When It rains (Continuing in The new book)

Part 18B

"Are you serious"
"Hell yeah"
"Look, This will not be easy as it may seem to be"
"I know"
"hmm, So will you change your decision"
"Naaaah"
"Would you still stick to this plan after knowing you would hurt your Dadaji, And cheat him.. Still you wont change your mind"
"No, I wont, by the way Who's saying this? cheating.. Mr Cheater Malhotra if you did not cheat in the exams, You would have never been a Doctor"
"Shhhh.. are you mad, Its my profession damn it!" Vikram made a frown, a false frown to be honest, which broke the ice of this calm and serious discussion between the two.
Anika laughed out loud, while He smiled too.
"So, You are ready to run away from your marriage"
"Yeah" Anika downcast her gaze, not knowing what should her answer be.
Vikram held her palm which She kept on the table, and pressed it lightly,
"You are a strong girl, Never think low of yourself, You are allowed to cry, to scream at those who cause pain to you, finally, You are that girl who once advised me to take crooked way, if I feel the need, am sure This 5 years were enough to teach you that having big names can only help you to lead a well to do, substantial, privileged life, but not to Live a life fully and happily. so Take decision in favour of your happiness ,not to keep your family reputation"
He excused himself and went outside to take a phone call, leaving an well assured and confident Anika behind.
And The coffee date was a success.
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Earlier that day

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She asked him to come in ,thinking him to be Sahil.
But to her surprise, not pleasant one, She saw a Guy at 25 most probably with muscles biceps entering the room, followed by two kanji eyes and her Dadaji at the last of this queue.
"Aap sab yahan?"
"are you going out ? if you are not in hurry then we'd like to talk to you actually we have to discuss about an event" Rishiraj spoke and made himself comfortable sitting on the couch of her room when the other two men stood there looking for her answer.
"please have seats" She gestured them, "yes, Am a bit in hurry, so please jo bhi bolna hain aap log ko, thora zaldi, Please can we start discussing already?"
Shivaay looked at her, She looks lovely, all dolled up maybe for an outing, He murmured which got heard by Rudra who jabbed him with his elbow, and signed his bhaiya to control himself.
To which Shivaay glared at him, Rudra looked elsewhere, ignoring the glare.
"Hi am Rudra, Didi" Rudy forwarded his hand.
"Hi am Anika, hope you heard my name" She took his forwarded hand into a shakehand and smiled faintly, She emphasized the last line that is Heard my name.
"Haan, suna hain," Rudra grinned like an idiot, "I like you, Mujhe ladki pasand ayi Aise bolte hain naaah" realizing what he spoke, Rudra immediately shove his hand away from the Hand shake and stuck his tongue out.
"Kya? ladki pasand.. what do you mean" Anika crossed her hands in front of her chest and asked her Dadaji "Whats going on Dadaji? Why these two are here?"
Dadaji leaned forward and cleared his throat before starting,
"Look, am sorry for deciding a certain thing without asking you, Actually, you know my health condition after I fell off from the stairs, our family Doctor already warned me not to have much mental stress, even Am not allowed to move too much, but still I have to think about my family, What would happen after my death? for a moment, even I forget my company and all, Still I will have you to think about, then Your brother Sahil. I must say He only trusts his Didi blindly and depends on her, So if His Didi fails to protect herself then What will happen to this little soul?" He took a lil pause, "Its high time to think about your future, Anu"
"Future? Ohhh.. Now I got it, This person has poured all these into your brain no?" She pointed towards Shivaay, Shivaay stood up listening to this blame,
while Anika continued to spit out
"Sahil, Look Mr Oberoi, He is my responsibility, He is my brother, So You dont need to take stress thinking about him, Ohh.. Thanks for your concern"
"But Anika, Dont bring him into this, He is just here to wish you, and we all know You have Sahil's legal custody so?" Mr Mittal tried to divert her mind into the topic
"Wish? Wish me?"
"For your marriage, Actually When You were in Kashmir, Om had come to me and He gave me a proposal, He wants in fact now We all want you to grace the threshold of Oberoi Mansion as their Bahu,
You three might have no idea that Me and Shivaay's dadaji were good friends and Is not it so obvious that I would want my grand daughter to live rest of her life with a family who know us so well, who match our class our level our social status, where You can have all those benefits, opulence of everything, and a Family, parents which You need the most"
Anika stood dumbfounded, then after a long silence, She managed to utter
"what about My liberty to do anything and everything"