MananFF~~It's not what it seems

15.Torment

I walked in the house and saw a shattered Nandini sitting like a lifeless soul...her face was expressionless , everyone around her was trying to talk to her but she was staring on her father's body.....I moved to her with a heavy heart as I didn't have anything to say

"Nandini " I kept my hand on her shoulder and she looked up at me , stood up and we shared an eye lock...as soon as her eyes met mine a stream of tears rolled down her eyes and I pulled her in a hug....first she cried silently but then her sobs became high pitched...she buried her face more in my chest and cried her heart out..I didn't stop her because she needed to let it all out to get back to normal....I tightened my grip on her...

"Sshh !! Bus meri jaan " I said rubbing her hair and kissing her head as she didn't stop crying....her that situation was enough to make my eyes wet with tears and my heart heavy with the guilt on seeing her cry...I wanted to snatch all of her worries but there I stood hearing her sobs which broke a part of me....

"Ma-a-ni" she took my name between her sobs and I hugged her tighter "how can he do this ? How ?" She cries and questions me but I didn't have any answer..."woh mujhy chod k chaly gye manik " she keeps on sating and I control my tears back which dared to fall because of her situation " main anaay ho gyi manik " I hold her tighter on hearing her...she is filled with pain....she was so attached with her father as he was her only family...

"Nandini !! It's fate baby....may be it was good for him...Don't think like that and please stop crying " I try to manage her after listening to her painful statements...

"Woh mujhy aisy kaisy chod sakty hain ?" She broke the hug and asked me while hitting her fists on my chest and finally held my shirt and buried her face in my chest to cry..."he was my only family !! The only one who loved me then why...why did god play unfair with me ?" She sat on the grass as we were in the lawn and cries..I too fallowed her and sat on my toes beside her and embrace her...her condition got worsen and I kept murmuring soothing words in her ear until I and other men took Mr.Murthy's body for the antyesti...I took the lead for the rituals as he didn't have any son....I came back and everyone had left till then...It was me , nandini and some of the butlers...it's very difficult phase for nandini as it was her father whom she has lost...she was the princess for her daddy and they loved to pamper her as she was their only daughter and as a result she got extra care and love and then it won't be easy for her to live without a fatherly love....

But I promise to get her back like she was

I move to her room and saw her standing in the balcony with her back facing me...she was wearing white shalwaar suit and was looking beautiful as always...I went and hugged her from back and kissed her shoulder which sent a shiver down her spine as usual..

"Nandini " I call her out and she replies with hhmm

"Theek ho ?" I made a bad attempt

"Haan " she lied

"I didn't know that nandini murthy lies "I said

"Main nhi hun theek Manik...or ho bhi nhi sakti " she said in a hurt and scolding way

"When I lost my mother I was alone...Although I had dhruv pr phir bhi there was a part of me which cried every night to be in the warmth of mama....but I stopped missing her with tears because I thought that she must be hurt on seeing me like this...jb kabhi mujhy chot lagti or main rota tb woh roti thi nandini...she used to cry in my pain so I could I have let her cry when I was crying because I missed her...." I said as I stood beside her and looked at the stars "nandini tumhary daddy tumhyn dekh rhy hain and he doesn't want to see you in tears....remember him with smile to satisfy his soul...." I said turning towards her and holding her hands " feel lucky that you've got the love of a father....he loves you nandini and will always shower his blessings on you....just remember that you are his princess and the king loves his princess " I said and side hugged her to which she happily rested her head on my chest

"Manik I miss him " she said

"You will and you have the right to miss him...he was your father but miss him with smile " I said....she was mature girl but then she lost her father whom she loved a lot

She was one of the girls that love their father

"It is hurting...so much" she completed with a pause and I was somehow satisfied then because she was speaking her heart out rather than gathering lot of pain within her

"Just close your eyes and think that you   are walking in an isolated street " I tried to extract her and she closed her eyes "you are moving and...." she cut me in between

"And you are standing at a distance " she wanted it to be like this...I tightened my grip on her arm

"You are looking beautiful in a white dress with open hair " I added as I imagined her pacing towards me "you are smiling " I said as I remembered her smiling face

"You open up your arms and I rush to you " she continued and I smiled on thinking the situation...I looked down and she looked at me

"Meri jaan " I said and hugged her tightly...I loved to call her with such pet names

~~end of chapter~~

It's my birthday !! 😍😍 hope you like it....with love from Humna