He felt difficult to breathe when he realized that she left him forever. The divorce papers, Their broken life, and her importance never came to his vision until this day, He still wanted everything to be a stupid prank pulled by his brothers and his wife to keep him on his track. Least knowing, Everything has a limit. He came back to his house And confronted his brothers about the news, And asked them whether they knew about it.

"Rudy tried to wake you up, But you were in a deep sleep."- Om bothered to answer while crossing his arms against his chest. He looked so tough to his brother. He had to be tough at least now, He had to know what he had lost in his life.

"Sleep, You guys knew it, Everybody went to send her off leaving me sleeping in the house." - He asked with a sarcastic laugh, He was suffocating without her and nobody could sense it.

"Only me, Gauri and rudy went along with arush." - Om said. Anger sparked in his eyes when he felt betrayed by his whole family. He became insane, He didn't know what he was doing, But when he saw Arush sleeping next to Gauri who was now sitting in the bed hearing their conversation. Shivaay rushed inside.

"Shivaay, What are you doing?" - Om followed him. He took the sleeping baby in his hands roughly, Gauri cupped her mouth in shock when his head hanged in the air when he held him up only taking his body not his head. He cried and opened his eyes in an instant in pain.

"Bhaiya, Please, Give him back to me. Please. See, He's crying." - Gauri cried in concern due to his behaviour.

"Shivaay, Have you gone insane? Give him back to us. Can't you see him crying?" - Om shouted at him but he hardly to anyone, Not even his crying son who was trembling in pain in his arms. He was clouded by anger, Why can't they stop her from leaving him forever? His anger always stood as a barrier. And now, It went out of limits.

"What your mom think about herself? She thinks we can't live without her. We can, Arush. We will live without her." - He said trying her number for the nth time. But it was in the switched-off state. Over then, His closed-door knocked thundered.

"Shivaay, Arush is hurt, Please let us come in. Anika and Naina are traveling in the flight, I will call them once they landed. Please open, Are you even deaf to him?" - Om shouted from outside. Shivaay looked upon his son, who was lying without any balance in the couch. He was crying his hell out, His hands, His legs shivering in fear.

She went numb when he saw his trembling state, But taking the spare key, Om and Gauri approached inside and took him in their arm in an instant. He bitted gauri's shoulder when his pulse became irregular because of his father's sudden reaction.

"Relax, Aru. Relax, Aru." - Gauri blew his sweated head and tried to pace him normal, But he started to cry again bitterly when om touched the red spot in the nape of his neck.

"Looks like a sprain." - Gauri told om in a shivering tone. Om didn't even bother to look at his egoistic brother who was standing numbly looking at them.

"Let's go to the hospital." - Om said and they rushed to the hospital but shivaay was standing in the same position for a long time. He thudded in the floor when his legs gave up. Tears crossed his eyes without even his knowledge.

"It's all because of you, Neither you left me nor it would have happened." - He again blamed her. In these five years of marriage, It had been his habit to blame her for everything. When it's nothing work in the office like his expectation, He must have some stupid reason to blame her for not having a good day. But everything happens up to his expectations, That too, Because of Anika, He least bothers to recognize her, Thinking it's her job.

He rushed out, It already been morning, The sun peeped out and the night clouds are slowly disappearing. He stopped right in the steps when he saw Gauri and om walking inside along with arush in their arms. Shivaay approached them, Om stopped in the fear that he might do anything to him if he shows anger to him, Right then. He looked so red but sleeping, There was a small belt bounding his neck which resisted him from moving his neck.

"Sprain bhaiya." - Gauri told him before he could ask her. He was silent in guilt.

"Shivaay, He needs rest, I am taking him to my room. And I have messaged Bhabhi. She will call you once she lands."- Om said calmly and took Arush inside when he nods to him coldly. Once they left, He immediately rushed to his room and took his phone which he threw it on the bed when she didn't reply to any of his messages or calls. And waited for her to call him.

