Manik's Pov

What an emotional fool ? I smirked looking at Nandini's figure who is sleeping by holding my hand.

Tch Tch Tch !

This fool believes I am in love with her. Come on I am Manik Malhotra I have some standards. This fool thinks I will choose when there are so many beautiful girls around me.What a fool !

It was so easy to trap her I didn't have to do much to impress her. But it's the time she repents for what she has done. I just want her to lose her close one just how I have lost mine cause of her.

She will be left alone when her precious adoptive family will learn her betrayal.

Just like how I was left alone without any fault of mine. She is the cause of my every pain.

I will give her the same pain which I have been going through and she will be suffering without any fault. She doesn't even remember what she did.

She has got enough love. It's time to snatch it. She will know what it feels to have no loved ones around you when you need them.

Prefect Revenge.

It will give me peace.

But not now ? I will make her suffer. I feel movement so I pretend to sleep.

" Manik, you don't know how much I love you. I was backing off because my family won't accept you. But you didn't give me any option to choose. I don't know how Amms will react as I have betrayed her trust in me. When you didn't agree with my any condition I panicked as I couldn't see you in pain. I wasn't able to think straight. But now I am fearing Amms reaction. But I know you will support me and make Amms believe you are just perfect for me. You know I lied to Chachi just to be with you and to take care of you.. " She pours her heart out.

She covers me with a blanket and checks my temperature. She heaved a breath of relief.

" Ayyappa, Please make him alright soon. I can't see him like this.." She prayed for me.

Her care for me makes me feel guilty and weak but I can't become an emotional fool like her.

She was going to leave the room wrapping the shawl around her shoulders. I think she wants to have alone time. It is night time and it is not safe to roam alone even if it is a hospital. How can she act like a fool ?

" Nandini, Nandini water.." I try to sound like a sleepy voice. Nandini comes inside the room and helps me to sit straight and gives me a glass of water.

I grabbed her hand and slept. Nandini starts caressing my hair.

Manik's Pov's ends..

After a few days..

Manik's Pov

I am doing fine now with a lot of nagging from Nandini. She has become worse than Aliya in terms of clingy nature. It's been only a few days and I have already started regretting my decision of marriage with her. I am already frustrated and fed up with her.

Manik does this and doesn't do that. She thinks she can control me and make me do anything she wants.

She is something man !

I can't tolerate her presence at all. How I wish I could push her away just like Aliya ? But I can't. I just have to keep her close to me until I find the culprits. After that, I will show who Manik Malhotra is.

Someone barged into my room without knocking. I groaned in irritation thinking it was Nandini. But before I could look up I was rewarded with a punch.

" I have been waiting for this moment since the day you decided to pull the stunt.. " Cabir said and punched me once again. I tried to defend myself but I failed.

" I can't believe you didn't even think about us and uncle. Do whatever you want to do.." Cabir seems to be angry with me.

" I am sorry, Cabir. But I have no option left with me. Nandini always tried to push me away which I didn't want to. I have pulled that stunt.." I tried to explain to him.

" I thought you have really fallen in love with her. Hats off to your acting skills. What is this marriage stunt ? " Cabir asked with curiosity.

" Let Nandini's matter conceal me.." I asked and he nodded his head. I am lucky to get an understanding friend.

" Thanks to god. Aliya didn't know about your marriage otherwise she would have been a headache for us. Dhruv too doesn't know about it. Should I and Mukti inform him.." Cabir said. As we don't keep a secret between us.

" No need, anyway it isn't going to last long.." I replied as it doesn't hold any importance in my life.

" What kind of games are you playing with her, Manik ? Seriously, Manik marriage. Marriage plays a very important role in life. You are going to destroy her whole life, Manik. I have been observing her for months she is the perfect girl for you. As a good friend I want to suggest you stop playing this dirty game with her and keep her with you for forever. I just don't want you to regret it, later. Please think about it carefully, once and reconsider your decision. She doesn't deserve this, Manik. She is a gem." Cabir requested me.

" If only she hadn't come into our life, my life wouldn't have been like this, Cabir. " Only if because I can't change the past.

" Whatever reason it is Manik you are not right. She must have been a kid when she came into your life, Manik. What can a kid do to you that you are holding grudges for so long, Manik ? I won't let you destroy yourself, Manik and her. I won't. This is going too far now. Too far. " Cabir said and murmured to himself I couldn't hear the last part.

" Okay. I will try not to do so with her. But she is the one only who can make me reach culprit. When I catched the culprit, she will decide what to do." I said so that he stopped pressuring me for this matter again and again.