Sid's point of view

"Mr. Siddharth Kapoor."

I turned to the voice when O.T door open and Dr. Malik walked towards me. I immediately stood up from couch and meet him halfway.

"We win this fight. Your wife is indeed a fighter. We almost loose her when she had her second stroke but surgery went well and she is out of a danger." I sighed in relief and Palmed my face while taking a deep breath to calm my racing heart.

"When we took her home?" Shivani asked beside me.

"She is out of danger for now but next 24 hours is still critical for us. We will give the exact report after that. She is still too weak so she has to spend at least 2 weeks here and need a good care."Dr. Malkil said looking at Shivani di.

"Doctor can we meet Preeti di." Pooja asked to dr.

"She will get her consciousness back till morning. Till then you have to wait and Mr. Kapoor please clean yourself first. You are smelling of blood. Because when your wife open her eyes, she must want to see you first." Doctor said while putting his hand over my shoulder.

Everyone chuckled looking at me and my lips also curled into a smile. I nodded my head and thanks to doctor. I am happy my Preeti is out of danger. She won't leave me alone. She keep her promise and come back for me. I silently thanks to god for saving my Preeti's life.

"Sid you go home and freshen up. Till then we are here to take care of Preeti." Anit jiju said and Pulkit jiju put his hand on my shoulder and nodded his head.

"No, I'm fine. I will freshen up here." I said while shaking my head.

"Sid go. You are looking like zombie. Go and come back after freshen up. Preeti also needs her clothes and personal things which only you could get." James come and told me beside him Keerti was standing holding his hand.

"Yes, bhayi James is right. I also come with you and help you to get things for bhabhi." Keerti said. Her eyes were swollen and red. Traces of tears clearly visible on her cheeks.

I looked James and Keerti with guilt. It's three in the morning of next day. Today is their wedding which is not going to place. Their special day got ruined.

"I'm sorry both of you. Your wedding got ruined." I said looking at both of them with guilt.

"You and Preeti are more important us than our wedding and it's good right, now I have few more days to talk relief breath from your sister's tantrum." James dramatically. Keerti smacked on his hand while pouting. We all laughed and I gave him a small smile.

"Yes, James is right Sid. Now he will give us another big bachelor party and this time I will make sure to bankrupt him." Nick said while showing his 32 teeth and Emily laughed beside him.

"Sid go.." Anit jiju said and I nodded my head. Pulkit and Anit jiju took me in a hug and patted my back. I thanked Anshul for giving Preeti first aid. Because doctor told me, it really helped them to save Preeti's life. After that I leave for home with Keerti and Pooja to freshen up. Pooja already informed mom and Dad and they are on their way to hospital.

I came to home and took a quick shower, till then Pooja and Keerti packed some clothes for me and Preeti along with her personal things. I told them to rest and leave for hospital.

When I reached hospital mom-Dad, Papa-mummy, Chacha ji-chachi ji are waiting for me. I met them and they all had a smile on their faces. Mom took me in a hug and cried. After that I told everyone to go home because they all are looked tired and only one person can stay with patient and there is no doubt that it will be me. They already shifted Preeti in a room and I went inside to meet my beautiful and vulnerable wife.

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I entered the room and my eyes met with a weak yet so beautiful face of my wife. An Iv tube connected to her left hand while a NG tube was connected to her nose. I took a slow steps to her and kissed on her forehead while caressing her cheek lovingly with my thumb and looked at her with love.

I set in the chair beside her bed and carefully took her IV connected hand in mine. I hold her henna filled hand firmly and kissed at the back of her palm while closing my eyes feeling her soft skin against my lips. I looked at her mehndi, finding my name in it. I know every time she applied mehndi in her hand, she written my name it and like the feeling when I find my name it.

I traced my thumb on mu name which was written beautifully between her palm. Every time her mehndi has this darkest maroon colour in her hand. It makes her hand more beautiful and when my name curved on her beautiful hands with henna it took my heart. My love for her is increase day by day and I almost loose my life when I saw her in so much pain. I want to be in her place instead of her. A lone tear escaped from my eyes when I think about the incident where she was begging me to kill her by holding my legs because she can't bear the pain. It was really a death for me.

I wiped the tear at the back of my hand and took a calm breath when I saw her face.

She is fine now.

She didn't leave me.

She chose me between me and our baby.

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"Mr. Kapoor.."

"You can call me, Siddharth, doctor." I said firmly to Dr. Malik.

It already 3.00 p.m of next day and Preeti didn't get her consciousness back. Mom-Dad and others came in few minutes ago to check on Preeti but she didn't get her consciousness back. Doctor came to her room and after checking her he wants to talk to me personally. So right now I was sitting in his cabin while Mom-Dad and others are with Preeti in her room.

"Siddharth..critical hours are over and Preeti is completely out of danger now. But as you know she had given a poison more than six month and last dose was very high so she is still very weak." He said looking at me and I nodded my head as yes. It still give a horrible chill to spin and I felt more anger when I remember, Someone given a poison and I didn't even know that.