It had been eight hours, He was still waiting to look at his phone constantly, He was checking the messages, He forgets to eat or do any kinds of stuff. He didn't have anything for the past 18 hours and continuously looking at his phone, Waited for her call.

Om got scared to see him behaving like a mad since Anika left him. And his lie that he messaged even make the situation worse, He looked at rudy who had no emotions looking at his brother.

"He isn't missing her, Om. Someone snatched his punchbag away from him. He will become normal when he finds another one. Relax! I am taking Arush to my room."- Rudy said and left but Om knew about his brother. He never becomes this much insane for anyone. But for Anika, He always has a special place in his heart but never valued her importance in his life. He left the place.

After 20 hours, His struggle came to an end when he saw her profile photo of her WhatsApp profile flashed in his phone, She was calling him. Tears crossed his eyes, He tried to attend the call but the weakness of not even having water in the past 20 hours made him shiver. But he attended her call and kept it in his ears.

"Anika..." - He spelled. Her deep breath replied to him. She didn't say anything. But he could feel her.

"Naina wants to talk to you!" - He heard her voice after a long pause. Her voice gave peace to his heart but the meaning of her words didn't fail to spark the anger in his brain. For a second, His every anger blindly reverted to his four years old daughter as if he got a new punch bag to burst out his stress. For a second, He believed that Whatever happening around him is happening only because of naina. The anger reached his head. He was lacking in energy but the words flow out in the continuous flow.

He stopped speaking when he heard his daughter sobs in the phone. He never meant to hurt her, But couldn't stop himself from exploding.

"Are you drunk?" - He then heard anika's voice. Again the anger sparked in his head, How could she think he's drinking when he waited for her call at the same place looking at the phone for the past 20 hours.

"HOW DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?" - He thundered in an instant.

"There's no point in talking to you, Right now. You never gonna change. Good-bye, Mr. Oberoi." - Saying so, Anika rested the call.

"Ani. I am sorry, Please don't cut the call. Ani. Please, I am suffocating without you, Please don't leave me, Please." - He cried but none of those were heard by anika. Soon In no time, He dozed off in the floor due to lack of energy. Hearing his sound, His brother approached his door but shocked to see him lying in the floor unconscious.

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Shivaay opened his eyes, He had no track in time but he knew there's nobody there in his side to hold his hand until he wakes up. He missed the smile in her face and the contact in his hands, She never leaves her hand whenever he was ill or unconscious. It was her fear, He knew, She wasn't supposed to loose him in his life, Not because he was her husband but he was someone whom she loved like his mom and maybe more than her. But he always took advantage of her and take it for granted.

Tears crossed his eyes, When he realized one day without her in his life will look like this, He couldn't able to imagine the rest of his life without her. He saw his mom approaching him, He closed his eyes in an instant.

"Shivaay! Are you fine?" - Pinky, His mom asked him when pulled him up to sit, His arms automatically waved upwards thinking anika might be helping him to sit up. But she was not there. Pinky noticed that She didn't speak anything but looked at her son's condition.

"I am fine, Mom." - He said faintly.

"How's Arush?" - He asked her when his mind recalled about his neck injury.

"He's fine, Checked on him. Don't know what kind of mother is she, Left her son alone, and moved into another country to start her new life." - His mom murmured about her, His eyes narrowed on her when she blamed her for everything that happened.

"Yeah, Mom. You're right, She must have left me all alone, You're right." - Shivaay said and pulled the strings which were connected in his veins for the supplementary.

"I am supporting you, She left you, Then too, You're supporting her." - Pinky asked when he stood up from the bed and was about to fall, Supported holding the table. He denied his mom's help when she offered to help him.

"If I knew you would get destroyed like this, I never would have let her get married to you." - She said He gritted his teeth in anger.

"She's still my wife, Mom. Mere signing the papers won't prove us, we are not husband and wife anymore and I can't take any words against my wife. You got that. Now you can leave." - He said to his mom and asked her to leave, Gesturing disbelief she left the place.

