Raavi - When The Crowned Princess meets The Mafia King.

Ghar

Raavi POV

Alex held my hand as I stepped out of the G-wagon to look up at the mansion that I call home. I remember the first time I came here was for Alex's mothers prayer ceremony over an year ago but now I crave for these walls more than anything.

"Careful. The bedroom downstairs is ready for us." He says as I groan.

"But the kids nursery is upstairs." I say as Tejpartap laughs.

"Stop being an ass. You're not taking care of the kids. That's mine and Alex's job. Go rest and heal your stitches." He says, as Alex helps me up the front stairs to the main gate.

"Stop being an ass, Partap. Those are my sons and I've held them like twice. This is not fair, Alex." I say turning to my husband with puppy eyes as I hear a wuff and Rory comes running.

"Careful. She had stitches." Alex says holding him so he doesn't mow me down in his love. But Rory was gentle and nudged me politely as I scratched his head.

"Don't bend." Tejas joined the army as I rolled my eyes.

"Guys, I've been in a comma for half a month and then on bed rest for almost another half. The stitches are healed." I argue as Alex rolls his eyes as we approach the main door. It opens to reveal my mom standing there with four laddoos to perform the Indian welcome traditions for someone who just gave birth and returned home.

"Is it really necessary? Can't we do this when she's on a bed?" Tejpartap complained as I slapped him on his arm.

He can't even hit me back in this stage, but also I've been wanting to do this for a while. He's just soo damn irritating.

"Let mom do it. This is the only time I get to be welcomed like this." I say, as Alex's face immediately falls.

Yes, I know about the hysterectomy. I remember the first time I went to the bathroom after waking up, I realized I wasn't bleeding. I didn't have those large diapers and maternity pads that woman use after birth.

I thought maybe because I had been asleep for so long, but on a mention of having 2 kids but wanting a bigger family, I watched Alex try to hide the look in his eyes.

On asking that same evening after waking up, he and Dr. Ibrahim sat with me and told me how an important part of me was missing.

In an attempt to save me, they had to get rid of my uterus. I had my menopause before I was even 25.

I felt less like a woman, and wanted to cry. Alex had told me that my ovaries were still in place and we could go for surrogacy if we ever wanted more kids. He thought I was crying because it was just about having more kids.

This was more than that. My mom sat through the crying sessions and an on-call therapist was hired for me. Her sessions will continue from home now onwards, but one person who came through as the biggest supporter during all of this was my father.

I stepped foot in my house after the rituals as Dad came downstairs holding onto Atharv and Reuben in the front of his customized twin strap-in baby holder.  

"Mommies here." He says, as I look up at the Trio.

The babies were discharged and when everyone was focussed on my mental health, it was my father who raised my sons to be almost one month old.

"I'll have Ruby." Tejpartap says, finding his favorite nephew while Dianne takes Atharv. Atharv cries whenever Tejpartap holds him, hence the favor towards Reuben.

"Dad." I say, and take a step towards him. He stood his place, as if he didn't trust his own steps.

I didn't call him 'Dad' that day in the hospital and I haven't seen him since. It was a little surprising when he agreed to see me on Alexander's conditions but that made me feel warm and gooey with love.

Alex supported me in the next step as well, with his hand around my back but I held his hand and moved it away from me.

I needed to do this on my own.

"I'm sorry." I whisper as dad shakes his head and takes off his spectacles to wipe the inner corners of his eyes with his thumb and forefinger before he looks up at me and takes me in his arms.

"I'm sorry, Raavi." Dad chokes out. We both didn't cry, we wept. We sobbed out loud when his arms held me and I knew my world was complete again.

My #1 King was in my life, supporting me, caring for me and he loved me.

I let him hold me, my hands around his neck as he wept on my shoulder and I sniffled louder as the tears wouldn't stop and we didn't want to let go.

It had taken a lot in me, to ask him to leave that day, but I had.

I have a family that starts with Alex and until my father starts to see the man that I'm with as worthy, I can't expect him to respect Alex.

That would have been a situation unfit for my kids to be around when they grow up.

They need to see their father as a good man and an idol like me and my siblings did, not a man who in the eyes of their grandpa is 'a boy who knocked up his daughter' and if he couldn't do it, I would have had to chose my future over my past.

We held each other a little tighter as he cried louder and we heard a squeal. It was Atharv. We parted to look at my elder son who had started crying and that woke up his younger twin who joined him in the wailing.

"Look, what you did..." Alexander says half jokingly, taking Atharv from Dianne as she runs to the kitchen to make a bottle as Tejpartap tries to coax Reuben.

"Tejas, Alex put the kids to bed and come back for dinner soon." Mom says, going after Dianne towards the kitchen as dad leads me towards the dining room.

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"Oh, remember when this guy came up to Raavi and she was in second standard. He said, he liked her and she punched him in the nose?" Tejpartap says, as everybody laughs. I sat between dad and Alex on the round dinner table.

"And mom grounded her, after the teacher complained but dad... He bought her that multi  hotwheels racing track with loops bigger than us and a doll house." Tejas says, as Mom chuckles.

"And... And... I remember once Raavi walked out of mom's closet with a bra over her clothes and said that She'll grow up and wear these too, so dad barely ate anything for a week." Tejpartap says, as my father chokes on her food. My mother passes her water, and shakes her head.

"Now that I look back, I should have seen this day coming. He was wayy too protective." Daman says, as my father tries to defend himself.

"Hey, no... That just...  came as a surprise to me and I didn't..." Dad tried to speak.

"What? Pre-marital sex came as a surprise to you? Something we did like 30 years ago? That was the surprise?" Mom bites back.

"Ewwww TMI, mom." Tejpartap complains as dad turns red while we all laugh out louder and Rory gobbles up the small bite that Tejas slides from his plate.