Vihaan know since the beginning of the story that what she is trying to tell but he decided to stay quiet as he felt that it is time for her to know the truth but when Ananya completed the story he became nervous and shocked for a minute unbelieving his ears
"How did you know about this, did someone told you before" Aadvika asked her as she tried to hide her surprise look
"No one told me this story before but I heard mother saying this to you the previous night" Ananya looked towards Vihaan as she held her ears as she continued "I am sorry that I heard the elders talk without their knowledge which is very bad but I promise that I will never hear hiding again in the future"
"Since you know about the past you are going to stop calling me brother also" Vihaan told her with a soft voice as he kneeled before the both of them as he held the little girl's hands
"Ananya, we decided to hide it from you because we don't want to burden you, you don't have to take the things so seriously, no one will force you to do things you don't want to do and it doesn't matter to me if you call me brother, uncle or even by my name it goes the same with our family members no one will judge you regarding this" Vihaan tried to explain her with sigh as he was not at all prepared with this
"Really then what about others will they blame us for hiding this, what about my real father will he come and take me if he knew about my existence" Ananya asked him as tears rolled down her cheeks
"No one will take you from me or from our family I will not let anyone to even lay a finger on you without your permission" Vihaan reassured her as he wiped her tears
"Don't underestimate your brother Ananya, just because you have spent all this time in abroad didn't make you a foreigner you are from a royal family and your brother is the future king of this country and you are the daughter of this country's king legally, princess of this country and future queen, who will dare to even lay a finger on you" Aadvika told her as she felt like saying this
"Am I really his daughter legally" Ananya asked her and Aadvika nodded her head to reassure her
"Then will you be my mother and never leave me, I don't want other women to become my mother what if she abandons me after she have her own kids" Ananya asked her in a low voice making Aadvika and Vihaan look at her surprised
"Who told you that?" Aadvika questioned her this time as she really wants to know who is planting all this information in her innocent mind
"My friends in school they said that the step-mother is the most wicked women in the earth and they also told that she will only be affectionate on the surface but when they are alone, she will torture the kids who are not related to her" Ananya told her with her innocent face
Aadvika was stupefied with this as she really doesn't know how to respond to her innocent claim but it made her confused how a smart and intelligent girl like her behaves like a small child at times
"Your friends are just making stories not all women are like that don't listen to them in the future if they were to talk ill about others" Aadvika told her and Ananya just nodded her head in agreement
"Yes, everyone is not that bad you are a very good person so I want you to marry my brother, will you marry him then I will also tell everyone that I had a loving family as well"
"How can you be so sure that I am not a bad women what if I am acting good on surface"
"No, I had this feeling when I first met you as if I have seen you before and heard you say loving words to me, I don't know why I felt like that but I had a very positive opinion on you even before I met you"
"I am glad to hear that now go back to sleep it is getting late, and I will tell you a real fairy tale story this time" Aadvika told her and started to tell the story as she rubbed her back in circles as the girl started to feel drowsy and fell asleep in her arms by the end of the story
"Let me take her to her room, your hands might turn numb if you carry her like this" Vihaan told her and stood up from his kneeling position and took her in his arms carefully as to not disturb her sleep
"Take her to my room, we planned to stay together in the same room to punish you that is the little secret between both of us, I already told Mr. Andrew to shift her luggage and things to my room" Aadvika told him as she stood and placed a gentle kiss on the girl's forehead
"alright' he told her and took Ananya to her room leaving Aadvika who is contemplating on all the things just happened
When Ananya told her to be her mother Aadvika felt a weird feeling in her heart as if she felt an unexplainable emotion which is very strange to her making her unable to say anything to her
Just as she was about to give much thought to her feelings and decision her sight fell on the carton, she received previously so with a sigh she thought to think about her complicated feelings some other time and went to open the box