Veer's pov
We got ready to join the function at Ananya's place and Nani was very muc excited to go there. According to her she was going to convince Ana for this marriage and soon when we would get married she would be able to see her great grand children. I neevr wanted to get married and Nani's constant nagging was getting on my nerves. Even Rudra said that his ship was sailing, he was so excited and he could already see his both best friends in the wedding hall, sharing the sacremental vows. We arrived at the mansion and I was greeted with Mr' Bajaj and his eldest son Shorya Bajaj. We had signed the deal with their company, not because I was interested in his sister, because I had seen his proposal, it was realy great and Shorya Bajaj was a renowed businessman in the industry. He had taken over his father a few years back and had expanded the empire in almost the entire Asia.
We entered the house and unknowingly my eyes wandered over the hall to and then my gaze stuck to one person. I didn't know why. There she was standing in her long light green kurta, her hair braided in a fish tail, as usual her makeup light as she talked to her younger brother animatedly. As if feeling my gaze at her back, she turned her head into my direction and our eyes locked. It wasn't the accident eye contact that was going to turn awkward, it was as if we acknowledged each other's presence.
A bright smile adorned her lips, and her face lit up and she made her way towards me and I could swore my heart stopped beating for a millisecond. There was just something in that woman that you just can't stop admiring her once you see her.
"Rudy." She voiced to her best friend who shouted her name with an equal zeal and then pulled her into his chest and twirled her around as she laughed loud.
For a moment I thought she opened her arms to me, how wrong I was. Her lavender and vanilla smell was hitting my nostrils when she backed away from her best friend and looked at me.
"Mr. Oberoi."
"Ms. Bajaj."
"Wow, how sweet is your greeting guys You almost made me cry." Came Rudra's sarcastic reply. Ananya rolled her eyes and then before she could talk someone called her name as she walked away, excusing herself.
"I know she looks beautiful, but stop ogling at her." He whispered in ear and I almost punched him in the face.
was I attracted towards her ? Yes.
Did Rudra need to know that? No.
"I wasn't ogling at her." I scoffed.
"Liar liar, pants on fire." He said in sing song voice that I conveniently ignored.
Rudra cursed under his breath and I looked at him quizzed. Her made a motion with his head and I followed his line of vision that he was pointing at an old woman who was talking to Mrs. Bajaj. I remember her, she was Mr. Bajaj's mother and that meant she was Ananya and Shorya's gradmother.
"What about her?" I asked curiously.
"That lady is another name for trouble. Especially for Ana."
"She blames Ana for her son's death and believes that Ana is my mistress." He said his tone angered full of distaste.
"Why?"
"When Ana came here after Anahita aunty's death, she never liked her. She is one of the reasons Ana left India."
"Who's Anahita?"
"Ana's mother." My eyebrows rose in surprise as he nodded.
" Anahita aunty was Anand Uncle's sister. So when she died Anand uncle brought Ana to Mumbai. Everyone in the family accepted her, especially Shorya, but this oldie didn't. You know she never misses any chance to humiliate Ana."
It took me a while to digest the information given by Rudra, because I would have never guessed that Ananya wasn't their real daughter. Some of her facial features are same as Anand Bajaj. And the way she carries herself I wouldn't have guessed that she even knows the pain of losing a loved one. Guess I was wrong.
Also since that dinner we haven't had any argument between in fact I have grown respect to that woman.
"You are a curse. You killed my son. You are not worthy of being loved. You can never lead a family or a happy life." A screaming voice interrupted my chit chat with Rudra and we both looked at the direction of voice.
There the oldie was screaming at Ananya and Ananya was simply standing mute, but from what I could see, I knew she was holding back, she wasn't going to insult her grandmother in the house full of people.
"I have had enough of your nonsense. Just because I am respecting you that does not give you any fucking right to say anything about my daughter. And my daughter is capable of love. She is worth it. And she will get married. to the man who will love her immensely, who will accept her with all her flaws and perfections." Mrs. Bajaj said defending Ananya. Rudra was trying hard to control and the only thing holding him back was my iron grip on his arm.
