All are happy to learn about Preedit. Sameer is extremely happy for his sister as finally she has found some happiness in her life full of struggles.

The next evening, Pandit gets discharged. Naina's spies are keeping a tab on Kamal and Sharad's activities. The racket, which is going on is still in its beginning stages. Naina and her team are working on their plan to sabotage the racket, which isn't easy as they have to carefully trace the path taken, where all are the major centres and many such things. Also, now that Naina knows it's just the initial stage of whatever they are planning on a national scale and also that it's not just Sharad they will be dealing with, she decides to involve the NSA.

She has already involved Kamya, undercover NSA agent and her personal team for this unofficial operation. All this is being done without giving any hints to government and higher officials as they won't get permission as well as the fact that many are corrupt and easily manipulative.

Involving any official detectives or police or investigators would be very risky and hence, they haven't been involved. Sameer and Preeti don't know much about this mission and they don't interfere anyways.

3 days after Pandit's hospitalisation
Naina's room

Naina is lost in thoughts. She has had enough of these nameless emotions. She wants to give these a name. All the moments spent with Sameer, Preeti's question, the way he always understands her...it all keeps revolving in her head.

As she recalls each moment spent with him, a smile adorns her face, which keeps widening as she remembers each moment. Her heartbeats increase and a feeling of immense joy envelopes her, when she recalls his words of care and thoughts of him as such!

She gently opens her eyes and with a wide smile she says softly

"Yes, this is love. I love him"

Eyes filled with tears of happiness, she holds a pillow and starts swaying holding it, chanting the mantra of i love you Sameer , all the while resembling a lovesick teenager!

She happily goes to take a shower to get ready to talk to him. She wants to look the best ,only for him.

She enters the washroom and undresses. And that's when she looks at herself in the mirror and her happy bubble bursts. Tears roll down her eyes, as the blue and black marks on her body remind her of her past.

Will he love her even when he finds out about her past? Will he love her even when he sees these scars?

" I will tell him about my past! I have to. I can't keep him in the dark. I know his past so he has every right to know mine too! I'm sure he will understand me!"

She takes bath, again debating whether to tell him or not. She comes out and wears her regular nightdress and heads out for dinner. She is still in a dilemma whether she should confess her feelings or not, when her flow of thoughts break as she sees him sitting next to Preeti and laughing wholeheartedly. An instant smile comes up her face seeing him laughing freely. She, lost in him, keeps staring at him.

He, feeling an intense gaze on him, looks towards her. His eyes meet hers and a smile comes on his face, as he looks at his adorable Naina,looking at him with all the love she has for him. His heartbeats accelerate with immense joy as he sees her eyes full of love for him.
He too, all the while looking at her, tries to convey all the love he has for her , through his eyes.

Their beautiful moment breaks when unknowingly and unintentionally, Preeti calls Sameer. Naina breaks out of her trance and with a flushed face, gathering herself, she walks towards the table.

The trio have a good conversation and all the while, Samaina steal glances of each other.
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"I love you!"

" What? "

"Why are you so shocked? Don't you love me too?"

"Look, I don't why you felt I love you because I don't!"

"W..what are you saying? You love me right, then why are you doing all this?"

"Look, get this thing clear, I don't love you. I just empathised with you because of your pain"

Tears roll down her eyes and she collapses on the ground!

Lovingly,
Pratyu