𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐚'𝐬 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞

3) The Acceptance

Nalini's POV

"I won't accept any kind of couching or courtesies or gifts from a family man". I shouted exasperately.

"Yes that's the thing I'm not a family man, I divorced her" He confessed.

"I think it has become your habit to leave behind girls and that isn't a surprise for me, and that too when your wife was pregnant". I blurted all my anger at him.

"Not because of a habit but because I love you" He says.

"Love me? How nice, if you ever had loved me you would never break the engagement with me and marry another one in front of my eyes just to hurt me and additional your wife wouldn't be pregnant just after 1 month of your marriage" I spoke with agony evident on my face and left the hall.

Yuvika was out for some urgent work. So I just went to the room where my luggage was kept. I grabbed the luggage and was about to leave only to find
Abhimanyu at the doorstep.

I didn't say anything and left the room without looking at him.

"Please stop, don't go like this, abandoning me" He gasped.

"I never abandoned you, but you did" I bowled at him with my eyes getting teary.

" It's not like that it was just a mistake, I accept I shouldn't have cut ties with you but I still don't know why I did so. Maybe it was my anger who made me do so. I beg please understand me. I need you, I want you. I've always loved you and always will I just want you for the rest of my life. You may have been away from me, but you were in my mind all the time. Not a single day has passed without praying for you to be mine again and forever this time. It wasn't a day I haven't seen your picture,a day I didn't remembered you and my past mistakes. It's been so many years since we met, but even today, You are the first and last thought of mine. Everything is the same even today. I realize my mistake and I don't want to lose you for the rest of my life. Don't you say that people don't live together because they forget, but people stay together because they forgive, so why don't you forgive me? You know me how do I commit disastrous things without thinking twice. I know it's not a right thing but I did work on this habit and now I'm not like the old person anymore. I'm the person who only wants you, Nalini Roy only you" He confesses his love and accepted the past mistakes infront of me.

"Why? Why are you like this? Why do you come back when I want to forget you and make me fall in love with you over and over? Don't play with my feelings cause you're unsure about yours. Is this all a game for you that whenever you want you broke the engagement, whenever you want you married Stuti, and then divorced her even when she was pregnant and now after all this you've come here to get me back? You said that you want to make me yours but I was yours and by time I'm still yours but the point is do you think of me as yours? Are you mine?" I abbreviated.

"Yes, I divorced her but not just for my kinky wish. But because she was pregnant with not my child" He says making me look directly into his eyes.

"But I met her at the gynaelogist. I had visited the hospital for some tests of my mother and found that she was in the waiting room and waiting for the gynaelogist. She said that she's pregnant" I  affirm.

"Yes indeed she was pregnant but with her ex-roommate. She kept it hidden all this from us because all this happened before our marriage. She was aborting her child and we got to know this when Dhamini noticed Stuti consuming some pills everyday. On asking Stuti must lie making an excuse. But one day when Dhamini saw the medicines when Stuti wasn't home, we all knew the fact" He says.

My eyes widen with shock Abhimanyu narrating all this to me. I didn't say anything as I knew that Stuti does have a crush on his roommate.

"But back to the topic, I'm really sorry" He apologised bowing down in front of me.

"Please don't ask it to me for the third time or else I will say yes" I said gently wiping off the tears that had gathered under my eyes.

"If this is the point, I'm ready to ask the question even millions of times" He consoled.

"No! Even if it's a million times my answer will be the same, cause I hate you, I-I wanna hate you I will hate, No I can't hate you" I said breaking into uncontrollable sobs.

"What the hell is happening" Kaushal shouts moving infront and pulling Abhimanyu by his collers.

"Hit me today, I won't utter anything but please Nalini just once only once" He exclaims.

"Leave him" I commanded Kaushal. Kaushal leaves from there when I asked him to.

"So? What's next?" I said breaking the silence between us.

"So is it a yes?" He asks excitedly.

"Hmm" that is all I gave in response.

Abhimanyu's POV

She finally said yes. I felt so happy that I could not tell it, it felt like a blind person had found his eyes again, why won't it be after all? Though, there is only one who rules my heart.

"If you won't mind, May I take you somewhere?" I asked her.

"Fine but where?" She responded.

"The place where it all started" I told her and she moved forward seeming as she is ready to go.

I took out my car and we finally sat in the car and I drove to the place where it all started. The place where we both met.

~THE GOA BEACH~

In an hour we reached there. She was feeling really happy as gratitude was evident on her pretty face.

"Do you still remember the day when we met?" She asks me holding my left bicep and supporting her head on my shoulders.

"Of course I do, that day was the most beautiful" I said her pecking her forehead. And both of us drenched in the flashbacks of the day when it all started 2nd January, 2015.

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