"Rudra, Mrs. Bajaj will handle it. Stay out of it." I hissed. As much as I too wanted to break her nose for saying such mean things to Ananya, I knew that wasn't my place to speak. Neither was Rudra's.
"She can't marry anybody, and no one will love her." The woman laughed maniacly as she demeaned Ananya more. Mr. Bajaj and Shorya also jumped to her defense. They didn't want to create more ruckus but the woman was having none of it.
I guess this was the end of Mrs. Bajaj when she shouted and the whole hall went complete silent. But what was more shocking was the color that drained from Ananya's face. From my view she was standing just in front of me and I saw her eyes glistening woth tears. Her eyes full of pain.
"MY ANA WOULD GET MARRIED and WITHIN TEN DAYS". This time no one spoke, all the guests left and the only people that stayed in the hall were Bajaj family, Rudra, Nani and I.
Mrs. Bajaj turned to her pale daughter and said, "I know how you feel about marriage but I meant every word that I said. I want to you to get married but if you still deny it, I will not force you."
Her voice full of mother's affection, something that I always missed ever since my parents died. Ananya was lucky, though she didn't have her real mother, she had a new mother. She forced a smile, trying to mask her pain as she voiced herself.
"I know what are you saying Ma, but if this is something that you want I will agree. I will marry within 10 days."
I could see that she was holding back her tears . I saw hurt , pain , agony in her eyes as if she is broken. Before anyone could say anything she wished everyone good night and stormed towards her room, knowing if she stayed there even for a minute, she would burst into tears.
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Ananya's povI closed the door behind me with a soft bang, and was about to dwell myself in the agony when someone knocked. I knew it who it was, at least that's what I thought but to my utter surprise there stood the person I was least expecting to come to me."Mrs. Oberoi." I acknowledged my tone curt yet polite, seriously I was in no mood for any of this marriage shit and the last thing I wanted to do was to snap at the old woman."How are you dear?" Her voice held one thing that I hated.Pity, sympathy."I am fine. Just need some rest." My tone was firm, a clear disguised statement telling her to back off so that I could spend some time alone, but fate had other plans."I heard what your grandmother said." Tone laced with pity and I controlled the urge to snap."Mrs. Oberoi, I appreciate your concern but the last thing I want is pity from you or anyone for that matter. So I suggest you giv
Ananya's pov I woke up to a massive headache, and found it hard to even open my eyes. Standing in the front of the mirror I took in my appearance, my eyes were puffy, cheeks were stain with dry tears and skin was pale. I looked horrible, as if I had just lost the love of my life. But technically my situation was like that only, Ma wanted me to find the love of my life so that I could live a happy life, which was far from what I wanted. As I took the medicines, the moments from last day came rushing down in my mind. And I realized how rude I was to Mrs. Oberoi. Yes she pushed me to my limit, but still it didn't justify my behaviour towards her. I shouldn't have been disrespectful towards her. I made a mental note to apologise to her later. I got ready to leave for the office, not my office, I could do my work from home. I was going to meet Shori at his office. It had been quite a time since I had a chat with my brother. I went to his
Ananya's pov. It would be an understatement if I said I was pissed. I was furious. How dare he?. The nerve of that bastard. Who the hell does he think he is ? He is very wrong if he thought I would get scared of him and agree to anything that he has to say. The hell I would. He might be able to dominate others but not me. From what I could understand, was that he was furious as to what I said to his Nani. It was understandable, what was not was that he can't threaten me like that. No way in hell I would marry that, he might me a good man according to Rudy but for me he is an arrogant asshole, which I strongly dislike with my every being. On my way back to home I was greeted by an overjoyed Ma. The reason was, she had found the perfect man for me and is sure that I would like him and we would get married. A big part of me was shouting that run woman, you aren't not the one to have a married life. Run before you screw up your or someone else's life.
