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Tears roll down her eyes as the papers fall down from her hands.

"Tum kuch nahi bologi?" He asks her, softly.

Nandini looks up at him, tears clouding her eyes.

"Kya bolun main Manik? Is there anything left to say? You've decided what you want, do I have a choice?" She replies in a broken voice.

Manik looks at her as tears lace his eyes as well.

"This is the best for both of us Nandini." He answered, taking a deep breath.

"Talk about yourself Mr. Malhotra!! This might be best for you but how in the hell you get to decide if it's best for me or not?!!"
Nandini snapped back fiercely, for she had have enough of it.

"Nandini?” Surprised, Manik went ahead to hold her arm.

"Dare not touch me!" She jerks his hands away as more tears roll down from her eyes.

Looking down at the papers again,

"Ek baat batayein mujhe Manik, Mujh mein koi kami hai? Am I not good enough? Yaa phir don't I deserve happiness?" She spoke up, on the verge of breaking down.

"Tum aisa kyun bol rahi ho?" Manik replied, clueless.

"Toh aur kya bolun main Manik? No one wants me in their life!" She yells at him, finally.

"I was just 6 years old when Mom died of cancer. I hadn't even recovered from that when Dad brought in my new mother. Can you imagine?! He got busy with his new family, new wife, new children and he had no time for old things, old people!" She added, frustrated.

"How old I was back then? 6? I used to crave for his attention Manik.

But, I.. I somehow survived that.

Then he passed away too and within two months of that, my so called Mom fixed me up with a man twice of my age..!!" Nandini continued, wiping away her tears fiercely with the back of her hand.

"Then you came." One cannot miss that smile that graced her lips.

"For the first time you know, someone stood up for me like that. Kaun thhe tum? Hum jaante bhi nahi the ek doosre ko, still you did it for me to the extent you married me just to get me out of that hell.

… Yahan aakar for the first time in my whole life, I realized what is it to have a family, to have someone who cares for you." She smiles faintly again.

"What it is to be loved, to be important for someone. Mujhe laga life is going to be beautiful now. I have you as my husband. Now I will not be left alone, I'll be loved. But see! It happened again! IT HAPPENED AGAIN! Chhod diya aapne bhi mujhe. You left me like everyone else did." She yelled again, crying.

Manik stood silently as she let her heart out in front of him.

"Manik? Do you see the decorations all around? Roses? Candles? Everything? This was all for you, for us. I wanted to thank you for coming in my life, I wan.. wanted to tell that I love you.

… I really do, unfortunately. But it doesn't matters now, does it? " Nandini spoke up finally, as she sobs a little chewing onto her lower lip.

"Thank you so much, mujhe itne mahine apne ghar main panaah dene ke liye. Main humesha aapki shukr guzaar rahungi. And.. I'll move out tomorrow." She added taking in a deep breath, as more tears rolled down her eyes.

Getting up slowly and gathering up the pieces of her broken heart, Nandini is about to walk past him when she feels a sudden pull at her elbow and gasps when Manik pulls her to himself, crashing on his chest.

Without letting her take a breath, he slammed his lips on her.

His Wife is surely taken aback but gives in that instant she feels his warm lips upon her, urging her to kiss him back.

Manik chuckled mentally as her lips moved innocently with his telling him that she hadn't been kissed before.

The way she tenderly bit onto his lower lip told him that she may not have kissed before but sure, his wife was eager to learn.

He allowed her entrance, but chuckled mentally as she gasped again for he easily dominated her in the war of mouths making her moan as she clawed onto his t-shirt.

Oxygen threatened their existence on them was only when they break the kiss.

Nandini's pants heavily, her hands are on his face and Manik rests his forehead on hers, encircling his arms around her waist.

"Wh.. What.. wa.. was that for?" Nandini spoke up, fumbling as her head was still dazed by the intensity of their kiss.

"My love for you. I love you too Nandini. I love you too. Damn! I've been in love with you ever since that first morning where you dressed up for a fresh new day. I fell in love with you everyday when you cared for me, pampered me and held me in your arms." Manik spoke up, huskily.

Nandini looks at him surprised but she can see sincerity twinkling in his walnut orbs and without thinking, she throws her arms around him, hugging him tight and close. Manik hugs her back, his hands caressing her hairs.

"Then why were you doing this?" She asked, softly punching him in his jaw, narrowing her eyes at him as they broke the hug.

"Tumhare liye hi toh kar raha tha. Mujhe laga tum mere saath kabhi khush nahi reh paogi, considering we have huge age difference." He replied, tracing her soft cheek with the back of his hand.

"Umr aur Mohabbat ka toh koi connection hi nahi hai. Toh kya hua if we have huge age difference? Yeh zaroori toh nahi that two people of same age group are going to live happily ever after. Manik, we love each other, kya yeh kaafi nahi hai hume saath rakhne ke liye?!" Nandini asked him innocently, her hazel doe eyes soft as she touches his cheek.

"It's more than enough." Manik spoke up, as he turned his head to kiss her palm, softly.

Nandini smiles beautifully before hugging him again.

"Aur khabardaar jo dobara kaha ki koi tumse se pyaar nahi karta! Yaa phir yeh ki tum mein koi kami hai! You're the most beautiful woman in this entire world for me, the only woman I've ever fallen in love with." Manik spoke up huskily with that hint of cute authoritativeness.

Nandini looks up at his face as she leans in to kiss him again softly.

"Promise me that you won't ever leave me alone." She spoke up, cutely holding up her hand.

"Never." He replies huskily, holding her hand and kissing it.

"And BTW, I hate boy bands. I like Rock. Shayad aapke saath rehte rehte I would develop a taste for rock too." Nandini added, pouting cutely.

"Your name is not a burden for me Manik. It's that identity for me, which I've been searching for long. Without which, I'm not that Nandini." She spoke up sincerely looking into those deep walnut eyes which she loved since forever.

Manik looked back into those gorgeous doe shaped eyes, a few moments earlier he had been scared to see the love for him but now he wasn't.

He wanted to get lost in those hazel seas.

"Aaj raat main sirf aapki mohabbat mehsoos karna chahti hoon. Uss mein iss kadar kho jana chahti hoon ke phir koi aur toh kya, main khud bhi apne aap ko naa dhoond paun." Nandini spoke up, softly asking him to melt all those lines between them which had kept them apart all these years.

And he won't step back now either!

Manik smiles and pecking her lips, he picks her up in his strong arms walked towards their bedroom.

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... and she proved that

She wears crown of his heart with Pride!

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Why the cliche, first punch and then kiss... Ulta wasn't that bad naah?

Do lemme know  how was

... Nandini's outburst?

... Manik's confession?

* No prize for guessing what's next :P

There's demand of adding gif's, i'll try for I have tested all of your's patience way to much!...... Though it won't be vulgar, rather it'd be sensual... there's a big difference!

But spare me from reporting sh!t.
If you don't want, stop me here only!
I don't have any problem.

*Next 2 updates will be posted together, I guess on Friday /Saturday.

*For Manjha, I know it's very wrong at my part to keep y'll hanging but this haven't really been my year, I have been too unwell. This is why the delay, but now as I'm somewhat fine so I'm working on it.