ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ᴍᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇ [ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇᴅ]

The party

Mayukh POV:

We reached home. Nikita was hesitating to enter. I could sense that. What happened to her? Why's she so scared of me and my entire family?

"Come. They won't bite." I looked.
"Is... Are your parents....?"
"They're here too, along with Bhabhi's parents."
I saw her eyes widen with shock. She looked scared.
"I.... I... I'll go home. Can I...?"
"No. Nikita..." I sighed and pinned her to the wall gently, "I don't know why you're scared of us, but you need to understand that we are your family, whether you like it or not." I cupped her cheeks.

Slowly, I let go and opened the door, with her behind me. We walked in and she was behind me, clearly scared.

"Nikita!" Mom screamed and ran to Nikita. She looked startled but then embraced Mom, as Mom hugged her.
"Hi Aunty."
"How are you beta? Where have you been?"
"I..."
She looked lost.
"Mom she got a really good internship at IBM."
"Oh!!! Wow! Come sit. We'll make you chai."
"No no aunty... I.."
"Arrey, Juma is making. Come."

They took her and sat her down. I watched from a side how my Mom, Bhabhi and her parents all were excitedly talking to her. I wanted her. This is her family.

"When are you gonna tell her?" I heard a voice near me, Ruyash Bhai.
"Tell her what?"
"That we all know everything and that we want you guys married."
"Bhai. It's not that simple."
"Why?"
"She's scared of me. Of us. I don't know who fed her what. I don't know what's going on."
"Marry her Mayukh. She's the best for you."
"I will. She's mine. Whether she likes it not."
"Make her yours soon, but don't hurt her more."

Nikita POV:

This family treats me like their own. It hurts. It hurts knowing I'm in this family even though I'm not exactly there. I need to get married fast, to Sameer, so I'm away from this and so I accept my fate.

In the evening, once the party started, everyone had left. I was the only one at home and I was getting ready. I wore the gown with my necklace and earrings and let my hair out.

I walked outside and went to call a cab when I saw Mayukh, waiting at the bottom of the staircase. He looked ravishing. He looked so good, his white shirt and black pants with rolled up shirt sleeves. Ugh. Why is it so difficult to get over him entirely?! He hates you Nikita. He just wants to sleep with you.

"Are you ready?" He asked.
"Yes."
I went downstairs. He held his hand for me and my heart fluttered. I took his hand and we headed to the event.

It was a silent ride. Once we reached, we entered the hall and she instantly left me and went to Esha. I followed her and met Sid, someone I'd missed for a while. The two of us went to get drinks while Esha was with Nikita.

Soon, Ruyash Bhai called us on stage to announce the name. "Can everyone please gather up? We would like to gladly announce our son's name."
Everyone gathered and I stood next to Nikita. She didn't notice me because she was too lost on her phone. What happened to her?!

"Can we please have Nikita on stage?" Bhai said, startling her. She looked up and looked around, noticing all eyes on her. She got up and went to
the stage.
"She's my baby's Bua and in our culture, the Bua names the child, so she's been the one who named Manisha and my son." I could see her nervous.
"So our son's name is Reyansh Chaudary."

The whole hall burst into applauses. Reyansh. That was a beautiful name. I'm not surprised she'd be able to him that well. I saw Mom and Dad tear up and everyone looked so happy. I smiled at them as well.

After that, the whole hall went into dinner. I couldn't find Nikita anywhere and so I asked around and found that she went outside. I checked outside to find her on a call with someone.

"I can't do it right now. Please understand."
"Why not?" The man on call replied.
"Because I still have to get my job secured at IBM, I don't even know if I'm staying at UK."
"You're marrying me. You don't need to care about your job you aren't going to work."
"But...."
"I'm not asking. I'm telling you. No woman in my family works, you won't either."
I could see her face falling and tears falling down her face. How dare that bastard?!
"Your future husband is the Financial Executive in SAP, I earn enough for everyone. You don't need to work, live off my money."
"Sameer, I want to work."
"Forget that thought then. My parents are coming tommorow. They've decided on the coming Durja Pujo last day to be our marriage date."

I froze and so did she. We both were thinking the same thing. That's our marriage anniversary.

"Sameer... that's only 2 weeks away. We need time. We aren't even engaged yet."
"We don't need to be engaged. We'll have the engagement on Durja Pujo morning and the wedding in the evening."
I could see tears in her eyes.
"Sameer, can we please discuss this?"
"Look, Nikita, we should go to Indore, since that's where we wanna marry. Unless you want to marry here. Otherwise my family home is in Kolkata we can marry there."
"We... we can marry at your family house."
"Okay. I'm going to work now. Termination letter, keep yours ready."
"Sameer... I—"

He cut the call. I saw her cry and my blood boiled. I didn't want this for her. She worked so hard for her work and this bastard wants her to leave it?! Never?!

I instantly picked up my phone, "Armaan. We have a job to do."