Sanyukta gets up from the bed, she wraps a shawl around herself and decides to go look for Randhir.

'You are too precious for me to loose' she says to herself and tiptoes down stairs making sure no one wakes up. She walks towards the main door when the door opens, it's dark around, she sees a figure enter cautiously, it's a figure of a man, someone who is drenched. Sanyukta gulps

'Thief' she thinks to herself and without wasting any time she grabs a flower vase that is placed on the table in the living room. She hides behind the sofa. The man is walking around like he knows the place well, she wonders if he is one of the servants. She clenches the vase tightly planning to hit him hard when he comes near the sofa behind which she is hiding.

'Man, things can't get any worse' she heard Randhir's voice, she slowly moves her head up slightly from behind the sofa and sees the figure wiping mud off his Tee, his back facing her. She shakes her head

'Sanyu, you are thinking too much of Randhir that's why you are hearing him everywhere' she says to herself, taking a deep breath she goes and attacks the man

'Oww...'he yelps and falls on the floor

Sanyukta smiles victoriously, she then looks down noticing the man is still. Is he dead? But there is no blood. Her fingers trembles as she places her hand on his shoulder, as soon as her fingers touch him she felt her heart drop, she recognizes him by her touch. She hopes her intuition is wrong, she turns the body

She gasps covering her mouth with her palms

'Randhir...' she falls on her knees and starts to shake him

Randhir is lying there with his mouth slightly open, his eyes closed, he is unconscious. Sanyukta brings her fingers to his nose and is relieved when she feels him breath

'Shit, what have I done' she curses

She quickly gets up and rush to the kitchen. After few minutes of frantically searching for water, she finds a bottle and hurries back to Randhir. She places his head on her lap and sprinkles water over his face

'Wake up.... wake up...please.... I am sorry...wake up...Randhir....'she keeps chanting sprinkling water.

Sometime later Randhir wakes up

'Arghhh....'he says holding back of his head feeling a sharp pain, he then looks at Sanyukta. She hugs him tight feeling relieved he is alright

'Are you mad....' Randhir couldn't say further as Sanyukta starts to kiss all over his face chanting her sorry. Randhir smiles, if he is getting showered by so many kisses from his lovely wife then everything that happened was worth it.

Sanyukta is gently rubbing back of his head and nape with ice, he winces and she feels guilty.

Once done Sanyukta stands up when Randhir stops her, she looks at him. He takes her hand in his

'I am sorry...I tried my best but I couldn't get your chocolate' he says sadly

Sanyukta smiles and cups his face 'It's okay...I am not craving for it anymore' she lies, smiling. Of course the craving is there and it's as strong as it was earlier when she had woken up but she doesn't want Randhir to feel guilty or go through any more trouble for her. She loves her baby no doubt, but she loves Randhir more, it is because of Randhir there is a baby in the first place. This beautiful feeling is gifted to her by Randhir. Then how can she risk Randhir?

Randhir wraps his hands around her waist and rests his head on her chest closing his eyes. Sanyukta gently caresses his hair

'But what happened, why are you like this?' Sanyukta asks feeling curious

Randhir distances their frames and looks at her, taking deep breath he narrates the incident

FLASHBACK

Half an hour of mindlessly roaming around his bike breaks down

'No fuel' he says exasperatedly

'Darn Bike' he says kicking it, it falls to the ground lifelessly. Randhir rolls his eyes looking around, he finds a small tea stall. Luckily the owner is sleeping on his Khatiya next to the stall. Randhir walks up to him

'Bhaiya... Bhaiya...' he calls trying to wake up the man, after five minutes of trying the man finally wakes up. He sits up straight up on his Khatiya and looks around puzzled, his gaze falls on the Randhir and he frowns

'Bhai, we are closed' he mutters and is about to go back to sleep when Randhir interrupts

'Please Bhaiya, do you have chocolate? Dairy milk...please... I need it for my pregnant wife' Randhir pleads, he is someone who never pleads to anyone but for Sanyukta he is willingly to do even that. The man looks at Randhir and a sympathetic expression took over his face

'One minute, Beta' he says sliding off and adjusting his clothes he goes to the counter of his stall. He searches and finally gets a dairy milk. Randhir thanks his stars for it was without almonds.

