Third update of the day! Today's spree started at chapter 186, so do press star/comment on all of the parts of today! 

I'm so excited for this new phase! Enjoy my lovely readers! ❤️ 

Tupur pushed Batuk off as soon as his lips touched hers and with angry tears in her eyes, she said with intensity, "What don't you understand by I'm someone else's wife?" 

"You're not! I don't accept it! You're only mine!" Batuk said, tears in his eyes as well, and he grabbed her shoulders, trying to pull her to him again. 

Tupur struggled against his arms, and she hissed, "I'm not Batuk! You never gave me priority in your life, and now it's over! I'm married, and there is no chance for us now!" 

Batuk shook his head and he said, "I always gave you priority!" 

"Not over Bondita!" Tupur sobbed, tears flowing down her cheeks, "You always chose her over me! And now, I have to choose my husband over you!" 

"No! You don't love him! You only love me!" Batuk refused, and he tried to kiss her again. 

She struggled against his arms, but it was hard to push him off. His lips touched hers again, and she cried, her fingers curling around his shirt. 

When he broke the kiss, she raised her hand and slapped him hard. Batuk's eyes widened, and he glared at Tupur, as his cheek stung. 

"Why did you do that?" he hissed. 

"Because you need to come to your senses now! You can't touch me like that! I never gave you permission! I don't belong to you Batuk!" Tupur cried. 

"Yes you do! You're mine, mine, mine!" Batuk yelled back, grabbing her arms and squeezing them so hard that it hurt. 

"Am I an object?" she yelled. "That I'm yours?" 

Batuk slowly released Tupur from his grip, as he recalled all of his Dada's teachings. 

This was not right. 

What he was doing with Tupur was not right. 

He couldn't force her. He couldn't exert his will on her like this, just because he was a man, just because he was stronger and she didn't have the physical power to fight back. 

His Dada would be so disappointed in him. 

"No..." Batuk said, and looked at Tupur tearfully. "I'm wrong... you're not mine." 

She looked at him with shock, as he said, "Tupur, I wanted to love you... I wanted to be with you... but maybe we weren't meant to be..." 

A sob escaped Tupur's lips and she said, "I wanted you to love me too!" 

"I did," Batuk told her softly. 

"I never felt it," she responded, tears streaming down her cheeks. 

It hurt him that Tupur never understood his love.

"I wanted you to understand me too, I wanted you to stand up for me Tupur... just like I would have done for you..." Batuk said to her. "Maybe then I would believe that you also loved me." 

Tupur looked at him tearfully.

It hurt her that Batuk never understood her love. 

"There's no point in having this conversation anymore Batuk. Please leave me alone now. Please let me live my life in peace. If anyone finds out about us, then my life will be a living hell," Tupur begged. "I'm not the girl you expected. I'm not the one you wanted." 

"Neither was I the man that you wanted..." Batuk told her with a heavy heart.

Bondita had heard sounds behind the haveli and went to check on what was going on. Upon reaching there, she saw Batuk and Tupur looking like they were having a very serious conversation. 

"Batuk?" Bondita asked, surprised. 

Batuk looked at Bondita and avoided her gaze, before storming away quickly. 

What happened to him? Why wasn't he even looking at her? 

Bondita turned to look at Tupur whose eyes were red from crying. 

She went directly up to Tupur and asked, "What's wrong?" 

"Nothing Bondita. Batuk was just thanking me for helping you when you were at the shack when you got your... period..." she lowered her voice when she said the word. She was not even bold enough to speak of that, how could she ever take a stand for Batuk? 

"Tupur, are you sure you're happy with this marriage?" Bondita asked. "I feel very uneasy." 

"Please don't interfere in my life anymore Bondita," Tupur begged. "I want to move on. I want to live properly, without having your shadow on my life!" 

Bondita was surprised to hear this from Tupur. Move on from what? 

Before she could ask anything further though, Tupur had also stormed away. 

What was up with Batuk and Tupur? Why were they behaving so strangely? 

She walked back towards the guests slowly, extremely confused by what was happening. 

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After lunch, many guests had left, and Anirudh waited for a moment where nobody was looking, before he took Bondita's hand and dragged her away.

She had been lost in thoughts of Batuk and Tupur the whole time, but Tapur kept on talking to her, trying to get her to play with her friends. She couldn't spare some time to speak to Batuk because of it. He also didn't look to be in the mood to talk. 

It was clear that he was bothered by something. 

"Pati Babu, what are you doing?" she gasped, as he took her inside the empty haveli.

