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As I was feeling better now, I asked Dhara to pass me the bowl so that I can eat by myself. But she rejected me cruelly and demanded to feed me. This girl!
But I agreed because who doesn't love a little care?
"What happened to my wife?" The voice which I had been dying to hear for more than one week, finally reached my ears making my eyes wide.
I stopped eating and looked around to see no one other than my husband standing by the door. His eyes were on me, and they were red with some unshed tears in them. His hair was messy and the business suit, crumbled.
In short, he looked tortured. And it pained me to see him like this.
"I am fine now, Kartik. But, what are you doing here now? Weren't you in meetings?" I asked him and tried to sit on the bed when Dhara didn't let me. So I slumped back on the bed instead.
"I...Dhara called me to inform me about...this. Tell me Anushka, what exactly happened to you?" He asked me. This tone was full of worry as he was getting restless as the seconds passed.
I looked at Dhara, pleading with her to give us some privacy. She looked at me with a frown before standing up and putting the plate on the bed. Then, she went towards the door. "You make my bhabhi cry one more time and I'll peel you like I peeled that apple." She pointed at the peeled apple on my plate and Kartik just replied with a small "Dragon!" In response.
Then, as soon as Dhara went out and closed the door, my husband ran to me and took me in my arms. I melted then and there. The best feeling in this world? His arms.
"It's nothing honey. Really. I just got some concussion and passed out in the dress showroom. That's all. You didn't have to leave your important meetings for me." I said with a smile and felt his body stiffen.
"What's wrong, love?" I asked him, as he pulled back from me.
"I....wasn't in the meetings." He told me and looked at our hands, as his hands were resting on mine.
I frowned.
"What? Then, where were you?" I chuckled as I thought he was going to say some other kind of work place of something. But then, he opened his mouth making me shocked.
"I was in the Mauritian casino with my friends all these days." And this new information left me surprised.
"But...the meeting?" I asked after I recovered from the initial shock. "Anushka, the meeting was in Delhi." And that was all it took for me to take my hands back from his grip. His eyes quickly ran there to see the effects of the destruction he caused and tried to take my hands into his again.
"No!" I whispered before looking into his eyes again.
"You lied to me! You told me you went there for work. You even ignored my calls and messages all these days, all for your stupid friends? And here I thought you were busy at work! Oh how foolish of me!" With that, a laugh erupted from me, making him look at me with pain.
