Divya

Andrew dropped me off at the hospital 10 min ago and I have been in call with Amaya ever since. She is really worried for me, but I just don't want to put more pressure on her, she has a court date next month on adoption for all 3 of them.

"Ha, Ammu! Every thing went great. Don't worry about me and work on the adoption papers. Take care of the adoption first." I said cutting the call.

I hope court approves it, they all deserve happiness in life.The another reason she couldn't come is because Jay filed a restraining order against Amaya.

Ever since I saw Jay here life has been hard. Why is he hell bent on ruining my life and the people around me.

Amaya went to Jail because of me and Amar, yet no one said a word to me. They started treating me like a glass doll which is about to break. I feel guilty for putting all of them through so much trouble.

When will my sorrow come to an end?

And on top of that my father is here. He looked at me with the same disgust he showed me when I told him about Jay abusing me. I never thought how his presence would effect me, but it did. I will always be that little girl trying to impress my parents, no matter how much I deny it.

I walked into my office and sat on my chair looking at the patient file. I know how to do a gall bladder removal surgery like the back of my hand. If it was complicated surgery, I don't have the mind to do it. I sighed in disappointment at my pathetic life and picked up the phone to call Valerie.

"Is the surgery room ready Val?"I asked Valerie on the phone.

"Yes! Dr.D. The anesthesiologist is in here right now. You can come in 5 and start." She replied and I went in and changed back into my scrubs.

After performing the surgery which took a good 1hour and 35 minutes with Valerie, Chaya and Mark.

I felt good. My job makes me feel better about myself. I walked up to the patients family and told them that everything went well and the patient will wake up soon.

I changed into my clothes from scrubs and went back to my office, when I was finishing my report on the surgery I performed Becky knocked on my door with a news that gave me chills.

"Divya! There is man at the help desk claiming to be your father. The security wants you to confirm and let them know if you would like to meet him." She said showing me the live feed of my father talking to the head of security Josh on her tab.

My father is here, looking at him there made my heart race and sent chills all over my body.

My father is here to meet me. Maybe I was wrong, he is proud of me and wants to know how I am doing. That's why he should be here right?

"Send him in Becky! That's my father." I told her with a happy smile on my face and she walked out.

My father never visited me at work when I was in India and I have to show him, that his daughter is a really good doctor, I have to make him proud.

I cleaned up the room as fast as I could, adjusted my dress and put on my white coat and waited for him to knock the door with a smile on my face.

"This is Dr.D's office. You have a great daughter sir. She is my favorite! See you later Dr.D." The security guard Josh said to my dad and he nodded curtly.

"Thank you Josh! Take care." I said to him and closed the door.

My father stood there and looked around my office while I kept staring at him waiting for him speak out.

"How are you Nanna(father)? How is Maa?" I asked him not able to hold it in and be quiet for a long time.

I eagerly looked at him for an answer while he kept mum.

"You ruined all the peace in our lives and now you are asking me how are you? Let me give you the answer, While you've been enjoying all the privilege of being a doctor that I made you with my money, Your mother and me had to suffer from what you did. " He said with a painful chuckle destroying all my hopes and dreams about him being proud of me.

That's when I realized he is not here to appreciate the person I've become instead he is here to taunt me and make me feel pathetic.

"When you paraded on to get your degree, me and all my family didn't go out to any events because of the shame you put us through." He said to me looking at the picture of me on my graduation day.

"My mom had a heart attack because of you and we all had to stay in a hospital for a month. And the girl Amaya who gave you shelter, slapped me and made fun of me when I went to her house looking for you. Every time I go to work or to the street now they recognize as the father of a girl who ran away. That's how we are, living with no respect and destroyed reputation in the society. Your one action killed the status and image I built my whole life." He sniped at me making me feel bad all over again.

My grandma had a heart attack because of me? I ruined his lifetime reputation, may be I am not the daughter he should be feeling proud off. I am nothing but a disgrace and dishonor to them. I took a few gulp and started defending myself.

"I get it that I didn't make you proud. If you are here to make me feel bad it won't work. That's what happens when you don't stand by your daughter and you deserve it . And to be honest it's all your fault, I asked you thousand times to get me out of that hell hole with Jay, I even tried to kill myself to get out of that situation and you didn't even come to the hospital for me. So you don't have any right to make me feel this way." I said back to him mustering all the strength.

This is the first time in my life I am talking back to him and the look on his face shows that he didn't expect me to do it.

"Is this how you talk to your father? What have you turned into? What kind of clothes are you wearing and Jay told me about that boyfriend of yours." He looked at me with same old disgust in his face for me.

