Mahima's POV
We don't have to tell anything to anyone. He will get married tomorrow as decided. " Uncle said.
What ???
" What?? How? " Dhruv asked. Everyone was shocked at what uncle said.
" Everything will remain as it is, except the bride. You will marry Mahima now. " Uncle said and my heartbeat stopped.
" No!! " He shouted.
" Yes!! We know Mahima since forever... She is living with us for the last seven years and she saved all of us from this situation. Thanks, beta. " Uncle said sternly to him and then smiled at me.
" No!! I can't marry her. " He said with such an expression as if he was disgusted.
" You have no other choice. I trusted your choice once, will never do it again. " Uncle was too angry to hear anything.
" But this is not fair... It is not my fault that they duped me." He pleaded.
" But it is your responsibility to check on the credentials of someone whom you were going to bring into the family. You didn't even know that her parents were fake. How can you be so ignorant? We all could have been killed or in jail because of some false allegations. They were planning to destroy our family. " Uncle was shouting at the top of his voice now.
" I will definitely teach both of them a very good lesson. But please don't do this to me. I don't even like Mahima." Dhruv said.
" I don't want any discussion on this point. My decision is final. As it is, I promised her dad that I will get her married to my son. " Uncle said.
" Then get her married to Dheer. They even like each other. " Dhruv said.
" No!! You will get married to her. I don't want you to find, another one like that fake girl. " Uncle was adamant.
" But I can't even bear her for five minutes. How will I spend the rest of my life with a girl like her? " he said.
" Spend time with her, you will definitely fall in love with her. She is a gem of a person. Perfect to be our daughter-in-law. " Aunty said.
" Then why can't you get her married to Dheer. They are quite compatible. I am sure they would make a good pair. They even like each other. " He said. I looked at Dheer, but he didn't give any reaction.
" No!! You will have to marry her as I promised. " Uncle said sternly.
" No !! She is not even close to what I want in my wife. I... "
" I don't care what you want, I have seen what type of a girl you want. I can't allow that. " Uncle interrupted him in the mid of the sentence.
" I will never accept her as my wife." He said with resentment.
" Then you will have to manage on your own as I will disown you. You have to decide right here, right now." Uncle said.
" What?? You will disown me for this girl... For the promise, you made to her father?? How can you do that to me?? " He was arguing.
" Because I don't trust your ability to judge a person anymore. I don't want you to bring another such girl into our family, who would spoil the loving and peaceful environment of our home. " Uncle said.
" I don't want to spend my whole life with her. She is not even presentable. What would my friends say?? I would not be able to even introduce her to them. " He said without thinking that I was in the same room.
" You have two options in front of you. Pick up your choice and let me know. Right now!! If you don't choose her, I will get her married to Dheer and give him all the responsibilities of my entire empire." Uncle said.
" You can't do it!!! We both are your sons. " Dhruv said in an angry tone.
" Yes, I intend to give responsibilities to both of you. But of course, one of you will be the CEO of the company. And if you dare to defy me, you will not only lose that upper hand, being the elder son but will have to lose your directorship and all the benefits you reap because of them. I will disown you and he would become the only contender to be the CEO. So chose wisely. " Uncle said.
" This is sheer blackmail. " Dhruv shouted.
" Think whatever you want. You expect me to hand over my business to you. I expect you to marry the girl of my choice. " uncle said firmly.
" FINE !! I will marry her, provided you give me in writing that I will be the CEO of the company. " Dhruv said.
What was going on? For god's sake, I was also there.
"Ok! I will get the contract ready but it will come with some clauses which have to be followed. If you don't follow them, you will lose everything. " Uncle said.
"You can not divorce her for at least three years and marry another woman. Or Dheer will become the CEO." Uncle said the first condition.
" And what if she wants to divorce me?? " He asked with a raised eyebrow.
" She is not that kind of girl. But if you abuse her or ever raise your hand on her. You will be disowned. You have to treat her with respect. " Uncle said.
" I need to talk to her. " He said but didn't even look at me.
" Of course! Go ahead. " Uncle said.
He caught my hand and pulled me out with him and took me to the nearest room.
" Tell dad that you don't want to marry me. " He said looking away. Of course, he can't bear to look at me.
" What!! I can't! " I said.
" Why?? " He looked at me as if he would kill me for saying that.