He weakly walked towards the washroom and looked himself before the mirror, His reflection told him, How much extent he went for Anika. He checked his phone for her calls, But there were none, As he expected. When his hand pained due to the strings attached. He imagined her fingers caressing his wound. How much bigger the fight, How much he hurt her, How much he accuses her, It was always anika who consoling him in the last.

Last thing he remembers fighting with her moving out of the house and reached the club straightly. The next moment, He was in his house, Struggling to open his eyes and the hurt in his hand. But her sobs and her touch in his palms and face gave him the energy to open his eyes.

"I am sorry!" - She busted to tears when he looked at her shockingly having no spark of what happened. He even didn't remember the reason behind the fight, But he was assured, It would have been his fault. But he masked the cold face. He refused her help waving at her but she held him, Made him sit, and sat opposite to him.

"So. What happened?" - He asked her coldly. She tried to hug him but he keeps pushing her away from hugging him. Even she got hell hurt due to his behavior, She wasn't ready to give up on him. Pushing his hands which were resisting her away, She hugged him tightly.

"I am sorry, It's my fault. Please forgive me."- She cried in his shoulder, She cried because the mere imagination of losing him forever terrified her to the core. He smirked as if he won a trophy by making her saying sorry, He hugged her back tightly, He pulled her more into him and buried his face in her neck crook.

"Feeling better." - She whispered.

"Yeah," - He said inhaling her scent which gave him immense pleasure.

Tears crossed his eyes when he recalled every gesture of her which made him fall for her even after she left, He looked at her and imagined her back hugging him peeping her head in his shoulder.

"You said, You never give up on me," - He asked the reflection.

"Yes, I told." - His imagination replied to him.

"Then, How did this happen? Divorce? How can you think about divorcing me?" - He asked her crying.

"You never took this divorce seriously, You thought I have no other way to go other than you, And you also underestimated me. It was not anyone, It was you made me give up on you. And now you didn't exist for me." - Anika's reflection said and disappeared. He had no other way to go, He cried bitterly looking at the reflection.

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Anika moved into her new house, Shyla and her husband Ron picked her up from the airport when she finally consoled naina. They were staying in Shyla, Her collegemate's house for the first two days, And then moved into their apartment, 1BHK in the seventh floor, It was small compared to the Oberoi mansion but that's enough for anika and Naina. She had money to rent a bigger house but she opted for 1BHK for staying close to Naina.

"How is our new house, Naina?" - Anika asked her in an exciting tone. Naina smilingly twirled while looking around, Seeing her smiling, Anika smiled at her. And yeah, It's all started with a smile.

They went supermarket shopping together bought groceries, And tracked the best Indian restaurants in the city and Naina found an interest in playing in the park next to their apartment, For the first few days, She left Naina in Shyla's place along with her daughter violet who was taken care by her grandma, and left to work. Interior designing, The art, which gives her peace and finally got her back to track towards the way of success.

"How about hot chocolate, Baby?" - Anika asked Naina when she was about to grab herself a coffee from Starbucks.

"Mom, I want to do gymnastics." - Naina said out of sudden.

"How do you know about gymnastics?" - Anika asked her.

"I shaw it in T.V. I wanch to do gymnastics." - Naina said. Anika was finally relieved to get her daughter back to track.

"Okay, Let's go for it, Now tell me, What you want? Milkshake or Hot chocolate?" - Anika asked her.

"Milkshake." - She said with a smile. Anika took her in her arms and proceeded her way towards Starbucks. They were returning to normal, She's having a video chat with her son every day. And rudy was happy to see the progress in Naina as well as Anika. Anika looked more independent and confident. They didn't tell anything about Arush's neck injury and from them, shivaay stayed away from Arush.

"Rudie, Mumma jhoining me in Gymnastics." - Naina video called Rudru and passed the information to him.

"It means in a few years, You will be playing in the Olympics." - Rudy asked her in a surprising tone and she chuckled while cupping her mouth. Anika brought her drinks and breakfast, She dropped her in Shyla's house and left to her office. She never knew the atom bomb is in the ready to explode state in her office. Every staff looked at her wierdly when she entered. She knew something is very bad in the air.

