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"In your room, now!" Sameer yelled but Naina did not budge.

"Child, I am Richard, your father. I know I should have come back earlier to take you but I couldn't. I love you so much, child. There's no need to stay with this bastard. We can go back home, Naina." The man spoke.

"If you loved me you would have never left me, Richard." Naina snapped.

"I am sorry for that, child. But trust me you don't have to suffer anymore. Nobody can force you for anything. You don't have to stay in this forced connubial bond with this man. I have come here to take you back home child." Richard replied to her as his eyes softened a bit.

"‘She's the blood in my veins. Air in my lungs. She's the bright, the only hopeful light in my tortured darkness. I'm warning you, Richard. Don't you dare take her away from me!" 
Sameer bawled, Naina inhaled a sharp gasp. Xander sighed as he noticed the situation worsening.

"Don't trust him child."Richard warned Naina.

"That's exactly what he said about you. I trust him the most so just shut up and leave!" Naina replied angrily.

"Silva, take her to the room. I need to speak about a few things with him." Sameer said. Xander shook his head and dragged Naina to his room. He made her sit and handed her a glass of water. He tugged her hair strands and made her look at him.

"Don't ruin a good today by thinking about how bad your yesterday was, kiddo. Just let it go." 

"I can't, Xan. I can't let it go every time. It does hurt, why don't they understand? Everybody leaves me. I am that bad, Xan?" 

"You are thinking too much kiddo. You are too precious." He replied as he placed his palm on her head gently.

"Please don't go, Xan." 
Xander smiled, his eyes held a twinkle of  kindness that would always  make him a better person than anybody was. Naina threw her arms around his neck and held him close sobbing softly against his hard frame. Xander rested his cheek on her head. 

"I wish you were with me, forever.
But that's not possible, kiddo. Dad had called me yesterday. It has been more than a week since I stayed here.I have to go back, Naina."

"I will miss my teddy and the only friend I have in this huge mansion."
She said holding on to him more tightly. Xander just giggled at her words and kissed her forehead gently.

"I had said to Mr. Maheshwari that I would speak to that man but he always does what he wishes." 

"Sameer does such things because he genuinely cares for you. You would end up crying after you speak to that person." 

"I am not a crybaby. I have reasons when I cry and I won't cry for that man who had left me years ago when I needed him the most."

"He is your father, kiddo.Maybe he had a purpose to do so."

"Purpose for abandoning his own child? It's not like that Xan, he left me because he thought that I was not his blood. He left me because he felt that I was daughter of my mother and her boyfriend. All of a sudden he became so concerned about me. He was never present these years for me and now I don't care. I hate that man, I hate Richard!"

"It's okay, just leave this matter. Sameer will handle him. Go to your room Naina I have to sleep." 

"Why?" 

"It's midnight, every human sleeps at this hour. So let me sleep and you go to your room." Xander laid on the bed but Naina did not leave. She rubbed her palm and placed it on his face. She giggled but Xander did not open his eyes. Naina pulled her lips into a pout and pulled his cheeks.

"So chubby, Xan." She laughed rubbing his cheeks still Xander did not open his eyes.

"So gaye? Itni jaldi kyu so rahe ho?" 
She asked, trying to wake him up. Xander bit his inner walls of his mouth suppressing his smile. Naina shrieked the very next second as she was pulled by someone.

"Sorry for disturbance. Goodnight Silva." Sameer said as he picked her and took her to their room. Xander laughed seeing her pouting innocently.

"Goodnight Xan." She mumbled, hiding her face in her husband's chest.

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Sameer stared at Naina who was speaking to herself calculating something using her fingers. She looked tensed but he did not want to force her to speak what was disturbing her so he averted his attention towards his work. "Mr.Maheshwari. I-I wanted to speak about something." 
She finally blurted. Sameer glanced at her trembling figure. He squirmed his eyes and hummed in response. Naina opened her mouth and then pressed her lips, shaking her head in a way of no.

"Speak." She gasped hearing his authoritative tone.

"I am not sure." She mumbled which sounded like a mere. whisper.

"Of what?"

"Happenings. I am not sure if whatever I am thinking is true. I am scared, Mr. Maheshwari."Sameer sighed and closed his laptop.Placing it aside he shifted towards her. He raised his hand and palmed her cheeks.

"What are you scared of?" His voice had softened a bit as he looked into her eyes. A lone tear rolled down her cheek as she chewed her lips.

"Can you take me to hospital tomorrow? Please."

"Are you okay, Khaza? Is your stomach still paining?" She shook her head in a way of no in response.

