Fates

Part 17- Regrets

"Hello Mehta, find out where Drishti Sood lives, and send me her address as soon as you can." Abhi said as he was sitting in his study, on a chair behind his desk.

"Okay, Sir, I'll see what I can do." Said a man on the other side of the phone.

"Get back to me when you find something, Goodnight for now." Abhi said.

"I will, Sir. Goodnight." Mr. Mehta said cutting the phone call.

After the call cut, Abhi leaned back into his chair, thinking back to the events that had led him here. Abhi and Riya had talked and he had given her a long lecture about not going out at night alone, at least not without informing him where she was going and keeping her phone on her 24/7. The lecture had ended with Riya promising him that she would never go out at night alone, at least not without informing him. She also promised him that she would keep her phone charged and on her all the time, and she promised to never be this reckless again. After a lot of yelling, convincing, and apologizing Abhi and Riya calmed down and forgave each other.

So, after they had dinner with the whole family, Purab, Alia, and Aryan. Abhi had forced Riya to go straight to bed, Riya refused at first, but then agreed. She had told Abhi how she had felt a hand pull her out of the car's way and wanted to thank whoever had saved her, personally.
Abhi had told Riya how the girl who saved her had stayed with her at the hospital when he wasn't there. This made Riya want to meet the girl even more. So at Riya's wish, Abhi had set about trying to find that girl.

So now Abhi sat in his study, having done just that, now that he had nothing else to do, he let his thoughts wander. He thought about Pragya like he always did. He thought about what had happened two days ago. How Pragya cared for him when he was drunk. How Pragya caressed their daughter's hair at the hospital, how she seemed to light up when he told her that their daughter was okay, and how she had run away. He still didn't know why she ran away maybe it was because of him, maybe it was because of what he had done.

He thought about how he had thrown Pragya out of the house, he thought about the daughter she had taken with her, he thought about the daughter they had both lost. Over the years, Abhi had realized that his actions were unforgivable, that he didn't deserve Pragya's forgiveness, wasn't worthy of it.

He had even tried to ask for forgiveness when Riya was little when Riya got sick when he didn't know if she would survive or not. He had tried to ask for forgiveness but even before he got the chance to apologize before he even got to tell Pragya of their daughter's deteriorating health, Pragya had told him to never contact her again.

He didn't blame her though. No woman will come back to the man who treated her like she was nothing. No woman will let go of that kind of disrespect. So no he didn't blame her, he blamed himself. He blamed himself for not realizing that if he lost a daughter that day, Pragya had too lost a daughter. Instead of being each other's support systems he and Pragya had abandoned one another. And it was all his fault, his fault for always blaming Pragya when things got bad. First after the death of Dadi and then after the death of Kiara. It was all his fault, it was his fault that Riya did not have a mother, it was his fault that his other daughter did not have a father, and it was his fault that his family was broken. And he had no right to try to fix it because he's the one who broke it in the first place.

"I just hope that one day you can forgive me Pragya. I know I don't deserve you're forgiveness, but I hope that one day you can find it in yourself to forgive me. I hope that if one day my Princess finds out how I treated her mom, she won't hate me. I hope that my other baby doesn't hate her father for leaving her mother all alone. I hope that my Kiara isn't angry with me for how I treated her family." Abhi whispered to himself in his office as heavy silent tears rolled down his face.

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