Anika couldn't sleep for the whole night, She didn't know whether It's because of overwhelming happiness or Jetlag, She couldn't understand but seeing shivaay hugging Naina while sleeping, She felt like she couldn't ask anything more than this. She got a true feeling of family. Shivaay slept like a child who hugs teddybear so lovingly while sleeping. The time was about to tick 3 in the morning, She got a call from Shyla. 

"I saw you online in Instagram, So I called. Didn't I disturb you?" - Shyla asked her. 

"No, I guess." - Anika said moving away from the bed towards the window. 

"Sounds like..." - Shyla stopped but Anika chuckled and shrugged off whatever she was talking. 

"It's nothing, Shyla. Feeling kinda peacefully after a long time." - She said, Looking at shivaay and Naina who was sleeping bounding to each other. 

"Very happy to hear about it. One good news." - She started. 

"What?" - Anika asked in a cherished tone. 

"It's nothing but your pitch towards Restoring Palazzo di camparino's chapel for the Royal wedding has been approved and You will be starting your work at Greece from the next month." - She said in a go. 

But Anika couldn't process anything. She almost lost half of her confidence when one of Shyla's clients rejected her pitch in the first place. She didn't show it on her face and eventually, she consoled herself that it will get alright along with the time. But now, Her pitch got approved for the royal wedding. What else she can ask for.

"No, You're lying." - Anika said in a freaking high tone. 

"No, I am not. The mail is for Ms. Anika. You're only Anika working in our firm. I can't be wrong." - She said in a calm tone. Anika immediately rushed towards her Macbook and signed in to her mail.

"Oh my god, Oh my god. Oh my god." - She started to freak-out in Happiness. 

"Congrats, Bae. Finally Ms. Anika back on the track." - Shyla cried on the other side of the phone. Tears crossed from Anika's eyes due to the overload of happiness at one go. But when she felt a touch on her shoulder, she stopped crying and turned around. It was shivaay with a confused face. 

"What happened?" - He asked while taking the seat opposite to her in the table where her laptop kept. She either could focus on the phone or him. She was trembling in happiness. 

"Wait a min, Is that your ex-husband's voice?" - Shyla asked her, She has always been a gossip queen from the college.

"Yeah," - Anika replied in the phone. 

"Whose in the phone?" - Shivaay asked her from there with the same concerned face and the tone is too tender to handle. 

"Shyla." - Anika replied to shivaay. 

"Now I understand the reason for your peacefulness, Sorry for disturbing you in the middle dear, I am sorry, Middle of the night. I am resting the call, Bye." - Shyla said and rested the call. She couldn't deny her as his eyes fixed on her. 

"What happened?" - He asked her again with the same concerning face. Words got sealed up when she saw his concerned face. 

"The mail." - She said turning the laptop to his side. He was slightly taken back but read the mail again. It's the official mail from Palazo-di-campario Chapel to the name Anika. He looked at her first raising his eyebrows and then re-read the mail again. She looked at him without blinking her eyes and eager to see his reaction.

"Wedding of Prince Antonio and Rose Christina." - He asked her with a smile in his face. 

"You know them?" - She asked him. But he pulled her wrist towards him and gave the tightest hug. 

"THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THEM. My god Ani, I am so so so happy for you." -  He said while continuously kissing her neckline. He forgot everything, Even Anika forgets everything for a while hugged him back tightly. 

"Thanks for proving me wrong."- He said hugging her so tightly, Anika broke the hug when she felt the slight change in his tone and his words. He quickly gazed away but she cupped his face and wiped off her tears with her thumb. She didn't speak anything, Maybe the things she had gone through in her life made her silent but she couldn't see him crying. 

"A Jerk like me deserves this, Don't wipe it off." - He said resisting her from wiping off her tears. She tried to calm him but she still left with no words. When they saw Naina was snuggling in sleep. They went outside. She made him sit in the chair and quenched him a glass full of water. He first denied it but accepted it when she insisted on him. 

"I didn't prove you wrong. It's all happened because of you." - Anika said, He looked at her shockingly. 

"How?" - He asked her. 

"Remember the days when I was pregnant with Naina and You were busy with the mess created by my family members." - She asked him. But he didn't want to recall those terrible days of their life which changed him upside down. 