"Dr. Can I ask you something?" I asked to doctor.

"Yes Please.."

"Can Preeti get pregnant again?" I asked finally. This question was buzzing inside my head and eating me from inside. Preeti will be break if she come to know that she can't be get pregnant again.

Dr. Malik smiled and said, "Yes..She can. She didn't lose her fertility during surgery. But she can pregnant again after a year or two to avoid the complications during pregnancy."

Doctor leaned to the table while putting his both hands on the table and said with serious and concerned, "Siddharth, Preeti lost her baby recently, she might not take this news well and went to depression. I will arranged the therapist for her but I need you to be with her and tell this news to her carefully. This is the very crucial time for both of you. You have to take a good care for her and support her when she breakdown because of the baby loss. She needs you Siddharth."

"I know doctor." I will take a good care of her. She always my first priority, nothing is important in my life more than her.

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I walked out from doctor's cabin after talking to him and walked towards Preeti's room when I saw Keerti was running towards me.

"Bhayi...Bhabhi get her consciousness back. She is asking for you." Keerti had a smile on her lips and tears in her eyes when she informed me about Preeti.

My whole body felt numb and it felt like someone tie my legs with rope, stopping me walk further.

Preeti is awake...

My love, my Preeri is awake...

She is calling for me...

I took a small and slow strides and walked towards her room. I don't know how am I going to face her. I don't how am I going to tell her about our baby. How will I handle her when she asked me, what happened to her and who did this to her.

Keerti opened the door for me and everyone moved aside to give me a way to walk to my wife. I walked in and my eyes met with most beautiful chocolatey brown eyes. I stopped on my place looking at her. My heart is beating faster against it's rib cage and I forgot to breath when I looked at deep into her eyes.

Tears welled up in our eyes. Tears escaped from her beautiful eyes but I don't let them fall. We both keep looking at each other with so much emotions and love through our vulnerable eyes.

She forward her hand towards me and said in her weak voice, "Siddharth..Humare pas aaiye."

(Siddharth, come to me.)

She was about to get up when I rooted my place.

"Aaahhh.." She winced in pain.

"Preeti.." I took two long strides and hold her hand stopped her to getting up. She make me sit on bed beside her and lean to her while putting my one hand beside her head and other was caressing her right cheek lovingly.

A tear drop from her eyes when she was looking at me and what happened last night, her pain, her pleadings everything replaying in my my mind like a tape recorder. I could not hold more and I started crying like a baby hiding my face in the crook of her neck when I realization hid me again that last night I almost lost her. Last night was the longest and dark night of my life. I never forget yesterday. My body started shaking when I was crying hiding my face in the crook of her neck.

A grown and strong man crying like a baby while holding her wife like his life depends on her. Indeed his life depends on her. The man who barely show this side to anyone, now crying in front of everyone.

I felt soft fingers running in my hair and another one was caressing my back lovingly. I know the touch, its from my Preeti. She loves to run her fingers in my hair.

"I think we should leave them alone for sometime." Dad said and after that I heard footsteps leaving the room and then the sound of closing the door.

"Siddharth..Hum thik hai. Please Humari or dekhiye." She said while cupping my face and try to make me look at her.

(Siddharth ..I'm fine. Please look at me.)

I sniffed and pulled my face from the crook of her neck. She cupped my face with her both soft hands and I caressed her right cheek lovingly while holding mh weight on my left elbow which was beside her head. She wiped my tears while shaking her head as no, stopping for crying but she also had tears in her eyes.

"Aap rote hue bilkul auche nhi lagte." She whispered in her weak voice and again cupped my cheeks. I also wiped her tears which fall again and kissed on her forehead. She closed her eyes while leaning to my kiss.

(You don't look good while crying.)

"You scared me last night." I whispered while caressing her cheek.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." I shake my head and wiped her tears when her stubborn tears again falls from her eyes.

"Thankyou for not leaving me. Thankyou so much for coming back to me." I said and during that my eyes welled up with tears remembering the dream which I saw when she was in OT under the surgery.

"Kaise nhi aati. Aapne humare pyar ki kasam jo di thi." She said and looked at me with love. I was confused and shocked because it was my dream then how does she know that I gave her a swear of our love.

She sensed my confusion and said while caressing my cheeks, "I don't know but when I was unconscious, I saw a dream that I met you and was wearing a red lehnga. I was saying my last goodbye to you but you stopped me by giving me a swear of our love."

She cleared my confusion. I didn't believe in such thing that the person you love most, if leaving you he will meet you before leaving you or came to your dream but today I believe everything and I am glad that I make her stop for leaving me.

I leaned to her and caught her lips in a very soft kiss and sucked her lower lips tenderly. It was a kiss of love and promise for not leaving me again. She also kissed me back with same love and emotions.

After sometime we broke the kiss, I touched our foreheads and closed our eyes while hearing each other's heart beats. After packing on her forehead softly I pulled back to my position.