"I want to meet a doctor tomorrow, please." He shook his head agreeing with her. He wanted to ask her the reason for demanding to visit the doctor but feared to scare her more. Naina laid on the bed, staring at the ceiling. Sameer gazed at her silently.

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Xander patted Naina's cheeks who was crying like a kid seeing him leave. He knew it would be difficult but never thought it would be so hard. Sameer instructed his men to keep Xander's luggage in the car. Xander pulled Naina into his embrace cooing her with sweet consoling words and then got back into his car, leaving towards the airport.

"You can speak to him whenever you wish to." Sameer said. Naina simply stared at the retreating figure of the car. She nodded her head in response and walked in the room, taking slow steps. She walked in the room and slumped into the bed.

"We will visit the doctor after I finish up with a meeting, okay?" Sameer said as he walked in the room. Naina hummed in response, holding onto a pillow close to herself. Sameer covered her with a duvet and left the room not before pressing his lips against her forehead.

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She could feel the fear in her chest waiting to take over. She tapped her foot still fidgeting with her fingers as she answered the doctor's questions. Sameer who was still oblivious about the sudden reason of Naina wanting to visit the doctor, behaved as a silent spectator.

"Did you miss your dates, Naina?" The doctor questioned her.

"Y-Yes, since last two months."
She mumbled in response.

"We will have to take a few tests." The doctor said and gestured Naina to walk in the personal cabin.

"Should I accompany her? She's too scared already."

"No sir, please stay here. Naina come in child." Naina nodded her head and glanced at Sameer before she walked in. After a few minutes the doctor came out of the cabin with a sweet smile plastered on her face.

"Naina?" 

"She's fine. You can meet her." 
Sameer rushed in not bothering to listen to what the lady spoke. He saw Naina sitting on bed still fidgeting with her fingers. He panicked seeing her pale face stained with tears.

"I-I am so-sorry." She mumbled inaudibly, shutting her eyes tight as she was unable to face him. He placed his palm on her cheeks and made her look at him. He leaned forward to peck her eyes gently.

"We can consult another doctor. You don't have to cry. We wil-" 

"I am pregnant."

"I guess I heard something wrong."
He mumbled more to himself and looked back at her.

"Are you serious?" 
He questioned at which she simply bobbed her head. Sameer closed his eyes to absorb the new and sudden happenings in his life.

"Okay." He mumbled which sounded like a whisper. She stared at him, was he not wanting to take the responsibility or was he not wanting a child?

"You do not want this child,Mr. Maheshwari?" Naina asked.Her lips quivered in fear.

"I don't know." Sameer replied curtly and held her shivering hands.

"Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Maheshwari. There are a few tests that needs to be taken so you will have to come again tomorrow."The doctor said as she came in. Sameer nodded his head in response and looked at Naina.

"We shall leave." He said to her and both of them walked towards their car. Naina did not want to think about the possibilities of losing their child.

“Naina? Why are you crying?” His voice is almost as gentle as his hand as it breaks free from her grip. He touched the tears rolling down her face.Naina opened her mouth but wasn't able to speak as words faded to a whisper.

"W-Why don't yo-you want our ch-child?" She spoke, pressing her lips together.

"I never said something like that, Khaza."

"But yo-you did not deny it too. Why don't you want our child?" Sameer held her hand and gestured to get in the car.

"Answer me, Mr. Maheshwari." 
She said but he pushed her in the car, being careful that he doesn't hurt her.

"Answer me!" She yelled letting the dam break. Tears coursed down her cheeks as she cried. Sameer shut off the engine and sighed. She gasped as he placed his hand on her thigh. Warmth spreads through her limbs while the tips of her fingers and toes are tingled to life. 

“Naina,” he whispered, "I never said that I do not want our child. Being a fa-father is a great responsibility. You are still a child and there's a lot of things happening in our lives currently. It's been just a week Nanu di-died, even Xander left to his house there's no one who could take care of you and even the contract." He paused as he gazed at her paling figure.

"So you mean to say that we should not have a child now?" She asked him, evidently stammering.

"No! It's our baby, our blood. I would never want to lose my child. The thing is there are a few things that we cannot ignore," He drew in a deep breath and continued,

"You and me are different, even you would agree to it. Our lifestyle, morals, behaviour everything differs. Moreover, we have no sort of relationship and are just bond by a contract. You are still a child, your career, lifestyle everything would be affected. Let's just screw all this for the moment. You just need to get this that I am not against having a child at present."

He said as he shook his head smacking himself mentally for speaking such things before her as she was already too scared. He took back his hand and started driving. Naina suppressed her lips and peeked out of the window absorbing his thoughts about 'them' having no possibilities of being together.

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