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Pretoria, South Africa.

Garima stood in front of her human size mirror staring blankly at her image.

An image she never imagined in her life she will ever witness.

Had it been three decades earlier, she would have been the most happiest woman married to the man she loved but today, she was staring at a woman who is now married to a monster, a monster who was back from the dead to toment her for her sins in the past.

Garima never thought within three weeks, she will be kidnapped from her parent's house in Lucknow to Pretoria only to face the man that was once the love of her life whom she taught had died but was healthy and living.

A hand snaked around her waist as a chin relaxed on her shoulder making her flinch as she stared into the mirror for the face of Arvind Malik smiling at her to appear.

The smile on his face turned into anger seeing her blank expression and he let go off her.

"Are you mad at me for what happened that day?....... Rima just get over it already...... It's been almost three weeks and you like a walking dead..... This is not what I wanted and be glad I didn't take you by force...... I admit I got carried away after seeing you in the flesh after all these years but I stopped didn't I."

Arvind sat in the arm chair behind him frustrated by her coldness as Garima turned to Arvind with a cold look on her face.

"Let me go Arvind...... I promise never to tell anyone about you being alive...... I don't want this. " Garima cried rubbing the vermilion on her forehead.

Arvind got pissed and picked up the whiskey tumbler and threw it at the mirror behind Garima which shattered into pieces as one of the pieces glazed Garima's cheek making it bleed.

Arvind panic and jerked up towards her and wiped her cheek with his sleeve not caring about the bloodstain.

"I know you are just in shock and need time to digest me being alive but please stop provoking me" Arvind's hand moved over to her neck and he grabbed it gently. "I love you but that doesn't mean I will tolerate your disrespect........ Do you know how painful it was living without you all these years......... We are returning to Delhi. " Garima's eyes widened in shock as Arvind let go off her neck and walked back to his chair and slammed into it.

"You and I are going to be grandparents soon because Khushi is about to deliver our grandchild. "

Garima looked shocked hearing Arvind but it was later replaced by fear as she watched Arvind move to the mini bar and poured himself some whisky.

"Oh God...... Please help me stop Arvind from going closer to Khushi...... I have to find a way to get rid off him and the only way to do that is by abandoning my plans to escape and staying with Arvind........ He has the same obsessive love he had for me in our teenage years and that will be my weapon to bring him down........ I have to pretend to love him....... I hurt my family once and was the cause of their pain but no more....... If becoming a murderer is the only way to keep them safe then so be it. " Garima thought.

She knew Arvind was a deadly man and for the past few weeks,she found out Arvind had intentionally fake his death with the help of his mafia friends and had kept tabs on all of them.

Now hearing Arvind wanting to leave for Delhi,she knew he was about to turn her family's life upside down and she won't let that happen especially knowing the kind of people he was involved with.

She had ruined the family enough and the only what to atone for her sins was to pretend to like Arvind and find a way to stop him.

She walked up to Arvind and hugged his back which took Arvind by surprise.

He pulled her from behind and to face him and he was surprised seeing Garima smiling at him with teary eyes.

"Thank you for telling me about Khushi..... Am going to be grandmother but I know I can't ever get closer to Khushi because of what I did to the family....... You may be a powerful man but Arnav alone is more powerful than you and Nimrat is three times more powerful than Arnav........ Aman, Payal's fiance is a deadly force and loves Khushi like a sister....... They combined will destroy you completely...... So how are you going to let me see my grandchild if she is always surrounded by them?........ I don't want to lose you again and I don't want Khushi hating me than she already does....... How are we going to get to see our grandchild?" Garima asked pretending to be to be concerned for Arvind who realised he doesn't have a full proofed plan but he was happy seeing Garima concern for her.

He cupped her face and pecked her lips which Garima felt disgusted but pretended to like it.

