he can't hold back more. He will have to give answers to her questions.

"What do you mean?" she can't believe it... no... she don't want to believe it.

"The day... the day I went to your house and the phone call from New York came... I thought it's about the business deal... but..." he paused fearing about the reaction.

"But?" she questioned back the same word he stopped at.

"But I got to know that one of our employee has died suddenly that morning and for that others are not willing to go inside the office to work... I... I went to sort the matter out and got too busy to pick up phone calls or call back as it became police case and being the owner of the company every single moment... every single moment I was enquired. I was not even there and police was suspecting me as the murderer" he stopped because the next story will be unbearable for any girl who was getting married to the man.

"Okay... then how did you prove that you are not the murderer?" she thought that was the end... poor she.

"All the documents stating that I was in India when murder took place proved me innocent" he completed the first part of the story.

"That means... for this stupid allegation you decided not to marry me? How stupid you are" she chuckled as relief spread over her heart.

"There is more to it" he looked down.

"You are scaring me... what is the matter Bub?" no... she can't call him by that name... he doesn't deserve her.

"I... I slept with the wife of that man who got murdered" what the hell?

"What?" she stood up distancing herself from him.

"I am sorry... it's just... I did not intend to... I am sorry" he broke crying like a baby who has done a big mistake.

"You did not intend to? How dare you... how dare you touch another woman when you are committed to one? How dare you?" she grabbed his collar and jerked him without caring about his fracture.

"I am sorry... I dont know how it happened but... but... I was not in my senses when it all happened... I am sorry" he folded his hands and pleaded.

"Stop uttering sorry... how can I forget that... that you are a rich man... you would definitely get any chick in your bed at anytime you want... how can I... I just trust you blindly... how dare you?" she jerked him by his collar again.

He looked down without meeting her eyes. He never feared about his reputation but all he feared about was this broken state of this girl and thus he chose to hide the matter. He can't see her crying... he can't... he just can't.

"I am sorry... I don't know how but... but when I got to know about this the first thing came into my mind was to break my marriage... the same questions you are asking me now gathered my mind then... I never thought to fall so low... but the situation maybe..." he was cut by a slap over his cheek.

"Stop it... just stop it... dare you blame the situation after doing that... you were never loyal to me... never ever... all you wanted was to have s*x and nothing else... why do you all men marry a girl to have s*x. What pleasure does it gives to you by using a girl over your bed? Listen... I always thought you to be different... but you... you... just..." her kohl slipped down her eyes smudging all the make up but she didn't care.

"Listen to me... I did not intend to do... I was drunk... and..." another slap landed over his another cheek.

"You were drunk? Do you even think this as the excuse? No right... just shut up you Mr. Blo*dy, dare you touch me... stay away... just... just stay away" she pushed his hand which were trying to hold her.

"Listen to me once... please... let me explain" he pleaded folding his hands again.

"What is there to listen now? And why the hell you think I would listen to you?" she walked back facing him with trembling feet.

"Anika... please... please listen to me once... please" he saw her turning back and all he could think was to stop her by hook or by crook.

"Please Anika" he said and fell down from the bed, he crawled... he literally crawled and touched her feet to stop her.

"Please forgive me... listen to me once... please... please" the more she tried to move forward, his hold on her feet tightened stopping her. He dragged his fractured leg and did not dare to care about it when his heart is going away giving him the most pain.

What has he done. He feared about this... this ignorance from her and he chose not to disclose this matter, he can't bear her going away from him and thus he chose to go away. But now... now everything turned opposite and he can't let her go.

"Please... don't leave me... listen to me... Anika please listen" one hour and forty minutes more to her marriage and she is left with hurt and hatred towards men, how would she marry Prem now.

The man whom she trusted has broken the trust into the smallest pieces if it is visible to show. How will she trust another man now? But how... how can this man who is pleading like this do such a blo*dy shameful job. She could see how he is dragging his fractured feet just to make her stop, then how can be sleep with someone else and that too whom whose husband has died a day or two ago. This can't be... she will have to listen, this man can't change overnight... no... she has seen how he maintained distance from every girl who tried to flirt with him... then how could be allow someone to get intimate to him? She will listen to him... everyone deserves a chance to explain their side of the story.

Anika pulled her feet forward making him fall down and sat in front of him.

"Explain whatever you want to" she said looking straight into him.

He looked up at her and wiped her tears and gulped down the painful saliva.

"That night when I returned back from police station... Stella, Mr. Johnson's wife, the murdered men, was sitting over the couch in my room... she was crying, crying very badly and I thought maybe it is due to her husband's death, I was consoling her when she offered me a glass of wine... I said no but the way she said that she can't take this pain of departing from her husband and the wine is the only way to survive the pain pained me too... I thought was about you... I thought that how would you react if I die suddenly like this and I accepted the other glass of wine. I drank it in a gulp and placed the glass down when my head felt free and I felt dizzy. All I remember last was that she dragged me to bed and I went unconscious... after that... after that when I woke up the next day I was naked and she was sleeping cuddling to my naked body... she was naked too... I could not think much as my head was throbbing like hell... that headache was unbearable and she got up wishing me a good morning and thanking me for spending the night with her to meet up her loneliness... I... I just can't think what I did... I was guilty... I remembered nothing but the way she thanked me for spending the night with her made me believe that I cheated you... so... so I went away from you" he stopped not meeting up her eyes.

"You went unconscious then why did you believe that you both had s*x the previous night?" she got the grip now... she wanted to believe him and dig out the truth.

"The way... she was cuddling to me... how can I think the other way round?" he did not dare to look up to see the hatred in her eyes for him.

"Did you see yourself cuddling to her when you woke up?" her questions were genuine.

"No... I was sleeping flat" he answered.

"Ohhhhh okay... I got it... but Mr. Shivay Singh Oberoi you lost the trust from my side... how will I trust the man... the man who can't trust himself over these matters? I can't Mr. Oberoi... I don't know what has exactly happened but I promise to find out the truth... I know somewhere deep inside that you won't sleep with a girl, atleast not after getting drunk... but the respect and trust you had from my side... you just lost it" she got up and started to move out of his room.

"Where are you going?" he know that she has believed his every word or else she won't have mentioned about finding the truth, if she has believed him over this then why is she going back?

"It's my wedding in an hour Mr. Oberoi" and this was it, the last glance of her for him.

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Woohoooo the longest chapter of this story so far. So... I don't know how much hate I would get now... but stay tuned, exciting parts on way. Actually I can't use the same concept that everyone uses and this is the new one which no one has used before so I had to (atleast not in those which I read). Now we will have to wait to see how Shivay manages to get the trust back. But let me clear he did not sleep with the girl he mentioned. Then what has happened? Think think.

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NEXT CHAPTER WILL GET POSTED ON THE COMING SATURDAY.

-NILANJANA