" He is like a father to me. He has been taking care of me since my parents died. I can't say no to him. " I said.
" Yeah, of course!! Why would you? After all, you are getting a lifetime chance to be married to the future CEO of our group. " He said sarcastically.
" I don't believe it. You know nothing about me... I don't care much about money. I am quite contented with what I already have. I would not have refused even if uncle had asked me to marry the clerk in your office. So it doesn't matter that you are going to be CEO or not. I can't refuse anything to him. " I explained to him as I did want him to misunderstand me.
" Why can't you say that you like Dheer? " He asked.
" I am not in a position to say anything. I am under his debt. " I said.
" But you can say that you love him. " He insisted.
" I don't!! " I said.
" What?? "
" I don't love him. He is my friend. " I said.
" Rubbish!! Anyway, I don't even like you. You will never be happy with me. " He said threatening me subtly.
" How can you be so sure? " I asked because I was hurt to hear, what he thought about me.
" Because I can't even stand you. I don't even want to see your ugly face once in a year, how can I see it every day, first thing in the morning." He said.
" I am sorry... I can't help it. " I shook my head and said.
" I will ruin you. You will regret that you didn't say no to dad for getting married to me. " He threatened me but I didn't say anything.
" I will make your life miserable. You will never be happy, I will make sure of that. " He was getting very annoyed.
" Listen, I can't help you. You can persuade uncle if you want. " I said to him as I was feeling bad for him.
" Fine!! I will marry you tomorrow but mark the day in the calendar as the day when your life will change forever. I will never treat you as my wife. You are no one to me. Don't you dare to even dream about having any relationship with me as that will never happen. You spoilt everything. My life, my happiness... everything. I will make sure that your life is ruined. " He said and went out of the room.
I sat down on the couch and cried. What was my fault in all this? I was just trying to stop him from getting into a marriage that would have brought only problems.
But I had no option as uncle had already decided. He has been like my father since my parents died. So I could not say no to him and as I had a crush on Dhruv earlier. So maybe when he cools down, he will understand.
Aunty told me to come with her and she did all the rituals and ceremonies with me like Ganesh Pooja, Roka, chunari, and haldi in my room. A Heena artist came and applied beautiful Mehandi designs on my hands and feet.
Aunty tried to get a new wedding dress for me as Mayesha was very slim and shorter than me. But there was no time left for that and as that many alterations were not possible, so she got a new blouse stitched for me. Which was delivered in just 2 hours.
It was my wedding day and the beauty experts were helping me to get ready and in about one hour, I was ready.
My friends brought me to the stage where we exchanged the garlands and after all the rituals and ceremonies, I was finally married to him.
He was so angry that he didn't even look at me once. He just kept doing everything mechanically.
Once the Pandit Ji announced that we were married now. He just bent towards me and said,
" Congratulations!! You got what you wanted. But don't get very happy. From now on, your life is going to change. You will regret your decision to marry me. Welcome to the hell, Mrs Dhruv Goyal."
Dhruv's POV Everyone around me looked so happy while I just wanted to scream at the top of my voice. Just 2 days back, I was so excited for my wedding night.But everything changed so dramatically. I will not forgive Mayesha. How dare she do that to me? I loved her... I was really excited to have such a hot and sexy girl as my girlfriend. All my friends were getting envious of me.She was beautiful and sexy, approximately 5'6" tall had an hourglass figure. I wanted to make her mine but she said that she wanted to wait till the wedding night. I found that so cute and innocent and agreed to wait for the wedding night to come sooner.Now I knew, why she avoided all that. She was Sunny's girlfriend?? How could he use her in this way to destroy us?? How could he even think of sending his girlfriend to his enemy's arms?? He was telling her to seduce me? What kind of a man he was?? I was literally going crazy to make her mine. Thank God!! We got to know about all this.Thank God?? You shoul
Mahima's POVI was still sitting there when after about an hour, I heard him coming. He waited outside my room and then went to his. My heart was filled with resentment. I wanted to divorce him right away but I could not. Uncle had shown so much trust in me, I needed to give some time to Dhruv, after all, he had to marry me against his wish. He said that he would never accept me as his wife and would ruin my life. I could understand that he said all that as he was agitated. But how could I overlook what I saw?? No !! I could not... So I decided to keep away from him. I would let him do whatever he wanted for the time being as I didn't want to let down his uncle. So I would wait for some time till he became normal and understood that we were married now. *********It was morning and I was coming from a walk when I saw him standing beside his car. I didn't want to see his face so turned and started doing something random in the pathway, wanting him to go away so that I didn't have