"Don't worry my love....... You will see our grandchild and don't worry....... We will get our right to see our grandchild and I promise to not do anything illegal........ I know how much you love your daughters and they are not only mine daughters but Khushi is my daughter in law too...... You will get them back soon...... That I promise you. "

Garima nodded and hugged him even though she was repulsed by it and to ease that repulsion, she imagined the only love of her life Shashi and stared kissing Arvind on his neck and he pulled away looking shocked by her actions.

"I want you now. " Garima whispered seductively staring at Arvind's face which morphed into Shashi and she hungrily kissed him and Arvind drunk in his obsessive love for Garima reciprocated and picked her up into his room and proceeded to have sex with her.

City Hospital, Delhi.

Khushi was heard cursing Arnav for getting her pregnant and poor Arnav took all the abuse knowing she was right and to him if this was the way to ease her pain then so be it.

He was scarred watching videos of live childbirth and it traumatized him knowing Khushi was going to be going through the same so he pressured Khushi to have an epidural but unfortunately for them, it didn't work and Khushi had to have a natural birth.

"I hate you Arnav Singh Raizada. " Khushi yelled as another contraction hit her and she dug her nails into Arnav's skin more as the doctor asked her to push again.

"I know baby....... But please push and you can hate me afterwards. " Arnav responded.

Khushi with all her might pushed and with a few seconds the baby was almost out and the midwife gently pushed the baby out and Khushi fell back exhausted as Arnav planted multiple kisses on her forehead smiling at her.

The cry of their baby echoed in the delivery room as the midwife announced it was baby girl.

Arnav started dancing making everyone laugh including Khushi who had just forgotten her pain.

The midwife called out to Arnav to cut the umbilical cord but Arnav shook his head taking everyone aback.

"That honor must go to Khushi...... She did all the hard work. " Everyone smiled hearing him and the midwife placed the baby on Khushi's chest and gave her the scissor.

Khushi asked Arnav to hold her hand and he didn't hesitate and did it and together they cut the umbilical cord.

The nurses took away the baby to clean her up and escorted Arnav out in other to clean up Khushi too.

Arnav rushed to the waiting room and announced the birth of his daughter as the family celebrated.

Isha, Payal, Shashi and Ajay cried tears of joy after hearing the arrival of the new member of the family.

Mami and Nani who had sneaked onto the waiting room had tears of joy hearing about the new addition.

"Am a great grandmother. " Nani whispered enthusiastically and Mami nodded saying.

"Am a grandmother too. " But the joy was short lived when sadness crept in. " Unfortunately she will never know them........ Arnav may have been civil with us over the past three weeks and he had been visiting Anjali but that doesn't mean he would allow us near the baby bit at least we can see her from afar and am happy he is softening up on Anjali because she deserves it all. "

Nani nodded and dragged Mami out of there to the private floor when a comatose Anjali was lying.

She moved close and sat down taking Anjali's hand and kissing it.

"Anju...... You are now an aunt to a beautiful baby girl....... I may have not seen her but I know she is the most beautiful baby because her parents are the beautiful people in the world........ Come back Anju...... Please wake up. " Nani cried.

Anjali dressed in white and walking on the clouds but halted with she heard please wake up Anju.

Thunder stroked frightening her and she looked at the around and realised she was in a suspended start and a soft voice echoed and instead of being afraid, she felt safe.

"Who are you? " Anjali questioned looking up from where the voice was coming from.

"Am here to give you a chance...... A chance to have this. " The harmonious voice replied and Anjali stared at a picture displaced in front of her.

It was a picture of her and Arnav hugging and comforting each other.

Anjali looked away and shook her head.

"It's not possible. " She whispered sadly and the voice chuckled.

"And why is that Anjali? "

"I have done so many harm to Choteau to deserve this....... I don't want to have that...... All I want is to keep walking until I get to where ever am going. "  Anjali responded and started walking away.

"Not even of he wants you to meet you little niece. "

Anjali halted and turned around to find a display of Arnav kissing a child.