"You almost left with nothing, You got bankrupt and most of your shareholders back walked. I understand those situations but equally, I was... Leave that." - She said shrugging those thoughts. He couldn't say anything but held her hand tightly. 

"You didn't give up. Over that time, Even though our relationship was sinking, I started to admire you. And you won and bagged up the Businessman of the year. You didn't let your Personal life affect your professional life. Over when that stupid client of us rejected my pitch in the first place, You have no idea how it affected me." - She said looking at him. He wondered how she grabbed the good point that rough page of their life. But he continued to listen to her. 

"What happened?" - He asked her. 

"You know I am resuming my career after 5 long years, And it's happening in the second day of my job. My confidence level went to Zero. It takes me a few minutes to think, I mean I can only think about you during that time. Even though I was hell angry with you during that time, I couldn't stop myself from admiring you. You know if we are in a good phase like now, I would have called you." - She said looking at him, He smiled in between the gauge of guilt he was going through. 

"Happy to hear that. Atleast my stupid behaviour helped you in some way." - He said looking at her palms which he was holding for a long time. She didn't speak anything. 

"You're not that much stupid." - She said and defended him. She knew she always defended him from others but it was the first time she's defending him to himself. He looked at her shockingly and she matched her eyelids with him. In no time, They busted to laugh. 

"Life moves on, Shivaay. Today or Tomorrow you will find a person who meant for you. And you both complete each other in every way." - She said, It almost stopped his heartbeat. He wanted her back but she was talking about the third person. 

"Even there's 100% possibility for you to find someone better than me and Someone who respects and love you equally, He may even complete you in every way." - He said looking at her face and badly wanted to know her reaction. 

"Not in this lifetime." - She said in an instant and filled the water in her glass. 

"Why?" - He asked.

"Millions of options are there outside." - He added. 

"I have decided about it when I was eleven. Boys, Love, Crushes, Dates, Marriage was the words that I never wanted to add in my dictionary. I was very keen from the start, I wanted to be a careerist woman first, take my mom with me and travel the whole world with her. And that didn't happen." - She said tapping the glass with her index. 

"But I got my daughter, What else I can ask?"- She asked him. He smiled at her.

"What if naina finds her soulmate in the future?" - He asked her with a smiley face. 

"Hmm, I will stay with her, Take care of my grandchildren, If the time comes, I will join old-age-nursery with my highschool friends and starts a club named Recycled Teenagers." - She said looking at him soon he busted to laugh. 

"Why are you laughing? I am not joking here."- She asked him. 

"Your life is set." - He said laughing. 

"Yeah, I know, I stopped stressing about everything." - She said laughing. 

"Is there any process to join the club when I turn old?" - He asked her. 

"You mean along with your wife." - She asked. 

"Yeah, Sixth or Sixteenth Wife. I don't know. No, It's only for me, Over then, I would have divorced her." - He played along with her. She chuckled in an instant. 

"There will be a couple of procedures, I will tell you by then." - She said, Playing with him.

"So. Hereafter you won't stop yourself from calling me." - He asked her. 

"I don't know." - She replied after a long pause. For her, Next moment is like a mystery. She never thought she will see him again and have a conversation like this before a month when she walked without turning back after getting divorce. And now, She couldn't believe her own fate.

"Why you don't know?" - He asked in a low tone. She raised her shoulder and nodded no to him with a smiley face. 

"Who knows what future holds for us?" - She said standing up. 

"Yeah, Even I can find my lost bride in future." - he thought but didn't speak anything, She went inside the room, But he stayed in the dinning and scrolled down their honeymoon pictures which he backed up from his old laptop, Smile automatically appeared in his face when he looked at his shirtless image along with Anika who wore his shirt posing for a selfie. The happiest moments in their life, Those 10 days. The pink shade in her cheeks became constant in those 10 days but now, He didn't find any trace of it. He understood what he had lost in his life, Those pink cheeks, That smile, Her claim over him. He almost lost every piece of her which he admire but never noticed it in those years. But he went inside when naina again called him inside.

"Anika, Slept?"- He asked her. 

"Nope, Tell me." - She asked him. 

"How long will you stay here?" - He asked her.

"Till this little muchkin can able to walk on her own." - She replied to him. She also added it will take at least a month to cure it, And she can't take any risk on traveling with her. He smiled after a long time. Whether this one month enough to win her back?

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