Mahima's POVHe looked at me casually, and then he turned towards her and looked at her tenderly. " Hey, you must be very tired after the hard and fast quick round, we had in my office. Would you like to have a drink and snacks here or in my bed? " He asked her caressing her sleek arm. " It's so nice of you to ask that, I would like to have them in bed if you don't mind. It will be much more relaxing and romantic. We can feed each other the way we want, I am sure you will enjoy them more. " She said in her seductive voice. " Sure!! Good suggestion. Mahima, do you mind, bringing these things to my room, and joining us to watch the show? " He asked me as if he was inviting me to watch a football or cricket game with him. " Tell your secretary to take the drinks and snacks to your room. I hope she is not too tired to take a tray to your room as you are planning to have an eventful night. Isn't she here to please and serve you in many ways and as it is she is quite used to of taking g
Mahima's POVIt has been fifteen days since we got married and he had not even looked at me once for more than a few seconds as if he could not bear to do it.Last week when we had been married for just a week, our family was invited to a business party, uncle suggested that we both should go and represent the family, but he refused to take me with him.Uncle got furious and insisted that he has to take me with him and Dhruv had to agree.Well, he took me to the party but left me the moment we entered the party hall." Listen to one thing and once for all, don't even bother to come near me at the party. I don't even want to be seen with you. So go and merge yourself into something like a wall, tree or furniture... I don't care what it is. Just stay away from me. " He said bluntly." But Dhruv, we came together as a... " I was saying but he glared at me." Don't dare to complete this sentence, we are not a couple. I don't think of you as my wife and would never give you any right as my
Mahima's POVHe kept staring at me but I never looked back at him. That didn't stop him from trying, he tried talking to me again, after about ten days and asked me to come out with him, this time Dheer saw him holding my hand while I was trying to get my hand free of his grip. Dheer came to stand by me and punched him after he released my hand from that boy. Just then Dhruv also came in and asked us what was going on as Dheer looked angry. When Dheer told him everything, he punched his friend and told him to get out of our home and never come back.Once Dheer took the guy away, Dhruv came to me, held my hand in his and asked if he misbehaved with me in any way? I just shook my head and he hugged me lightly and told me to tell him if anyone troubles me, I gave him a faint smile and he went out. I don't know why, but I was drawn to him at that moment. My heartbeat increased when he hugged me and gave me that smile. It was the beginning of my crush on him. All the girls in my schoo
Mahima's POV" Hello?? Yeah, I am in the coffee house which is right in front of the bookshop. " I said and disconnected the call and all of a sudden, I collided with someone, and I heard many shrill screams." What the hell? Can't you see? See what have you done? Is that how you serve food to your customers? Call your manager, I will get you fired immediately. " The girls were yelling at the waiter.I saw that the cold coffee they had ordered was spilt on them. Two of the girls got a few drops of coffee on them." Ma'am, please don't get furious, it was not my fault, someone bumped into me. I tried to save the coffee but some of it got spilt. Please don't complain against me, I will lose my job, I really need it, desperately. Sorry ma'am, sir... Please! " Waiter said sheepishly." No, you spoilt my dress, do you even know how much it cost?? " The girl yelled." Sorry, ma'am! " The waiter was so scared." It's worth is almost two months of your salary. You need to be punished. " She s
Mahima's POV" What?? What do you mean by that? " The girls asked. Dheer smiled and shook his head." So my best friend was right afterall... "" What does that mean? " They asked again." Oh, God ! I don't know, how you tolerate those dumb girls, Dhruv? They have been asking the meaning of each and every sentance I said. For god's sake, roam around with a few intelligent women. " Dheer said." Enough, Dheer, let's have food, I am starving. I ordered your favourite let's go before our sandwiches get cold. " I said and pulled his arm again. He caught my hand in his and looked at all of them." Since, your friends are dumb enough and you will not tell them, let me tell them more clearly in easy words which I hope, they can understand. Well, ladies, this wonderful girl here is my best friend and is married to my one and only brother, who happens to be your friend. So if you want the payment for the dresses, ask my brother, since he is her husband or you can send the bill to me. As I can