"Your little niece is here and I know you have hear all the time Arnav and Khushi has been begging you to come back....... You have also heard the children from the orphanage also begging you to come back and yet you are too self centered to put others first. "

Anjali flinched hearing the anger in the person's voice.

"No you don't get it. " Anjali retorted.

"Then make me get it. "

" I am scared....... Am scared I might make another mistake and hurt my loved ones again....... I don't want that. " Anjali cried holding on to her chest as a sudden pain engulfed her.

"All humans make mistakes but it take a special kind of human to realize their mistakes and change for the better....... You have to go back and at one for your mistakes....... Give the love you could give Arnav over the past years to the children at the orphanage and to you little niece and those to come before her...... Be a better sister to Arnav and maybe just maybe, you will one day have his trait and love back. "

Anjali smiled and nodded and within seconds, she felt a sensation as if she was falling and closed he eyes to embrace what ever was installed for her.

Back in the private ward, Anjali gradually opened her eyes only to be blinded by the bright light.

The hospital scent engulfed her sensory as she heard multiple voices in her room and people moving around her.

She couldn't make out what was happening as sleep engulfed her.

Khushi's Room.

Arnav gently stroked his daughter's hair as Khushi breast fed her as the nurse instructed and the baby was happily and hungrily sucking on her breast as Khushi and Arnav laughed.

"What are we going to name her? " Khushi asked staring at Arnav.

Arnav thought for a moment and smiled staring at Khushi was looked curious to know.

"Anaisha."

Khushi smiled at him and snapped her head back to the baby.

"Anaisha Gupta Singh Raizada. " She whispered to the baby who was now fast asleep but still latched on to her mother's breast.

Khushi turned to Arnav and pecked his lips.

"I love it. "

Mother and Father gushed over their daughter with love that they never thought existed.

Outside the hospital parking lot, Mohan sat in his car shocked by the information he had just received from his informants whom Isha had ordered him to get to keep tabs on Garima.

The passenger seat door opener and in entered Aman who looked pissed.

"Dude what's wrong with you....... I was getting a gift at the gift shop for our niece  but you disappeared and here you are continuously calling and texting me to met you. " Aman chided glaring at Mohan but it turned to concern seeing the worried look on his face.

"Do you remember the people whom maaa asked me to hire to keep taps on Garima? " Aman nodded. " They just informed me Garima was kidnapped three weeks ago and was scared to tell me but they were able to trace the kidnappers to Pretoria, South Africa and you will be shocked who they found with Garima shopping at a plaza in Pretoria. "

Aman opened the envelope Mohan handed to him and pulled out the photos and was shocked seeing pictures of Arvind Malik alive and shopping with Garima who looked happy.

" That witch....... Few weeks ago, she was begging Khushi and Payal to forgive her only for her to be galavanting around with Arvind Malik the man responsible for destroying the family...... I won't spare her. " Aman gritted the words through his teeth.

"What do we do now? " Mohan asked not sure how to handle this.

We keep this between us......... I don't want the stench of those two vile human being polluting the arrival of such a pure soul........ Second we increase the security  around the family without them noticing tell your men to find a way to hack all their electronic devices...... We have to be a step ahead of them always. "

Mohan nodded and a knocked on the tainted window of his car broke their reverie and they hid the pictures and composed themselves as the got out to find a fuming Payal tapping her feet glaring at them.

"Sorry baby...... We were just tracking the surprise we ordered for our precious little niece. " Aman lied and Payal squinted her eyes back and forth between them.

Before she couldn't say anything, Aman dragged her out of there with Mohan behind them.

To be continued.

* Arvind Malik is back from the dead.
Will Garima succeed in her plans to get rid of him or will he catch her in the act?

*What do you think of Aman's opinion on Garima?

*Anjali is back and how do you think she will react to her father being alive especially she being a daddy's girl?

*How will the families ( Guptas, Raizadas and Maliks ) react to Arvind Malik's appearance?

* How many of you want a face off between Arvind and Arnav?

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