'How much Bhaiya?' Randhir goes to get his wallet

'No beta, it's for your pregnant wife for whom you have taken so much pain .... Take it' the man says warmly

'Thank you, Bhaiya...and I am sorry' Randhir apologizes feeling guilty, the man shakes his head and smiles at Randhir.

Randhir looks around, he seems to have strayed too far from home. The place looked even more strange in dark. Its lonely with sounds of cricket and occasional bark of some dogs. He takes out his phone, google map will guide him. It is monsoon in Mumbai and it had rained heavy few hours ago, the street is wet and there are many puddles. Randhir's feet slips and he falls face front into the muddy street, luckily he saves his phone but the chocolate falls into the pothole.

'SHIT!' Randhir picks up the drenched chocolate, angrily he throws the chocolate into the oblivion.

He mutters curses walking towards his bike. For some more time Randhir goes around dragging his bike looking for a chocolate but no luck. His bad luck seems to never end, it started to rain heavily.

'Can this get any worse' Randhir says massaging his forehead. He didn't want to give up and so he continued to search. But with no luck and time passing he realizes Sanyukta must be worried for him. He could call her but she will ask him to return, he wanted to look on further but decided otherwise.

He goes to a nearby petrol station and gets his bike refuelled, and with help of google map he returns home.

Luckily he had taken the spare key of the bungalow and so he could come in without disturbing anyone. He slowly unlocks the door and tip toes into the house, eventually he was attacked by his lovely wife from behind and fell unconscious.

FLASHBACK ENDS

'Aww...Randhir...I am sorry' Sanyukta mutters cupping his face and kissing his forehead

Randhir smirks and grabs her waist pulling her closer

'What are you doing?' she gasps as he pulls her down on the bed

'There is one way I will accept your apology' Randhir says trailing tip of his index finger from her nose to lips to neck and downwards. Sanyukta blushes

'But first' Randhir sits up straight, Sanyukta frowns, what can be more important than...?

Randhir leaps from the bed and is about to go when Sanyukta holds his arm looking worried

'Relax, love. I am going downstairs...5 minutes' he says and quickly pecks her forehead. Sanyukta smiles watching him go

Randhir comes back holding the dairy milk with had almonds in it, Sanyukta looks on surprised.

'It was my fault...I should have thought of this before. You had to wait for long because of my stupidity' Randhir says sitting next to her on the bed.

He opens the wrapper, and breaks a small piece of dairy milk. He then carefully takes out the almonds from it and brings it up her lips

'Here' he says

Sanyukta smiles and takes a bite, she feels so relieved as she tastes it. Soon they fed each other, but it had been Sanyukta who ate mostly, she also licks the chocolate smeared on his fingers. Once she done licking she looks up at Randhir. There is a naughty glint in his eyes and the intensity with which he is staring at her is making her stomach perform cartwheel. She blushes moving his hand away from her lips. Randhir smiles

He makes her lie down and then goes to bathroom and changes himself in a neat night clothes and comes back lying next to her, he adjusts the duvet over them. Sanyukta throws her arm around his torso

'Thank you' she whispers burying her face into the crook of his neck

'I love you' Randhir whispers

'I love you too...and baby loves you too' Sanyukta says and kisses his cheek. Soon enough Sanyukta hears Randhir snoring, she looks up at him. He must be really tried, he went through so much to fulfil her craving, she is overwhelmed with happiness and gratitude. She feels very lucky to have such a loving, caring and not to forget hot husband. Sanyukta admires him for a while before sleep engulfs her too.

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