Her Only Saviour

64. In her solace.

𝕹𝖆 𝖒𝖚𝖏𝖍𝖘𝖊 𝖏𝖚𝖉𝖆 𝖍𝖔
𝕹𝖆 𝖐𝖍𝖚𝖉 𝖘𝖊 𝖏𝖚𝖉𝖆 𝖍𝖔

𝖂𝖆𝖖𝖙 𝖐𝖊 𝖘𝖆𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝖏𝖔 𝖗𝖆𝖆𝖇𝖙𝖆

𝕶𝖊𝖍𝖙𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝖐𝖍𝖚𝖉𝖆 𝖓𝖊
𝕴𝖘𝖘 𝖏𝖆𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖒𝖊𝖎𝖓 𝖘𝖆𝖇𝖍𝖎 𝖐𝖊 𝖑𝖎𝖞𝖊

𝕶𝖎𝖘𝖎 𝖓𝖆 𝖐𝖎𝖘𝖎 𝖐𝖔 𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖞𝖆 𝖍𝖆𝖗 𝖐𝖎𝖘𝖎 𝖐𝖊..

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The moment Anirudh stepped back into his car, silence wrapped around him like a noose.

He didn’t start the engine.

Didn’t move.

Didn’t even blink.

Nandini was pregnant.

Eight weeks.

And he—her supposed protector, lover, husband—had spent the last eight weeks drowning in self-pity, anger, and guilt… while she carried their child alone.

He clenched the steering wheel so tightly that the leather groaned under his fingers.

You should’ve known, something inside him whispered.

You should’ve seen it in her eyes.

But he hadn’t.

He had been too wrapped up in his pride. Too caught in the web of betrayal and mistrust. So much so, that he hadn’t even paused to look at her properly.

The fierce Nandini who once lit up every room now looked like she was dragging her soul behind her.

Because of him.

Because he didn’t believe when it mattered.

The first tear fell before he even realized it.

Silent.

Hot.

Then another.

He didn't sob. He broke.

His head dropped onto the steering wheel as his shoulders began to shake.

Anirudh Singh Oberoi—the man who had faced boardroom wars, billion-dollar takeovers, courtroom scandals, and cartel threats—was crying.

And not for what he lost.

But for what he still might lose.

A child.

A future.

Her.

He saw nothing but her now.

Nandini in that over-sized kurta she always wore at her mom’s house. Walking barefoot in the lawn. Talking to herself as she felt those early flutters in her belly.

Had she whispered to their baby?

Had she held her stomach and said Papa doesn't know yet, but he loves you?

Or worse…

Had she promised their child that they don’t need him?

His hands trembled as he pulled out his phone, unlocked the screen… and stared at the wallpaper.

It was them.

Smiling.

Her hand cupping his face. His eyes on her, not the camera.

And all at once, it hit him.

He had waited for her to come back.

But she never left.