"What happened, Shyla?" - Anika asked her as soon as she entered.

"Please take the seat, Ani." - She asked Anika took the seat in anxiety.

"What happened? You are scaring me." - Anika said.

"It's nothing to scare, It's just, Your ex-husband." - Shyla said. Her heart skipped a beat when she heard ex-husband from her mouth after 15 days of leaving the city.

"Shivaay..." - Anika asked her.

"He showed his interest in buying this company. He offered thrice the market value." - Shyla said Anika couldn't able to think anything beyond. Tears locked in her eyes thinking he will never leave a chance to hurt her.

"That's why everyone looking at you weirdly. Tell me, What shall we do?" - Shyla asked her in a very low tone.

"Fire me." - Anika said and it almost shook Shyla. She didn't expect this type of answer from her.

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"What the heck, shivaay?" - Om thundered inside his cabin least bothering about the meeting which was happening in his room.

"Guys, please excuse us." - Shivaay said and everyone moved out. There was only an om and shivaay present in the cabin. Shivaay asked him to take the seat but om refused, Om was burning in rage.

"I don't know you are this much egoistic person." - Om muttered when he took the casually in his chair.

"I can't understand anything, What are you talking about?" - Shivaay asked him when he left out of patience.

"You offered to buy the company where Anika is working, And brain-storming to hurt in a new way." - He asked him, Shivaay wondered how he come to know about it when he managed to track her after the whole painful week.

"Did she tell you about this?" - Shivaay asked him.

"Yes, We are staying in touch and for your kind of information, She left that job. This much ego, Shivaay, That too, You became complete blind and also didn't think about Naina, Your blood. How much a person can be blind in ego? Seeing you worried for the past two weeks, I thought Anika must have waited for a while, But now thinking, She's right in every way. You deserve to be alone for the rest of your life." - Om busted to him, He was shocked to know that she left the job because of him. His eyes turned red in anger.

"Am I looking like an egoistic person?" - He asked standing up from his seat when om went outside.

"Then who you're?" - Om asked him.

"I did that because I want her to be a boss in that company not as an employee. I did everything because I care for her. And what she did? Left the Job. Merely not thinking about Naina. Look, I know I have graved a very big mistake in taking her for granted, And I know I deserve this. But leaving the job, Not accepting the Alimony, What the hell she's trying to prove? Who is playing in Naina's life? Me or that lady!" - He asked out of anger.

"So your point is you did everything for her." - Om asked him. Shivaay didn't bother to answer and he gazed away in anger.

"So you accept, You're the one who failed in this relationship. And you said she's playing in Naina's life." - He laughed sarcastically at him.

"Why the hell you're laughing?" - Shivaay asked him.

"Look at you, Shivaay. Before taking Naina's name in your mouth, Just ask yourself, Have you ever been a good father to her? Leave good father, Have you ever been a father to her? And now, Claiming like you're the one who cared for her. And you told you realized your mistake. You're wrong, You didn't realize your mistake but you started missing her care, Got to know the value of her. That's not considered as realizing the mistakes, Mr. Shivaay Singh Oberoi." - Om busted to him. And looked at the files he was carrying.

"What do you mean?" - He asked him.

"As a friend, We all know what she was going through in her life but as a husband, As a partner, What did you know about her?" - Om asked him. He stood shook looking at him, He had nothing to say.

"What you mean?" - Shivaay asked after a long pause in a low tone. Om threw the file which he was carrying in his hand to the table.

"I mean, You not only failed as a dad But also failed as a husband. Leave husband, You even can't able to be her friend. But Anika excelled in everything. She is a good mom and a very good wife, But unfortunately, She never deserved you in her life." - He said.

"This is a bond that Anika's grandpa Satyajit Trivedi made her signed before getting married to you. And this bond has every answer to your questions which is disturbing you for the past five years." - Om said and left. Shivaay looked at the door and then the bond. What will be there in that bond?

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