Sometimes we curse ourselves for being in a place where we shouldn't be. Sometimes we swear the time we wrongly present in to witness how it shatters our all beliefs and dreams. This exactly happened to Nandini when she opened the vanity van door and entered.

Flashback:

Nandini sees two people are sitting on the sofa in a very intimate position where the male is holding the girl's head with both of his hands. His fingers are dug into her hair. The girl is sitting calmly but the shiver in her body is indicating that she is very much into this intimacy. Nandini can't see anybody's face as the girl is back facing her while the guy's face is obstructed by her head. But it is specified that both are kissing each other. Nandini even hears the soft sob of the girl. Mumbling an embarrassing sorry Nandini was about to turn on her heels when they separate with each other with a jolt. Only then, Nandini's eyes fall on the face of the guy. She has never been so shocked in her life. Her eyes meet Manik's baffled orbs. Surprisingly there are more questions than shame. Nandini moves her eyes over Manik and the girl. She knows her. A debutant in Manik's new movie. Manik gets up from the sofa and nears Nandini. The girl is still sobbing bending her head. 

"Nandini, you are here? Go, sit in my vanity. I am just coming." 

Manik says in a convincing tone. Nandini clutches her jaws. She can't believe her eyes and ears that how a person can be so casual after being caught red-handed. She just saw him kissing that girl but there is no awkwardness in his eyes. Nandini shifts her eyes to the girl and utters ruefully, 

"Are you sure you are done with her? I don't think so. It had been wise if you both would have used your vanity. Then you might not be disturbed by anyone." 

Her tone makes the girl lift her face. Her eyes have fear, embarrassment and confusion. She mouths in a hesitant voice, 

"Ma'am, I...came to Sir for a reason. There is nothing that...that you are thinking...I am sorry..." 

She gets up from the sofa and tries to exit but Nandini halts her with her venomous words, 

"You are nobody to tell me what I should think and what I shouldn't. But I can advise you one thing; never do anything in life for which you have to say sorry. Trust on your hard work rather than these shortcuts." 

Until now, Manik was too confused and shocked to react but Nandini's words bring him back to his sense and he chides, 

"Nandini, what rubbish are you talking about? Ria came to discuss her problems. I was just convincing her. I didn't know that..."

Nandini snatches his words and hisses out, 

"You didn't know that you are not a counsellor. Even I didn't know that you can be so shameless. Anyway, I came here to surprise you but unfortunately or fortunately you surprised me." 

She again addresses Ria, 

"Ria...right? Ria, you can carry on with your problems with your SIR (she sarcastically stresses the word) I am sorry." 

She shrugs with a disgusting face and violently pulls the door to open it. Manik for the last time calls her, 

"Nandini listen...Nandini you can't go like this. At least listen to me...Nandini.." 

But Nandini slams the door on his face by hissing out, 

"Close the door, Mr Malhotra."

Present time:

"I came to tell you about my pregnancy. But you shattered my all dreams."

Nandini utters with moist eyes. Manik yanks her face closer to him and hisses out,

"I shattered your dreams or you shattered mine? You just walked out without letting me explain anything. I can't forget that night when you left me putting those baseless filthy allegations on me. What did you call me? Philanderer, lecher, player, pervert and many more."

"You called our baby illicit."

Nandini sobs out and Manik shoves her violently towards the bed. She plummets on the mattress. Manik vehemently rushes at her,

"Because you called our lovemaking rape. You called our baby a rape child then I concluded it as illicit. If a mother can call her child as a result of rape, then a father can counter and mistakenly call it illicit. You left me with no other option. Do you know how hurting it was for me to hear that my wife, my love is calling me a cheater a womanizer who raped her and left her pregnant with an unwanted child? You denied my love, our marriage and left me and in anger, I told in the press conference that we don't have any relationship apart from professional. All because of you, Nandini...because of your distrust. You even aborted my child. You never tried to reconcile, never tried to listen to me. You killed my child, Nandini. It's you."

He almost comes over her body and chides.

"I wish I could kill you for that too."

He utters with a grimace and holds her neck by his left hand. His fingers mercilessly press her slender, soft neck. Nandini somehow pants out,

"Then kill...me...I...I...don't want to...live...with..thi..this hatred..Ki..kill me.."

The pressure on her neck becomes tighter. Nandini's eyes get wider. Manik keeps fixing his venomous eyes to hers and suddenly pushes to release her. He fists his hair in frustration and screams vehemently,

"Ahhhhhhhh....I can't...I can't even kill you. It hurts to hurt you..it hurts...."

He kneels on the floor by palming his face. His whole body is quivering with a suppressed cry. Nandini sits on the bed, coughing for lack of oxygen. Then she pulls the bedsheet to cover her half-naked body. Manik uncovers his face and gets up with a tired face. It seems that he even loses his strength to talk.

"I am leaving. It's impossible to live with you under the same roof."

Saying this he was about to exit the room when Nandini almost pounces on him. She back hugs him and starts blabbering.

"You can't leave...You can't leave me with this blame that I killed my child. You have to....you have to listen to me..."

Manik moors to the ground. He closes his eyes to control his emotion. Nandini continues with frequent sobbing,

"The day you told in the press conference that I am not your wife. We don't have any relationship and I am just your costar; I broke down completely. I decided to leave the country because I knew here, I can't give birth to my child and bring him up. In the eyes of society, I was an unmarried mother. My loved child would have faced lots of emotional and mental torture. I wanted to tell you that and I left to meet you. But destiny had other plans."

She chokes for a brief and then continues,

"I was hospitalized for not my abortion but I lost our baby in that accident. But my fate...you didn't even come to see me. I wanted to die that moment but..."

Manik grabs her hand and yanks her to face him.

"But..?"

He repeats.

Author's note: Many confusions have been cleared but many have to. Stay tuned.