Neerja shuddered when she was pulled by Varsha. Her big baby eyes wondered why her mom's cheeks were stained with tears. Neerja wasn't ready to accept the fact that her little family had been torn apart.She felt, she is no more and will never be the same person again. She hugged her kids close to her chest. Her son looked so much like Sameer, which was truly heartbreaking.Her heart trembled to accept the fact that now she is all alone with her babies. She looked at the photo of Sameer in his driving license. Never in her life she believed that, the man who became her better half, who stood with her through thick and thin, who dreamt of moving his family to a new place has left her all alone.

Neerja felt the door opened. "I am home!", she heard the cheerful voice of  Sameer. Neerja left her babies on the bed and ran towards the door. But the door was shut closed. There was no traces of Sameer. No shoes in the shoe rack. It was empty. With a heavy heart she moved back to the bedroom. It was filled with Sameer's scent. His shirts, sketchbook, pencils and imagined him reading his books keenly with his specks,flopped on the couch at living hall. Neerja pulled her hair due to mad and frustration.

"Why God!!!"
"Why me!!!"
"I never asked you anything other than to save me from this lonely world. Why did you do this to me???", Neerja cried her heart out hugging the kids where the newborn slept peacefully without knowing what has happened and Varsha kept on blinking her eyes.
"Mma, Nana...", Varsha looked at her with whimpering lips. Neerja's head spun. She looked at his remainings which she had. His camera, shirts and jeans,sketchbook, glasses, mobile and driving license.

Neerja lied on the bed muffling her cries on Sameer's pillow. The pillow had a strong smell of his hair. Cool air blowed in that apartment. She felt her head was being pat by Sameer. Soon she drifted to sleep.

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Neerja was waken up from her sleep by loud bangs on the door. She was terrified and felt her heart would drop at any moment. Varsha soon jumped up from her cot and wailed as her sleep was interrupted by the loud bang.
"Neeru... Neerja open the fucking door!!!", the voice across the door screamed. Neerja bolted up from the bed and ran towards the door. When she opened the door, she was horrified to see her husband collapsed on the floor due to pain. He was covered in a black rain coat and his dresses were torn.

Sameer collapsed on the ground. He was shaking with fear. Neerja tried to pick him up and some how she pushed him into their apartment. Sameer crawled onto the mattress that lied on the floor. He tried to take his breathe. When Neerja offered him water, he rejected."No. I don't want food and water for 1 week", he replied. Neerja gaped at him. She didn't pester him with anymore questions. Instead she felt relieved that Sameer was finally back.

Sameer fell into a pit while he was trying to catch a goose for food. He fell into the deep pit and fortunately he got hold on a climber. Or else he would have been dead. He had wounds on his body and while he was climbing up the pit, his body got twisted and muscles scratched.

Neerja applied the medicine on his wound listening to his story.
"Why can't you tell me and go for the hunt", Neerja complained.
"You require sleep. You were tired and energy was drained. I thought of letting you sleep and not to disturb you", Sameer pained. While Neerja was applying medicine, the room waa filled with growls and moans. Once he fell into deep sleep, Neerja left the room to get some nap.

While she was in deep sleep, Neerja woke up due to some playful strange noise that waa coming out of their bedroom. Neerja looked beside her to find that Varsha was missing and her son was in milk induced sleep.

Neerja opened the partially closed bedroom to see, Varsha in her baby wolf form was kissing Sameer who has turned into a huge werewolf. Varsha turned to her mom and smiled shyly.Neerja watched it happily to see the family is complete with eachother.