"What wrong did I do to you? Why don't you kill me and your mom instead? What happened to my little girl? If only I knew you would turn like this I would've killed you the moment I knew you were a girl." He questioned me with a painful voice and my heart started to break.

These are not the words I wished to hear from my father.

Why is he like this? why can't he be like Harish Babai(Uncle)?

His words made me doubt myself? But this is not the time to feel bad and I am not weak.

"You should've killed me instead then. And your little girl died the day you trusted Jay over her. So please don't expect her to come back and put you on high chair. Did you once in my life ask me what I want? All my life was about what you and the society wanted." I questioned him back while he gave me a sullen look.

"And as of Andrew, yes he is my boyfriend and I am proud to say that my choice is a million times better than yours."

I had to tell him, I am not the quiet daughter who sits and listens to everything he says.

"This is not you, that Amaya has been rubbing off on you. She turned my own daughter against me. I will kill her." He barked blaming Amaya.

This what people do you know, when they can't see the mistake in them blaming others for the situation makes it easy and makes them feel good about themselves.

That's what I did, I blamed my parents for my bad times in India instead of being strong enough to get out of there before and know that I deserved better.

"Don't blame Amaya. I am not a 3 year old to get influenced by others. I am my own person now." I replied to him a stern face.

"I am done listening to you. Pack your bags, we are leaving." He announced and I shook my head disagreeing with him.

"You are leaving. I have a life here and I am not coming back to you unless you accept your mistakes. I am not going back to a place where I am disrespected and belittled." I said to him and folded my hands against my chest.

"Fine then, don't come back when your mother dies on that hospital bed." He said.

What happened to her? or is this another way of his to lure me in?

"I don't believe you." I said to him confidence but I was worried sick for my mother on the inside.

He took his phone out a showed me a picture of my mother on a hospital bed with IV's attached to her body. She looks weak and she got old from the last time I saw her. It hurts me to see her in pain.

My mom is really sick.

"What happened to her?" I whispered looking at her picture with tears blurring my eyes.

"Why do you care? And I am planning to get Ravali and Jay married." He stated casually locking his phone making me gape in shock.

Ravali is the last one of my cousins, my mothers sister's daughter, and she is a small child. She will be 20 this year and my dad wants her to marry the monster.

"You can't do that, she is a kid and he is monster. He will ruin her life and happiness." I screamed back at him at the mere thought of their marriage.

"So what? At least she won't run away like you did. I informed her and she is okay with it and so is Jay. And just so you know if Ravali's life is ruined it's because of you." He spat the last words at me.

He can't do that to her. Not my little girl, I saw her grow up, she is way younger than Jay. She is sweet and innocent, she won't be able to put up with him.

"Don't do that, She will break into pieces. She deserves someone better, Please I beg you to not do that to her." I pleaded him.

"We already fixed the dates last month, she will marry him. Jay was here on a business deal, we didn't expect you to find here. I promised them a child and I am giving one." He replied back.

No, this can't be happening. I never wished the life I had with Jay to my greatest enemies and he is giving that life to Ravali. She is too innocent for him.

"If you really want to save Ravali and see your mom. Come back with me and stay with Jay, cut all your ties here. Don't tell anyone about this." He said to me after a long pause.

I have to do this for her. I can stop the wedding and look after my mom. What's the purpose of me studying when I can't save and look after my own mother? I will do that.

"If I do that will you cancel the wedding?" I questioned him and he nodded yes.

What am I getting myself into?

"Fine! I will come back but I have one condition. If anyone hurts Amar I won't stay there for a second." I said to him and he agreed.

I wrote a resignation letter and sent to Shaurya, and picked up Amar and drove back home.

Looking at my home reminded me of Andrew, How will he react to my news? Before going upstairs I told my dad, if Andrew comes by I need to talk to him personally.

My happiness is not more important than protecting other's life. I am already broken by Jay, he can't do worse than that. I have to atleast protect Ravali.

I convinced myself that it was a good idea, but When Andrew came in and asked me if I loved him, I started to regret my decision.

I broke his heart yet he gave his mother's ring to me. I knew that he was planning to propose to me. I don't deserve him, he is the nicest person on earth and I broke him.

Andrew is not even looking at me, all his concentration is on Amar, who's sobbing not wanting to leave this place.

I am really sorry Andrew, I had to do that to protect my little sister. I can't sit back and watch someone else's life get ruined. I can only hope for you to forgive me with that thought I got into the car.

You can love someone and still chose to say goodbye to them. But, it hurts to imagine a life without Andrew in it. He made me happy.

