Everything turns to normal with time, it was turned out to sexsomnia, since it was in an initial stage Anika kept that news away from shivaay and told him he was depressed but the doctor insisted to reveal the news to him as it involves her safety but she didn't get convinced as she knew if shivaay comes to know to it, he will never forgive himself for his action. So she remained quiet, on the other hand, Jhanvi enrolled Aishi in a play school and she got a new friend over there whenever she attempts to speak to her daughter over the phone, she always hears the name of her friend at least ten times.

"You know I planned for a play date with Akaansh, Aishi will love it for sure," Jhanvi exclaimed in happiness over the phone when she tell her about Aishi's atrocities. After a long time, Anika attempted to see Jhanvi this smiley and happy.

"Playdate. Shivaay will faint if he gets to know about it, Maa." Anika said to her over the phone.

"Shivaay... How's he?" Jhanvi asked her. Her tone became a little low when she asked about her son. Shivaay was still hesitating to call his mom and Anika on the other hand didn't want to stress him on anything, so she turned silent on this issue.

"He's good! After the proper medications and counseling sessions, I think everything is slowly turning to normal" Anika said to Jhanvi while preparing herself a coffee in her kitchen and going back to the couch with the phone in her hand. Shivaay was out for work, that was the reason she chose to speak to Jhanvi over then. Even though they were having affectionate talks and taking care of each other, Anika was keeping many things from him, and that stops her from going beyond his limits for him.

"Okay! When are you planning to tell him about Aishi?" Jhanvi asked her. Anika turned silent, she still didn't have answers to her question. More than revealing anything to him, she was a hell of scared about the reaction.

"I don't have an answer to this question, Maa. But it has to get revealed one day." Anika replied to her.

"Hope, everything returns to normal and we start a new life as one huge family," Jhanvi exclaimed dreamily, even Anika dreamed for that day.

"Okay, Mom. I will call you later, bye." Anika disconnected the phone call, kept it on the table, and immersed in deep thought, all she was thinking about was the consequences, and even though Aishi got used to living with her grandmother, she deserves her father's love. While then, there was a knock on the door, anika quickly went to attend the door. It was from her husband, she opened the door for him with a smile and soon hugged him.

"How was the work?" Anika asked while breaking the hug. He wrapped his arm around her and walked inside.

"It was great since I had to finish all my work in two hours and return to you for the rest of the 22 hours, but my employees are getting frustrated," Shivaay said to her.

"It's needed no? Especially when you're not about to take the stress." Anika said to shivaay in a low tone.

"Aren't you getting bored, Mrs. Oberoi? To see my face constantly for the continuous 30 days straight." He asked her bringing her face close to his face.

"Wait a minute!" She parted apart, " Are you getting bored, Mr. Oberoi?" She asked him.

"I was the one to question you, you can't question me back." He asked her when she double-crossed him like always. Even though she knew he didn't mean that it was always fun to pull his leg.

"Okay, Mr. Oberoi, Since you already got bored! I don't want to stay here, leave me I am going back." She said moving away from him a little, but his face paled in a second and he was shocked to hear those words from her even for fun. She recognized it, she was about to cup his face but he moved away.

"Hey! I was just joking." She said and moved close to him. But he didn't speak anything but moved to their room, as asked, he changed their room to the master bedroom of the apartment. But Anika followed him when he was not ready to turn his face to her side. It was not happening for the first time, whenever Anika speaks about their separation and pranks him like this, he will always react like that.

"Hey, a crazy cat," Anika called him from the entrance of their room. Peeping inside when he kept his laptop on his table.

"I need some space!" He said while removing his tie, but both knew, Anika never gives him space especially when he asks for space. She walked in with all rights. He didn't face her but showed his back to her when she approached him.

"Hello! I am speaking with you!" She smiled and back hugged him and kept her head on his shoulder when he didn't respond to anything.

"Now, I am not even allowed to play with you, do you think I will leave you, again?" She asked him while hugging him tightly. She sensed a deep breath from him and he pulled her hand to his side and hugged her in front.

"No, you're not allowed to play with me by this, you know whenever you say that you're going to leave me, I couldn't able to think anything beyond. My mind is become blank and taking me back to time..." Before he could complete the sentence, she placed his lips above his lips and kissed him, at first, he was stuck but soon started to kiss her back.

"I will never leave you to go back to that time where we both suffered without each other." She said breaking their kiss, but he couldn't his mind towards anything whatever she spoke, his eyes were still closed recalling their beautiful moment. When he opened his eyes, his eyes welled up looking at her face so close to him. She cupped his face when he beautifully conveyed his love through his eyes.

"I will never get satisfied, you are my never-ending pleasure." He said uniting their forehead together.

"Why I am sensing double meaning here?" Anika chuckled. He chuckled and hugged her in the tightest hug.

"I still can't believe that I got married to you..." He dragged it.

"What happened? You want to ask me anything!" Anika asked him when he dragged his sentence in that way. He usually does that when he has something really to ask. He chuckled when she asked him right the way and took her towards the bed and they both sat next to each other.

"There's a thought! Not from now, it is from the beginning when you started to stay here with me!" He started while taking her palm inside his fists.

"Okay! What was that?" She asked.

"About our future!" He started with a sheepish smile on his face. Even though his smile started to provoke her to smile, she was curious what would be the reason behind his smile.

"About our family, extending it." He finally completed it. She was shocked but tried a lot not to show it on her face.

"I want to have kids with you!" He confessed while keeping his vision straight to her. For a while, her heart wanted to confess everything straight to him but she stopped thinking about his sensitive stage, he was still not okay. Anika smiled instead.

