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Abheer was working on the couch with his laptop. Ruhanika woke up feeling thirsty. She saw Abheer working and thought not to disturb him. She saw water on the table beside her bed. She leaned forward to take it.
But, due to her movements, her shoulder shot up with pain and she flinched due to it. The bottle fell down creating noise when her hand hit it.
Abheer snap out of his laptop hearing the falling sound of bottle. She saw Ruhanika trying to massage her left shoulder with tears of pain falling from her eyes.
Abheer immediately sprinted towards her seeing her tears.
''Hey, Ruhi what happened? Why you crying? Is it paining somewhere?" Abheer asked gently rubbing her shoulder seeing her struggle.
"Water..." Ruhanika said with hoarse voice due to her dry throat.
Abheer immediately made her drink water.
"You could have asked me Ruhi. Don't do unnecessary movements for some days, please. You will need time to heal. Until then try to not move around much." Abheer said in soft voice.
"You were working so I thought to not disturb you." Ruhi said with low voice.
"Nothing is more important than you Ruhanika!!" Abheer said in stern voice hearing her.
Ruhanika pouted at his tone but she couldn't understand why her skipped a beat hearing his words.
"I'm sorry na Abheer ji, I'll ask for your help from now onwards." Ruhi whined a little.
"You better be." Abheer said to her like giving her any warning.
Suddenly they heard a grumbling sound. Ruhanika's stomach grumbled in hunger. Ruhanika turned red in embarrassment. Abheer smiled at her red embarrassed face.
"I'll get you food. You have to take medicines afterwards. I'll just come okay." Abheer said smiling and Ruhanika could just nod.
Abheer adjusted her bed to sitting position before bringing her food. Abheer sat beside her and started feeding her some veggie soup and healthy khichdi . Ruhanika tried to protest but one glare from him and she shut her mouth.
Her mouth watered smelling the food and as she expected it tasted delicious. Ruhanika literally moan at it.
''Mmmm.... Abheer ji, it is so good. Where did you bring it from? It is definitely not the hospital's bland food." Ruhanika complemented.
"Definitely it is not. Maasa sent it for you. She made it herself. It's her saying that, any unhealthy person can become healthy quickly with healthy food made with lots of love." Abheer said with small smile.
Ruhanika's face fell. Hearing him made her remember her of her mother. Her eyes started feeling tears thinking that her mother who would have done the same if she was here. Her family loved her truly though they were orthodox with their thoughts, but her one mistake in their eyes made her all alone....falling in love!
Abheer baffled seeing tears in her eyes suddenly.
"Hey, what happen, why are you crying? Is it paining?" Abheer asked in soft tone holding her hands and rubbing it to comfort her.
Tears started falling from her eyes seeing his care and in no time she was all sobbing. Abheer beacme worried seeing her crying all of sudden and not talking to him. So he just hugged her and started rubbing her back to calm her down. She just kept crying keeping her head above his heart.
After sometime, when she broke the hug Abheer asked softly,
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"It's nothing, just hearing you, I remembered my mother."
Hearing her Abheer started feeling rage inside him. He was about to console her, but he remembered she never told him about her family.
"Umm...would you like to talk about it? I'm here to hear you. You...umm... never talked about your family." Abheer said nervously.
Ruhanika smiled at him and said in sad bitter voice.
"I made one mistake and they never talked to me after that! I have a complete family. Dadisa, baba, ma, my bhaisa, bhabhisa, kakasa, kakisa and a cousin brother....." She started telling him what happened with her and Abhay.
".... They loved me dearly but my one mistake and they can't look that it was their daughter they were abandoning. I knew they were not that open minded people and Abhay was officially planning to ask for my hand. But before anything like that happen, kakisa saw us. It was never same after that. I never in my dreams imagined that their reaction would be that harsh. They were like I don't even exist in that house before I went with Abhay. We changed the city after sometime and moved to Jaipur.
I tried to convince them to accept us but they never payed any heed to us. I started loosing hope that they will ever accept me so Abhay and I moved here. Bhaisa was in my contact but suddenly after Abhay went for his posting 7 months ago, he stopped and I couldn't reach him afterwards. His phone was always switched off and I couldn't contact others.
It's just I miss them and hearing you made me remind my maa." Ruhanika said silently crying.
Abheer felt bad for her that she has to go through all that.
"It's okay Ruhi. Everything will be fine." Abheer said caressing her back of palm.
"You know Abheer ji, I am bhuasa now. Bhaisa and bhabhisa had a baby boy few months back. I hope I can meet him at least once." Ruhanika said with bright eyes. Abheer just sadly smiled at her. It was actually surprising for him to hear that Karan has a child now too.
"Okay, now I think I should stop with my sad story. Feed me Abheer ji, I'm hungry." Abheer started feeding her.
"Here" Abheer gave her medicines after she finished eating.
Ruhanika started feeling sleepy so she slept after sometime. Abheer adjusted her bed for her to sleep comfortably.
In the evening
Reyan came with food for Abheer and Ruhanika. Ruhanika was awake and getting bored sitting there. She saw Reyan entering. Reyan smiled at her and went towards her.
"Hello, dear. How are you feeling now?" Reyan asked patting her head.
"I'm fine Reyan ji." Ruhanika said smiling.
"What were you doing?" Reyan said sitting on the stool beside her bed after keeping the tiffin on table.
"Getting bored." She said making bored expression.
"You know I wanted to talk to someone. But Abheer ji is busy with work and I didn't want to disturb him. Thank god you came." She said whispering to him.
Reyan just laughed at her comment. Abheer looked up and saw Reyan sitting there and Ruhanika was awake. He got up and walked towards them.
"When did you wake up Ruhi? And when did you come!?" Abheer asked Ruhanika and Reyan.
"I came just now but it seems like your working ass didn't notice she was awake and getting bored." Reyan said and Abheer just frowned at him.
"You were not supposed to say that Reyan ji." Ruhanika whined. Reyan again laughed at her and Abheer just looking at them with amused expressions. Then Ruhanika and Reyan started talking and getting Abheer involved in the conversation occasionally.
"Ruhi, let's eat. You have to take medicines too."
"What about you Abheer ji? You must be hungry too."
"I'll after feeding you."
"No, eat with me. I'll also get company and you too Reyan ji."
"Well, if you are saying, I have no problem." Reyan said agreeing immediately.
They had their dinner chatting. Ruhanika slept after sometime. Reyan and Abheer moved towards couch away from Ruhanika.
"So, any lead? Did we find him?" Abheer asked.
"No, he certainly is not coming out anytime soon, I guess. His mafia activities also are quiet. We will need more time finding him. Kakisa and Abhiraj are also working on getting any clue to reach him." Reyan said.
Abheer just nodded.
"Just tell guards to be on alert." Reyan nodded.
"I went to meet Brock and Claire. Claire is getting grumpy nowadays as you didn't meet her in last few days. Workers are having hard time handling her. I guess you should pay a visit when you get home." Reyan said.
Abheer nodded at him. He didn't go to meet her and Brock.
"I will once I am out of here."
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