Neil's biggest fear in life is undoubtedly losing Avni. Since the time he has started feeling something for Avni, he has been living under the fear of losing her.Be it when Avni was lying unconscious in his arms due to gas bomb explosion in Neela's house, or when he thought after Dayawanti's arrest Avni will leave him or when Avni left home after being accused of having an affair with Ali or at the time of Ali's fake accident when Neil thought he has lost Avni forever, every time we saw Neil almost in the verge of nervous breakdown. Then once when he had a nightmare of Vidyut killing Avni, we could see how terrified he was when he woke up and immediately started checking if Avni was alright. When Avni was insisting him to marry Juhi for Mishti's sake, the poor fellow was left with no other option but to show his vulnerable side Avni and confess in front of her that he is nothing without Avni. Then came the phase in their life when with a heavy heart he had to keep Avni in jail due to Vidyut's ugly conspiracies and his obsession for her. To give justice to Avni and bring her back to his life, he went against his own principles, even endangered life innumerable times. Finally he succeeded in getting Avni released from jail and he thought after this, nothing can snatch Avni from him but destiny had some other plans.
Seven months of separation and not even seven days of togetherness when again circumstances played a cruel trick with Neil.
What can be worse than the realization that you have lost the person who means the world to you?
Today what happened in the show may be requirement for the story to move forward but as a character Neil definitely doesn't deserve to go through this pain.
Neil's intensity of love for Avni cannot be expressed in words. It can only be felt and I am sure every viewer must have felt that while watching today's episode.
Hats off to Zain for getting into the skin of Neil's character and giving a brilliant performance today!