Annika did not even finished her sentence when shivaay roared out of the room and called out Daksha. His eyes bloodshot red,it was a mixture of disgust and anger. Anger because how dare he touched Annika, his Annika. And how dared he to do such kind of thing to a girl in oberoi mansion. His blood was boiling, when he reached hall everybody got assembled hearing his loud roar and surprisingly Daksha also came, he did not tried to run away.May be he underestimated the great SSO and his wrath. His eyes showed little fear but he was not at all ashamed of his act. Without saying anything shivaay just got hold of his collar,his first smack was so powerful that Daksha was in blood, but shivaay did not stop. He just continuously beat him to death. He himself got hurt in the process, but he did not care. He was thrashing him like a maniac.

He was continuously saying that how dare he touched Annika.
Om tried to stop him (as rudra was not there),but he could not, shivaay was uncontrollable, his eyes has fire, he only remembered how annika cried holding him, those fearful eyes made him mad. As if beating him will reduce Annika's pain he was thrashing him.

Freeing himself from om's grip again went to beat him like hell. Daksha became unconscious, but still shivaay did not stop. Others got anxious. It will be dangerous if shivaay did not stop now,feeling the tension om moved to call Annika beacuse he knew only she could stop him, but hearing all shouting outside, she also came to the hall. Without thinking much she bend down on her knees cupping his face to meet her eyes, he was beating an unconscious daksh she with care just said"shivaay......."

Finally his hands stopped in the air, her broken voice made him weak, those bloodshot eyes now filled with tears he just got hold of Annika and he hugged her.His anger now turning into sadness.Annika was making him calm. She knew he was in equal pain as she is now. They are just two bodies but one soul. Calming him a bit she made him look into her eyes. Even though her eyes were still full of tears but she knew for the moment she has to be strong.
Looking at those blueish eyes which were red now she fell in love again, how can somebody loves like this? how can this man loves her to this extent that he can exactly feel her pain?She was feeling proud of him.

It was evening when shivaay went to meet Annika at her home, her mother welcome him with a light smile, earlier that day whatever happened was very unfortunate. On the plea of dai ma , thinking about her old age shivaay did not filed any complaint against Daksha, but he strictly ordered him get out the mansion and also from the city.

He was feeling very uneasy after Annika left from the mansion, gauri came to take her and dadi and om went to drop her home so that she could console annika's mother about the incident that happened. Mrs. Trivedi was very tensed about the after effect of it. Shivaay could not go, but now he can't resist himself and went to meet her.

Informing about tomorrow's ritual he assured her that he will take care of Annika and will do whatever he can to make her forget that incident. Though he himself was not at all in ease after that.

When he reached her room he saw she was sitting at window looking outside staring at nothing. She still looked pale and was silent. It killed him to see his bubbly and chirpy Annika like that he just moved to her and to surprise her he hugged from her back, she was taken aback that memory of Daksha holding her came into her mind. She just jerked his hands. In other second she felt guilty to see his apologetic eyes. She did not intended to hurt him. Realising that he was hurt she hugged him, he responded he knew she will take time to come from this trauma. Hugging her he kissed her hair.

After a while they were settled in bed Annika resting her head on his chest and he was holding her protectively. Though tears were dried, the pain remained same. Silence filled in the room.They were not talking their hearts talked.They were helping each other to come out of that memory.

The trance got disturbed when shivaay's phone beeped, with one hand still on Annika he saw the message it was from Rudra who was calling him home for the preparation for tomorrow.

Finally after 1 hour of long silence he spoke" Annika i have to go......", "tum apna khayal rakhna okay, and don't think much, i know difficult hai but, dont break, aur main hu tumhare saath." He cupped her face kissed on her forehead. These kisses on her forehead always makes her strong. He stood up to go, but he saw something which made him stick to the floor. His eyes again becoming bloodshot red, and pooling with tears.

He saw red marks on Annika's waist. The thought of Daksha holding her made him more furious again. Earlier he did not see it .The position in which they were sitting it made Annika's kurti to shift a little bit upwards revealing her waist. Those marks not only broke shivaay, but made his anger overpower him again,but he looked towards Annika. She was trying to adjust and hide that, and with tears in her eyes she looked towards him. With a faint smile only to make him calm.

Looking at her Shivaay controlled his emotion he slowly moved forward her looking at her and wiping her tears he bend down to his knees ,lifting her kurti and carecassing the marks with soft hands,he kissed her waist. Tears were dwelling, lots of small feather like kisses he showered on her waist. Taking away her pain, she let him do it, it felt soothing to her, it actually took away her pain. She felt new feeling, the sensation of pleasure. It made her forget the worst day of her life.

When he kissed her to his hearts content, he looked her from down. He saw rosy pink face of Annika, after a whole bad day for the first time he saw her content face. This act of his was not at all intented out of lust, he wanted to take away her pain and when it was fulfilled he got up and kissed her forehead and said" i am always with you, no matter what". Pecking her lips softly he moved out.

It was shivika's mehendi and sangeet day. Mehendi being celebrated separately, they decided to have combine sangeet at oberoi mansion. All the ladies went to Annika's house for the mehendi, boys were busy in making arrangement. Dai ma and pia too were in the mansion.

From day one Pia is very facinated by om,shivaay is arrogant and no non sense kind of man which she did not liked, she was not even ready to marry him.It was her dadi's wish and she thanked her stars for the failure of tge Alliance. She liked omkara more, sutle sober and quiet, but to her disappointment he ignored her like she did'nt even exists.
Now and then she tries to get along with him but he always ignored her.

Arrangement in oberoi mansion is never easy and when shivaay took charge everybody had to double their efforts. Today also Omru got so frustrated that they stopped working and was looking at him like small kids.

Suddenly at centre of the hall, there came a thud sound and the chandelier fell..... its pieces shattered all over the floor, and shivaay was on the floor too.....

Yes shivaay was standing exactly beneath the chandelier, he was busy talking over phone. Thankfully om saw it and pushed shivaay in nicker time. His sudden push made shivaay fall on the floor, making his hands injured with broken pieces of glass.

Everybody got shocked and got scared

"How did it fell?" Om asked. "Yesterday itself i checked it was perfectly fine. But suddenly this?"
It was shocking but they were curious how it happened....
"I am fine, dont worry and please no need to tell anybody about it okay" shivaay was advicing Rudy and om.
"So many things happened these days I dont want to give tension to anyone specially Annika she has gone through so many things......" om and Rudy agreed.

Other side function went perfectly smooth, after that incident at oberoi mansion Annika was now happy, shivaay's parting gift was so overwhelming now she even forgot her fears.

So it was sangeet night.

Forgetting everything the function went smooth and in merriment. Annika was smiling and shivaay's day made, he can die for this smile on Annika's face.
Different from usual days he was just admiring her, even though she looked hot in off shoulder steel grey lehenga, he felt she was looking cute with that smile. He himself looked liked a king in those steel grey kurta pyjama with half overcoat.

He was not at all thinking anything. His priority for today was to make sure nothing goes wrong. To his expectations everything went very nice. And to his surprise he got a gift also, after the sangeet Annika came to his room hiding from dadi, lightly pecking his lips two three times, she made his day.

After so many days they slept peacefully. Finally its time for shivika's wedding.

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* Hope I did not bored you with this chapter.
*Any problem with story please tell, I will be happy to change my plot also.
*I won't be writing a long story but if your response will be satisfying then will try.

Krishna