I could see him drop on to his knees on my driveway from the side mirror, I want to run back to his arms. I can't see him in pain, love hurts too much.

I don't want to go back and live with Jay but its better me than ruining another girls life. I will definitely cherish the small amount of time I had with him.

Just when I was happy, life hit me hard. I might be living with Jay but my heart always belongs to Andrew.

I felt Amar clutch my dress bringing back from my thoughts and I turned towards him. Jay was trying to hold Amar and talk to him.

"Don't touch my son!" I spewed at him and pulled Amar to the other side and I clung on to him.

Jay whined at father about me lashing out on him while my dad said. "Don't do anything untill we leave this place. Keep quiet." Which made him quiet the whole ride.

We got into the plane, and all the way to India. I sat on the reminiscing my first time journey memories with Andrew, how he promised  to stand by and take care me and Amar. He succeeded but I was the one who failed. I am going back to my hell.

I looked at my son sleeping, who didn't speak a word to me since we left the house. I woke him up as we reached, got into the car along with my dad as we drove to my parents house.

"I want to see mom first. Let's go to the hospital." I told my dad while he shrugged ignoring me words.

The driver stopped the car, I picked up sleeping Amar in my arms and walked into the house which shattered me when I walked in pleading for help in the last.

The house looks like it's been repainted and no changes have been made in the last 4 years.

I rung the doorbell and stood there waiting for someone to open the door. I could hear someone unlatch on the other side, and the door opened revealing my mom.

Her face wrinkled a bit, but she is still the same person, I could smell the warmth coming from her. As soon as my eyes met her I pulled her into a hug with me and Amar.

"What are you doing here?" My mom asked me after breaking our hug looking at me with tears in her eyes.

"How are you? Why are you not at the hospital? What happened to you? Where does it hurt? Dad said you are sick." I poured all my questions on her only to be met with utter shock on her face.

"I was sick but that was 2 years back. I had knee replacement surgery. I am fine now." She said with a worried look whiled I scanned her body to see for any sign of pain and discomfort.

Thank god! She is fine. I was worried about her health.

We all walked into the living room.

"Where is Ravali? I need to talk to her. She can't marry Jay." I asked my mom as we were sitting.

"What's going on with you? And what are you talking about? Why would Ravali marry Jay? She is in college doing her bachelors." My mom answered looking at me like I am a lunatic for asking that.

"Dad told me that he would marry off Ravali to Jay if I didn't come back." I told her in a devastated voice.

And that's when I realized, my dad played with my weakness and bought me here. He betrayed me.

He couldn't destroy me when I was with Andrew, so he drew me out and away from them by hitting on my weakness.

"Is he Amar? My grandson! Andrew told me about him at Amaya's grandparents funeral." My mom asked me looking at Amar's sleeping figure in my arms.

I nodded and gave Amar to her and walked away to talk my father.

"YOU LIED TO ME?"

"Stop yelling at me and know your place. In here no one and I mean no one yells or talks back to me." He said and started to walk away from me.

"You are the worst father ever, you couldn't see your own daughter's happiness. I hope you rot in hell. I am done with you. That's it! I am leaving with my son." I said to him and he stopped in his tracks, turned around and looked at me with an evil smile.

"How will you go without your passports? You are now under my control and I threw your passports in the trash, right at the airport. You are not allowed to step out of this house until I say so." He said and left me alone making me a prisoner once again.

I stood there analyzing the situation I stuck myself in. If only Andrew was here to help me get out of this. I should've told him and he would've find a solution for me, but no I had to go all secretive and hide things for me.

How stupid can I be?

I can't sit here and mope about what has already been done. I need to figure out how to get me and my son out of this. I need to be my own anchor now.

My own father not only lied to me but he made me leave the love of my life and my son's happiness too, I will retaliate and this time it's going to devastating for all of you for making me a fool. This time I am not gonna leave silently.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Get ready to face your biggest humiliation father, I am no more the weak, agreeing daughter you had.

I will ruin you and that stupid Jay for making me break Andrew's heart, for yelling at my own son, for trusting you. You will pay for it and I will make sure of that.

That was it guys.

Hope you liked the chapter and are satisfied with the reason why she left.

I read so many stories on Wattpad and in life where the guy changes after being abusive and the girls go back to him.

TBH I don't believe it.

I am sorry but this story is not about forgiveness. People like that don't deserve it. You can't forget and forgive someone who hurt you the most right.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway it's time for Divya to reign and for us to sit back and watch.

Who's excited for the next chapter?

And next chapter on Friday.

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Till then

Love,
Sneha