Author: vaishali

When Abhi and Isha were cooing each other, we all will think “ aww how cute they are!” but one pair of eyes saw them with full of hatred. Yes that is Neev. Neev came near Abhi and ISha and tried to pull Isha from Abhi. Isha started crying with the sudden assault of trying to distance her from her father. Abhi was shocked with Neev’s action. He pushed Neev lightly and said “ neev don’t manhandle children. If ISha wants to come to come, she will come to u don’t force her” Neev “ you don’t teach what to…

She trembled at the thought of a custody battle for her daughter. She has to try reasoning with him before it was too late. She hesitated for a while and haltingly said, “Neev, you are right. You do have a right as her biological father. But please try to understand me. I cannot give you a right that I am unable to give Abhi. You may have fathered her but Abhi has been more than a father to her. His bond with my daughter is far more stronger. He has been taking care of her and watching over her even…

“Excuse me Sir, can you kindly move aside?” asked someone in a polite voice. Abhi broke from his trance and turned around to see a smartly dressed waiter, holding a tray with two wine glasses in his hand. It is only then did he realize that he was blocking the entrance to the lounge. He looked back at his wife and her ex-lover leaning towards each other on the sofa. His eyes widened in disbelief. How come Neev was back on the sofa when he was supposed to be on the floor? He looked confused for a second and shook…

It was well past midnight before he left the bar. He staggered to his car and tried inserting the key to the door. As his vision was blurred he could not locate the key hole. Just then Purab who happened to be in the vicinity noticed him. Rushing to the side of his swaggering friend, he asked him what he was doing so late in the night. Abhi turned to him in surprise and asked him the same question, rolling over the words. “Roshini has been having colic pains since this evening. I came to get the medicine from the…

Abhi hit the bar that night to drown his sorrows. Asking for a stiff glass of vodka, he downed it in one gulp. Despite his valiant efforts to blink back the tears that threatened to overflow, a large drop escaped and made its way past his lower eyelid, down his cheek, staining his moustache and well trimmed beard before dropping to his knee. He hadn’t cried since the death of his mother when he was merely an eight-year old. Whatever be the challenge or pain, he always faced them boldly. To him, tears were a sign of weakness- one he…

Ever since she returned from Abhi’s office Pragya has been trying to resolve the tussle between her head and her heart, weighed down as she was by guilt and dejection. Pragya’s guilt was that she was overstaying her presence well beyond what was agreed upon. When they had got into this marriage, it was to provide a home for her till her childbirth and a name and identity to her child conceived out of wed-lock. It was also to keep Abhi’s father from hooking him up with anyone else till he got himself declared as a misfit for marriages so…

Part 16 Back in his office, Abhi was blissfully unaware that he was the cause of Pragya’s mental and emotional turmoil. After Ayesha left, his sub-staff brought in the tiffin carrier saying that his wife had handed it to him. Abhi was surprised that Pragya had come to visit him at his office and wondered why she did not come in. When the man mentioned that she had come with the baby, he presumed that Isha may have been restless, the reason why Pragya left almost immediately. He tried calling her on her cell but it was switched off. He…

That morning Pragya had just finished feeding Isha when Abhi stepped out of the bathroom in his towel. Droplets of water stuck to the rippling muscles of his chest and biceps making them glisten. Pragya could not help but admire her husband’s taut athletic frame. His hair was still wet from the bath. Buttoning up her nightie, Pragya asked him to hand her the towel so that she could scrub his hair dry to prevent him from catching a cold. He smiled at her concern and handing her the towel, he sat by her side, taking Isha from her lap.…

Isha’s arrival had made a huge difference to the lives of the inmates of Mehra Mansion. Everyone of them wanted their slice of time with her and fought amongst themselves to get to her. Feeding time was the only time Pragya could exclusively spend with her daughter.  The rest of the time which included playing time, sleeping time, even nappy changing time was shared by Abhi, Baba, Bua and even Ramu kaka. Every day Baba kept finding innovative ways to entertain in his little grand daughter. He also sang her lullabies in his deep baritone voice to put her to…