It was a sunday afternoon and Shivaay was reading  few files sitting on the garden chair watching 'his family' play around in the garden . His three most precious people . Adit was playing with his cars all around the garden and Ayda was preparing tea with her kitchen set for her bua in a corner that she has set up as house . Kids had started walking now and were trying to speak these days . Spending time with them has become incredible fun . All the blabbering that took place in attempt to form words amused the grown ups all the time .

Shivaay could almost feel the happiness burst inside him at the sight of Anika smiling at him. She was beckoning him to come and join them , but he signaled that he was okay sitting at a distance with his work . He could not possibly stare at her from close-up , could he ????  Anika was dressed in a yellow fitting chudidaar kurta with a flowing dupatta, and was rivaling the sunshine . Both with her attire and her warm tinkling laughter . This girl has been the sunshine of his life as well . Keeping him sane and thawing his heart with her warmth .

She looks so beautiful . Long luscious black hair, which were open right now and swaying in the wind . slightly brown complexion , a stark contrast to the hair color . Eyes that sparkle and smile that dazzles . She always looks so tempting in the dark of the night when they chit chat , where she does not bother with formalities with him anymore and wears her night suits in front of him, which are of course quite modest in his opinion . Her uninhibited demeanor in front of him makes him fall for her more . He has seen girls in awe of him , trying to impress him, trying to woo him , trying to please him and what not . But he had never seen a girl just being herself in front of him . Anika never fish for compliments and yet his heart silently bestows a thousand of them on her. She never seeks his attention , but he is unable to divert his attention from her , no matter what . Why does she not behave like normal girls ? Atleast a little . That would have helped a lot . 'But then you would have not fallen for her Shivaay Singh Oberoi ', a voice in his mind chided .

He came out of his thoughts as he felt someone sit in the chair next to him and saw Anika smiling at him while drinking water .

ANIKA : 'Shivaay , why are you not playing with us? I always see you on the sideline of things. You don't get involved'   complained Anika .

SHIVAAY : 'That's how I am' he replied smilingly at her remarkable observation . 'But right now its because I am working on some very important legal issues pertaining  jiju's assets and property . These papers have to be submitted in court tomorrow . Getting things transferred on Adit and Adya's name finally . He did not have a will so some legal hassles had cropped up earlier' he explained .

Just then Hari informed that lawyer Mr. Roy has arrived and was waiting for him in the living room, so Arnav left from there.

A little while later Adya was in a mood of nap so Anika gathered her in her arms and headed towards the nursery , leaving Adit in Savita's care in the garden. While she entered the house she heard some voices . 'Must be Shivaay and his lawyer' she thought . As she was moving towards nursery, she saw a man sitting opposite Shivaay, with his back towards her. Both were deeply engrossed into some papers lying in front of them on the table . 'This silhouette looks very familiar, even the voice is known' Anika told herself . She craned her neck to get a better view of the person who was sitting opposite Shivaay . As if sensing her , Shivaay looked up at her from his papers and gave her a questioning look . The man followed his vision and turned back , and his eyes widened at the sight of girl standing in front of her, as did his smile .

DAKSH : 'ANIKA... Is it you ? God where were you ? How are you ? ' the joyful voice made her smile like anything .

ANIKA : 'DAKSH ... What are you doing here ? How are you ?' she asked back excited.

SHIVAAY : 'WHAT THE...!' 

 grunted Shivaay , confused at the smiles and squeals going on in the room .

Daksh Khurana . Corporate Lawyer of Oberoi Group of Companies . He was an intelligent man in his late twenties. From a good family and with a very pleasant disposition. He did his article-ship under Ranveer  and became his blue eyed boy in no time . So much so that Ranveer did not mind his friendship with Anika and even referred him to his brother-in-law Shivaay Singh Oberoi when the latter was looking for a fresh corporate lawyer for his empire .

Daksh moved forward and engulfed Anika in a bear hug which she promptly reciprocated , making Adya shriek as she was suddenly suffocated caught in the middle of this display of affection . Shivaay wasn't feeling very different from his niece at that moment . Daksh stepped back immediately much to the relief of Adya and her uncle .

DAKSH : 'You answer me first..... Where did you go ? I am looking for you since a year now . How could you just disappear like this ? No contact nothing . Did you know how worried I was ? I went to your women's hostel and they said that one day you just packed your bags and left . That you left no forwarding address and have shifted with some relative . Did it occur to you that you should leave some address where you could be contacted ? I went to Ranveer Sir's house like a hundred times in a hope to find you there . But no . You just disappeared . I am really pissed with you Anika , really really pissed .'