Anirudh pushed her against the hallway wall and pressed his lips against hers hard, as if he was finally kissing her with all of his pent up emotions.

Bondita was shocked, but she kissed him back. She had been wanting to do this all morning, especially after Thakumaa had accepted them. She just wanted to kiss him to her heart's content!

His hands held her waist, pulling her body in his embrace, while she ran her hands up his chest as the kiss grew deeper.

She could feel the softness of his tongue on hers, and the strength of his arms holding her close to him was just making her want to melt into him. 

After he broke the kiss, he murmured, "I told you I won't spare you." 

Bondita blushed and she asked, "Already? We're still in Krishnanagar." 

"You're lucky you're in Krishnanagar missy," he teased, making her heart flutter. "If we were in Tulsipur, you'd be in bed with me right now." 

She looked at him with desire in her eyes, and he leaned into her ear, whispering, "When you were yelling at everyone outside, do you know how amazing you looked?" 

Bondita felt her stomach perform somersaults. 

"I love it when you show your powerful side to everyone," he murmured, his warm breath on her ear. 

Her knees fell weak and she shivered in between his arms and the wall.

"Does it turn you on?" she asked innocently. 

His lips grazed her ear ever so gently and he murmured, "Oh yes madame, it does." 

Bondita blushed hard and she whispered, pressing her body against his, her hands clasping onto his shoulders, "Then can I show you my powerful side?" 

Anirudh moved his face back and looked in her eyes, a blush on his face.

Then with a teasing smile on his lips, he leaned close enough to her so that his lips brushed over hers and he murmured, "Show me baby. Show me right now." 

Bondita gasped, and he let go of her lips. A light chuckle on his lips, he was about to turn around and walk towards the entrance of the haveli, when she ran in front of him and extended her arms out on either side of her, blocking his exit. 

Of course, he had just been provoking and teasing her. He wasn't going anywhere leaving his Bondita behind after all of these struggles. 

"Excuse me Barrister Babu!" Bondita exclaimed, making him look at her with shock. 

Did she just call him Barrister Babu? 

"Yes, I did call you Barrister Babu!" she said to him formally. 

He smiled and he asked, "What can I do for you madame?" 

"We will have a personal case to fight very soon!" she informed him. "A mock trial!" 

"A personal case?" he asked her, his eyes glittering. "Mock trial?" 

Anything barrister related about his Bondita, was sure to make Anirudh Roy Choudhary excited!

"In our bedroom!" she told him. 

Oh, so this was about another fantasy of hers. And he couldn't deny that he shared this fantasy too. Losing to her arguments was his biggest fantasy, in the bedroom and out of it. 

Anirudh blushed and he asked, "May I know what we are fighting about my Barrister partner?" 

"No, not your partner! I will be fighting against you! We will fight about... romance novels!" 

Now the blush left his face and he just gasped, "WHAT?!" 

Bondita giggled and she said, "You really can't handle my powerful side! That was all it took for you to get mad!" 

"Bondita!" Anirudh warned, and he tried to grab her arms, but she lifted them, giggling and escaping his grip. 

Bondita started to run away from her Pati Babu while he chased her -- not too fast, because her leg was still not healed. 

She couldn't take more than a few steps, because she ran straight into Thakumaa. 

"Thakumaa!" Bondita gasped, as Anirudh collided with Bondita, who was now sandwiched in between Thakumaa and him. 

"Sorry Thakumaa!" Anirudh apologized, backing away. 

Thakumaa caught her balance and shook her head at the two kids. 

A smile reached her lips though, and she said, "I understand. You two must have missed each other a lot." 

Anirudh blushed and looked down, while Bondita just smiled. 

"It's good you two are here. There's something I wanted to show you," she said, "Follow me." 

Both Anirudh and Bondita followed Thakumaa to Bondita's bedroom. 

"It's about Bondita's medication," Thakumaa said, "I guess she will return to Tulsipur now. I had wanted her to come and spend some time with me, but it's time that she returns to her sasural." 

Bondita grinned at Anirudh, when Thakumaa herself said that she should return. Anirudh smiled back at her, more than happy to take his Bondita back home with him. 

"I'll apply the ointment on her leg now and show you how to do it Jamai Babu. Can I trust that you'll take care of her medications from now on? For another few weeks, she will need to apply it regularly," Thakumaa informed. 

Anirudh nodded and said, "Yes Thakumaa. I'll take care of it." 