Mahima's POV" Listen, Dhruv... I think you have not read the contract you signed carefully. I suggest you read it again. You can't divorce her, only she can ask for it. You can't hurt or force her to divorce you. If your marriage remains intact, you need to have a child within 3 years. You will get the post of CEO on the 1st birthday of your child. You have to wait till you have a child who is one year old. " Dad said.What??" This is not fair... " Dhruv shouted." You signed the contract, should have read it properly. " Dad said." I can't tolerate her... " He yelled." Well, we want you to stay here for the next 10 days. And I will see how you behave with her. If I see you misbehaving or not even trying to make this marriage work. I will get your marriage annulled and will disown you forever. You will not get a single rupee from our business, not even the money you get as a director. " Dad declared." You can't do that to me. I have a right to have all that. You can't take away al
Mahima's POV After two months... It's been two months since Dheer and Aayushi got married. Four of us went on a honeymoon. Initially, Dhruv and I had planned to gift a honeymoon trip to Europe to both of them. Then all of a sudden he surprised me by declaring that we are also going with them. " Dhruv, please give them privacy. Who goes on a honeymoon trip with others? " I said, But he was adamant. Even Aayushi and Dheer were excited that we were also coming. But then we were concerned that mom and dad would be alone. But they asked us to go. " I will also get the chance to spend some time alone with her. She has been taking me for granted. Now with all of you gone, she would finally pay heed to me. " Dad said. " Dad, you can take her on a honeymoon trip as well. Or come with us. " Dhruv said. " No!! I want to spend some time only with my beautiful wife. " Dad said and mom blushed and shook her head, but a cute shy smile came on her face. Well, we all enjoyed th
Dheer's POV " Physics?? From where does physics come into it? " Kabir got confused. " You try and say any single flirting dialogue and I will show you the force with which I would punch you. Shall I explain more?" I asked. " But why?? " Kabir asked. " Because she is my girlfriend, my fiance, my would-be wife and would be the mother of my children. So you better stay away from her. Or I will throw you out of the company, contract or no contract. " I said going very close to him with an angry expression on my face. He took a few steps back and rushed to Mahima and Dhruv. " Antra, you said, you would save me from him. Now do something!! Dhruv sir!! You assured me. " Kabir said. Mahima and Dhruv were smiling. " What is going on?? " I asked. " Nothing!! " Dhruv said trying not to smile. " Tell me!! Mahima?? " I asked both of them. " Okay, fine... He was not flirting with Aayushi. He was acting like it. " Dhruv said. " What?? " I was shocked, angry but relieved. " Yes. We told h
Dheer's POV" What if I had accepted Kabir's proposal? " She asked with a raised eyebrow. I would have killed him. " I wanted to kill that Kabir as he was flirting with you, I swear if only it had continued for two more days, I would have gone mad with jealousy or would have killed him. Why were you giving so much response to Kabir's flirting?? " I asked. " I wanted someone who could take care of me when I needed him, so when Kabir said all those sweet things, I felt bad for myself that why couldn't I fell for a person like him. I wanted my man to take care of me and make me feel special. I was hurt so badly that you didn't care. " She said. " I am so sorry love. I made you feel like that. I cared for you, or why would I have been so restless?? I was very upset that you didn't come to me after we had that conversation in the hospital. I got so annoyed with myself that I said all that. So I wanted to see you as soon as possible. But you didn't turn up. So I insisted that I would go
Mahima's POV They both were getting emotional, Dheer was smiling like anything and Aayushi was blushing as I teased them. Just then we heard someone coming in, our parents had come back from the evening walk. We all went out to meet our parents. " Mom and dad, may I have the honour to present your other would-be daughter-in-law?? Meet, Aayushi... Dheer just proposed to her and she accepted his proposal. " I said with a big smile. " What really?? I am so happy!! " Mom was on cloud nine, all of a sudden. Mom and dad became so very happy and their happiness knew no bounds when Dhruv spilt the beans. They were pleasantly surprised to know that they were going to be grandparents of Dheer's baby as well. Mom was already excited about her first grandchild and she was going crazy with just the thought of having another baby in her