Hello my lovely readers... I m back with an update but a few clarifications before that...

Payal is Shashi's real daughter from his first marriage... He was a widower with a 12 year old daughter Payal when he married Garima... Then he accepted & adopted Khushi as his 2nd daughter who was then 9yrs old... Thus Payal is elder to Khushi...

My dear readers, feel free to ask your queries on any of my stories through your comments or pm's... I will happily answer them without getting offended at all...

Now here's the update which I would like to dedicate to @Kiddo_Star

Here's your update Kiddo....Also a big big SORRY 🙉 & you know why😄😆

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Khushi was still in the daze with the intensity of his love. He has to return to her. Their bond & her faith were strong enough to get back where they both belonged to - with each other, together till eternity.

But unknown to her determined silence, Arnav was desperately trying to prove his point.

"Khushi, you have had enough of pain & trauma. Enough of loosing more then one can endure & this will continue until you are tied to me & my family."

Her trance broke with his words & she started to argue but his voice cut in, striking into her.

"I want you to be happy Khushi & I thought I could be the one to make you happy. But I see now, that I can't." A world of pain reflected in his eyes as he met her troubled gaze.

"You deserve somebody who can give you fortune full of love & happiness. Not me, who gave you terrible past, horrible present & uncertain future." The words slipped out of his mouth but his heart clenched with sudden fear of loosing the most precious thing in his life. But he can't become selfish because now he cared for her above  his own selfish desires.

Khushi felt her world shake, its foundation tottering. Whatever was left, shattered deep within her at those words of his. It hurt her to even look at him. To see him ready to leave her without paying heed to her emotions, to her love for him.

Her heart squeezed painfully. A sudden fear beginning to choke her. Sobs threatened to overwhelm her. Her tightly restrained control finally broke & before she could stop, her right hand raised on its own volition & landed on his left cheek.

Arnav stared at her shocked, without blinking or breathing. He swallowed hard. His hand on his cheek. His mouth dry. His throat parched, not due to the pain her slap has caused because her punny hand & slender fingers were not strong enough to sizzle his cheek. But the thought itself of her slapping him never crossed his mind in current scenario.

Khushi felt herself tremble under the after effects of her slap which she never intended to. But she was already at her tether due to the nonsense he was saying & that forced her to do the unexpected.

Both stood staring each other. One with shock & the other with penitance.

But what was done was done. Composing herself, she breathed deep to draw some much needed oxygen, straightened her spine & said, "I am sorry Arnavji. I didn't intent to do that." She looked towards his cheek, guilty of her action.

"But are you even understanding to what you are saying?"  She asked all fire & fury.

Arnav's then softened eyes bored into her furious ones.

"You want me to move on leaving you. Forgetting our love, our promises we made to each other, our dream of our CHHOTI SI DUNIYA. You want me to settle with some other man. You really think I would be happy without you? She caught up his arms & shook him furiously.

"You think i will keep loosing everything until I am attached to you. But the fact is I will loose my everything the moment I will loose you. (Credit to this amazing lines goes to @Kiddo_Star).

She left his shoulders with a jerk. Her face painted with hurt & pain written all over. He felt his heart stopped beating, seeing at her painful visage.

Wiping her tears with her sleeves over the forearms she continued. "OK, tell me Arnavji. Will you be able to see me with some other man? Will you be able to hear my name attached with some other man's name instead of Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada?

She paused & then continued looking straight into his eyes "You know how much marriage & its vows mean to me. I will have to surrender myself completely to that man who will be my husband & not you."

His breath hitched when she herself mentioned of some other man being her husband. Now he understood the meaning of the saying, 'It is easier said then done.'

" He would have all the rights on my life, my heart, my soul & my body." Khushi was looking intently into his eyes while saying & she could see anger, fury & jeolousy for that so called non-existent husband of hers.

She felt like laughing, pulling his cheeks on that cute foolishness of his but she can't. Otherwise all her efforts would go invain.

" I will have to fulfill all my wifely duties when I will be pinning for you from inside. He will have his husbandly rights on me & my body, the way I only want you to have. The way I surrendered as a wife to you that night in the farm house."

Her voice died away at the look on his face as they both relived the moments of the most beautiful night of their life.

He literally jumped on his place hyperventilating & sweating profusely at the mere thought of some other man touching his Khushi. The muscles of his throat protested as he tried to swallow.

Khushi continued to provoke him with a lopsided grin. "I will have to let him touch me even if it would disgust me."

Then she caught hold of his hand & raised it to her face. "Remember the way you kissed my forehead, my eyes, my cheeks, my chin & my lips that night Arnavji?" She asked making his fingers touch to the said parts on her face.

He was looking at her face, images of that night were flashing infront of his eyes.

"The same way he will kiss my eyes, cheeks, my li..... But she couldnt complete as he bellowed yanking her hard in his arms.

" How dare you Khushi? How dare you let any other man touch you when you are mine & only mine Khushi?" His face was dangerously close to hers & its lean lines looking more leaner & dangerous.

She grunted sarcastically. "It isn't me Arnavji. It's you who wants me to go away from you & surrender myself to some other man. Didn't your heart berate you or it doesn't beat for me anymore now?" Her eyes & voice dripping with pain.

He pulled her instantly in his embrace. His grip tight & firm.

