"Do you want to get out of this hell?" shekhar walked up to her. Naira tried to run away again. shekhar grabbed her hand in time.
"why don't you accept it Naira? You have lost your everything trying to bring karthik back from his trauma. why can't you just leave it all. You were never the one who suffered at his hands. Is it because its your kids who suffer? why are you living in that hell sister?" shekhar said frustratedly. He came to give a welcome present to his nephew and niece. But he was welcomed by a crying sister on the main gate of the house. A monster who was going to unleash his inner demons on little kids. All he witnessed was brutality in place of compassion. He will not have a bubbly shehnaaz running in to his arms when he will enter that house. He will not have those considerate boys who will let thier sister hug him first and then fight for his arms among themselves. Instead he will be met With a devastating sight where he will have to patch the work of that bastard.
"A hell laced with love. " she stated firmly wipping her tears.
"stop with your bullshit Naira. Can you for once stop being delusional. Hell laced with love. Then suck it up. Why can't you help your kids for once and think about them rather than your hell laced with love. " he said grabbing her arm and pulling her towards himself.
"what did I even do? I am not the one hitting them" naira exasperated as he ferociously glared at her.
"Even if you aren't the one. You can protect your kids from all this. Just leave him. How can you he so selfish?" he yelled pushing her away.
"I can't ok. That is why I am letting him do this to them. I am a mother . A mother would even kill her love to protect her children. I am no different but I am tied. This is all to protect them" she stated sniffing as he sighed.
"Protect them. He has brainwashed you. You are protecting them by destroying them. Cut the crap " shekhar dismissed her almost instantly.
"No shekhar. None of us can't stand up against Mr Gill. No one . He will kill us all in a blink of an eye. We will be wiped from the surface of earth at the snap of a finger. You need to understand this. He is making them able to endure that psychopath. If they have the endurance it will hurt a little less and it will ruin them a little less. I would have a ruined child then a dead one" she yelled as her phone beeped.
"If you feel like to patch them up Dr Agnihotri . Feel free to do so . You share blood relations after all. " she stated sternly rushing towards her house. Manik stood outside her house looking for her in a frenzy.
"what happened naira ? Are you fine? what is happening?" he asked panicking at the events unfurling.
"Its nothing for you to worry about " naira stated explicitly.
"What are you even saying naira?" manik yelled loosing his patience.
"Long time Mr Mahlotra" shekhar stated walking up to them.
"Go ahead naira . I will deal with him" shekhar ushered her away.
"what will you exactly deal with shekhar? Have you seen how furious karthik was? It was as if Mr Gill stood in front of me not our friend shehkhar" manik exasperated as shekhar sighed.
"I know manik and you will know the truth sonn enough. Now is not exactly the right time to talk about all of this. Lets meet some other time and talk things out." shekhar stated in an authoritative tone. A tone against which manik wouldn't dare to go. There were certain boundries ,lies and secrets entrapped with thier relation and friendship. There are certain things both of them can't dare to cross. Manik nodded at him and left. Shekhar took a deep breath before walking inside the mansion. He locked Naira and Karthik in thier room first. Naira can deal with the aftermath. He walked towards the kids room as the sight burned his chest. It was as if someone poured acid on his heart. He walked over to shehnaaz first. He picked up the little girl in his arms and undressed her. Her little body covered in bruises brought tears in his eyes. Her brother's who were groaning in pain cried seeing thier sister so badly wounded. Shehnaaz was sleeping over her pain. she cried and yelled so much that all her energy drained out. Shekhar cleaned her wounds as she hissed in pain. He treated her wounds and followed by her brother's . He tucked them all in thier beds and kissed thier foreheads. He gave them pain meds to relive them from the pain for the time being. That ruthless man did all this to his little cuties. But that ruthless man is protecting them from the devil. It isn't his fault either to be ruined the way he was at the hands of his psychopath father.
"I will makes sure that man dies" he muttered firmly as he walked out of that room.
shehnaaz wriggled in her sleep. she was having a nightmare. A nightmare of her loving father turning into the ruthless abusive one. Arnav shook her awake as soon as his sleep broke due to her movements. He called Arav and Jai who joined the beds groaning in pain. shehnaaz was hugging arnav like a koala bear. As if he would disappear if she looses him . Jai lied beside shehnaaz who snuggled in to him. Arnav held her firmly from her side as Aarav snuggled in to jai. They needed warmth. They needed each other. After going through the brutality together. All they needed was each other. That's all they needed . That's all they had. At the end of the day the people who will be thier always by thier side is them.
"Dad hates us" shehnaaz squeaked as the boys sighed. They can't correct her. Not after what happened. They really were not having the courage to correct her.
"Maybe or maybe not" arnav said softly kissing her forehead.
"Maybe" they muttered as a few tears rolled down thier eyes.
"I should apologise for what happened because of my incompetence"