Till I Found You - OnTrack ShivIka FF [ Discontinuation Note on Pg 31]

| Prologue |

"Tia aapse jhooth bol rahi hai. Mera yakeen kijiye." Anika said, desperately wanting him to believe her once. Tia wasn't a trustworthy person, who could harm him and he just wasn't ready to listen anything against her. She had always admired him for his intelligence but his blind trust on Tia was going to get him drowned someday, and she was just trying to protect him from the same.

"Yakeen?" He let out, setting an altogether new expression of sarcasm. Could he laugh on the same? The girl who had broken his trust was asking him to trust her. How ironic it was, for him! "Agar tia aur tum me se mujhe kisi par yakeen karna hota, to mai Tia pe karta. Ek bar nahi hazaar baar." And there he went on adding up, his eyes not only reflecting how determined he was on his perceptions but also his confidence about their accuracies.

"Aankhe khol kar dekhiye, Shivaay. Tia aapke sath kya kar rahi hai." Why can't he see what I am seeing? He has to understand Tia is playing with him.

"Thanks to you."

"Matlab?"

"Shivaay Singh Oberoi ek galti dubara nahi karta. Ek ladki pehle hi bharosa tod chuki hai. Dubara bharosa todne ka mauka nahi dunga mai."

"Aap mere bare me baat kar rahe hai?"

"Gosh, how well do you pretend how naive you are? Only if I hadn't seen your real face, even I would have believed that you are the most sacred woman alive in the universe." It was hard to figure out what was more in his words... disgust for having betrayed him that actually did not come out well because they weren't committed... anger on himself for not being able to recognize her real self... pain of something that he did not even know what.

"Maine esa kiya kiya hai Shivaay?"

"Mujhe to bolte hue bhi sharam aa rahi hai jo tumhe karte hue nahi aayi."

"Wahi to mai jaan na chahati hu."

"Tumne mera bharosa toda hai. Isi chhat ke niche, Daksh ke sath ek raat gujari hai. Soyi ho tum uske sath. You have slept with him."

The moment his words fell into her hears, she stumbled backwards out of shock.

Tumne mera bharosa toda hai.

Isi chhat ke niche, Daksh ke sath ek raat gujari hai.

Soyi ho tum uske sath. You have slept with him.

She thought, it would have been better if she was deaf. Did he really say the same? Did she hear right? Of course he had said it. How could he? Did he think her to be characterless? She just couldn't let that fact sink in her system or to say she did not want to let in, that. She blinked twice, hoping it to be a bad dream that would break now... now but that now didn't come.

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