Thank you for patiently waiting for it.

Much love to you guys. ❤️

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Zoya woke up from her sleep after listening some voices. She sat from her laying position and saw Aditya murmuring something in his sleep.

She came close to his bed and saw him sweating heavily as he was continuously murmuring something.

She bend over to listen what he was saying but felt sad to listen to his words.

" Come back to me, Pooja. Please, Come back. "

She forwarded her hand to console him but held herself back. No, she will not do that, Not to the person who is hell bent to destroy her life now.

She turned to go back to her bed, but her eyes widened when she felt his hand gripping her wrist.

" I knew you would come back, Pooja. I knew. " he uttered still in his inebriated state.

She struggled to remove her hand from his grip but he held more tightly.

" You can't see me sad, I know. After all I am your best buddy. " he said with a cheeky smile with half closed eyes.

" Mr. Hooda. Leave my hand. " Zoya huffed, shutting her eyes, trying to herself calm down.

But he was in his own world. He jerked her hand making her fall on the top of him.

Her breath hitched when he touched her face with the back of his fingers and put her hair behind her ear.

" I miss you, Pooja. " he said with so much pain and she felt it.

No matter how much she tried to hate her late husband but his memories are still intact in a corner of her heart.

His hand came around her petite self to engulf her in a hug and she struggled to get out of it.

" Leave me, Mr. Hooda. I said leave me, right this instant. " growled Zoya and he chuckled, with a hicupp.

His grip on her get more tighten. " Why are you angry on me, Pooja? Infact, I should be the one who should be angry. " He said with a angry pout.

" I didn't know you weren't happy with me. Why didn't you tell me haan...!!!! I was your best friend naa....!!! " His voice held so much hurt and his face held unspoken pain, that make Zoya to stop struggling in his hold.

She looked at his face. His eyes were still close but the light moisture was falling from the corner of his eyes. He was imagening her as his dead wife and he was completely not in his sense.

For a moment she felt bad for him. She can feel his pain as same she was brewing in her heart.

Without her knowledge, her hand reached for his face and wiped the corner of his eyes.

" Sometimes it's not easy to say what you are feeling, in words. " she said solemnly and he gave a dry laugh.

" But I used to share everything. Every little thing about what I feel. That's what friend's for, Right...!!! " he said with dry humour.

" It's not as simple as you say. " Zoya said as she remembered how difficult for her to say to her husband about her ambitions.

How difficult to say to him that she don't want to remain just a housewife for him, She want to help him grow  his business.

How difficult for her to say to him that she never liked the food he ordered for her, just for his happiness.

How difficult for her to say to him that she changed herself just to be fit as her wife, but the trust and love she deserve from him, why didn't she get that from him.

She was lost in her own thoughts when he turned her on bed and came on the top of her.

" We would have made it simple, Pooja. I would understand. But you stabbed me with the best weapon. You betrayed my trust. You betrayed me...!!!" A tear fell down from his eyes and fell on her cheek.

She gulped as she felt him more close to her than ever. Tear fall from her eyes too for her husband's betrayal as well.

" You betrayed me...!!! You betrayed me....!! " he uttered incohrently and fall flat on her loosing his sense.

Her eyes widened as she felt his face in the crook of her neck.

He was breating steadily but her heartbeat quicken and her breath got shallow.

She pushed him on his back, making him fall on the bed, other side and exhaled a deep breath.

She looked at him sleeping so calmly but his face was stricken with hurt and pain.

She wondered how can a man have two different personalities like this.

For his wife, the vulnerable one.

And for her, the most arrogant and vicious one.

She was lost in her thoughts about her previous life and the life this man was trying hard to make hell.

But looking at him, looks like he was living in hell herself.

Tears was flowing from her eyes for HIS betrayal, for her love, for her helplessness to free from all this.

She herself don't know when she fall asleep thinking about all this, on the same bed as her sleeping enemy.

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No wonder it was a long long night.

Aditya stirred in his sleep as his head aching badly. He remembered how some of his colleagues forced him to join them for drink.

He shut his eyes again and sighed deeply. No wonder he is getting this worse headache but why the hell his right shoulder aching badly.

His face turned to see the cause of it and his breath hitched to see Zoya sleeping engulfing in his arm, on his shoulder with a innocent smile.

To find her this close to him, for a second he forgot what transpired between them previously.

She was looking like an angel, sleeping in her land far from all the things that could hurt her.

A ray of sunshine fall on her face making her scrunched her nose in her sleep. He immediately shadowed her face with his hand.

A beautiful smile again appeared on her lips and he didn't know why but he felt at peace to see that smile.

Maybe he was still in his inebriation state.

He kept staring at her serene face and then she opened her eyes as if feeling his gaze on her.

The eye lock they held was very small as Zoya's eyes widened in bewilderment and she jumped out of his hold.

The moment the trance broke, Aditya too came in his sense and his eyes shoot dagger at her as she was having fire in her eyes for him.

"How dare you....!!!!!"

Both exclaimed at the same time with all the venom they have for each other.

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Tada...that's it for today.

Will meet you with the next update.

Till then

Stay healthy and be happy.

Love
Ragika ❤️