"daddu... open the door..." - omru yelled from outside and dragged shivaay from his thoughts, he made himself stand, he felt pain in his knees, he moved towards the door and opened the door.

the sun rays hit his eyes, his eyes can't even able to outstand the sunrays. by then he can't even able to recognize how the time went this much faster.

"daadu..." - he heard rudy's voice in a shocking tone.

"what happened?" - he asked and shocked to recognize the change in his voice. by then his eyes moved towards the mirror on his left side and shocked to see the vision before it. he again went back to his older stage. he was shocked by then shakti's phone beeped. he cupped his mouth on seeing the message.

"what happened?" - shivaay asked him.

"ani.. anika... is dead" - Shakti said where shivaay was not ready to believe his words.

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with a heavy heart, shivaay moved towards her house holding his support stick. he saw the huge rush on her house but then too they tried their level best to go inside. everyone who came for the funeral is crying. those are the tears of true love, he went inside and moved towards the drawing room and saw the thing where he never wants to face that in his life. tears started to flow from his eyes. 

he saw 75 years old anika inside the icebox where radhika, Manasa, rithik, and Arjun were sitting next to the body. he really can't able to believe his eyes.

"maa... please open your eyes" - Manasa murmured where shivaay was shocked to hear the word mom from her mouth. he recognized the memory when they decided to keep their baby name Manasa. tears started to flow from his eyes. he moved towards her and kept his hand on her shoulder. she turned back but there was nothing in her eyes. she immediately turned back towards and stared the body of her mother. but anger rages inside Radhika. when shivaay was about to touch the body, she stops him and jerked her hands off. he understood the pain in her eyes and remained silent.

"sorry" - the only word left from shivaay to them where Manasa stood and faced him. suddenly she started to laugh at him and shook everyone to an extent. then she looked towards the body and started to laugh louder. Arjun tried to console her but she was not ready to stop her laugh. she held shivaay's collar and again laughed loudly. soon her laugh changed into tears when she heard someone saying, "it's getting late".

"why you came again?" - Manasa held his collars and asked him where he remained silent and looked at her with teary eyes.

"who is going to do the last rituals?" - the priest asked her. 

"my son and my husband..." - Manasa instantly told and broke his heart into pieces.

"her husband" - the priest asked her.

"forget, she was a widow... her husband died when i was in her womb" - Manasa roared and moved her bloodshot eyes towards shivaay and he moved from that place. 

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After 5 days. 

It was a fine evening where an old man standing near a newly built tombstone and was yearning to see her face once but he can't able to do that. he was yearning to die even death also felt disgusted to take him with them. 

he kept a sorry note with a rose and stood some more time near the funeral in the hope she will come and take him along with her but that will only happen in dreams. sometimes this will be the best punishment for betrayal. in these 55 years anika transformed all the grief into her strength and reached heights in her life but when she came to know about his betrayal her heart stops beating and along with her, her wish also died at that spot. 

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(a/n: i tried a lot to give this story a happy ending but nothing works. for me, whatever be the reason he wouldn't have left anika alone and fake her with his death... for that he receives the punishment, neither her daughter Manasa accept her nor her children, for them he's not anika's husband, he's just a coward and spineless man)

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