"Do you think I don't wish the same?" She asked him back.

"Really!" He asked her surprisingly.

"But Shivaay everything has its own time," Anika said.

"For now, our priority is different! You very well know about it. You're in the middle of the treatment, for now, let's concentrate on that, rest can wait, and it would be worth waiting I promise." She said cupping his face, he quickly fell back on the bed.

"Please god! Please fast forward this month, you're testing my patience, how can you expect me to stay away from my wife for this much long time..." He cried dramatically, Anika chuckled and hugged him to his chest.

"Please god! Please" Anika enacted the same while hugging him tightly with a smile. He kissed her forehead.

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He promised, but he thought he got into trouble when he saw her wrapping her saree and getting ready to go to the party of his business partner, she didn't work on anything, she had a small shiny cross chain on her neck, and her hair set free, her ears flaunted by a simple diamond stud. She did makeup but nothing was obvious on her face. It was her kajal that highlighted her eyes. He was just mesmerized and saw her getting ready.

"Shivaay, we will get back by 9, right? We can't stay longer!" She asked him while adjusting her saree. He couldn't answer, he was just taken away by her beauty and mesmerizing eyes.

"Hey, I asked you something." She turned towards him.

"Yes, we will get back as soon as possible," He said turning his face to his wrist button.

"Shivaay, if we didn't spend time, how your friend will feel?" Anika asked him and tried to build a conversation with him.

"No... Its..." He couldn't speak, he started to feel breathless.

"Let's go! We are getting late!" He said and walked out of their room. While Anika walked out confusingly.

The whole travel was silent, Anika tried to talk about random things, but he couldn't able to speak about having her so close to him. But she remained silent and glared at him whenever he tried to steal glances which made him chuckle. They got down from the car but Anika was still confused, she started to correct her make up looking at other heavy makeup ladies. But shivaay immediately picked her hands and intertwined them with them.

"At least, you should have told me, I would have dressed a little." Anika accused him.

"You just took off my breath from me with this look, what else pending?" He asked. Anika chuckled and held his palm tighter.

"I impressed you, that's enough for this evening," She replied and held his hand tighter. He just wanted to hold her tight and kiss her endlessly but he resisted himself but smiled at her. He knew his smile would have conveyed everything to her, it didn't happen when she refused to turn towards his side despite knowing he was looking at her. It went for the whole party, she didn't even look at him when he introduced her to her friends and business partner. She was keen, she was never going to give him a chance to lose his control over her.

"Hey, Shivaay!" There was a voice from his back and he immediately identified who was. He turned around. Along with him, Anika was also got shocked.

"Saveer!" He called his name. Anika understood looking at his face that his step-brother, because of whom his situation became further worse was before him and his wife.

"So, the rumors are true, you got back to your wife after the drama of divorce!" He straight taunted him. Anika was shocked by his words, it was seen in her face. But there were no words left in shivaay to speak, he stayed silent, and his mind again went blank.

"Excuse me," Anika said.

"I thought you will go by your father and get involved with other chicks out there." He said, Anika was again shocked looking at him.

"I have heard about you, but when people say you're the photocopy of Mr. Tej Singh Oberoi. I didn't believe it, but looking at you directly, I have to agree with them, you just went exactly by your father, Saveer. And you're right, my husband didn't go by his father because his mother is Jhanvi Chopra, And I challenge you can't find a piece of his father reference in my husband's character and behaviour because he's the son of Jhanvi Chopra. And you better keep your DNA Match results with yourself, we have jobs, unlike you." Anika taunted him directly, Shivaay was surprised, it was the first time he won saveer with his argument because every time he saw him, he will go silent.

"Jobs! What do you have with yourself to work on? I mean you gave everything to me, your shares from Oberoi Industries?" He chuckled.

"Some people work hard to get somewhere, people like you never understand the concept behind it, it's not worth explaining," Anika said and picked shivaay's hand and proceed their way. For the first time, he felt like he gave answers to him in his way, whenever they get into an argument, the saveer always taunts him and shivaay's helpless situation didn't let him answer anything to him. He felt disgusted to share his father's DNA. And now Anika proved to both Saveer and Shivaay that he was nothing like his father, whatever he was right now because of his mom and her upbringing. Tears welled up in his eyes, and the constant ache in his heart finally started to fade.

"How dare he? How can he speak like that? Why the hell were you silent?" Anika asked him when they finally get back to their home, they didn't stay there for a while after they met saveer.

"Ani..." He called her. She was shocked to see his tears, but he was composing himself.

"I couldn't speak back because I felt disgusted that I am the son of Tej Singh Oberoi who was not only true for my mother but himself. But now, I am not feeling disgusted anymore, you reminded me that I am here because of my mom, I don't resemble anything like Tej Singh Oberoi, thank you, Thank you for helping me to get rid of this pain." Shivaay said hugging Anika. She didn't speak anything but consoled him. And deep inside his heart, he knew who the reason behind his change was and who let him see his mother's efforts, it was the same angel who he was hugging.

"I love you," Anika said when he hugged her tight. He broke his hug slowly and looked at him. She immediately wiped off his tears and kissed his cheek.

"Sorry!" She said and held his palm tighter inside her fists and cried. She was saying sorry for leaving him, again. And he knew whenever he open up to her, she blames her every time that she was not there with him when he needed her the most. But he understood there was no use in staying in the past and dragging it to the present. He pulled her head and kissed her passionately, which was purely out of love and to their new beginnings.

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