Note: This is not a slow burn romance. I am placing every event in such a way that you find something interesting in every chapter. But I request you to not compare it with my last book.
Time skips.......
She was lost in her own thoughts when a knock interrupted her. It was Riddhima and her sister Aarushi ( who was Abhinav's younger brother Om's wife).
Both of them entered inside the room.
Kritika passed an awkward smile to them as she doesn't know how to deal with his family now as she will love to dance on his husband's weak nerves but regarding the behaviour with his family she was a bit confused.
Riddhima went to her and sat beside Kritika and spoke in a soft voice, " We know this marriage occured in a really strange situation and even you would be not able to process what happened along with us. But I can give you assurance and you will be happy in this family if both of you have decided to stay together and these rivalries and all are conversation topics for the people who are engaged in politics. All what I know is that my son had chosen you as his life partner and I will definitely accept his decision ".
Kritika spoke, " Are you not upset about not being a part of the wedding of your child ? ". Riddhima replied, " It's alright atleast finally now he is married otherwise the way he used to reject every single marriage alliance. We had gave up over the hope to see him getting married one day ".
Aarushi spoke, " And both of you complement each other so well. Even we will not be able to get him such a beautiful bride. Right Riddhima di ? ". Riddhima nodded and passed an comforting smile to her.
Aarushi spoke, " You can call me maasi or chaachi whatever you prefer to ". Kritika nodded in response feeling how to react to love and affection she is receiving here and she never get to expierence it which makes it more difficult for her to cope up with all this.
For some people it is easy to handle the hate. But life had been so tough on them that love and affection seems more fake to them and they don't know how to reciprocate for such efforts.
Kritika stayed silent. Riddhima said , " You need time to be comfortable here here with him, with us and I hope we will give you enough space for it. If you need anything just tell us, for now you can take some comfortable clothes from Palak till then we will arrange a new wardrobe for you ". Saying this both of them left from there.
Kritika murmured in a low voice, " Even the ladies of this family are clever enough to honey trap me. But I am not any innocent naive child who is easy to trap. I know all this facade won't stop me from achieving for what I am here ".
Palak provided her a comfortable kurta set to Kritika. Later on, Kritika was a little comfortable with Palak as she didn't have any one else to ask for anything, but somehow she was feeling caged at the place she step to choose in, but atleast this place was not suffocating for her as the previous one.
Atharv was passing in front of Palak's room while she called him. Atharv raised his eyebrow while saying, " Speak ". Kritika inhaled a deep breath and said, " I want to visit my home once ".
Atharv spoke in a strict tone, " It is not possible right now. You are not allowed to go there ". Kritika replied, " Either you take me there or I will go there myself. I am not taking permission from you here ".
Atharv spoke, " I won't go there and even you will not. Get this clear in your mind ".
Saying this he stormed off from there leaving her in a upset state.
Kritika silently followed him and hiding from everyone there. She silently hid herself in the backspace in his car while he was driving alone to his office.
