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12. Definitely not !

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KARAN'S POV

" Karan, just answer me. I am asking something and you are making it hard for me to even breathe with the amount of suspense you are creating." Naina cried out, tears forming in her eyes which were threatening to fall out.

" Arnav bhai has asked to announce something big in the press which would make the current news fake and unworthy in front of it." I let it out, avoiding her gaze as much as possible. I have never been so hesitant and nervous in my entire life.

Though it's not the complete truth.

" But what does it have to do with the baby ? And what big announcement are you talking about ? "

That's the main concern, wife. And for me to tell the whole matter, I need to be heartless, which I am for her but could not find myself to be heartless to do it.

" Karan, please come clear," I saw her pleading while I stood without any remorse.

I can feel that it's hard for me to make her do it when I know that it could break her but at the same time I could not just ignore the fact that I have decided to keep her away as much as possible and not get involved in any kind of emotional attachment.

But I have to tell her. I have given my words to Arnav bhai.

" Naina, don't think of me as a wrong person but we have to make the media believe that we guys were in a relationship from our teenage times, as in our highschool times and you were already pregnant before marriage and that was the reason for our sudden marriage. With that, we all can manage to make the news about Khushi di's pregnancy fake with the help of your pregnancy." I completed, trying hard to not think of Naina and to avoid looking at her.

I gulped the lump formed in my already dry throat, scratching the back of my neck, letting out a deep breath and expecting some kind of reaction from Naina when I glanced up at her features. But, she looked void which made me question myself.

Do I want her to go through the pain ?

" So, what do you want ? Should I compromise just to save the so-called reputation of our elder siblings ?" She asked me, her voice getting heavy with each word she uttered as a lone tear escaped from her eye, breaking my illusion that nothing about her matters to me.

" Are you fine with this ?" She shot her second question, her voice seemed to be quavering with the amount of emotions she had buried deep into the heart, leaving me in daze. It was as if she expected something from me but I failed. Indeed her words have the effect of shaking my whole existence. And staring at her face, I realised that I had wronged her. She expected a simple genuineness from my side by saying no to the plan and I ruined it by informing her about the plan, making it look like I have no problem.

I was fine until I saw her.

But now ?

Am I really fine ?

" Why am I really asking you this stupid question ?" I saw her, shifting her gaze away from me, her voice laced with uncertainty.

" If you would not have been fine with it, I would not have found you here, informing the same. And It's not like you guys will simply take a no from me. You all will make sure I agree. So, I am fine if you are fine." And she left the place without even glancing at me, grabbing her handbag from the couch, leaving me in my own struggle.