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When shraddha thought about Rhea's birthday preparations she had something simple yet unique in her mind but prioritizing Rhea's likes it turned out to be a total fancy Disney party.

Talking about Disney, shraddha took Rhea's wish of dressing up as frozen characters lightly, it was a day before she realized that the little girl was pretty serious about her theme and then shraddha had to make an urgent order for dresses, and fortunately she was able to arrange them.

Shraddha was all dolled up as Anna when she made her way to Rhea's room where she had been acting like Elsa since two hours. Upon reaching the room, she tried to open the door only to find that it was locked from inside.

"Rhea, open the door." Shraddha called her out.

"That's not how you do it!" she yelled from inside, making her chuckle.

"Alright. Elsa, do you wanna build a snowman?" she sang, barely able to control her laugh.

"Go away, Anna!" Rhea replied and she chuckled again.

"Okay... Bye!" she tried to sound a little sad but failed miserably.

"Now, that was something." Rhea said opening her room door with a big smile and Shraddha entered the room.

"Wow! We are looking so pwetty..." Rhea exclaimed with joy and Shraddha smiled.

"Woah." Varun said upon seeing shraddha as he entered the room dressed up as Kristoff. On any other occasion, shraddha would have blushed but instead she started laughing seeing varun in that attire.

"What's so funny?" Varun frowned at her and looked down at his costume.

"Daddy, you look funny!" Rhea giggled making varun roll his eyes.

"Rhea, your Olaf and sven are in my room, get them." he told her and she immediately rushed out of the room.

"I'll go help her." Shraddha said and started to walk out but varun grabbed her by her arm and stood in front of him.

"So you think I look funny?" he raised an eyebrow at her and she looked at him.

"Sorry, actually I think... you look pretty good in this costume." she pressed her lips in a thin line, trying to surpress her laugh.

"Oh really?" a smirked spread across his lips before he grabbed her by her waist pulling her closer to him and her hands automatically landed on his biceps.

Her fingers clutched the fabric underneath tightly as she felt his hot breath on her face. He started leaning in making her shut her eyes in nervousness.

She felt a tingling sensation as his pricky beard rubbed against her cheek and his lips reached near her ear making her knees grew weaker.

"Why aren't you laughing now?" he whispered in her ear making shiver ran down her spine as she felt him smirking at that moment.

After a few seconds, he slowly separated himself from her and she immediately started missing his warmth around her body. He looked at her and again smirked and she looked down to hide her blush.

"I-I'll go check on Rhea." by saying this she rushed out of the room and varun smiled to himself.

The birthday party was going on full swing. Rhea was pretty much enjoying every bit of the night with her school friends. The cake cutting session was already done, including the dinner and now the guest were starting to leave slowly and Rhea herself was becoming tired.

"Shraddha, you nailed the arrangements. It was soo good." Sara complemented and Kartik nodded in approval.

"Yeah, whenever I have kids, I'll surely call you for every occasion." kartik said with a chuckle earning a glare from Sara.

"Get married first!" Varun told him.

"Don't worry, I'm not like you. I won't have kids all over the world." kartik winked at him and varun shook his head.

"Best birthday evahhhh...." Rhea came running towards them and varun scooped her in his arms.

"Glad you enjoyed it Rhee...." Shraddha pinched her cheeks.

"Alright guys. It's getting late. We should leave." Sara said as she side hugged Shraddha.

"Yeah. Let's go princess." kartik held Sara's hand as they turned around to leave.

"Hey... That's what daddy calls me! Rhea commented with wide eyes and all four of them laughed.

"Yeah... You see kartik is Sara's daddy!" Varun winked at both kartik and sara.

"God.... Varun!!!!" kartik cursed under his breath and sara covered her face trying to hide her blush.

"We better leave before varun starts demonstrating the procedure of reproduction in front of a five-year old." by saying this both kartik and sara left.

"Repo-what?" Rhea asked confused.

"God.. Varun you're too much!" Shraddha shook her head.

"Nothing princess." he said kissing the side of her head.

"Rhea now go to your room. I'll be there in a minute to get you changed." Shraddha told her and she nodded before heading towards her room.

"Shraddha!" Varun stopped her as she started moving towards the kitchen.

"Hmm?" she turned and looked at him.

"Thank you for today. Everything was just perfect." he told her and she smiled.

"It's nothing. I can do anything for Rhea." she told him and he smiled back at her.

"Well, still thank you. See you in the morning." he said and started heading upstairs.

"Mr.Dhawan!" her voice immediately stopped him in his tracks and he turned around to look at her.

The smile from his face immediately vanished upon seeing her face. He clenched his jaw tightly in anger upon seeing the smirk on her face as shraddha looked at both of them skeptically.

"What are you doing here?" he asked as he moved forward.

"Varun, who's she?" Shraddha asked but he raised his hand motioning her to shut up.

"It's my baby's birthday. I'm here to wish her." Tara replied and that's when shraddha realized that's she's Rhea's mother.

"Get out!" Varun told her in a stern tone.

"I'm not leaving until I meet Rhea." Tara replied harshly.

"I won't let you meet her. Now get out!" he shouted at her.

"Varun..." Shraddha placed her hand on his arm but he shrugged her off.

"She's not only your daughter." Tara yelled at him.

"You treated her like trash. You didnt even love her and now you're here to fucking claim her?" Varun yelled.

"Varun please..." shraddha again placed his hand on his arm.

"You didn't even know about her. And now you think you can play house with her?" Tara questioned and he glared at her.

"Yes.. I didn't know about her because of you. And truth to be told I never wanted her in my life but I had to make her a part of my life bec....." he was cut off.

"Varun!!" Shraddha yelled and he looked at her only to realize that she was looking somewhere else. He turned his head sideways and saw Rhea standing behind him.

"You never wanted me?" her lips were quivered downward with her eyes filled with tears.

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