Amore è vita

Chapter 25

Previously

"It's about Seerat di." She sighed with closed eyes.

"Sahiba please don't ruin my day. I am really happy today with everything good happening with us fortunately, I beg you please don't say a word about her." He said closing his eyes.

"I know that you love her and you are bitter about her but Angad you need to know who was the man she ran away with." She said holding her hand.

"Who was he?" He asked her.

"It was Garry." She said.

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Now...

Angad was so quiet that Sahiba could hear the crickets chirping in the grass near them.

"I can show you the proof Angad because I know that it is difficult to trust someone who is pointing a finger on your loved one." Sahiba assured him and she opened her phone showing him the photo she took of Seerat and Garry when she saw them together in that motel room.

Angad was numb, and it was something Sahiba was very scared of. She didn't want him to feel lonely and heartbroken.

She was aware of heartbreak not romantic but heartbreak is a heartbreak and it hurts the same when your family or your partner hurts you. Sahiba suffered this when she was forced against her will by her mother and now Angad is facing this because of the betrayal by Seerat and Garry's secret illicit affair.

Both of them quietly went in the car and proceeded to home and after a long painful time of silence surrounding the car when they both could even listen to the crickets singing. Sahiba looked at Angad who was constantly scrolling his phone looking at something important. She noticed that it made him more mad than he was when she told him the truth about Garry.

The silence before and now had a huge difference because back then they were comfortably silent but now they were sitting in an awkward silence or may be silence before a storm.

They reached home and Angad took long steps to his room and shut his door with a bang which attracted the attention of many people.

Sahiba rushed to his room but it was closed and she heard someone weeping softly. She knew that Angad was still trying to hide his emotions and he wanted to cry but he didn't want anyone to worry about him.

Sahiba was too much worried about him but she didn't want him to bottle up his emotions so she patiently stood by the door waiting for him to let go of every single thought which makes him worry about Seerat.

Angad's trust was wavering over his brother not because Sahiba showed him the proof but also because he himself was suspicious about his recent activities. He saw him flirting with girls and breaking their hearts all the time but he didn't think that Garry could do something like that but when Sahiba showed him the video his doubt increased.

And his trust completely broke when his private investigator gave him the full report of the incidents happening behind his back.

He then got to know that Sahiba was right all along and then he desperately needed space. He then just wanted to crush everything near him and destroy everything which comes in his way.

He didn't want to stress his family so he barged in the room and then let out his aggression.

What else could he do?

His brother, his childhood buddy, his best friend since ages betrayed him for power and status.

This betrayal was even more painful than what Seerat gave him because Garry was his brother, his blood.

They say that Blood is thicker than water but they didn't know that in the flashes of money and glamour, even the thickness of blood fades away leaving white-cast of pain and loneliness.

He never differentiated between his mother and Jasleen Bua but his bua always taunted his mother, she intentionally hurt Manveer so bad sometimes that Manveer got hypertension.

He had always seen Manveer struggle with so many problems and she emerged victorious every time; she was his hero, his unsung hero who protected his little heart from everyone she could and so did Sahiba.

Sahiba was aware of Garry's deceit since the day after reception but she never said anything because she didn't want to hurt any family member and especially not him because Sahiba knew how sensitive Angad is in the matter of relationships.

It is not his fault that his heart breaks when someone close is found to be disloyal to him. It was a huge scandal this time.

'How will face Garry now without anger popping in my veins?'

'How should I handle mom after this scandal?'

'What will I say to Daarji and beeji?'

All these thoughts were running in his mind and he thought he was going crazy. He glided his hands in his hair and held them in a clutch so tight that it pained his scalp but the pain he was feeling in his heart was more than this.

Angad sat down on his knees clutching his hair and tears slipped from his eyes.

He was losing his shit but then a hand grabbed his shoulder.

He saw Sahiba standing with tears streaming down her face because she was so worried about her husband after the bomb she dropped. She was guilty about telling him the truth as it resulted such a bad condition of her always smiling husband.

Sahiba did bend down sitting close to him and held his face with her soft hands wiping his tears. She then hugged him and she did just what he needed.

At that point he knew that this is it.

He needs her so much that he can't even describe.

He wants her warmth around him and she knows what she is doing.

Angad just wrapped his arms around her waist and hid his head in her neck trying to control his cries.

Sahiba knew that he needs these warm hugs so she just hugged him without breaking apart.

She then slowly went back and faced him.

"I am sorry Angad. Please forgive me." She said closing her eyes.

Angad just touched his forehead with hers and said, "What are you sorry for? Garry was betraying me from the start along with his mother troubling my mother."

Sahiba was shaken to her core, "What the hell are you even talking about?"

Angad narrated the story given by the investigator and told how Garry conned him for business and status.

Sahiba was so traumatized with this revelation what tears heavily poured out of her eyes as she closed him and she then just touched his forehead with hers providing him comfort and solace.

She then did something so unexpected that he was shocked himself.

She leaned in and kissed his forehead for a long time and it felt surreal to him.

When she leaned back to face him, he cupped her cheek and said, "Just be with me Sahiba, I need you by my side."

"Always" Was only word she uttered and it was the only word he needed.

He picked her up in bridal style and carried her to his bed and softly placed her in the center of the bed.

Both were looking at each other without breaking the eye contact.

Angad slipped in the bed and Sahiba hugged him placing her head on his chest giving him assurance that she is with him.

Angad just circled his arm around her and both of them went into deep sleep making the night witness two souls uniting with each other because of one emotion, pain.