Chapter 8 - Time Spent

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The next morning Aria woke up only to see herself sleeping and her head on something hard. She opened her eyes only to see herself snuggled up against her father's chest who was observing his daughter's every move as if she was spending her last moments with him.

"Good morning Jit" she said smiling sheepishly while yawing cutely and stretching herself.

Ranjit smiled and kissed her forehead saying, "Morning baacha. Uthe ab hum?" (Morning baby. Should we get up now?)

Hearing this Aria nodded but still holding his torso while Ranjit kept caressing her hair.

"Baba?" Ranjit hummed in response but stopped caressing as soon as he heard, "Can I meet them once and talk with them?"

"Do you want to? Are you sure?" Aria nodded in response while Ranjit sighed and got up along with Aria whom he gave a quick hug with a kiss on forehead and told her to go and have a bath.

As soon as she went he got himself freshened up and went downstairs ordering a maid to call the guests to have breakfast.

He went to the living room only to everyone engaged in their normal activity but still, the atmosphere was gloomy. Although the women of the house tried to forget the situation and engage themselves in the work still they couldn't forget that their princess was going to leave them. The same has been the situation with men.

They looked at the stairs hearing some footsteps only to see Leonardo and Massimo come downstairs and saw them also being in a gloomy mood.

Ranjit gestured them to join them at breakfast making them follow him at the dining table.

Later someone's footsteps were heard, who was none other than Aria who smiled at everyone making everyone have a small smile while wishing everyone 'Good morning'.

As soon as she sat down on her chair she noticed two unknown men looking at her with some softness in their eyes. She didn't feel uncomfortable in their gaze.

Before she could ask them she heard Karan who was sitting beside her whispering to her, "He is your father, Leonardo Rossi. And next to him is your brother, Massimo."

Hearing this she looked at them again and gave a small nod at them with a smile which she received back with a little wave from her enthusiastic brother making her chuckle.

They ate their breakfast in silence. All this while everyone was taking glances at Aria who was looking at her plate while eating her breakfast.

After everyone's breakfast was done, Leo was going to ask Aria to talk with them but before he could she asked them making them nod their heads and follow her. Before following she looked at everyone who gave her a small nod encouraging her while her father gave her a small sad smile giving her a nod.

As soon as they entered her room their eyes went to look around only to see her room neatly cleaned and organized. Looking around they spotted a wall full of frames exactly in front of her bed. They went near the frames to look at it only to see her pictures. Her childhood photos with everyone and photos of each moment like her first day of school, her first family photo, her first trip, her first birthday and her photos with each family member along with some other memories.

While looking at all the photos Leo knew that he had missed a lot of things from his daughter's life. He always wished by any chance he would have stayed that day. The day when he found out his daughter had been kidnapped. If he had stayed that day, none of these things would have happened and the things would have been different. His family would have been with his daughter rather than any other family. But still, he would be thankful to them for their whole life and for taking care of their daughter.

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