Manik's pov
Today has been so hectic, it's the end of the month and that means a shit ton of paperwork. My office right now looked like a bomb went off in here, papers everywhere, pencils, even our laptops were scattered
Cabir was sitting on my chair with his laptop on the table, arun was on the smaller couch, his laptop on the floor beside him as papers were beside him on the couch.
I was on the bigger couch with my laptop on the small table in front of me, papers all around me and my little wife was engulfed with papers too. She seemed the hardest working person in this room since she was a sleep now
"This is why I tell you idiots to keep the papers in the right drawer" I said to both these stupid men
"I did put it in the second drawer" arun says
"No you didn't, we literally just checked the cctv"
"You ass, there is no cctv in this room and you know that so it means you haven't being doing shit the past two hours" arun say throwing a pen at cabir
"I COULD HAVE LOST MY FUCKING EYE" cabir screams
Beside me nandini stirs in her sleep a little making me glare at both the men in the room
"Quit yelling will you, she will wake up" I glare at him
Both of them looked at me and then Nandini, arun chuckles seeing her sleeping. She had her head on a pillow on my lap, her legs stretched out over the side of the couch
"She is sleeping like she has fought in a war" cabir says
"And If she hears you say that you will be fighting one" I comment
"Hey I am her older brother"
"Should I wake her up then?" I ask
"No don't, she is like an older version of Niya" he says scrunching his nose making me chuckle
The other day cabir got Niya home and when the two of us came down from the office, Niya and Nandini were watching cartoons while navy was sleeping. And no Nandini wasn't just sitting there glancing at the carton she was so invested in spongebag.
"She sure is" I whisper caressing Nandini's hair
"Can I just mention something to you?" Cabir asks
"Yeah" I say without taking my eyes off nandini's beautiful face
"She is looking so much better"
"What do you mean?" I ask
"Whne she was living with mom and dad, she wasn't happy nor was she healthy. She never ate, she would chug water to fill up and it was so heartbreaking to watch her"
"Yeah and you didn't do shit" I bark back, his eyes widen a bit
"Sorry hm I didn't mean for it to come out that harsh" I whisper
"You aren't wrong, she never let me interfere and dad, he would never do anything in front of me but every other day when I brought Niya to see her, she had new bruises among other things. I asked every time but she never admits it, god I wish she would, I wish she would tell me so I can do something. Every time I brought it up to my father he would always tell me to bring proof and Nandini jsut didn't wanna say anything"
"Cabir the number of bruises on her, like are you fucking with me. I am going to say this in the sweetest way possible, I will fuck up your father and I mean it"
"Do it, he deserves it for he put her through" he smiles at me
"I will and I hope he has a fucking explanation for it because the way he has hit her and scared her, I wouldn't even think to"
"Manik" I hear her whisper making me stop talking as I look down to her
i caress her hair humming, her eyes flutter open as she looks in my eyes
"Morning sleepy head" I smile but instead of smiling back her eyes fill with tears for some reason
She gets up falling in my arms, her hands grip my shirt as she sniffles in my chest, I wrap my arm around her back sitting her in my lap
"Shh what wrong?" I ask
Seeing her sniffling both cabir and arun got up too moving closer sitting on the couch beside us
"No no" she cries
"Nandini" she shook her head in my chest
"I I am not in that room" she cries
"You are not, nandini look at me" I try moving away to look at her but she wouldn't let me
"Nandini sweetie, whats wrong" cabir asks caressing her back but she jumps at his touch trying to come closer to my chest but it was physically impossible
"No no I"
I pull back forcefully and tilt her chin up
"Look at me nandini" I order
Her eyes open as tears run down her cheeks, she shakes her head holding the collars of my shirts
"You are with me, in the office. It's okay, shh there is no one in here" i assure her
She looks around and lays her face in my neck holding me tighter, she was scared, im sure she had a nightmare
"I had a nightmare" she whispers in my ears
"About what?" I ask
"Dad, he he hurt me" she cries
"Shhh he won't, he will never hurt you anymore. Don't cry"
"It it felt so real, I I thought I was back there"
"You know I would never let you go back there, remember what I said about us" I ask
She nods pulling her face out of my neck, she leans her head on my chin as I kiss her forehead a couple times
"You said we would go to hell together" she whispers making me lauhg
"Not that little one, I was talking about keeping us safe"
"Oh" she laughs at her reply too
"And when did I say we were going to hell?" I ask
"You didn't but you are the devil right so devils go to hell and if you are going I guess I gotta come too" I shake my head laughing at her sillinesss causing her to giggle
"She is crazy" cabir says
"She sure is" I whisper
"Hey who do you think you are calling crazy? Did you wanna lose an eye" nandini ask glaring at him
"See physcotic, im leaving" he says
"I will break your legs cabir" she yells after him
"I will break yours" he yells back
"I will kill you in your sleep" she yells
"I will kill you too" he yells
"siblings" arun says leaving the two of us alone
"Hey you are okay right?" I ask
"It felt real" she whispers rubbing her nose with mine
I could feel her warm breath on my face as she spoke to me, the way she held my face rubbing her nose against mine to soothe herself was adorable. She has done it a couple times before too when I was angry at her for hurting her hand.
"It's not, just a dream" I assure her
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