Forced to be his

Characters and prologue

Characters

Manik malhotra: sweet and polite to his loved ones but a rude arrogant businessmen. He is a typical 28 year old businessman who has made a name for himself from scratch. He loves his family and owns a modelling company names Manbir models.

Ashi malhotra: the cutest but sassiest 3 year old one has seen. she loves her dad

Nandini: the sweetest girl, she is always polite and nice to people, talks a lot like more than anyone. She is 27 years old, Fashion designer in Manbir models.

Cabir dhawan: manik's best friend, and ishika's favourite for pranks. He becomes a kid with ashi and spoils her to no extent. Owner of manbir models.

Navya dhawan" cabir's wife, Nandini's best friend. Loves ashi like her own, she is like manik's older sister, even tho they are always arguing, she means well for him. Fashion designer in manbir models

Raj malhotra: manik's dad, a prankster like cabir and ashi

Nyonika malhotra: manik's mom

Disha: manik's girlfriend

Prologue

Third person Pov

"Ready" Manik heard his best friend

"As ready as I can be" he replied

"Manik, try looking a little happy" his dad said fixing his sherwani

"Dad, you are forcing me to get married when I have a daughter and a wife already" he mumbled

"She isnt your wife, you guys never got married" he said

"Yeah but I love her, and this bullshit that you guys are doing is fucked up, I am telling you I will not endorse this" he said grabbing his phone

"You love her right of course you love a girl who doesn't give a shit about you, but from today andnini is your wife" he said making Manik frown

"Uncle ill handle it ap jaa"cabir said and raj nodded leaving

"Manik, Nandini isn that bad, you know her, she is one of our best designers so I dont see that probable" cabir said

"Dude she is great at her work but that doesn't mean I will let someone in my house as my fucking wife, you know how much I love disha and ashi but still, you are on their side for unknown god damn reason" Manik yelled

"I am gonna say this once and never again" cabir said smiling

"What, and stop smiling" Manik said irritatedly

"If you really loved disha, you would have married her by now, but that has never even crossed your mind, not just that umm ashi has never called disha her mom and you know that. So think about it Manik, maybe Nandini could make your life better, you have everything you need in life but you have never had a partner who gave you everything" cabir said patting Manik's back

"Disha gives me everything" Manik fired back

"Oh of course she does, but you have never known what love is" chair said

"Manik beta ready" nyonika, manik's mom asked coming in

"Han ma, please can we just not please, ill pay her more" Manik tried getting out of it

"No and dont ever disrespect her like that"

"Mom I can't do this at least think about ashi" he said

"I am thinking about ashi and you, Manik you promised me you would marry her" nyonika said

"I know but mom I can't cheat on disha like that" he justified

"She isnt worth it Manik and your dad and I are leaving tonight you know this, I won't be able to take care of ashi and I know Nandini can do that so please quit it and just come out" she said

Manik sighed and walked with his mother and cabir outside to the mandap, he saw her sitting there waiting for him even though its usually the groom waiting today she was waiting for him.

He sat down beside her and the wedding rituals started, there was a frown on mnaik's face the whole time while anndini's face had a tiny smile every time she mad eyes contact with anyone. Anyone could tell Manik wasn't happy but he didnt care how everyone perceived him

The rituals ended and the guest started leaving, Nandini was standing in a corner just staring at her hands while Manik was with cabir the whole time,

"Nandini congratulations baby" navya her best friend said running in

"Navu hi, thank you" she said softly

"Im so so sorry baby I just landed and got here as fast as I could that stupid cabir didnt tell me earlier im so sorry" she said

"No its okay, im glad you came I needed someone" she said hugging navya

"Is something wrong" navya asked

"No, I was just missing granny" she said

"Why didnt you invite her" navya asked

"Umm" tears filled her eyes

"Shh okay I wont ask, im sorry" navya said caressing her hair

"You had cabir too right, why isnt he with you" navya asked

"He is busy with Manik" she said wiping her face

"Dont cry, shh" navya wiped her cheeks and kissed her head

"Nandini baby why are you crying" cabir said coming closer to her

"Nothing bhai" she said and cabir kissed her head

"It'll be all okay I promise" he said

"You idiot why did you leave her alone, you know she doesnt know anyone well here" navya said smacking cabir's arm

"Ouch, I was with Manik he is being fussy" he said rubbing his arm

"Nandini bacha come you must be tired ill show you, your room" nyonika said

"Aunty its okay I know you have a flight to catch, ill show her dont worry" navya said

"Bacha, don't ever hesitate to call me I am your father now too, you know I love you even more than manik so please dont even think and I wanna talk to you every day okay" raj said caressing her hair

"Thank you papa, it means a lot to me" she said chocking up with tears

"Shh dont cry nandu, ill be just a call away and so will mom" he said and nyonika nodded

"Always, and if he hurts you and is disrespectful call me I will beat him up" she said making nandini chuckle

"I will" nandini mummbled

"Nandini I know you were sort of forced to do this but I just wanna say that manik isnt as bad as he makes himself, yes he has made bad choices, his stupid girlfriend being one of them but he will soon realize his mistakes, just dont leave him" nyonika said

"Its okay mom, I did this and I will stick by him no matter what I promise" nandini said

Her words were enough to make everyone smile, nyonika and raj left to attend business abroad while navya took nandini up to their room.