Jab talak tu mujhme yaar shamil raha

Tujhme tha jo mera mujhko hasil raha

Kho gaya hai tu to

Ab ye lagta hai dar

Kya ye dil bechara tere qaabil raha

Sunle duaa, ye ilteja, tujhse judaa

Main kuch nahi hoon tere bina

Zara si dosti kar le

Zara sa humnasheen ban ja

Zara sa saath de bas

Phir chahe ajnabi ban ja

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India  2005

"Baby I'm sorry..." Manik hold his ears and bended on his knees to seek an apology from Nandini for burning her favourite cookies.

"No...." she shouted and threw a spoon on his face

"Do you love cookies more than me" he asked making a cute face

"Yes.." Nandini said and started caressing the cookies while Manik cursed the cookies

Manik slid and arm around Nandini's waist and pulled her. Her back hit his chest and she shivered. I bet "I'm more delicious then cookies." He said and bite her neck she moaned and arch her neck side ways to give him more access towards her neck.

He lick her ear inner shell and she instantly turned into jelly. Manik caught her tightly and gazed his nose down her shoulder. With his free hand he slid a sleeve down her shoulder and started giving open mouth kisses.

"Manik...." she moaned and rested her head on his shoulder breathing heavily

"I love you Shona..." he said and bite her shoulder his free hand caught her left breast and his thumb found her pebble nipple

"Manik stoopp..." she said and freed herself from his grip

"Nandini..." he asked in confusion "Don't you trust me"

"I do.. I do... a lot" she said cupping his cheeks "but it's too early for me.." she said with an innocent face and he smiled

"Whenever you feel comfortable..." he said pulled her in his embrace.

Their arms were their home. Their peace.

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Singapore  2016

Nandini hugged Manik's phone and cried loudly. The only thoughts occupying her mind were why god has to always play with her fate? Why does Aryaman had to leave her, couldn't god see he was her happiness? After ten years, almost a decade later she was getting over someone who broke her heart. She had started loving him, started watching her future with him but then reality is thrown like a heel sandal on her face.

Aryaman is dead!!.

She felt an arm wrapped around her shoulder. How can she forget the owner after all these years as well his touch is still the same. Comforting. But that dreadful night ten years ago didn't gave this comfort. He pulled her to his chest and let her cry soak his shirt. He didn't care about his shirt he was the superior reason behind all these tears and the tears she is shedding from a decade.

If he hadn't trusted his friends blindly, if he hadn't listen to soha and Alya, if he would had listen to her, if he would had told her only if. If things he didn't had done in past then the future might had been something different. Piyaa, him and Nandini would had been a family by now.

It tore his heart to say her that he just wants her to become a mother to his daughter but in true sense he needed her as much as his daughter needed her. He said due to Aryaman said he came but in actual words he came cause he needs a second chance. A second shot. With her. For a Togetherness.

A hope has formed in his heart that Nandini is going to live with him and he has a fifty fifty chance of winning her heart again. Apologize to her until she doesn't accept it. He will try to fulfil all the promises he made a decade ago and try and fit the best in Aryaman shoes. Cause Manik knows if someone loves Nandini more than himself then it's Aryaman. Before dying as well Aryaman had taken a step to complete his incomplete tale. And now Manik will make sure he completes it.

India  2016

Cabir parked the car in front of Malhotra Mansion and Manik opened the door for Nandini to head out. It wasn't the old Malhotra Mansion she knew and had lived with Manik. It was new and more fascinating and luxurious.

Old Malhotra Mansion held lot of memories, their first date, first anniversary and their first memorable night they shared and later uncountable nights they have been together. Manik had left the mansion ten years ago cause their memories and his betrayal has started haunting him. He wanted a nice and homely environment for his daughter not somewhere he himself is living like a dead.

Nandini looked at the garden it was a beautiful and massive one. A well established environment for a kid to raise. Kid the reminder brings her to reality that she needs to become a mother to Manik and Soha's daughter. Manik and Soha the resembles brings dreadful memories and heart wrenching pain.

She wished she was Piyaa's biological mother not a step one.

A/N: Hello family!! Here I am this week with some bittersweet moments, gossip and little love with a bad and a good news.

Gossip: step mother is ranking good in Fanfiction and my haters have increased due to Nandini Aryaman romance with my views. First I used to get 2k on each chapter now it's 1k Cool.. I now know my loyal redears and the lack of trust of others in me.

Love: Thank you Zara for private messaging me and telling me how much you loved my book.. and your words just made me feel like on cloud 99. I love all my readers my family so much.. I'm nothing without you guyss.

Bad News: A reader of mine send an ss of a writer telling we authors (she didn't individually took name) those who ask for votes and comment and threaten all to get hit our target is doing wrong and all the bulshit. 1. We have right to ask for votes and comments it gives us inspiration, motivation, our lack of determination, some new ideas and what pple think about our book. 2. It's not call threatening it's called the right to ask. 3. No reader does a favour on author by reading his book nor any author does a favor on anyone by writing. It's called give and take we entertainment you guyss, your payment is vote and comment.

And if such things you don't like don't read it. NO ONE HERE IS DOING A FAVOR GET IT. HATERS GONNA HATE AND LOVERS GONNA LOVE.

Good News: I will update Step mother on Thursday as well this week on if you guyss participate in a fun competition. *I'm threatening... I'm a criminal.. lol*

Competition: FanArt. On Thursday the actual story step mother is going to start with Piyaa and Nandini. You guyss need to make a cover good/bad/shabby anything and send me. I'll post all the covers one by one in the book and the best cover will be the book cover for a week with credit. It's a FanArt for my any book specially this book. Make anything no need to put Nandini or Piyaa to be in it anything which looks like a step mother book cover is ok. With any app you can make... I'm waiting...

Post it on your twitter account and tag me: m_thefangirl or e-mail me: [email protected]. Twitter is good but those who don't have email me. I'm desperately waiting.

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