I would like to dedicate my chapter to @soulxspeaks i.e Samaira Khanna.

This amazing girl and really good friend of mine created this beautiful cover for my book which I'll be using very soon. Thank you so much dear. It really means a lot. She did this a month back and finally I got to update and thank her in the best way I could.

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urprise - Arjun's point of view!!!

Arjun's POV

"I couldn't unlove you Arjun...I tried a lot and now I know why, because I never wanted to," I was appalled by her confession. She tried to unlove me? Was that even necessary after all that I did to her?

She could have easily hated me. It was simple.

"Why did you do this to me?" And this question just broke my heart.

It wasn't at all planned. What started as a mere jealousy turned into a full blown hatred.

"Tell me Arjun," she demanded while her eyes were moist.

I closed my eyes in frustration, not knowing what to answer, how to explain, what to say and how to make her believe me.

"Amaya," I uttered her name following a complete silence in the room. "Amaya I- Ne-" I couldn't frame my answer properly and so I huffed in anger.

Instead of answering, I simply took one long stride towards her, pulled her insanely close to me making our bodies collide, our lips just an inch away and our noses pressing into each other just like our foreheads and said, "Would you believe me if I say that I love you,"

She let out a sob instantly and tears rolled down her cheeks while she replied by nodding her head in a strict 'no'.

An already formed painful lump in my throat exploded and my eyes started showering rains of tears.

"I can do anything to make you believe this," I assured myself more than her, I guess.

"You're getting married tomorrow, do you realise that?"

Joke of the century!

"It took me two years to trace you out and I didn't do it so that I could get married to another woman. I am not that cheap," I said.

She looked at me, baffled at my words, I guess.

"What did you just say? Is it..."

"I'm not getting married in any case Amaya. Do you want to know why that bitch Preet was here?" I asked.

"Yeah, well that reminds me. How does she know you and what's there in the pendrive?" She fired her questions related to Preet at me.

I deserve it.

"She says your favorite game is my heart!" She stressed on the word 'my heart' and that was somehow painful.

"Look, she's a bitch and-"

"Why were you teary eyed when you took that pendrive," she threw another question at me and all I could do was just look at her with the most apologetic look I could put up right then.

I had a thing or okay let's say things to confess.

"What are you hiding Arjun? Or are there 'things' that you're hiding from me?" She wouldn't just stop asking questions.

"Amayaaa...hold on. One second," I ran my fingers through my hair in frustration and tried to compose myself. It took me a good one minute to do that.

"I'm waiting for you to speak up,"

Stop nagging me Amaya.

"I did not hide things intentionally," I said just one line and her face was red with anger. Actually it was already building up inside her.

"So you hid things from me!" She threw her hands in the air and gave a sarcastic laugh to it.

"See, if you're going to behave like that, I'm not telling you a single thing," I warned her.

"Ooohhh! Mr Malhotra, I'm scared," her eyes widened.

"Will you just calm down...please," I put up a straight face.

"I don't understand what's up with you at times, you know. When I entered with the pen drive, you were about to cry then you were angry and you called me a whore and all and then you kissed me and almost undressed me and then you were back to being angry and then you made me regret my kiss with Neil and now you're saying you've hidden things from me and at the same time you're behaving like you're doing a favor on me by telling me about the things you've kept from me and now you're asking me to shut up and calm down? Do I look like a bloody fool? Idiot! Are you high or what? Or down on periods? What's wrong with you? I can't handle your mood swings.

That was long and is it wrong that I'm a little aroused by that?

Shut up Arjun.

"Listen Amaya. I need your help. I thought I would talk to you straight when you would come back but I couldn't control my anger...I thought we could sort things out but the way my anger built up on seeing you back and those overwhelming emotions that I just couldn't talk to you straight. I didn't know how you'd react. I was just-"

"What is it Arjun," she interrupted and in a tone which asked me to come straight to the point.

"Mahira didn't work for Jindals. She worked for Preet and Neil,"

"What the fuck," Again!

"Amaya, let me finish and then you can give your reaction for as long as you want. Just please don't kill me after what I tell you,"

"Continue," I can surely tell you her blood pressure was shooting high.

"Jindals are innocent. Danish was framed. Disha framed him," I gave another statement and she was looking at me as if I had grown two horns.

"Okay, come, sit with me," I dragged her to the couch and made her sit following which I gave a glass of water to her.

Mistake.

"See, it all started with Disha running away from our wedding. You were made to marry me but that was the same year you were supposed to meet your real father according to the agreement between your real mom and dad but that couldn't happen and you were made to sign an extension agreement by your father...remember?" I asked, hopeful that she'd remember those papers.

"Yes I was made to sign them," she nodded. "But I wasn't aware that they were those agreement papers and all. Anyway next," she huffed.

"Next Disha actually wanted to complete her law and since she was in her final year, she was to be recruited in a firm. By then you had married me and broken up with Neil over a phone call," I gave another pile of information to her and she nodded for me to continue.