arms. Aayushi and Dheer talked to her parents on the video call and told them that they were in love and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Dheer's POVMahima's phone was ringing. She was not around and Dhruv had already gone to his room, I saw the screen, it was from the doctor. I was really worried about Aayushi's health so I picked up the call the doctor was hesitant at first but then tell me when I told her that we are getting married very soon." Well, in that case, I must congratulate you, your fiance is pregnant. You are going to be a father." Did she really tell me that Aayushi was... pregnant?? Oh, my God!! She is pregnant?? We are pregnant. I rushed to the guest room and knocked. Aayushi opened the door and the moment she saw me she closed it again. " Aayushi, open the door!! " I banged the door. " No!! " She said " I need to talk to you right now!! Open the door. " I said in a very high tone. " No! Please leave me alone! " She said her voice was thick with emotions as if she was crying. " Open the door...or I will break it. " I threatened her. " No way! Call Antra and Dhruv Ji first. " She cried. Jus
Dheer's POV." I think Kabir has started liking me. I know he is going to ask me the question and I am going to accept it. " She said. And I felt as if my heart stopped. Over my dead body. " You can't do that... You don't love him. " I said immediately. " I can and I will because I think, he loves me. I had read somewhere that you should marry the person who loves you and would do anything to keep you happy rather than the person whom you want to marry but doesn't care for you. I don't want to be another rejected bride. Mahima was lucky that Dhruv Ji loved her so much that he realised his mistake and fought for her love. I am not that lucky. I would not spend my life waiting for someone to realise his feelings for me. I will accept the proposal from Kabir, as it is he is such a fabulous man that I am sure, I would fall in love with him eventually." She said. " No!! You love me..." I tried to remind her. " Doesn't matter. I will convince myself. I will make myself understand that
Dheer's POVAfter about five minutes, they both came out. Aayushi was looking anywhere but at me. " Are you all right?? " I said and touched her head and neck. She pushed my hand away. " I am fine, leave me alone. " She said. Mahima wrapped an arm around her waist. And signalled me to stay away. " What is wrong with Aayushi?? " I asked her." Nothing, just acidity. " Aayushi said too quickly. " She has acidity. Don't worry. She needs to rest. " Mahima said and I nodded. She took her to their resting room. " What happened, sweetheart? " The moment Kabir saw her, he rushed towards her. " Nothing, the day before yesterday, I ate outside food so something didn't suit me. I have acidity. " She told him politely. Why couldn't she tell me like this? " Oh, acidity. Then you must drink some cold milk without adding anything to it. I can make my mom's special recipe for acidity for you in the guest house's kitchen. Let's cancel the plan to go out and have a healthy diet made by chef Kab
Dheer's POV" Kabir!! If she is not interested, then you can't force her. " I said. " Sir, please don't mind, but that is between her and me. I am not forcing her, it is called persuading. I think she likes someone, I don't know who he is, but she is wasting her time and feelings on him, I want to give her another option as I have started liking her. She can refuse to come. It was just a way of saying." He said. " It's ok, it is not a big issue. I will come, as it is I am not bound in any relationship. So I can come, I like you as a person so no issue in trying, after all, I also need someone who could love me back. I will be ready by eight. " She said. He grinned and hugged her, I was shocked at what happened. She left the room without even looking at me. It was lunchtime. Mahima asked me to come with her. " I don't want to eat... " " Don't just sit here sulking like a schoolboy. If you want her to do something. Tell her that you want her in your life. You idiot, you never told
Mahima's POVDheer saw the video immediately and we could see that he was burning with jealousy. " Hey, Dheer... Thanks for asking mom to make them. Mahima, have them... you enjoy the fritters, don't you? Dheer. have more of them. " Dhruv said. " Hunh? No... I have had enough." He said and got up to go inside. " Where do you think you are going, we have just come home. You were saying in the hospital that you were getting sick of being alone and now that we are here and want to spend some time with you, you are going inside your room to be alone? No way! Sit with us. " " Ok! " He sat down. " I need to go to the office. " He said. " You need more rest. There is no need to worry about work. I will do it. " " We need to get the contracts ready, then we need to get them signed or we would lag behind the schedule. " He said. " Don't worry, we are right on time because the contract has been made and duly signed so don't bother yourself and just rest. " Dhruv said. " When?? How?? Th