" I am sorry Khushi. I am so sorry. I never would imagine this even in my worst nightmare. But my fate made me helpless." His restlessness making his voice huskier then usual & he pressed himself deeper into her to feel the warmth of her silky soft body.

" Fate..." She whispered. Devi maiyya has given her a chance to clear his one more misconception. She pulled back from his embrace, holding his hand led him to the bench they were sitting before & made him sit taking a seat herself besides him.

Arnav was confused to what she is about to say. She looked into his waiting eyes & asked "Arnavji why are you helpless against your fate when you yourself write your own fate, your own destiny? Isn't it you, who always kept on telling me the same, time & again?" He looked everywhere but her. He was rendered speechless.

" Is this what you have written in your destiny Arnavji, that you see your sister living with a scumbag & worshipping him like God & you just watch everything helplessly? Did you write that you yourself push away the woman you love because you are again helpless? Did you write that the woman who loves you fights for her love, against some stupid & nonsense notions of yours but you backout stating you are helpless? She didnt mince her words.

He looked at her discomfited. Failing to utter a single word in self defence.

"No Arnavji. If it would have been in our hands then we would have written only love & happiness in our lives & we would have never understood the real meaning of life & the existence of Devi Maiyya."

He clenched his fist, not able to digest his folly. She held his right hand, opened his fist & caressed the lines carved by DM on his palm. Her eyes shone brightly to his soft ones.

" Arnavji, its DM who writes our destiny. I won't say she did correct by making us orphans but there has to be some reason behind her each & every action which only she knows & we mere mortals couldn't understand that. But she is not that stone hearted as you think Arnavji. See, if she snatched our parents then she gave you nani, mamaji & others & she gave me amma, babuji & others. She didnt left us alone in this cruel world." Arnav was listening to her intently, trying to digest her every word without protesting.

" Arnavji its DM only who united us even after we shared an entangled past because she understands our love & she wants us to be together & face whatever the present & future holds for us." She explained with beseeching eyes.

"You say that I have endured a lot of pain since childhood but Arnavji I remember my time with my parents  only in bits & pieces & therefore I didn't had any trauma & past demons to chase me. But you have born worse because you have seen everything infront of your eyes. I can't even imagine the trauma you must have gone through all these years." She spoke through constricted throat, chiding herself for not being with him all these years to share his pain.

" Now it's time we both have our fair share of happiness which we can get only by staying with each other & not apart."

She caught hold of his right hand & placed it on her heart & then placed hers on his heart.

"Remember Arnavji. Hamari dhadkane ek ho jaati hai (Our heartbeats become one). Our hearts beat in sync, only when we are together Arnavji. Just like now. It won't be the same if we are apart. Atleast my heart will stop beating without you Arnavji."  She said. Her sound weak & feeble. Her eyes pouring her pain.

His heart was aching at the distress on her face. But at the same time he could feel his baseless fear fading away & his heart felt rejuvenated with her words.

She continued, " You say that your father snatched everything dear from me & you want to serve the punishment on his behalf. But Arnavji when I am the victim then isn't it my right to give you the punishment?" She asked him in a serious tone.

Arnav's head nodded in affirmation on its own accord.

" Then I sentence you with a lifetime imprisonment with me. I punish you to compensate my tears & pain with lots of love & happiness till eternity." She stated authoratively.

"Tell me. Do you accept this punishment Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada?" Her eyes glinting with mischief & lips curved with mischievous smile.

Arnav cupped her face & kissed her forehead. "Yes I accept it." Then he kissed her eyes. "I promise to never let this beautiful eyes, shed tears of sorrow anymore & I will fulfill every dream of yours." Then he kissed her left cheek. "I promise to make up for all the pain inflicted by my relations & myself too." He then kissed her right cheek. "I promise to give you all the happiness you deserve." He then kissed her chin. "I promise to love you with all my heart till my last breath." He then kissed her lips lingering his lips a little longer on hers. "I promise you togetherness till eternity."

Khushi was just savouring the warmth of his lips on her face & was drowning deep in the impact of his promises. She couldnt stop the happy tears flowing from her eyes. She gave her million dollar smile which reached to her eyes & then straight to Arnav's heart.

He wiped her tears nodding her not to cry. "No more tears Khushi. We are together now & this is all I want. We want."

She threw her arms around him, holding him with all her might. "Please don't do this again Arnavji. Every moment without you has torn me apart."

He moulded her against him, dropping kisses on her head. "I am sorry Khushi. I am so so sorry. I know I have hurt you a lot. But I never meant to. I thought you don't deserve me. I thought you... But she didnt let him complete.

She pulled back from his embrace & placed her palm on his mouth indicating him not to say anything further.

"I know Arnavji. You don't need to justify anything. But You also need to engrave this in your mind & heart that our love is not our weakness that it will make us helpless. It is our strength which helped us pass all the hurdles in past & will help us do the same in future too. Our love will always find its way back to each other. We will forget all the tragedies & bad events that occured in our lives. The only thing we will remember now is US & OUR LOVE."

" I love you Arnavji & no matter what happens ahead we will always be together in it." Her voice & eyes dripping with love for him.

"& I love you Khushi." He pressed his hard warm lips on her soft petals, dragging her more closer. She wrapped her arms around his neck participating equally in their kiss. The kiss was slow tender & reverent, filled with longingness & love.

FINALLY THE TWO HALVES 💔 ARE WHOLE 💖

To be continued...

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