Entrapment - A New Dawn

Chapter 2

Hey Mahadev, Chandini's heart stopped, started, it danced, shivered, collapsed, and it all of that all over again.

How had she failed her god that he had sent this storm back into her life?

With every brush of his chest to her back, a thousand jolts of electric impulses rippled across her, and she shuddered like the flags on top of the Himalayan temples left out to battle the gale force winds of the mountains.

But he was no gale force wind, he was a storm, a tornado, and he was right behind her, smelling as delicious as always, and looking as sinfully gorgeous in a dhoti as always, and luring her in with those dark deadly lust-filled eyes as always.

And he was here to wreck the very foundations of the life she had crafted for herself.

She had known that sooner or later she would have to come face-to-face with her monster, but little had she known that today was that day.

This was so sudden, so unexpected, and if only he could stop walking so close to her, lest she lean back into his chest and do something as stupid as gaze back at him with longing, or worse get up on her toes and kiss his delectable mouth.

With her heart beating like drums in her ears, as Chandini clutched tight to her sleeping child in her arms, she froze to the spot as soon as her eyes met with the warm grinning face of the other stunning man before her— Shaheer Shiekh, Mahaveer Kashyap, their Micku.

A smile stretched her lips, and she instantly glanced over her shoulder to hold Advay's gaze. But she also looked away just as quickly. He was yet to tell her he was Dev. And she was yet to tell him she knew who he was.

Her eyes welled at that fact, and she instead smiled broadly at Shaheer.

"How are you Bhabhi?"

"I'm good."

She wanted to ask him if he knew who he was. He must to, she had left a letter for her husband.

But she frowned when her sister's gaze met with Shaheer's and she instantly blushed when he held the door open for her.

It was then that Chandini's gaze fell on the delicate string of black beads around Shikha's neck and she gasped.

"My husband." Biting into her lip, Shikha blushed, and Chandini widened her eyes from Shikha to Shaheer. Her Shikha was married, and not just to anyone but to Veer, to another Kashyap. She was not just her sister, but her co-sister-in-law too. She was her Devrani.

Her joy knew no bounds. She wanted to yell and scream from rooftops, that her Shikha was her Janaki Maa's bahu, that she was her devrani.

She instantly glanced at her husband again, but her heart stopped in her chest the moment her gaze met with his. And her tears too remained arrested in her eyes.

Devrani? A rueful chuckle escaped her lips, as she slowly got into the car, and waited for Advay to close the door.

As her gaze met with him again for a beat, reality crashed around her. Her Dev was now a married man. She wasn't a Kashyap bahu anymore, she wasn't his wife, and she definitely wasn't Shikha's jethani.

Ahe wanted to burst into a loud sob.

Instead in a bid to comfort herself, she fondly stroked the hair of the other child who had fallen asleep in Shikha's arms. Wife, or not, she was the mother to his beautiful daughters, and that was all that mattered to her now.

When the car began to move and she sat back, she found Veer gazing at her with warm puppy eyes.

"How have you been?" She pinched his cheek fondly. "How are your parents?"