Ananya's pov. "Sweetheart what do you think of this dress ?" Ma asked me for the umteenth time and I didn't have the energy to say anything, so I just nodded. it was half past ten and Ma was excited for the lunch date I had with Veer and I was too. Not for the date, but I was waiting for him to stand me up. and I knew he would because I made sure of it. My plan was simple I was going to put Veer in a badlight, and would show him as a bad guy for me and then Ma would deny for this alliance. As simple as that sounded it was difficult because Veer was a persistent man, and that was what scaring me. I didn't want to get married to him. But I just couldn't speak at all. By then Ma had made my room a god damn boutique and my every single dress that according would work for a date was on my bed, my sofa. My whole room was a mess. Not like it wasn't before, because I am a messy person, but this was another level of it. Ma hones
Veer's pov. "I should have known that, she is a genius in tech. She ain't that easy." Rudra's voice rang in my ears but didn't reach my ears. I was still occupied by her last words that she said to me. And I knew she wasn't bluffing, she made a promise and fucking meant it. She wanted me to back down. Her voice was filled with venom, a dark aura covering it, her eyes held a fire in them, she wasn't afraid of me or anything. Even if the devil would come and threaten her to marry me I knew she would fight him and send him back to hell. Where people were scared of my stone cold face, she had the audacity to enter my personal space and make a promise that she would ruin my life. And both of us knew she could do it, if she wanted to. Today was just a trailer, she was coming after me. When I entered the cafe and saw her in that tight fitted clothes something in me snapped. I was furious at her but still I admired her beauty. Her pale skin to her soft features
Ananya's pov. I was again getting ready for the dinner with the Oberois, only the difference was that I knew what was going on. I knew who was coming, for what purpose and I was going to say yes. Forever. This was it. It was my fate. But the strange thing was that after all that chaos, Veer didn't say anything. He was quiet. All along. I wondered what was cooking up in that big head of his. I didn't bothering apologising for the whole virus drama, even though I knew it was a extreme measure from my side, and I felt guilty about it. I made a mental note to do it tonight and then ask him what was he thinking. I went downstairs only to find Ma fretting over small things and as to how everything needed to be perfect since her daughter's soon to be husband is coming for dinner. Everything looked perfect according to me, and she didn't needed to do that, but then again who was I to stop her. I knew she would make sure t
Ananya's pov. I always knew that my guardian angels were actually having picnic when my fate was written, because at every point in my life, it was necessary to have drama. Or may be it was just my family who loved drama. Fate always had plans for me already, she made sure to make my life a God damn series with no ending, every ending had a twisted beginning. Here I thought that the dinner would go well since I had agreed to the wedding and then in just a week I would be married. But no, there has to be a drama. So the drama started since my beloved brother decided it has to be today where he would run away with Ruhi, his girlfriend for past 4 years. "What the actual fuck?" Rudy screeched like a hyena that Shori had to clamp his hand over his mouth and he pulled him behind the wall, caging him. If I didn't knew that they both were straight, I would have believed that they had chemistry. The position was quite compromisi
Ananya's pov. Few moments before "We can't let them see Ritesh and Ruhi, or it would be disaster." My voice was a whisper, but frantic. I locked my eyes to Veer's to find that he was already looking into mine and then the bulb in my head lit up. I knew the idea was stupid, but it was because of his proximity that had made me loose my sanity. Also it had been one of my fantasies ever since I had seen him. Before he could react, or my sub conscious could butt in and stop me from doing it, I pressed my lips to his by pulling him close by the lapels of his coat. His arms around me stilled and his heart beat increased under my palms and my heart stopped beating. I didn't move my lips, they remained still on his, waiting for the worst to come. Rejection. After nearly 3 seconds, he responded back. His arms tightened around my waist as he pulled me up on my tip toes, my arms going around his neck, and I tugged at the end of his black locks.