With a happy smile, Bondita sat down on the bed, leaning against her pillow, as Thakumaa pulled her saree up to her knee. Then she took the ointment and told Anirudh the details of the quantity and how often to apply it, as she put it on her granddaughter's leg. 

"You know, this medication has lotus as an ingredient," Thakumaa informed the two of them. "Bondita's father's birth name was Prosenjit. However, he used to spend a lot of time with me as I made medications, and he was particularly fond of lotus flowers. So I nicknamed him Arvind out of fondness. It means lotus. He loved the name, so we all started to call him that fondly, and the name just stuck." 

Bondita looked at Thakumaa with surprise. She had known that Prosenjit was her father's real name of course, but had often wondered why he went by the name Arvind. So Thakumaa was the mastermind behind her father's name. She had practically raised him at such a young age after all. 

"You love to give nicknames Thakumaa," Anirudh said with a smile, remembering how she had dubbed him Mishti Maye. 

Thakumaa laughed, and then went back to explaining the details of the medication to them. 

"Uh... Thakumaa... just a question," Anirudh said, his ears suddenly turning red. 

Bondita looked at Anirudh, wondering what his nervous tone was about all of a sudden. 

"Yes Jamai Babu?" Thakumaa asked. 

Anirudh cleared his throat and he said, "Bondita... can she do... physical activity?" 

Bondita's face turned a deep shade of red and her eyes widened. 

"He means running around Thakumaa!" Bondita said quickly. 

Thakumaa looked from Bondita to Anirudh, and she answered, "She shouldn't use the leg too much." 

"So no running around!" Bondita said with a forced smile. 

"No, but other physical activity..." Anirudh continued. 

If Thakumaa was going to be Bondita's vaid, a form of a doctor, he had to ask her properly. He couldn't risk anything happening to his Bondita! 

Bondita glared at Anirudh. 

If Thakumaa said no then her dreams were over for a few weeks! And besides, what they had done last night was quite physical, even though she hadn't done much work! So they already broke those rules!

"Other physical activity?" Thakumaa questioned. 

"Ohho Pati Babu, why are you troubling Thakumaa," Bondita said nervously hoping that Thakumaa wouldn't say no. 

"Bondita, I need to know so I can care for you properly!" Anirudh argued. 

Thakumaa furrowed her eyebrows and looked from Anirudh to Bondita again. Then it suddenly seemed to strike her. 

A small laugh appeared on her lips, and she said, "Well, if you're talking about sexual activity, then it's fine, as long as you don't put pressure on her leg." 

Bondita breathed a sigh of relief and Anirudh's face turned completely red. 

"Relax, you don't have to be so shy," Thakumaa laughed, and then she said, "Now I know how my mishti maye really got bitten that day." 

Now even Bondita blushed hard, as Anirudh just tried to look away awkwardly, touching his neck gently as he recalled the love bite that Bondita had given him. He wanted to hide his face with embarrassment right now. 

"Alright Thakumaa! We got it," Bondita said, blushing. She also wanted to hide her face right now. 

Thakumaa with a smile just said, "I'll be outside. You can take your time and come." 

Anirudh exchanged a glance with Bondita, both of them quite shocked. 

Was Thakumaa giving them time to spend alone? 

Then, chuckling to herself, Thakumaa left the room and closed the door. 

Bondita blushed hard and she just picked up a pillow and threw it at her Pati Babu. 

"Oww Bondita!" he groaned, grabbing the pillow. 

"What was the need to ask Thakumaa that?" she huffed, and he sat down on the bed beside her, putting the pillow down. 

"I was just making sure it's okay --" he started. 

"My wound is on my leg, not my vagina!" she argued, frowning.

Anirudh looked at her with a smile and he asked, "Oh yeah? I'm not so sure about that." 

"What do you mean you're not so sure?" she huffed. 

"I need to see it to believe it," he teased. "How can I trust you that you don't have a wound --" 

Bondita pinched his arm, blushing, and she said, "Dhatt Pati Babu!" 

He just laughed and wrapped his arms around her on the bed, hugging her lovingly. 

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Precap: Back in Tulsipur!

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I hope you enjoyed this more light-hearted chapter! 

Did you enjoy the Anidita romance? 

Their flirting? 

Thakumaa's teasing? 

The explanation behind Arvind's name? We turned a mistake into an opportunity to add depth to the story, and this my friends, is how we should see all things that appear to be problems in life! Perspective is key! 

Remember to hit star and comment on this chapter, and also the chapters of the spree! 

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