"Then Neil was aggravated with all this. He kissed you at your college, apparently trying to show me that you still love him and you are there with me because you were made to live with me,"

"What the...you people met before that kiss?" If I say she was furious then that would be an understatement.

"Not exactly. We just...we just talked over a call and he asked me come over and see what's there between the two of you,"

"And you left me because you thought Neil and I had an affair?" She yelled.

"No...I didn't leave you because Neil and you had an affair. I left you because Neil told me about what's exactly going on in your mind. That bastard took you away from me because he knew my weakness was your happiness," I tried to explain it to her but she wouldn't just let me and then she threw the same glass of water I gave to her splashing it right in my face and huffed in anger.

"Cut the crap. Come to the point," she said.

I deserve this...

I tried to calm my self down. No one has ever done that to me.
Should I call her a bitch right now?

Do you want another splash on your face?

"He told me that you still loved him and then he proved all that with the stupid kiss. I didn't watch the entire kiss and just walked away and then I started feeling unwanted and bad that I loved you so much and you didn't care even a bit but then the thought crossed my mind that you faked your love so well and I was like, how could I love you so much-"

Another splash of water.

"Amaya...what is this!" I yelled at her in anger and took the glass vessel filled with water an threw it at her face.

"I can take it once because I deserve it but not more than that," I warned.

But...

"I'M DONE WITH YOU. HOW CAN SOMEONE FAKE LOVE? I'M ALWAYS RIGHT. YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE. BASTARD!" She yelled at me wiping her face with her hands and she looked hot like this.

She yelled at you Arjun! She's angry.

"I'm sorry Amaya. Tit for tat," I said and waited for her to compose herself.

"This is not done," she made a crying puppy face and I felt like kissing the shit out of her but hey, that would lead to a slap. I'm aware of the consequences. See.

"Sorry but you started it," I teased.

Am I getting back to my old self? I would never do that otherwise!

"No, you started it Arjun. You gave me the glass of water," she reminded it to me that I was again the root cause of all my miseries.

I accept that!

"Let's not fight," I inhaled a deep breath after that and waited for her to ask me to continue.

"Okay continue," she looked away from me this time and crossed her arms on her breasts.

Not now.

"Then you apparently avoided his calls frequently. Didn't reply to his messages and more over, you also warned him to stay away or else you'd file a complaint against him, right?" I asked.

"How do you know this?" She eyed me suspiciously.

Fuck!

I stood up, searched for anything that doesn't contain water in it.

"What are you doing Arjun?" She asked.

"Done. I'm safe," I asserted and took my seat again.

"I got your calls and messages restored through-" and there she stood up.

No fucking hell.

"Amaya listen,"

"You don't trust me a bit," she claimed.

No damn it!

"Amaya, I wanted to have you out clean in this mess and for that I used your number to restore all your messages and saved calls and I'm sorry for that. I trust you now. Believe me,"

"That's the only mistake I would never like to repeat. Believe you." She said and leaned back on the couch.

I kept my mouth shut for two minutes then continued.

"He was enraged by all this and he planned for an attack on you. A deadly one. Rape," she didn't display any reaction to my words.

"Amaya," I tried to get her attention back but I knew it was of no need. She was angry but she was still listening to me.

"I don't know how Zara joined you-"

"Zara called me up that morning after you left for office saying you have meetings lined up and you'll be late. She wanted to spend some time with me because she couldn't do that after Karan was born. We watched a movie, shopped for hours and I shared my pregnancy news with her. I was the first one to know about her pregnancy and somehow she became the first one to know about mine too. We had our dinner, we celebrated, she told me ways to surprise you with my pregnancy, w-we laughed o-o-over little things, s-she was telling me abo-about the mood swings, morning si-sickness and-"

That's it. She was already crying and I couldn't hold myself for long. I stood up, grabbed a seat next to her and pulled her into a tight hug. She cried leaning over me and I held her as tight and securely as possible because this time, I didn't want to let her suppress her emotions. I wanted her to cry out everything she's been holding up for more than six years.

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Hey everyone! I'm back.
So, how was the update?

Too many revelations!
Arjun's POV!!
Arjun's good side!!!

How many of you were waiting for this?

Now please don't tell me why Arjun took so long and all. He himself wasn't aware of any of these things. He cleared a lot in this and there's more to come.

He is not trying to save Amaya or is doing anything for Amaya. He loves her and wants her back. Amaya doesn't want that to happen. He is also in guilt. So readers, no hate against Arjun or Amaya please.
Amaya's mother's behaviour will be justified too in the next update.

It was just the first half of this chapter. It's a long one and I couldn't write it all in a go.

Next chapter coming within three days. 

Take care everyone and yes, don't forget to vote and comment on this chapter.

Though I may not be able to reply to all of you in the previous update and it was because I was having my exams but I read them all and thank you to each one of you out there who appreciated my work and who patiently waited for a month. Thank you wonderful and amazing people.
Let me know what you feel about this chapter, it's characters and the book.

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