Her Only Saviour

75. Redemption arc

𝖏𝖔𝖌𝖎𝖞𝖆 𝖏𝖔𝖌 𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖐𝖊
𝖒𝖆𝖐𝖍𝖗𝖆 𝖗𝖔𝖌 𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖆 𝖐𝖊

𝖎𝖘𝖍𝖖 𝖐𝖎 𝖉𝖍𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖎
𝖗𝖔𝖟 𝖏𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖆𝖞𝖊

𝖚𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖆 𝖉𝖍𝖚𝖆𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖔
𝖐𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖊 𝖈𝖍𝖍𝖚𝖕𝖆𝖆𝖞𝖊..

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Three days had passed since that vulnerable moment in the Oberoi mansion—the one where Anirudh had let himself break in front of Dadi and Rudra.
Since then, he’d tried everything he could think of to bridge the distance between him and Nandini.

But she remained unmoved.

His tea cups delivered to her room came back untouched.

The warm shawl he left on her armchair at night always ended up folded and placed politely outside his door.

Even the quiet gesture of him silently checking on her from a distance—she noticed. But she didn’t soften.

Not yet.

She acknowledged him only with glances—cold, brief, and unreadable. Her silence was no longer bitter. It had grown deeper, quieter. Like an ocean where everything was buried too far below the surface.

And still, he tried.

Every single day.

Morning, after 3days, the clouds had cast a pale grey filter over the city. It wasn’t raining, but the skies threatened to.

Nandini stood in front of the mirror in her room, adjusting the dupatta of her soft peach kurti as she tied her hair in a loose braid. She looked… exhausted.

Not physically—her body still carried the grace of pregnancy, that gentle curve that softened her profile—but emotionally.
The heaviness in her eyes hadn’t left in weeks.

Saisha entered the room with a chirpy, “Bhabhi, let’s go! Doctor appointment, remember?”

Nandini turned with a small smile. “You’re more excited than I am.”

“Well, yeah! You’re glowing. And I swear, if this baby doesn’t look like you, I’ll sue the genes,” Saisha grinned, grabbing the car keys.

Nandini chuckled faintly but said nothing.

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At the clinic, the routine checkup went smoothly.

The doctor, a soft-spoken woman in her early forties, was reading the scans, smiling. “Everything looks perfect. The baby’s growing well. Head’s down. Strong heartbeat. You’ve taken good care of yourself.”

Nandini gave a quiet nod.

“However…” the doctor added gently, “you do need to rest more. You’re carrying emotional fatigue, and it’s showing in your BP patterns. Stress in the final weeks isn’t ideal. You need someone with you constantly now.”

Before the doctor could finish her sentence, Saisha’s phone buzzed urgently.

She excused herself, read the message, and her face paled.

“Shit. Bhabhi, it’s Rudra. There’s a major issue at the launch site. I have to go. Now.”

Nandini blinked. “Sai, I’ll be fine.”

“No, you won’t. I promised Dadi I’d be with you.”

“Then tell Dadi I told you to leave. I can get home on my own.”