 Daksh scolded her without stopping.

ANIKA : 'I am sorry Daksh . It just happened so fast you know . I am sorry, I should have informed you . It Just slipped out of my mind . I know it's no excuse but thats all I can say. I got so busy and caught up in stuff . You sit first , I'll tell you whatever you want to know ' 

 she said pulling Daksh down on the couch with herself and Adya opposite Shivaay .

Daksh then realized that his boss was there in the room and sat at a decent distance from Anika .

ANIKA : 'Shivaay , this is Daksh . A very dear friend of mine . He used to work under  bhai . We know each other since around last 4-5 years now ' 

she re-introduced her friend to Shivaay .

While Daksh was visibly beaming at the very dear friend part of the introduction , Shivaay was frowning at the same .

DAKSH : 'What are you doing here? And who's the relative you shifted with?' 

Daksh questioned again .

Anika forwarded Adya on her lap and said .....

ANIKA : ' Meet Miss Adya Oberoi Randhawa . The relative I shifted with'. 

 She took Adya's tiny hand and forwarded it to Daksh for a handshake . Adya recoiled and buried her face and hands into Anika , much to Shivaay's pleasure . My intelligent baby.

DAKSH : 'Is she Ranveer sir's daughter ?' 

Daksh said smiling weakly while looking at Adya who was now staring at him .

ANIKA : 'Yes , she and Adit are Ranveer Bhai and Priyanka bhabhi's twins . Shivaay is their uncle and now both of them live with him here . I also help take care of them' she explained .

DAKSH : 'I should have known . Why did I not look here?  Ofcourse Adit and Adya are your only relatives now , and by default they'll live with SSO . It never crossed my mind' 

 he said more to himself than to anyone in the room.

ANIKA : 'Now you know where I live. You can come here and meet me anytime. Right Shivaay ?'

 she looked at the master of the house with her huge expectant eyes and Shivaay gave the most reluctant nod of his life .

DAKSH : 'That's great then. Thank God I found you. We have so much of catching up to do. You know what? There is a party this weekend for the new deal Oberoi Shipping has signed with some european clients . How about you coming with me there'   Daksh enthusiastically offered .

SHIVAAY : 'She is going with ME' Shivaay's voice boomed without delay of even a second .

If Anika was confused , she did not show it . She has not seen Shivaay attend parties since the one year she is here . With all that had happened in this house it looked very obvious that he did not want to go out and party. And he did not ask her to come to any party with him for sure. This party must be important that he is planning to go . He mentioned that he has people to represent him at such parties , didn't he? That he prefers to spend his time at home. Whatever it was, she did not contradict him in front of Daksh and stayed quite , as if agreeing with SHIVAAY . 'I'll ask him later' she thought .

Daksh's face fell in an instant . But he gathered his wits and said '

DAKSH : Great . You are also coming SSO ! The clients will be very happy . We haven't seen you outside office since so long'. 

Then he turned to Anika and said 

DAKSH : 'Guess I'll see you there then. We will talk then'.

After a while, he took his leave from Shivaay,  Anika went outside to see him off, but not before carefully handing over sleepy Adya to Savita .

Shivaay was still sitting on the couch from where he had witnessed the reunion of Daksh Khurana and Anika Randhawa .

Was he annoyed ? Yes . Was he upset ? Very . Was he surprised ? Too Much . Daksh Khurana knows Anika on such personal level ? It did not cross his mind either , that they might know each other through Ranveer jiju . But the kind of concern Daksh  showed, and that stupid hug , was more than what two normal friends would share . Of course! they were 'very dear friends' as Anika has termed it . What the hell is that even supposed to mean ? How dear is VERY DEAR ? Arghhh... The ease with which she chatted with him irritated Shivaay to the core . And she also got him permission to visit her in this house . GREAT!!!!!! To top it all, look at the audacity of this guy, asking HIS Khushi out, IN FRONT OF HIM. Had he not intervened timely this girl would have smiled her dazzling smile ,  and accepted . Why not ? They go long back , don't they? DAMN IT, this Daksh just appears one day and Anika goes ga-ga over him, while it took him day and night of two bloody months to get her to even talk to himself properly . Everything set on a silver platter for this 'very dear friend' by Miss Randhawa . Not donec. Jealousy was coursing like lava in the very being of Shivaay Singh Oberoi .

SHIVAAY (self thought) : 'You are not going anywhere with anyone, except me, Anika . You be as friendly as you want to be, with anyone you like, but at the end of it you are mine. ONLY MINE'

 declared the green eyed monster possessing Shivaay .

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