With everything he had, only one thing he wished for, her. Wanting her to be his and he himself wanted to be her's. He always thought that running away wasn't a solution regardless of situation. He did it when it was about taking risk about her. Shi...
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Annika nervously bit her lip, her hold on Shivaay's hand tightened when they had stood waiting for someone to open the front door. She was tapping her foot onto the ground continuously, and Shivaay did not miss it. He only knew one thing, that his family wasn't going to hate her, never. And when the door opened after several seconds, Annika had slightly jumped in her place, cursing herself internally for doing so.
Annika's eyes met with the face of Jhanvi who was now giving her one wide smile. Annika gave back a nervous smile, unsure of what to do and what not to. Shivaay placed his hand at her back, pushing her forward so that she could take a hint and move inside. "Come on in" Hearing Jhanvi's calm voice, Annika knew that she was certainly not disliked by her.
When she stepped inside, she was met with several other eyes, her nervousness grew but she shoved it behind by giving everyone a small smile. Shivaay's hand now was intertwined with her, drawing small circles at the back of her palm and assuring her that he was next to him.
The first one to approach her was Kalyani who was beaming with happiness as her wide smile was plastered over her face. Annika was caught off guard when Dadi had wrapped her arms around her. She relaxed against her warm hands, a smile spreading on her lips. "Thank you for coming beta" Kalyani spoke while releasing from the hug and all Annika could do was shyly look down.
And then before she knew what was happening, Pinky had engulfed her in a tight hug. Annika's heart stopped beating for some seconds but she hugged Pinky back. It was really a surprise to her that Pinky wasn't angry at her for making her beta runaway from his own wedding. But here she was, hugging her like she had no grudge against her. "Pinky aunty, I am sorry"
"What? Why are you apologizing?"
"Annika, it is his fault here, don't you think? He should have asked you out before he even decided to marry Tia but I guess his huge ego was coming in his way. You need to need to apologize" Pinky glared at Shivaay while she gave Annika a big smile. This made Shivaay roll his eyes, it seemed more like they were happy to see Annika more than him. Because yesterday, they all weren't smiling so widely to see him.
Annika was soon engulfed into lots of hugs, she was overwhelmed to find everyone giving her one huge smile and talking to her so softly. Something shifted inside her, she was in awe of the whole family and the way they were treating her. A kind of family she was always deprived of and she could only meet them because of him, because of Shivaay.
When she looked at him, she could see the way his lips curled up to give her an assuring smile, this man was everything to her and she was ready to spend her rest of life with him. With a shy smile on her face, she focused her attention back at Pinky's words who was talking about how Billu was an idiot from the very start. Annika laughed when she mentioned the letter and his words written in it.
Shivaay rolled his eyes, looking back, he did not regret leaving behind that letter, he would never be. That was what he needed to do and the right thing he felt was running away from his own wedding. How was he supposed to not when the only person his heart fluttered was not the one he was getting married to?