"Jab hum uthe, aap humare samne kyon nhi the." She asked while running her IV free hand in my hair.

(Why did you not here when I woke up.)

"I went to meet doctor." I said while caressing her cheek lovingly but she got alerted when I mention doctor.

"What did doctor say? Is our baby fine?" She asked me the question which I want to avoid.

How could I tell her that our baby is no more. He is died before coming into this world. She killed her before he could breath in open air and call us mom-Dad. I failed miserably to save him.

"Siddharth..aap chup kyon hai. Please boliye na." She asked me again when I didn't say anything.

(Siddharth why are you quite. Please say something.)

"Siddharth, Is our baby fine? Please tell me. Why can't I feeling anything in my stomach. Siddharth it's feeling empty. Please kuch boliye na." She asked me with panic while holding her stomch. Tears are peaking out from her eyes and rolled down to her sofy and red cheeks while I was sit their while someone sucked a breath from me. My eyes also filled with unshaded tears.

"Siddharth..Please say something. You are scaring me." She whispered the last part and broke into tears.

"We lost our baby." Tears also fall from my eyes when I said that. After collecting all courage, I broke the news to her while cupping her cheeks.

"No...No you are lying. My baby is fine. Our baby is perfectly fine. Nothing happened to him." She said while shaking her head.

I cupped her face and make her look at me.

"I'm not lying. She killed our baby. We lost him." I said while making her believe that.

"My baby..." She cried while holding her stomach and winced in pain when she turn her side and touched her stitches mistakenly.

"Preeti.." I hold her hand trying to stop her but she cried. She turn her face from me and cried. Her whole body was shaking when she was crying. I can't see her in pain again. I don't know what to do. I laid beside her on a little space of bed carefully, not to hurt her and put my hand on her arm which was on her stomach. I hide my face in her hair when she was crying.

"We will pass this phase together love." I whispered in her hair with my shaky and weak voice. She slowly turned to me and faced me. A tear slide down from my right eye and socked in the mattress while sliding down through my nose when my eyes met with her teary eyes.

She wiped my tears and touched our foreheads and we both laid there on the bed while closing our eyes. I took her in my arms when she sobbed and her body started shaking due to weeping. I kissed on her crown when she calmed down and sobbed on my chest.

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"Preeti..Please eat something." I said while forwarding the spoon of soup but Preeti was Keep looking outside the window. I was sitting on Preeti's bed with a bowl of vegetable soup in my hand. A small table was putting on bed with other food which mom send for me.

It's been a week in hospital and Preeti has to spend one more week in hospital for fast recovery. But Preeti was miserable since I told her about our baby. She talked less and keep looking outside the window.

She pushed me away sometime and block me to reach her but Sometimes she brok down into tears and cries while holding me tight. Dr. Malik arranged a therapist for her to helping her coming out from this trauma and every time I was beside her during her counseling. Preeti hold my hand during counseling like her life depends on me. In this time I didn't go to office. Nick and dad was taking care of everything, I only go when it's really important and during that time James and Keerti stay beside her.

Serra was kept in that old dark warehouse and my man didn't gave her any food and water. Last time I went to see her, her condition was miserable and she hold my legs to let her go but I didn't show any mercy yo her bit I ordered Andrew to give her some food and water, only enough for her to stay alive. What she did to my Preeti and my baby, she has to pay for that.

She is the only reason of this condition of my Preeti and I will make sure to make her life hell.

"Love, please..for me." I whispered plead to her.

She turn her face towards me and looked at me. Tears rolled down from her cheek and I wiped it. I again forward the spoon in front of her mouth and she opened her mouth. I put the spoonful soup in her mouth and she chewed the veggies. I wiped the sides of her lips with my hand.

I took the another spoon of soup and was about to feed her when she stopped me.

"Aapne kuch khaya?" She asked me looking at me concerned.

(Have you eat?)

In these days I have not been taking care of myself. I didn't eat have my meals on time and mostly skipped them. I don't know when last, I sleep properly. Because the one who took care of my every need l, now needs my care.

"I'll eat after you." I said while again forwarding the spoon in front of her.

"I know you won't. Eat with me." She said while serving the food for me on the plate and taking a morsel of chapati and curry, forward her hand towards me.

I looked at her with love and so much emotions. She is in pain but still she is concerned for my food instead of her. I opened my mouth and she make me feed the morsal. After that we both make each other feed the food and then I helped her in a washroom. I gave her l, her medicines and make her laid on the bed carefully.

"Sleep love." I said while kissing on her forehead. I was about to switch of the lights and went on the couch to sleep but she hold my hand and stop me.

"Sleep with me." She said with a pleading eyes. Her eyes were glistening with unshaded tears and finally they escaped from her eyes.

I sighed deeply and nodded my head while wiping her tears. She shifted aside carefully making a room for me on bed. I removed my shoes and after switching off the lights, I laid on bed beside her, taking her in my arms. She put her head on my chest and I kissed on her crown.

"Sleep love...."

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